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by buboard 7y ago
Windows does it. And despite that, versions like win 7 were pretty fast
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by buboard 7y ago
I dont know, that just feels wrong. If anything, the rise of mobile means there should be more emphasis on speed. All the bloat is because of misguided aesthetics (which all look the same, as if designers move between companies every year,
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by buboard 7y ago
Ads dont have to be so heavy. They load entire frameworks in ads these days.
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by buboard 7y ago
He has a nice follow up which gets to the reasons why https://tonsky.me/blog/good-times-weak-men/ Another take: rewrites and rehashes tend to be bad because they are not exciting for programmers. Everything you re
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by buboard 7y ago
Yeah, if anything, central banks have been clear that cryptocurrencies are the devil and they will be shot down. From today on , EU adopts stricter controls for transferring Gold as well. If anything, there will be a backlash to this extrem
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by buboard 7y ago
that's a very small number; and they re refugees
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by buboard 7y ago
immigration requires opportunity, and opportunity is becoming increasingly scarce in europe. it's more likely, lots of capital will be reallocated towards the growing parts of africa
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by buboard 7y ago
I dont know what you mean neoliberal, but i think in this decade we ll realize it was criminal
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by buboard 7y ago
Thanks for this, it still shows a rather small benefit, however. I do think that in a few years time electric can become the best choice. The mechanical simplicity alone is worth it
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by buboard 7y ago
While its correct that telecommunication will become much important at work, i dont see why people will be stuck in VR outside work. If all work is remote, why would anyone choose to live away from loved ones?
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by buboard 7y ago
What about demographic collapse in the west/china? will it not overshadow a lot of this? Esp coupled with demographic looming catastrophe in africa. Poor countries becoming increasingly unsustainable at a time when the developed ones
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by buboard 7y ago
personal blogs are still crashing as if it's 2010. that must mean, not much happened Edit: ok read the rest. - according to his admission, the subscription model did not scale - missing is the effect of planet-level monetary policy tha
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by buboard 7y ago
Yeah but I think Yang knows that , and he uses UBI as a symbolic image of the fact that good jobs are going to become increasingly hard to find and that makes most people anxious. It's sort of how trump used "the wall" to app
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by buboard 7y ago
it's nowhere near the <1% that big corp pays. that kind of tax is not even available to small fish by establishing a company in a low-tax EU jurisdiction, you can't go < 10%.
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by buboard 7y ago
there is many uses where charging will be at least problematic. e.g camping away, or doing a road trip, or doing farm work. It's not enough for cafe's to provide chargers, because it's not as if people park right outside busi
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by buboard 7y ago
how many of them were running away from academia? It's no secret that the academic prospect of perpetual postdoctry is unattractive.
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by buboard 7y ago
i think simplicity is a good selling point, but the dependence on the power grid and charging utilities is an even bigger, negative point. i think it's underestimated how big of an issue charging will be.
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by buboard 7y ago
> manufacturing cars has suddenly become accessible to a much wider and geopolitically more diverse set of industrial bases It has always been. German companies manufacture parts or cars in cheap countries (like turkey). Yet there are no
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by buboard 7y ago
tesla is not aiming at VWs audience. They make sexy, expensive and fast cars that target the market of ... porsche cayenne? It's not clear if tesla's model will lead to economies of scale that will make these cars cheap. it's
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by buboard 7y ago
i m not so optimistic. The old internet died because it's not as profitable as the new internet, not because it's not sustainable, but because it doesn't stand a chance to grab the attention of makers, when compared to the ob
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by buboard 7y ago
So didnt the employees benefit from google s avoidance scheme all this time?
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by buboard 7y ago
> Corporations are supposed to maximize profits. That's not generally true, and if it is it's not an excuse for anyone. Why are only corporations supposed to maximize profits? why are individuals not allowed the same kind of tr
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by buboard 7y ago
it's the opposite of hacking, it's using its giant piles of money to secure preferential treatment. small fish don't have access to such tricks If google wanted to hack the financial system and improve it, they could , usin
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by buboard 7y ago
> but there's no way to do so for "groups"; That is intentional. Facebook had facebook pages, where users could subscribe (like) to be your audience. Then pages became too popular and theyrealized that they were losing pot
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by buboard 7y ago
it's also a different "way" of working with text: it feels like photoshop, or a game, with the keyboard being your joystick. The command keystrokes are as compressed as can be, and having regexps literally at your fingertips
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by buboard 7y ago
it's not, because phone coverage can be spotty when in a car using the train, busy wifi connections etc. aren't we supposed to be optimizing for mobile? SPAs should only be used for things like gmail. Newspapers offering megabyt
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by buboard 7y ago
tbh they are very hard to miss, and the reason is the loading spinners on every box.
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by buboard 7y ago
reminding that scientific reports publishes articles that are reviewed to be technically correct but regardless of their importance.
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by buboard 7y ago
the same goes for cash & credit card, and in any case an apocalyptic war resets all prices to 0. Or you could extoil the virtues of gold but good luck carrying your gold in an EU country from Jan 1st, let alone the Moon and Mars
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by buboard 7y ago
i assume it s been happening for quite a while now, at least for some products featured sometimes, but it doesnt seem it's very prevalent

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