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11551.
by api 9y ago
"Real estate cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment." As soon as someone becomes a homeowner, it becomes in his/her best interests to make sure others cannot become homeowners at anything but a higher price
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by api 9y ago
Chatbots, home IoT, and to some extent VR all strike me as things Silicon Valley wants to be "the next big thing" but are not and likely will not be because few people want them. I absolutely despise chat and voice for any kind of
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by api 9y ago
Jails are closer. They are perhaps a way of achieving some of this. The problem (unless I'm wrong) is that you need root to create one, so you are back to needing root for everything.
11554.
by api 9y ago
"systemd will handle that" No no no handling with complex logic what can be achieved instead with simple design is how Windows got its suckage. Sigh.
11555.
by api 9y ago
Oh yes. If we go back further and make IP 64-bit and specify that all endpoints should get a /40 to be assigned to up to 2^24 network endpoints per system and then left out the concept of ports entirely, we could have saved probably te
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by api 9y ago
Apple had the right idea with .app bundles. There should be no such thing as "installation." Android and iOS kind of get it right too.
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by api 9y ago
I'm the original author. I wrote that a while back. My opinion hasn't changed too much, though I have to say that article could stand a rewrite. Don't really have time right now. The real crux of the article is less about pri
11558.
by api 9y ago
Docker is like an extended satire of Unix multi-tenancy in code form. "Damn it... another f'ing package broke. Fuck it. We should just tar up whole Linux distributions and push them out as updates." "Hey... that's a
11559.
by api 9y ago
That's the whole point about path dependence. We went down this massively more complex and expensive path because we didn't do a few teeny weeny little things to network interfaces and permissions back in the 90s.
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by api 9y ago
All nations have propaganda, USA included. I'm not sure why anyone is surprised by this.
11561.
by api 9y ago
The line between folly and scam is not absolutely sharp. It's like murder. There's first degree premeditated murder, crimes of passion, insanity, and manslaughter. Manslaughter can in some cases be charged for gross negligence, or
11562.
by api 9y ago
There's a meme around that if you crowdfund the VC industry will see this as "negative signaling" and blackball you. I have wondered first of all if it's true. Good numbers are good numbers right? Is a VC going to pass o
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by api 9y ago
You should think twice about storing anything in the cloud, especially if the service is "free." Always make your own backup of anything you care about. Basically if it's local back it up to the cloud, and if it's only i
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by api 9y ago
Hangouts is another one that's gotten awful.
11565.
by api 9y ago
Video chat and IP telephony apps seem like some kind of software lemon market. There's some kind of perverse incentive operating here. Even ones that start out nice inevitably degrade over time. FaceTime used to be nice if you were all
11566.
by api 9y ago
It would be gamed. Real resistance to gaming requires continuous adaptation. Google "red Queen's race." All closed form systems would fall.
11567.
by api 9y ago
"Methinks you doth protest too much" may apply.
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by api 9y ago
> What the absolute frell is going on there I have no idea. Money laundering? Flight capital? Under the table payments for services rendered in some other area? I have no insider knowledge. It's just a speculation. But if even 10% o
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by api 9y ago
I think this area is a genuine modern example of a suppressed technology.
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by api 9y ago
I don't universally support this kind of thing but in this case I do. Nearly all of this research is directly or indirectly taxpayer funded. All taxpayer funded research should be freely available to us since we paid for it. That and t
11571.
by api 9y ago
The gaming industry is notorious.
11572.
by api 9y ago
> socially maladjusted nerds who suddenly ended up in positions of power A lot of people who are socially awkward when they're young work hard to overcome it. Some just naturally grow out of it. But some find a "trick" to
11573.
by api 9y ago
I am white and male and the misogyny I've observed in tech has annoyed me . If it annoys me it must be intolerable to women. I believe every word of it and I could tell a few stories of things I've seen. I've seen a lot of o
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by api 9y ago
I like the idea of selling music on vinyl with a little token that lets you download mp4's of it from the band's web site if you have the vinyl. I've seen a few bands and electronic musicians do this. The vinyl is like an ori
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by api 9y ago
I meant a stage at which shiny and new doesn't mean anything. A truly post-technological civilization would just have tools and would pick the right tool for whatever it wanted to achieve. Sometimes that's something exotic and new
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by api 9y ago
Even better: fix your damn security. The security standard we use for everything in our network is: if it would be insecure if hooked directly up to the Internet, it is broken. Firewalls encourage poor security by creating a false sense of
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by api 9y ago
I think I did a poor job explaining that. I was referring to the original commenter's mis-attribution of the article and how it demonstrates a branding effect.
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by api 9y ago
I feel like this is what happens when you reach the enlightenment stage with technology. I have a phone with eight 64-bit CPU cores built with 10nm lithography, and I cook on cast iron. "New" or "old" doesn't matter
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by api 9y ago
That's a fantastic example of something that's very wrong with the Internet socially. I heard someone the other day talking about a "great article they read from Medium." I asked "who wrote it?" They didn'
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by api 9y ago
Also recommended: https://twitter.com/internetofshit

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