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   by api 12y ago

   All of them have been solved so far by using more fossil fuels. It's nice to have a line of credit, but we know neither the limit nor the interest rate.
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   by api 12y ago

   "people live cleaner year by year" I'm not talking about cleanliness. That's a quality of life factor but ultimately it's not what's important. The important thing is supply, mostly of energy. (It's also i
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   by api 12y ago

   "your claim seems reminiscent to previous claims that humanity would soon not be able to grow enough food for the projected population" This is a cautionary tale about something that stock market traders know well: never try to ca
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   by api 12y ago

   Given that we have only one known example of intelligent life, we are the only thing we can base any predictions upon. Given that we have a provable filter in front of us, I think it's reasonable to assume that similar situations might
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   by api 12y ago

   "as bubble bursts (or deflates) all these money losing (and free) B2C solutions provided by large companies might become neglected to the level that people will be willing to pay a little - just to get something working." We can h
6. 13866.▲
   by api 12y ago

   It's not free. It's supported by surveillance. But people don't care. If people started caring about that kind of thing, new niches could open up for alternatives that were more secure and under user control.
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   by api 12y ago

   We are provably not beyond the great filter. At least one great filter lies tangibly in front of us: ecological sustainability. Barring several fairly large changes to our energy and resource systems, our civilization is mathematically and
8. 13868.▲
   by api 12y ago

   More blaming of the Internet for something that's been in progress since the 1970s. We shifted from progressive to regressive (e.g. sales and employment) taxes, cut taxes on the top 1%, and moved toward a financial and service economy.
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   by api 12y ago

   Also solves the problem of not wanting to donate your CPU, bandwidth, or storage to things like kidporn. That's a serious issue with things like Freenet, where you have no choice about what you cache/host.
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    by api 12y ago

    Agreed. Politics is often not a question of picking the best option, but of picking the least awful option from among a list of very bad ideas. Will you have death by lethal injection, hanging, or being set on fire? I'd pick the first.
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    by api 12y ago

    Start with buckets but add exponential growth. The Pacific will be empty in short order. 1 bucket, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, ...
12. 13872.▲
    by api 12y ago

    It's all in the polish. Little details matter.
13. 13873.▲
    by api 12y ago

    IMHO one of the greatest current problems in computing is how to have openness and freedom on a platform without sacrificing user experience or letting it turn into malware hell. The walled gardens are walled to keep out the riff raff -- or
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    by api 12y ago

    This will be true until it isn't. Since supply is absolutely finite and EROEI declines over time (easy reserves are used first), fossil fuel extraction as a general economic phenomenon is basically a bubble. Bubbles have a way of going
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    by api 12y ago

    I can't imagine energy staying this low for very long. 80+% is fossil: increasing consumption, finite supply. Short term booms and busts are possible, but I fail to understand how the laws of physics permit a secular bear market in ene
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    by api 12y ago

    Cars are only viable because they get roads from the tax payers.
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    by api 12y ago

    If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.
18. 13878.▲
    by api 12y ago

    Special case of a general principle: user experience trumps everything. it trumps freedom, security, privacy, openness, cost, flexibility, ...
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    ZeroTier Raises Seed Funding to Directly Connect the World's Devices(zerotier.com)

    6 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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    Could “Is Dead” Please Die?(adamierymenko.com)

    1 points by api 12y ago|2 comments
21. 13881.▲
    by api 12y ago

    Case in point: I recently went back to SQL from noSQL after I realized that a lot of noSQL was just reinventing wheels. I realize there might be cases where noSQL databases shine, but in most use cases SQL is better. It's slightly mo
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    by api 12y ago

    There's a long history of conservatives co-opting liberal ideas and techniques. During the 2000s the right played both identity politics and deconstructionism to great effect. The deconstructionism went into play in areas like the &quo
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    by api 12y ago

    Google and every other company that invests the immense time and money required to keep it clear of spam. Email without a large spam filtering infrastructure is unusable.
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    by api 12y ago

    The quantities of money are larger, which will attract a different class of scammer.
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    by api 12y ago

    I'm imagining the hordes of frothing con artist sociopaths that are about to create flashy demo videos and cutout companies with lots of fakey "social proof" and cutout demos sold as real products. Equity crowdfunding for the
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    by api 12y ago

    As I like to put it: Sure there's people who make spurious claims, and a few who get paranoid and blame discrimination for every setback they have. But that's sort of not relevant. The existence of mis-diagnoses and hypochondriacs
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    by api 12y ago

    "People who believe in the government are dangerous idiots." That might be true, but that's still my point-- it is to some extent democratic. If more people were genuinely and strongly opposed to torture, we'd be getting
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    by api 12y ago

    "Can there security group be breached?" All security can be breached. The only 100% secure system is one that is off. In this case you are trusting Amazon to implement good host and network security. The weak point here is the c
29. 13889.▲
    by api 12y ago

    Depends on the database. In most cases it means someone got into the internal backplane network and then accessed the database. Sometimes that requires no authentication at all since people very falsely assume firewalled equals secure. Goog
30. 13890.▲
    by api 12y ago

    I've thought something similar about centralization and surveillance on the Internet, calling this the "Empire Strikes Back" period.