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   by api 11y ago

   If you build your app around things like Amazon's databases, lambda, etc., then you can't run it (easily) anywhere but on Amazon EC2. It's basically a giant mainframe that runs a proprietary mainframe OS. Of course you can
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   by api 11y ago

   A platform as closed as iOS is a devil's bargain. You get cleanliness, ease of use, simplicity, and in many ways improved security. But in exchange you give up freedom, control of your own property, and ultimately the potential for any
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   by api 11y ago

   I love mid-century futurism. While they did get many things wrong, that's inevitable when you have big ideas and put them forward fearlessly. Whenever I read anything from that era in science, art, architecture, even philosophy, I am o
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   by api 11y ago

   Is this really true? I don't argue that home grown fanatics are not a threat, but I don't see a current organized systemic effort from them to do much of anything other than squawk on the net. The lone nut shooter epidemic is some
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   by api 11y ago

   Any belief system theistic or not can become fanatical and violent as soon as it's followers become obsessed and decide that the end justifies the means. The 20th century saw quite a few atheistic or at least non religious political id
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   by api 11y ago

   The ancient world seemed almost on the verge of industrializing. I've often wondered if that might have happened had they not all gone mad with Roman imperialism and religious fanaticism instead.
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   by api 11y ago

   I tried both as a teenager. At the time I ended up sticking with Linux, but even in retrospect it's hard to quantify why. I remember though that it felt more understandable and "approachable" somehow. It was little stuff like
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   by api 11y ago

   Important bit of news but needs a moderator re-titling to GET RID OF ALL CAPS.
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   by api 11y ago

   I don't mean to engage in conspiranoia here (and I highly doubt there's an overt conspiratorial explanation), but right now I'm finding 'murmurs' like this especially alarming. When I look back at history, it seems
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    by api 11y ago

    You could probably 3d print a device now to a high degree of precision, after modeling it in SolidWorks.
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    by api 11y ago

    The quantity in an individual device is likely to be so tiny (milligrams) that it's not a risk. It's also likely to have been melted down and put through the global recycling chain which would have substantially diluted it. But it
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    by api 11y ago

    I've seen this declining in the last year or two. My Facebook feed is now pretty much dead.
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    by api 11y ago

    I think this is hyperbole. I rarely use either and the open web seems fine.
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    by api 11y ago

    This is a direct result of "publish or perish," which basically gamifies academic advancement as a function of churning out publications. You get what you incentivize, and we wanted papers... we didn't say anything about corr
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    by api 11y ago

    You're right that there is no perfect heuristic, but Google Glass wad real and real stuff was done. If you've ever been near or caught up in the whirlwind of one of these hustle jobs, it's obvious and unmistakable that nothin
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    by api 11y ago

    Stop with "sideloading." It's a silly term. It's just installing software, and making it sound weird with a useless neologism is part of the whole power grab that vendors have tried to ride in with mobile.
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    by api 11y ago

    Maybe those regulations only apply to the exchanges. Tangentially I read about an interesting money laundering technique once. Apparently you can take two low-volume stocks and use them to launder money by effectively committing financial f
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    by api 11y ago

    I thought you had to meet certain criteria to become public, like showing X quarters of consecutive growth and bend-over-and-grab-your-ankles audits and such? Or is there some wild west of penny stocks and cocaine that I don't know abo
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    by api 11y ago

    "like staying at hotels all the time, even though he lived an hour away by train" Who invests in these things? Even more puzzling: how is it that these hucksters keep raising money to found another startup ? I've seen this p
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    by api 11y ago

    I've been around for a while (since the late 90s) and see some promising signs that investors are getting more savvy about these things. The number of companies with real "meat" that get funded seems to be increasing relative
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    by api 11y ago

    They also had hypertext in 1969: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY It's a failure in the sense that it's not generally available or in general use. I've also used tele-presence rooms before and they
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    by api 11y ago

    I deliberately said cryptocurrency not Bitcoin, since I view Bitcoin as an alpha version of distributed digital money.
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    by api 11y ago

    He was right about at least once major thing: tele-presence is largely a failure. It's 2015 and most of the Internet industry is concentrated within the Bay Area because people need to be near one another to interact richly. This is a
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    by api 11y ago

    Cryptocurrency for real-world mainstream commerce would get my vote. That will NEVER happen. It's only for buying pot, right?
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    by api 11y ago

    I think you slightly misread what I meant. I was referring to those who only get an MBA and then think they can manage anything even if they have no other expertise. Maybe your mileage has varied, but I've never seen anything but dis
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    by api 11y ago

    I say this very often: The MBA (who has no other expertise) is capitalism's answer to the Soviet "apparatchik." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatchik "Management" is a secondary skill in th
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    by api 11y ago

    Thanks for posting this. It proves that I'm not insane. I've noticed for some time now that any increase in income in a region tends to largely be extracted as land rent and now I know that I'm not even close to being the fir
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    by api 11y ago

    Scala definitely. I don't see why it's "better enough" to persist. Node? Not until or unless you can build a nice fast browser-side GUI in Go. A Go version of GWT that integrated very well with the DOM and supported Reac
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    by api 11y ago

    Lots of mice studies don't translate well into humans. This one is highly specific -- a specific mutation. It's unlikely to have much bearing on real world cancer.
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    by api 11y ago

    Oh sure. That's definitely why it exists. It's also helped push out founder hostile terms. Founders are all better off because a few formed a union.