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by billiam 5y ago
Not to worry. Like every other attempt to replace the Internet with a privately owned space for communication, self-expression, and above all content consumption, this one will fail. If it weren't for the inattention to history of toda
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by billiam 5y ago
If you like the idea of getting developers out of the backend plumbing and repair business you might want to check out https://stepzen.com (I work there). We agree that APIs and the data sources behind them need to be modernized
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by billiam 5y ago
This is so limited. Where is the boldness? Five years ago I thought we would be at MaciOS by now. Precision with a gestural capability.
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by billiam 5y ago
There is no point to saying it is rational for NSO (or the Saudis) to act this way. It was quite rational for MBS to order his minions to lure Khashoggi to the embassy and cut him into pieces. It brings nothing to the discussion of just how
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by billiam 5y ago
I am totally encouraged by this report. The sentence that really gets me from a companion paper linked below: "Cellulose, the main component of wood, has a higher ratio of strength to density than most engineered materials, like cerami
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by billiam 5y ago
I think the main problem with this approach is the UX: that all the things we want useful information to be are pretty hard to do in a text search phrase: What makes librarians so great is that you don't walk up and just say "Byza
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by billiam 5y ago
While this paper is interesting for identifying an interesting relatively unstudied carbon sink, I am confident no one on this website, including me, is in a good position to understand all the implications of it. I found the conclusions to
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by billiam 5y ago
It’s a measure of how broken our political system and citizenry is that so many young people look to the giant companies they work for the rights and privileges and space for self-expression properly secured by government.
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by billiam 5y ago
What about sports unions? Or airplane pilots?
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by billiam 5y ago
Either erroneous conclusion or made in bad faith. The despotic regimes (like Jordan, Russia, Kenya, and many others) are some of the biggest launderers, according to the Pandora Papers! These regimes are propped up by the United States trus
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by billiam 5y ago
I think we have a lot of examples of what happens when the wealthy and powerful get anything they want (see the right of kings, predestination, Social Darwinism, fascism, etc) and we blame the poor and weak for all their problems and victim
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by billiam 5y ago
AFAIK SEC laws and regulations about misrepresentation are only sporadically enforced to encourage compliance by example. Look at what Musk and his companies have gotten away with. Of course, I am all for these disclosures, which of course
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by billiam 5y ago
It's a DNS issue.
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by billiam 5y ago
This seems a bit much to enable good pizza delivery. The funders seem more interested in urban airflows for bioweapons attacks or other slightly more critical problems.
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by billiam 5y ago
Amazing data representation, but what does it mean? These boundaries were always fuzzy and constantly shifting, and whatever compromise or snapshots of history are made here, they may demonstrate the complexity and ubiquity of indigenous pe
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by billiam 5y ago
Saint Joseph on a hot plate, the intolerance and rigidity of thinking of people on this web page is too much. Hacker News and FB and Twitter and a million other things we use every day are also guilty of theft, theft of our time and attent
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by billiam 5y ago
Like every service in the history the Internet, blogs were great for the first few years, then got ruined by the uncontrolled nature of the medium, which is why we liked the Internet in the first place. Yes, I know, nothing new and lovely
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by billiam 5y ago
What a lazy and irrelevant point. Social scientists won't shift the blame to Africa and Asia because their energy intensity is still a tiny fraction of the developed world, and unless and until we deal with energy intensity, we don&#x2
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by billiam 5y ago
Heartbreaking. I can't even talk about Tiananmen with Chinese -born friends under 40 in the US or Europe. TikTok and WeChat has achieved their goals of driving historical memory from their brains. And if I even mention Taiwan within se
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by billiam 5y ago
might not want to hear this as an adoptive Aussie, but two words, mate: New Zealand.
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by billiam 5y ago
Are viruses alive? What about prions? Self-replicating clay molecules? Read up.
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by billiam 5y ago
You would appear to have not read the article, which specifically and persuasively makes points about the semantic limitations to a human-centered definition of intelligence. generalizing it to emergent and organized behavior will help us l
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by billiam 5y ago
Until Xcode is sucked into Github Codespaces.
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by billiam 5y ago
I like what Tim Bray's doing with his time. https://longbets.org/863/
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by billiam 5y ago
I don't know what the point of such conjecture is. Of course we don't know how much immunity comes from infection, and it is quite clear from the spread of delta that we are nowhere near herd immunity in the developed world, even
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by billiam 5y ago
OP says of growth in DeFI value: " I think it’s primarily driven from new entrants and solving problems." New entrants==Ponzi scheme. Also many fallacies about finance are stated as fact.
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by billiam 5y ago
carbon coin concept explored by the amazing Kim Stanley Robinson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50998056-the-ministry-fo...
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by billiam 5y ago
It's a big deal, if just to provide a signal that lithium supply can be distributed in the future and mineralized, concentrated, and potentially politicized sources won't dominate. The biggest effect might be to chill R&D on a
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by billiam 5y ago
the decision is not about other laws for criminally misusing information, as in your example, it is about the fact that the CFAA is a bad law written by legislators who did not understand (and appeared to be afraid of) computers.
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by billiam 5y ago
I was working at Salesforce when they finally got rid of the kegs and alcohol that were all over the engineering floors. IIRC Parker was subdued about it, it happened overnight, I'd guess in response to an alcohol-based HR issue. I lau

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