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by bccdee 5y ago
> Amazon's 1-click checkout For a long time, software patenting law was famously lax. You could basically patent anything software-related if you knew the right legalese. The situation has apparently gotten better after a 2014 SCOTU
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by bccdee 5y ago
Steve Jobs is dead, and Apple's primary responsibility is to its shareholders, not its users. Subtly and pervasively hamstringing PWAs doesn't protect users. What would it even be protecting them from? PWAs that work well offline?
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by bccdee 5y ago
If someone sends you $1M in Bitcoin out of the blue, that's very suspicious. You didn't earn that and the tax man knows it. If you make a goofy picture of a frog and someone "buys" it from you for $1M in Bitcoin, that&#x
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by bccdee 5y ago
>> I can't just transmit my money into and out of a Spanish bank account in order to launder it. > Happens all the time. How do you think this happens No it doesn't? I'm sorry, are you really saying that you believe
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by bccdee 5y ago
There is only one underlying issue — the fact that institutions cooperate with each other and shut out the public. Only a strong culture of democracy and government accountability can actually protect the public. Without that, it doesn&#x27
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by bccdee 5y ago
> If people started to think Chase was a place where their deposits weren't safe, it wouldn't be pretty for Chase. But when all banks get hit equally by regulation, consumers would have nowhere else to go. The banks might super
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by bccdee 5y ago
A government bank could presumably provide financial services such as low-fee bank accounts and loans to people with bad credit scores. I dunno, I'm not really well-informed about the advantages. But the criticisms given in the article
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by bccdee 5y ago
As if the United States has ever had any qualms about wasting money on the justice system. Remember the war on drugs?
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by bccdee 5y ago
I'm sure he performatively complains about regulation because he's a wealthy CEO who doesn't want to pay taxes, but at the end of the day, he has no financial interest in "protecting the little guy," because he&#x27
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by bccdee 5y ago
There's a pretty big difference between the introduction of a CBDC (essentially just a government bank account + debit card) and the deprecation of cash such that the CBDC is the ONLY way you can transact. And it's not like these
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by bccdee 5y ago
> The next thing will incorporate its advances. Already has. Logseq [1] is essentially an open-source Roam that stores its data locally, in markdown files. It's not quite as polished yet, because it's still in beta, but I'
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by bccdee 5y ago
RSS is easy to add to a website. It's a ubiquitous standard — whatever language or framework you're using has a library or plugin that you can integrate in under an hour.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Sure it is. The artists have to eat somehow.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Then we can make the reverse argument, substituting "high art" for "the art of the downtrodden," which is sanitized and repackaged for the mainstream. The underlying idea — that the art which inspires popular artists is
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by bccdee 5y ago
Markets can absolutely be unsustainable. Here's a very simple model of an art ecosystem which can't be sustained by the free market: "Popular art" is widely consumed, but can only be produced by "good artists."
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by bccdee 5y ago
I think I'm going to lose my mind. Nobody in this thread remembers the book. > He picked his way up the scar, passed the great rock where Ralph had climbed on the first morning, then turned off to his right among the trees. He walke
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by bccdee 5y ago
The problem with this is that you often miss the stuff that the author was trying to say. Turns out stories have themes after all. For instance, you're factually wrong about Lord of the Flies. The pig wasn't the first thing th
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by bccdee 5y ago
Anything's possible, but I find it less plausible, given that "we know sex has some effects on behaviour" is weak evidence, and we have strong evidence that gender norms affect life choices in adults (such as female CS majo
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by bccdee 5y ago
> If danger determines masculinity/femininity, then that would also explain why grilling is considered masculine. I think this is motivated reasoning. From what I can tell, the "grilling is manly" thing started in the &#x2
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by bccdee 5y ago
> Is there any evidence of this systematic underfeeding? I provided evidence that our cultural ideas of what careers are and aren't masculine impacts women's interests in terms of career path. You provided no evidence that inte
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by bccdee 5y ago
> Given that we then expect to find differences of interest stemming from biology, and that we have found a difference in interest, and that there isn't a plausible alternative... There is a more plausible alternative though. Our
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by bccdee 5y ago
> a significant part (majority?) of our culture is defined by our biology That's a very strong claim. Obviously everything's influenced by biology to some extent (imagine what society would look like if we had no thumbs), but
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by bccdee 5y ago
oh that's interesting — I assumed the bar was being able to loosely define the words.
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by bccdee 5y ago
> women tend to be more interested in fabrics and fashion Why? There are only two possible answers: Either there's some sort of genetic predisposition for women to care about fashion (quite a claim!), or that disposition is a produc
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by bccdee 5y ago
These aren't trucks and dolls though. It's a pretty big leap from "female monkey babies prefer anthropomorphic toys" to "adult women are biologically predisposed to a deeper understanding of textiles." A cultur
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by bccdee 5y ago
Sometimes programs implement hierarchical tags, and that appeals to me the most. That way, you can navigate hierarchies of tags the same way you would navigate hierarchies of folders, but there's more than one hierarchy that can be nav
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by bccdee 5y ago
> When you make a bank transfer or a PayPal transaction, it’s 100% opaque. The terms are not truly binding and it can be reverted or altered for any or no reason. Yeah, they can tell that to my lawyer. Banks don't make the rules — r
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by bccdee 5y ago
AWS does not have any trouble moving money around or writing programs to move money around. Finance has been digitized for ages. You might say "those are just digital abstractions — this is native. " But so what? What does it mat
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by bccdee 5y ago
`ssh -qND localhost:8080 user@ip` sets up a SOCKS proxy at localhost:8080. In your browser connection settings (at least in Firefox) you can set it up to route your traffic through the connection. It's not as good as a proper VPN for p
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by bccdee 5y ago
Everyone votes with their purchases, except the people with the most money get the most votes, and if you don't participate in the "elections" you starve? Sounds very democratic. Regulations typically limit the power of the

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