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by buboard 7y ago
i don't like when "science" is being packaged in one single word. this kind of articles serve to piggyback questionable science or even plain opinion on certain very specific successes of very talented people. science is abou
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by buboard 7y ago
There is nothing particularly insightful in that quote. Employee/employer relationship is like any other transactional relationship: exchanging some freedom for money. Other forms, e.g. freelancing, consulting are different, but pay le
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by buboard 7y ago
if one hits a paywall, they must necessarily have cared about their content
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by buboard 7y ago
i m sure publishers will not appreciate that attitude and will block your ad blocker. some publishers may redirect those users to brave.
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by buboard 7y ago
there are already "offer walls", i.e. incentivized actions that reward users with small amounts of money. Or users could e.g. be rewarded if their amazon reviews are highly rated. there is an incentive for websites to do that. it
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by buboard 7y ago
Didn't they use to use Mozilla's engine in the past? Brave is a payments shell on top of a browser ui. Maybe in the future they can afford to have both. I think focusing on the rendering engine is missing the point.
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by buboard 7y ago
brave uses ads to generate revenue for users . But the tokens might be used in the future to incentivize more direct behaviors, e.g. incentivize users to sign up or post quality content or buy a product. This would completely bypass the ad
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by buboard 7y ago
Brave is the most disruptive thing to happen on the web in 15 years. The discussion about tracking is almost irrelevant - adblocking is the bait that brave uses which will take us from google's web to a web where every visitor can dire
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by buboard 7y ago
if your job is about making wheels, you kinda have to reinvent the wheel. Just driving the car teaches you nothing about them
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by buboard 7y ago
Seeing how the globalnet has become a front for globalized surveillance, disconnected subnets are actually a welcome development.
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Of the top most popular domains, only 2 are in the EU(twitter.com)
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by buboard 7y ago
> Some kinds of startups are effectively impossible to build given current structural constraints on financing them what are those startups? asking for a friend
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by buboard 7y ago
There were a few recent Ask HNs on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21709724 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21641864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21645117 a l
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by buboard 7y ago
Easily explained: FB is the one who actually went the extra mile to start spying on its users and report thousands of cases to the police. Now the police have become lazy, they want more of that.
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by buboard 7y ago
The author may be right for the reason that, the criticism is based on linear extrapolations of what people wanted in the past decades. Perhaps they don't want flying cars, but instead the ability to tele-work and telecommunicate. Per
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by buboard 7y ago
Probably investing in something new?
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by buboard 7y ago
> Most people believe those things are a small necessary evil that you need to ensure safety, I believe the same too, but not that people are clueless. People are quite aware (imperfectly , but still pretty well) of what can go wrong, an
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by buboard 7y ago
- these definitions are not the same as the one you stated previously. - All these 3 definitions of democracy may apply to a democracy that uses allotment instead of elections. - You are correct that modern usage of democracy is restricted
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by buboard 7y ago
- boomers retiring - overpopulation - immigration I am not sure if "solving specific problems" is a fruitful strategy though. Attacking problems head-on often does not work (faster horse etc). The solutions almost always come from
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by buboard 7y ago
Voters == the electorate
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by buboard 7y ago
Where do you get those definitions?
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by buboard 7y ago
Apples and oranges. Thats why parliamentary immunity exists. Voters are not and should not be accountable to anyone. Thats their only power (left)
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by buboard 7y ago
> More broadly, democracy doesn't require anonymity. In face, it functions better when you know exactly where everyone stands that's just false. democracy wouldn't function at all without secret ballots > Those dudes pu
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by buboard 7y ago
> rather than because they understand what is coming and are fine with it. Sorry if it wasn't clear, i do believe people know the consequences of surveillance and are OK with it. An Authoritarian state does not let its citizens know
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by buboard 7y ago
> something is called "democracy", doesn't make it a democracy, Right. We used to call them "liberal democracies" in the west, at some point we dropped the adjective. Obviously democracies like russia, GDR, even
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by buboard 7y ago
> how is democracy doing in places where authoritation control has gotten out of hand? Not well, but not too bad either. Everyone is happy because of this: https://thinkbynumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2019&#x2F
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by buboard 7y ago
Duh this should be common knowledge by now and it s only getting worse. Yes you should be freaked out about living in a world without privacy, but no, democracy is not in danger, freedom is in danger. In fact, democratic people voted for th
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by buboard 7y ago
If they were going for performance, and web-related, how come they didn't consider PHP?
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by buboard 7y ago
Talk about inequality. Faang absorb the bulk of online profits, leaving most websites destitute
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by buboard 7y ago
Thats not a sustainable model though

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