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by barnacs 10y ago
Initially it would probably be a mess. But I also think more involvement is the only way to build a more responsible, informed, interested citizenry. People need to feel that they can affect things, that they have a say in policies. I think
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by barnacs 10y ago
Paper voting doesn't allow for much more citizen involvement than most "democratic" countries have today. You can hold elections every few years, maybe a referendum once or twice a year at most, but any more than that and it
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by barnacs 10y ago
- google now has one more reason to collect your location and associate it with the rest of your activities - you are encouraged to use your phone even more, because doing so signals to your loved ones that you're ok. Using your phone
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by barnacs 10y ago
I haven't read the paper yet but the idea looks promising. I've had this itch myself for a long time. I can't quite put my finger on it but we really need something like a high level assembly language. One that incorporates h
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by barnacs 10y ago
Great news! A simple weather website, with about 1 MB worth of actual content (text, markup, images, layout) now only uses 250 MB of memory. And it only takes a few seconds to load on a 100Mbps+ connection whenever I click a menu item (that
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by barnacs 10y ago
Better yet, abolish for-profit corporations. Cap individual salaries at 1.5x median or something. Create a global or national direct crowdfunding platform. Have the population propose, vote on and fund causes with the excess money.
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by barnacs 10y ago
In my opinion, this is yet another example of a social problem that technology simply amplifies. Humans make mistakes. Computer systems are fragile. As humans keep developing computer systems, new attack surfaces, new vulnerabilities will b
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by barnacs 10y ago
> 1. It violates Conservation of Momentum. If the phenomena is real, a large number of basic Physics principles would need to be discarded. Relativity didn't make us discard Newtonian physics though. It just turned out to be a good
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by barnacs 10y ago
Besides not depending on centralized (especially 'free') offerings of any single company ourselves and spreading the word, warning people with less technical insight, there are some things we can do when building services to help
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by barnacs 10y ago
Try rss + client of your choice + youtube-dl streaming into the player of your choice. It's like a glimpse into what could have been had we all just sticked to standards.
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by barnacs 10y ago
Maybe the gut bacteria simply follow a cycle based on our eating habits? But who knows, those things are weird and I keep running into them a lot lately. The experiments are not mandatory at this point, though I would love it if more people
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by barnacs 10y ago
I didn't really mean to imply that, but it would be interesting to see how reliant humans are on ~24 hour cycles apart from convention. It may be more deeply rooted in the way of nature than our work/sleep/leisure schedule wi
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by barnacs 10y ago
Without time zones, we'd still have clocks and a universally consistent description of time, which allows for coordination. What specific problems are you thinking of that would harder/impossible to solve without time zones? I gue
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by barnacs 10y ago
I think in the future the number of people commuting to their jobs will be decreasing. Anyway, let's keep to the present. You could optimize the location of the zones for traffic. For example, we know that everyone will sleep at some p
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by barnacs 10y ago
If you have to _guess_ someone's availability, then their local time with some knowledge about their lifestyle is probably the best indicator. But technology allows us to communicate at almost light speed, so we don't have to gues
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by barnacs 10y ago
Why do you think so? I believe it would work better than the current system. We could utilize roads, vehicles, parking space, other infrastructure, as well as manpower more evenly. Rush hours are a weird concept and painful for pretty much
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by barnacs 10y ago
If I want to talk to Uncle Steve, I don't really care what time it is either here or there, or what it signifies. All I care about is whether we can communicate synchronously at the time or not. If he doesn't want to be disturbed
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by barnacs 10y ago
I'd go even further and divide every human settlement into multiple districts with schedules shifting gradually between them. Like, in one "district" of the city most people would be sleeping, it would be quiet and somewhat d
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by barnacs 10y ago
> Why not get involved with any of the thriving, vivid, fascinating projects that work in ways that are decentralized, noncapitalist, and nonconsumerist? There are indeed some great projects and I also have some ideas myself and I do try
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by barnacs 10y ago
Great write-up. I share your disappointment. I too though technology could be the answer but it looks like tech has simply transformed to suit the needs of this centralized, capitalist, consumerist slave society. As a software engineer myse
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by barnacs 10y ago
It's funny how the article mentions AWS lock-in but fails to recognize the infrastructure lock-in aspect of relying on a whole container/orchestration/virtualization stack that is so fragile that (according to the article) th
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by barnacs 10y ago
Thanks, I really appreciate your effort copying the article here. Could you please do this for all paywalled content from now on? Or maybe we should have a bot do it just in case you have something different planned for the rest of your lif
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by barnacs 10y ago
To be honest, google is far past the point where i'd trust them that when I "pause" tracking or delete history they actually do so and not just show me an interface which says so.
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by barnacs 10y ago
The way I see it, when you use facebook (share personal data, view ads) you are not paying for anything in any way. You are just making counters go up (number of ad views, amount of data for targeting, etc) and thereby validating to compani
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by barnacs 10y ago
My ISP would certainly love if my whole local area (building/street/district/whatever) only fetched each unique piece of data once through their network and then distributed it locally via mesh networks. It's just that t
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by barnacs 10y ago
I think edge to edge connectivity being limited is mostly a software (routing protocol architecture) issue. For example, I live in an apartment and the ISP has a router installed in the building. Coax cables are running to each apartment. I
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by barnacs 10y ago
A decentralized web would be vastly more efficient in terms of resources. A lot of the data could be deduplicated and a lot of backbone traffic could be avoided. Right now, if a dozen people around a block watch the same viral video, all of
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by barnacs 10y ago
Yep, as much as I love to hate on google, I recently trialed their vms, aws and azure and google offered the best experience by far. I have no idea why people like aws so much. To spin up a simple vm, I had to go to the correct web interfac
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by barnacs 10y ago
_Browsers_ are a source of performance problems, crashes, and security incidents for Web users. I've had browsers crash, become unresponsive, use unreasonable amounts of memory or cpu. I've had youtube throw errors, load forever o
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by barnacs 10y ago
I think browsers shouldn't really have tabs in the first place. That's the job of a window manager. And then you can decide which one to use. Do you want tiling or floating windows? Do you want workspaces? Stacked, tabbed, side-by

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