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   by api 14y ago

   I've thought about solving this problem too. One idea I've had is a content-type-restricted network that permits only text. That would allow utterly un-censorable communications : chat, planning revolutions, whatever, but wouldn't be usefu
2. 16142.▲
   by api 14y ago

   Unfortunately it will end up full of kidporn just like Freenet. This says a lot about the present state humanity, and what it says isn't good. Giordano Bruno and the Renaissance alchemists would have killed for a system like this, but the m
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   by api 14y ago

   It's a grant of noble title that must be purchased to gain entry into the middle class. (And increasingly, not even that...)
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   by api 14y ago

   Debt is the new slavery (and often connected to poverty). It's the old company town / company store model applied to the entire developed world.
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   by api 14y ago

   C is boring too, in all the right ways. I think Go could be what we've been waiting for: C 2.0.
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   by api 14y ago

   Thank GOD they're disrupting this industry. All the telcos are worthless "Soviet bureaus" that deserve death. It's really sort of amazing to think about. In all my years on this planet I have never been pleased with a telecom company. Nev
7. 16147.▲
   by api 14y ago

   ... and if it were made to circulate, we'd have hyperinflation and it would quickly become worthless. But I doubt that it can be made to circulate. I doubt that this is cash.
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   by api 14y ago

   Is this "real" money, or is this 300X-leveraged financial instruments that could evaporate if someone breathes too hard.
9. 16149.▲
   by api 14y ago

   More technology driven hyper-deflation on the way. The future: high inflation in food, energy, fuel, and consumables, hyper-deflation in everything else except to the extent that it depends on or consumes the former.
10. 16150.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I wonder if he'll put his money where his mouth is and fund people with no college degrees, or even people with degrees from non-Ivy-League colleges.
11. 16151.▲
    by api 14y ago

    Upvoted! Wish I could do that for academic papers.
12. 16152.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I have radically mixed feelings. On one hand, I'm all for democratization. On the other hand, this is a little bit like democratizing a fish tank by dumping in a couple of sharks. The average person simply has no concept or mental framework
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    by api 14y ago

    One of these does not belong, IMHO. I mean... jeez.
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    by api 14y ago

    Loads of broad, sweeping, but mostly unsubstantiated statements presented in a catchy manner. Pop evolutionary psychology at its worst.
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    by api 14y ago

    The Retina MBP seems more like the "Macbook Air Pro." (Which is cool...)
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    by api 14y ago

    Education is remarkably outdated.
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    by api 14y ago

    MTV's The Real World: Mars?
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    A Dutch company wants to start building a Mars settlement by 2023(mars-one.com)

    21 points by api 14y ago|4 comments
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    by api 14y ago

    The MBA strikes me as the American capitalist counterpart to the Soviet apparatchik.
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    by api 14y ago

    I ran into a toxic mentality on the East Coast where there was a class division between "thinkers/leaders" and "doers," and doing automatically placed a person into a lower class. The idea was that execution is for little people and ideas a
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    by api 14y ago

    A lot of Apple's power here comes from the fact that they have a near-monopoly: not on any protocol, technology, or format, but on good industrial and UI design. The situation with good design and usability today is similar to the situation
22. 16162.▲
    by api 14y ago

    I think there are creative solutions to this. Like I said: there would need to be a well-designed inter-app API. Plugins for instance could be handled like firmware updates to a device. Send the image to the app via the API. "Here is your p
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    by api 14y ago

    Walled garden platforms are taking over partly because all operating systems are fundamentally broken with regard to privilege isolation, security, and application installability/uninstallability. The fact is that for the average non-techie
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    by api 14y ago

    I used Linux on the desktop/laptop for a long time, then switched to Mac. Looks like I might have to contemplate a switch back in the next few years. It would be hard, but if they do actually push a totally locked down iOS-style platform it
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    by api 14y ago

    People get angry about this, but if they do they don't understand what iOS is. iOS is a console platform. Developing for iOS is a bit like developing for XBox, Nintendo, etc. It is a fundamentally different platform from Windows, Linux, and
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    by api 14y ago

    I have met lots of highly skilled older coders. They tend to not jump on every fad, but that's because they know that software engineering is faddish. Instead they focus on deep expertise, robust architecture, and how to ship.
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    by api 14y ago

    Merlin is designed to be reusable. It's ultimately designed to power a fully reusable rocket.
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    by api 14y ago

    It's true. This is a brand new vehicle, and you want to start with tight limits and gradually expand them as you know they are safe. Otherwise stuff fails and you don't know why. This is a test flight .
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    by api 15y ago

    The clusterfuck of competing requirements reminds me almost exactly of the space shuttle, a similar disaster that barely worked. The shuttle could have been really awesome had its requirements only been set by NASA. Instead they had the NRO
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    by api 15y ago

    Honestly, I don't like the browser for everything. Neat, but not something that would shake my world.