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811.
by barnabee 5y ago
Medallions clearly don’t represent road space but a specific use. They basically create a taxi cartel with a high price of entry. I could get behind auctioning off all road space to limit traffic and pollution but not that.
812.
by barnabee 5y ago
I don’t care about playing games online against strangers, I should be able to opt out of this crap. No access to multiplayer servers would not be a problem for me.
813.
by barnabee 5y ago
Absolutely, communities need moderation! However, the internet is infrastructure and right now both governments and service providers like Facebook, Twitter, Google effectively force moderation on communities becasue they increasingly contr
814.
by barnabee 5y ago
There may be no single thing that is "web3" but there is something I will fight hard for that I think justifies the term: ways to use the internet for the movement and coordination of information and value that nobody can contro
815.
by barnabee 5y ago
Unless you or anyone else has a copy of the file, then they can put it back and the URL will be the same. If you own an NFT that points to something on IPFS you probably want to keep a copy of the file lying around to do this if necessary.
816.
by barnabee 5y ago
The content at a URL can be changed at any time, NFTs that don’t prove that the content that serve hasn’t changed make for worthless NFTs. IPFS is ideal for this use case because the URL contains a hash of the content meaning that either th
817.
by barnabee 5y ago
Contracts are a PITA! If you can write one, once, probably based on a completely standard template and then never talk to a lawyer, sign a transfer of ownership, worry about where that ownership info is stored and updating the information w
818.
by barnabee 5y ago
> The underlying asset is not stored on the blockchain and can be deleted at any time. If the asset is stored on IPFS, as many are, this is simply not true. Even if the asset falls off the network (which the creator, owner, NFT holder, a
819.
by barnabee 5y ago
This statement doesn’t really make any sense. It’s like saying a car doesn’t have 4 doors because some cars don’t have four doors. An NFT is a basic, fundamental piece of technology that represents unique digital tokens (token A is distinct
820.
by barnabee 5y ago
Sounds like nonsense not common sense. It's not in my best interest for anyone but me to decide what's in my best interest. Not everyone measures their life by the same metrics. The risk of going bankrupt is part and parcel of try
821.
by barnabee 5y ago
Give everyone a UBI weekly or even daily and make contracts that commit you to forfeiting your future UBI illegal/unenforceable (they're not really possible "on chain" anyway). Sure you can lose / gamble away everyt
822.
by barnabee 5y ago
Agree! Furthermore the reason we have such bloated and garbage software is a combination of this kind of feature creep and a complete lack of modularity. Want pause functionality: write a small utility to provide an easy way to start and ki
823.
by barnabee 5y ago
Studying Computer Science is about learning to program (among other things), not learning what it’s like to have clients. I’d have been incredibly disappointed to have a teacher like that.
824.
by barnabee 5y ago
I pay for YouTube Premium and spend a lot more time on Twitter. I’d pay the same for ad free Twitter. As soon as Twitter Blue comes to the UK I’d pay for it even without it being totally ad free (while complaining about that). Between Tweet
825.
by barnabee 5y ago
Me. I want all of it (except the bit where any of it comes from Facebo^H^H^H^H^H^H Meta. I am convinced AR/VR will eventually give a miles better working experience than PCs. Even sooner for mobile where you're severely limited in
826.
by barnabee 5y ago
Not very well laundered... the transactions and flow of money are trivially traceable.
827.
by barnabee 5y ago
Agree. If only all software engineering was data first…
828.
by barnabee 5y ago
We use Miro realtime with live cursors etc. in online workshops. It's ok.
829.
by barnabee 5y ago
Bamboozle was pretty fun but Digitiser [1] (a teletext based gaming magazine) was magnificent! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitiser
830.
by barnabee 5y ago
EFF ( https://eff.org ) and Open Privacy ( https://openprivacy.ca/ ) spring to mind
831.
by barnabee 5y ago
Yeah. The USB C ports on my 15" MacBook Pro feel loose and are starting to become flaky. I hope the new ones fare better and also take less abuse with charging going through MagSafe on the new machine.
832.
by barnabee 5y ago
There is a difference between court orders to violate privacy in narrow cases and the kind of 24/7, always-on surveillance needed to make this work fairly.
833.
by barnabee 5y ago
Downvotes: why do you disagree? Do you think it is possible to achieve the aims of a fair and equitable world through taxation? Do you think we can have sufficient financial transparency for the super rich to make them pay tax fairly compar
834.
by barnabee 5y ago
My response to this: privacy is a right. Trying to build a fair and equitable world using a tax system that relies on knowledge of everyone's finances is not only doomed to fail but also abhorrent because it denies privacy except to th
835.
by barnabee 5y ago
This seems to have changed now. As of iOS 15, gliding is able to type expletives for me if they’re added to the “text replacement” list.
836.
by barnabee 5y ago
Advertising is malicious.
837.
by barnabee 5y ago
This assumes a contract in addition to the smart contract. I am not sure in this case whether one could be said to exist, but certainly a truly decentralised system probably ought not to create such contracts.
838.
by barnabee 5y ago
This seems like a volunteer project _around_ open source rather than open source. It may seem pedantic but it feels useful (to me at least) to separate the act of sharing and collaboratively improving code from the projects and politics tha
839.
by barnabee 5y ago
Totally agree, open source is about sharing code, designs, solutions to problems, etc. not running, maintaining, and and promoting a project.
840.
by barnabee 5y ago
If data is required to perform a service you've requested (lawful basis = 'contract') then further consent is not needed under GDPR. If by "requires information about" you mean "wishes to track/advertise t

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