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11851.
by api 10y ago
I'd love to see a meta-analysis of OSS-oriented companies that have succeeded vs. those that have failed and what they did.
11852.
by api 10y ago
I tried it a while ago and was blown away by the weird restriction of requiring federated login from providers like Google to use a system designed to be decentralized. Seemed like a really strange arbitrary restriction that prevented its u
11853.
by api 10y ago
I've felt for a while that more happened behind the scenes in this election than we know, and that part of what occurred is a collapse in the de-facto unwritten alliance between the USA and China that has existed for some time now. Cli
11854.
by api 10y ago
Yeah the change feed feature is beautiful too. It's not what sold us but once we had it it made making everything real-time almost trivial. I think the big thing for us is that everything about RethinkDB screams quality from a technica
11855.
by api 10y ago
Feeling good about our decision to stick with it for our core infrastructure's next incarnation. Still very sad that they didn't make it as a company. We would have paid. RethinkDB is an unbelievable technology: better under the h
11856.
by api 10y ago
You are excluding the middle. It wasn't perfect back then by any stretch, but it was possible to make a good living and all economic growth and innovation was not hyper concentrated in less than five unaffordable coastal cities. If you
11857.
by api 10y ago
Today's stock markets with all the hedge fund bots remind me of 90s IRC. It grew up. Instead of #warez it's Nasdaq.
11858.
by api 10y ago
Distribution of non consensual porn is a sex offense and a massive privacy violation.
11859.
by api 10y ago
The difference is massive economic growth between the industrial revolution and today. Jobs lost to industrialization were quickly replaced as the economy grew exponentially in size and complexity. Today growth is very anemic owing to marke
11860.
by api 10y ago
Peter is much more complex but Milo is pretty transparently a professional troll. I'm sure he's overjoyed to get crazy protests at Berkeley and to get banned from Twitter. The more attention he gets the better it is for his brand.
11861.
by api 10y ago
Developers will target Apple, but they won't use Apple or like Apple. It'll be like Windows during MS's dark years.
11862.
by api 10y ago
It could also be an intentional leak to gauge reaction.
11863.
by api 10y ago
Mac is dead for developers and pro users if this is the case. My current Mac will be my last, and I'll be happy to give my money to Dell instead and anyone else selling more open hardware. One of our devs just got a new XPS 15. It&#x27
11864.
by api 10y ago
Could it be radiation hormesis?
11865.
by api 10y ago
Oh yes. The genius of totalitarianism and theocracy and similar is to promise nothing but suffering and sacrifice. That way they can always deliver.
11866.
by api 10y ago
Determining truth is hard, and as you say the trouble is that everyone does propaganda. We are in a "fog of war" situation. Maybe a better approach would be to focus on ways of securely authenticating, signing, and delivering prim
11867.
by api 10y ago
I get what you're saying, but late is better than never.
11868.
by api 10y ago
Every time prior to this it was hyperbole, which is why crying wolf is a bad thing. While some of this article is a bit hyperbolic, the general idea here seems very plausible: that the Trump administration is "stress testing" the
11869.
by api 10y ago
I actually think it's this rather than technology that is killing Hollywood. They've overfit to the teenager demographic and have stopped producing films of any substance. It's now just a factory churning out film versions of
11870.
by api 10y ago
Mobile supplied an acceptable device for doing most things a non technical person wants to do with a computer. This killed the advancement of technical competence but I'm not sure it set it back much. There have never been that many pe
11871.
by api 10y ago
They need to get the iOS people away from the Mac and start actually listening to their customers.
11872.
by api 10y ago
Facts are common property and are the same for everyone, so they are useless as signifiers of community membership.
11873.
by api 10y ago
I agree to an extent but I still see judgement here "mindless, cruel herd is fundamentally more appealing to humans than individuality and free thought". Huge numbers of people today have no friends and no community. Read a bo
11874.
by api 10y ago
I wish secularists would do a little more soul searching on the question of why fundamentalism is on the rise at all. Personally I think it's pretty simple: fundamentalism offers a sense of community and belonging. In the age of loneli
11875.
by api 10y ago
Local security on Linux is completely forfeit. It's a single user OS. Anyone with access has root. There's just too much surface area between all the different subsystems and nobody's been paying much attention to local secur
11876.
by api 10y ago
But cloud.
11877.
by api 10y ago
There is not much difference between the parties on this level. You ultimately get elected by making it rain for your constituents.
11878.
by api 10y ago
It's categorically easier to slow or dumb down something than to improve it. It takes exponentially more energy to fight the second law of thermodynamics.
11879.
by api 10y ago
... as was Ayn Rand's analysis of authoritarian socialism and communism. Pointing out flaws, contradictions, and systematic shortcomings is so easy that I've lost a great deal of respect for it. Solutions are hard, and "magic
11880.
by api 10y ago
I'm curious if anyone here has ever had kids in a (good, well run) cohousing community. A major reason young kids are so stressful is they're relying on parents for play and social stimulation when they need more unstructured time

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