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   by api 10y ago

   If it bleeds it leads. If it doesn't bleed make it sound like it does. Positive articles get no clicks.
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   by api 10y ago

   American blue-collar workers tend to care more about "culture war" issues than their economic well being.
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   by api 10y ago

   Interesting... you're one of the only people "in the wild" I have heard say this. I've long been of the opinion based on what I've seen and personally found that mobile (including also most tablets) is basically wor
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   by api 10y ago

   But mobile is the future! (Where nobody can create anything.)
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   by api 10y ago

   I wish people cared. After many years in this industry I've personally come to the conclusion that nobody actually cares about security, privacy, or data ownership. People say they do but they are lying, as evidenced by the fact that
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   Fancy dorms aren't the main reason tuition is skyrocketing(fivethirtyeight.com)

   4 points by api 10y ago|0 comments
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   by api 10y ago

   You have a firewall. It's called "don't run services you don't need or don't understand" and "if it binds a non-localhost port it better be secure." It's easy to use netstat to list all bound por
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   by api 10y ago

   This is what's wrong with infosec. The majority of security people seem to have no concern for any other issue, resulting in them giving a lot of ham fisted advice that gets ignored. In the end security is worse as a result. I worked i
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   by api 10y ago

   There are more credible sources on this kind of thing. It would be better to link to one of those instead of to Alex Jones' fear porn for profit rag. If anything, sites like his help bury information like this by associating it with cr
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    by api 10y ago

    That's been true for as long as there's been cellular to some extent. It's not hard to triangulate with multiple towers.
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    by api 10y ago

    8-bit 4mhz CPU, 64k RAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OT3DoPty4Y
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    by api 10y ago

    > "Full-native development unique on each platform is considered too much effort, when you can get a cross-platform app with Electron" Yes, it's this. Full native development is awful since every platform is completely dif
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    by api 10y ago

    Ultimately those systems will have to be run by people, and all the same perverse incentives will apply. Corporations become corrupt too, but there is more than one and you can start new ones. In a command economy like you allude to there i
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    by api 10y ago

    That's actually a fascinating argument I've never heard before. It's similar to the more pragmatic argument against drug prohibition. When you prohibit something people want, they find other ways to do it or get it and in the
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    by api 10y ago

    There's one more gotcha: security concerns. Writing code that expects long to be 64 bit might be dangerous as it could overflow and create a security bug on a 32 bit machine. I find that I do want to know the sizes of things fairly oft
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    by api 10y ago

    Fans of (artful hoaxes of) time travel might also enjoy John Titor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor Later it was revealed that a rather well known "transmedia" artist had a role in that one: https
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    by api 10y ago

    IMHO the worst form of private debt in our present economy is personal private debt. We are in a severely demand constrained economy, and personal private debt is really what's weighing the economy down and soaking up consumer demand
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    by api 10y ago

    I get the sense people are dreadfully misreading that comment, but I'm not sure how. Oh well. What I'm referring to is people whose skills are all in, say, Microsoft C based GUI programming and who have not updated their skills at
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    by api 10y ago

    In my experience older devs really fall into two categories with a pretty sharp division between them. One group has continued to learn and keep up with their skills. These developers are extremely skilled and experienced and can in many
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    by api 10y ago

    Older workers are also more savvy. They understand things like the fact that if you're working 80 hours a week for $120k you are actually making $60k.
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    by api 10y ago

    This is interesting but personally I think this move is more about Apple being able to take more profit from its Beats brand and from any third party speaker maker that now has to license to work with iOS. Of course I guess they can also se
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    by api 10y ago

    We don't know what runaway climate change will look like. The system is chaotic with lots of feedback loops. Stuff will happen, some of it counter-intuitive. It may or may not be okay in the end. I like Elon's take: yeah, it might
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    by api 10y ago

    I agree that feedback loops are indeed sticky. New York has been the financial capital for a long time and is likely to remain so for a long time, for example. I wasn't necessarily arguing that SF will completely lose its "tech
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    by api 10y ago

    I think the earthquake hazard is a minor thing. Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego all have it and real estate is nowhere near as insane. These areas are not cheap but they are within the bounds of sanity.
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    by api 10y ago

    Count me as an extreme bear on SF/SV real estate. Three big factors here: (1) How fragile is SF/SV's "tech capital" status? SF/SV has no monopoly on talent. There are top engineers and devs everywhere. What it
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    by api 10y ago

    There is and was an art form called turntablism. It's always been more common in hip hop than club and rave, though it showed up in all those places. You can search YouTube for examples of "scratch competitions" and that kind
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    by api 10y ago

    Sure. I do have to point out though that those systems are not innovative. I personally expect SpaceX to have more failures and am not surprised that they have. Back when NASA and the USSR were innovating in the 50s they both blew up a lot
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    by api 10y ago

    ... or that a newborn with a defective heart can be "repaired" hours after birth and then live a normal human life span. We really do live in an incredible age. The hedonic treadmill effect blinds us to this.
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    by api 10y ago

    It works for keyboards and mice made by the same vendor as your OS but otherwise it's junk. Terrible protocol.
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    by api 10y ago

    There is no business in it. If anything there is a powerful incentive against anything that permits interoperation. The big guys all want to build closed vertically integrated silos, and probably more than half if all startups are trying to