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by bartimus 7y ago
When it comes to security everyone's guilty until proven innocent.
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by bartimus 7y ago
So let's say a genie grants your wish and lets you remove all of those people and companies. It wouldn't change a thing as long as consumer demand remains.
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Trump declares emergency over IT threats(bbc.com)
44 points by bartimus 7y ago|10 comments
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by bartimus 7y ago
Came to say this. The 25 limit was set at November 2014.
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by bartimus 7y ago
I think the bubble has to do with purists vs pragmatists. I once joined a Java team as a front-end dev (I'm full-stack). They would do the back-end. They had done everything by the book perfectly. Following all the best practices. But
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by bartimus 7y ago
> Back in the 5.* days, PHP's performance was… average at best. Even with 5.* it very much depended how you used it. The real world scenario's. PHP functions are written in C. You could make great gains by leveraging on them. U
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by bartimus 7y ago
Any process/interaction in the physical world is a candidate for a digital version.
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What Will Cause the Next Recession (Part 2)(seekingalpha.com)
1 points by bartimus 7y ago|0 comments
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by bartimus 7y ago
> The fact that certain medications and therapeutic interventions are so demonstrably effective at improving the quality of life for people with ADHD means that refusing to recognise it as a genuine disorder is actively damaging to them.
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by bartimus 7y ago
Yes, I agree logical concepts can be abstracted into generic core concepts. Like how the concept of "picking up a coffee cup" can be abstracted into the more generic core concept of "picking up an object" which can be ap
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by bartimus 7y ago
This question is strange to me. Mental models are simply how your brain works. You don't need to read books about them before they become effective. You don't need to understand how your legs operate before you can learn to walk.
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by bartimus 7y ago
I often have my backpack stowed under the seat in front of me. I could theoretically put it on while still seated. But I'm sure I'll be fractions faster if I'm not wearing it.
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by bartimus 7y ago
There's two aspects to blockchain: 1) How the technology can be applied in useful innovative ways to improve people's lives. 2) How the technology can be used as a speculative commodity for people seeking to make easy money. I thi
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by bartimus 7y ago
> It really destroyed the economy and lives of the place, there are no jobs there whatsoever I can't confirm this. The economy seems to be fine (same like other regions). > are advised against going there without protection Reall
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by bartimus 7y ago
Nice article. But the title is a bit misleading since it's hardly mentioned how life in the island got transformed.
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by bartimus 7y ago
I'm super intrigued by the question of which approach leads to the best products: Engineering (technical) vs industrial design (arts) Companies like Google, Microsoft, Tesla, PayPal, SpaceX, Facebook, Amazon were all born out of the te
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by bartimus 7y ago
Then ever so often the opinions are about decisions that came into existence for the sake of making a decision. Solving problems that never existed.
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by bartimus 7y ago
It's a good reason to seriously consider Gitlab.
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by bartimus 7y ago
Windows isn't open source though.
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by bartimus 7y ago
It's called industry self-regulation and it's a wonderful thing.
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by bartimus 7y ago
> The settlement is what permitted Apple and Google to exist in the first place. How did it permit Google to exist? Google was running fine on IE. > Amazon was utterly irrelevant back then It was busy growing into the giant it is toda
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by bartimus 7y ago
So according to the CPB welfare spending as a percentage of GDP in the Netherlands increased significantly from ~20% (1930) to ~40% (1970) up to ~60% (1980). https://www.cpb.nl/sites/default/files/publicaties&
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by bartimus 7y ago
But that's just not how it happened. That settlement was pretty much insignificant. First Amazon launched their online book store. Then Microsoft made a $150 million investment into Apple. Then Google launched its search innovation. Li
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by bartimus 7y ago
I'm sorry. I can rant on about this for hours and hours and I feel like I'm already dominating this discussion too much. I don't believe language barriers are such a big problem. Most tech people speak English. What's ir
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by bartimus 7y ago
> Microsoft was punished by the government, i.e. the law, not the market. I wholeheartedly disagree. There has been a huge active community rigorously battling Microsoft's dominance offering alternative technologies and innovations.
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by bartimus 7y ago
The Czech tech giant would be operating globally. The Czech government would be less inclined to tax foreign tech companies if there exists a risk of foreign countries introducing tax repercussions for your own tech giants. Then if you appl
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by bartimus 7y ago
> You say that like "tech giants" are a good thing. What you see is that - if the Czech Republic would have their own tech giants - they wouldn't propose such an aggressive taxation towards it. It's why Germany was ag
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by bartimus 7y ago
We can do this in Europe because we are great at killing innovation through our taxes and regulations. This way we can safely tax innovative tech giants without hurting our own tech giants. Because they don't exist here. We don't
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by bartimus 7y ago
I rarely shop on Amazon. I just looked around and you are right it's not easy to see the seller information. But I wouldn't consider this the root cause of faulty products. I see it more as a global problem (can also happen on Ali
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by bartimus 7y ago
They're 3rd party sellers. Putting the blame on Amazon is a bit like blaming the postal service for all the faulty products they send. Being the most popular service as a common denominator doesn't make it the root cause of a prob

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