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by atweiden 5y ago
I’d like to see a literate programming version of GitHub where the community standardizes around an eminently-readable Markdown-like syntax. srcweave [1] looks like a great start. [1]: https://github.com/justinmeiners/s
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by atweiden 5y ago
Check out vim-journal [1] if you really want to take this to the next level. The plugin’s kaleidoscopic colour functionality visually incentivizes writing in list format constantly. The colours are enjoyable to look at, and you get more of
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by atweiden 5y ago
Pharmaceutical industry insider Paul Wood claims lab grown meat will never be cost-effective [1]: > For four years, Wood, who has a PhD in immunology, served as the executive director of global discovery for Pfizer Animal Health. (His di
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by atweiden 5y ago
Japan is the world’s most advanced major society by a number of metrics: public safety, technological and educational achievements, natural and architectural beauty, a perfectly preserved and closely associated cultural tradition. I can’t d
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> They know they will become the "sick man of Asia", isolated and weak, if they keep the current trajectory -- a massive reversal from just 50 years ago. Better to have a culture worthy of defense than to defend a cultural wast
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> CBDC transactions would need to be final and completed in real time, allowing users to make payments to one another using a risk-free asset. Interesting choice of words for a monetary instrument which can be arbitrarily inflated or sei
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> We ran into trouble at some point with critical thinking I’m more worried about democracy than I am about a seeming decline in critical thinking skills. The latter is more than likely just a flawed perception created by the internet gi
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by atweiden 5y ago
Farming is a way for folks who work with their hands to achieve some degree of self-sovereignty and freedom — laudable goals. Unfortunately, this is often accomplished through gross ethical violations. All we can do is educate consumers abo
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by atweiden 5y ago
As someone who lives in a terminal, I find @junegunn’s “journal” markup format a lot more pleasing to the eyes than Markdown — holy kaleidoscopic colours, batman. Bonus: in a weird way, the colours of journal trained me to love lisp. [1]:
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by atweiden 5y ago
> virtually all new chains are PoS because it's understood to be significantly more secure and less expensive vs. PoW PoS security relies on the integrity of the stake — and the integrity of the stake relies on the “security” of the
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> But all that being said, why has nothing real world value oriented materialized yet? Because Ethereum was founded by early Bitcoiners to raise bitcoin for themselves, and the technology always came second to the pursuit of self-enrichm
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That’s a tad bit non-specific. Do you claim walled garden ecosystems are acceptable if a state government controls it? Save for possible science fiction AI administered states, this would disproportionately empower state executives, no?
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> This raises an interesting question - can a new technology ride the hype-train sufficiently long enough to become mainstream and benefit from network effects and ecosystem dynamics kicking in, even if in its best case scenario - it&#x2
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> Everything that uses it [...] only does so because a simpler, cheaper, central alternative is somehow seen as bad. Walled garden ecosystems have a fairly obvious downside — ultimately someone has to get disproportionately enriched an
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by atweiden 5y ago
If it’s only possible to run full nodes in datacenters, paying people to run them is fairly pointless.
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> People who write these articles need to be thinking about the middle aged woman who still calls every video game system "a Nintendo". In a world where the pool of capital allocated into crypto is hyperconcentrated in the hand
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by atweiden 5y ago
Apparently, 10 years and half a trillion dollars isn’t enough time or money these days for people to ship a basic SPV wallet to end users. Even assuming the Ethereum people finally ship SPV support following moxie’s critique of their infras
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by atweiden 5y ago
> Now that we’re years into COVID and vaccines are readily available, it’s extremely frustrating for New Zealanders with family or loved ones overseas. Public opinion is steadily shifting towards ‘open up the country’, and the government
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by atweiden 5y ago
Thankfully, NFTs aren’t just a way for executives to hype up an underlying cryptocurrency they’re invested in. I’m confident the social media companies claiming NFTs are a pure hearted way to aid struggling artists will rush to integrat
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by atweiden 5y ago
If defi hacks can be conceivably clawed back under legal threat, I don’t see why a legal structure like a foundation can’t be relied upon to onboard new administrators of the Git repo. We could use something like multi-signature Git commits
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by atweiden 5y ago
Being poor in and of itself isn’t a globally accurate predictor of crime rate. This would seem to contradict your earlier statement: > [Crime is] much more a result of the gross economic disparity found in America than any "far left
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by atweiden 5y ago
Sweden has higher wealth inequality than the US, but far lower crime. See also: https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/
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by atweiden 5y ago
See also: https://git.sr.ht/~gpanders/passage
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by atweiden 5y ago
Venezuelans had similar access to natural beauty, and control over oil. Internal strife dispensed with their civil society in a matter of years. It’s now a humanitarian disaster. > Besides, many of the current problems of the bay area co
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by atweiden 5y ago
China doesn’t have the same problems as the US, but has almost as much wealth disparity [1]. Economic determinism is junk science. [1]: https://china.usc.edu/wealth-inequality-us-and-china
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Condition System for the Fennel Language and Lua Runtime(conf.fennel-lang.org)
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by atweiden 5y ago
Void [1] gives Arch a run for its money, particularly if you want musl-libc or non-systemd init. I’m a long-time user of both. Chimera [2] is also worth watching. [1]: https://voidlinux.org/ [2]: https://chimera-
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> But I think you’re also saying that police can’t change a local community, if it’s already filled with crime. If that’s the case and they don’t have a big impact… what’s the point? The point is to preempt a power vacuum threatening soc
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> Police don't prevent crime. Hell, they barely even respond to crime. Awarding a well-marked group with some measure of public accountability the right to use violent countermeasures for the protection of life and property in a geo
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by atweiden 5y ago
Just days ago, Jacqueline Avant, the 81 year old wife of music industry legend Clarence Avant, was murdered in the wee hours of the morning in her Beverly Hills home during a home invasion [1]. Police were able to catch the murderer when he

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