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by buran77 1y ago
> Same for MS-DOS, at least in the early years Same for Windows throughout its history, at least for home use. But unlike WinRAR, Windows didn't run on goodwill. MS understood the power of market share and network effects. The stayi
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by buran77 1y ago
With any other disadvantaged/discriminated class (skin color, sexual orientation, gender, etc.), getting elected in power doesn't change the disadvantage. So the incentive is still there to fight for that equality. This is not so
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Thanks LLM...
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> Decentralization (I have in mind something like Hyperliquid or even BTC) ensures that everybody in the world have access to the same economy without intermediaries asking for a fee. Which means, a person in Indian can access to income
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by buran77 1y ago
"Decentralization" is a generic principle and a very selective choice in this case. What was the specific practical implementation that was so beneficial to society to this day? Centralization is what enabled today's societie
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The "boiling the ocean" argument comes up every once in a while for some time now, just a lot more structured and number packed in the age of LLMs. There are even funny "security" levels based on this [0] like "lake
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by buran77 1y ago
Are you asking if any company, institution, or political party documented asking their subordinates to commit illegal acts in order to provide cover for the head honchos? Generally no but when you look into scandals like Dieselgate, Enron,
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by buran77 1y ago
> He was obviously forbidden to hang up on me Plenty of big companies found a workaround. The "forever on hold" routine where they don't hang up, you will eventually. This works perfectly for toll free numbers (so you can&
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by buran77 1y ago
> So was Roman incompetent or just kissing ass hoping to become the President of Finance Why do you think Apple sent the Vice President to such a high visibility trial and not the President, who is the person with the ultimate authorit
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> the internet was a $50B industry How much is "the internet" an industry? It's an enabler and a commodity as much as electricity or road networks are. Are you counting everything using the internet as contributing a siza
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> I was pleasantly surprised to see that they promise that it’ll will work for at least five years after they stop selling the current version. That disclaimer makes me even more uneasy. It implicitly says the toy might stop working afte
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With the very big difference that in my case it never needs to (or can, really) be connected to a network and someone else's service [0]. Only to the "parents' service", which was a more convoluted experience for them. T
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by buran77 1y ago
A couple of years ago, inspired bu the Tonie box, I built a similar yet much simpler device for a toddler in my family but without such a lofty goal of the learning experience. I wanted to retain the same "always offline" and &quo
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by buran77 2y ago
> I felt there was going to be a path forward ripe with cooperation and hopefully a place where I could onboard new maintainers He was hoping for a fruitful collaboration and offered the help towards this goal. MS taking whatever they wa
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by buran77 2y ago
Because they're hoping not to antagonize the megacorp (too quickly). If a megacorp has you in their sights, especially in a country like the US where court battles are prohibitively expensive, pushing the envelope will just draw ire an
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by buran77 2y ago
> The goal is to make government as dysfunctional as possible ...So it's easier to justify to the people when they tear it down completely and then "rescue" the country by replacing it with a true corpocracy.
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by buran77 2y ago
The two sides of your thought are going head to head. "Gated corporate networks" don't benefit from software that "updates itself" (unless we're talking about pure SaaS). It's exactly where auto-updating i
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by buran77 2y ago
> foreigners looking for prestigious schools are searching in the USA because their own system is middling See how you called it "prestigious" not "expensive", and "middling" not "cheap"? Price con
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The key, as always, is in successfully answering the question (good or evil) "for whom". Everyone thinks they are on the right side of the story.
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by buran77 2y ago
> That's how you get security/privacy back. Nothing an app does on a device guarantees you security or privacy if you don't trust or fully control the device.
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by buran77 2y ago
You're shooting blanks from the hip. Jumping to answer without even understanding the question or the point of the article. When I activate a brand new iPhone I don't get presented with Cnet/Zdnet articles from 7 years that t
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by buran77 2y ago
> I've already consented to tracking at the OS level That's very wide and obscure. Even the bullet points for how the OS can track you go past what can be considered informed consent. If that consent covers every 1st party ap
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> or even street in said neighborhood Or even one individual on different days. It should be all chaos and noise and yet it's not because these "general" numbers get translated to a realistic "it's more/less
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by buran77 2y ago
It looks like you're rejecting every concept of averages, or probabilities, or statistics, or generalization because you feel slighted by the resulting comparison. When considering the US as a whole then Loudoun county will get the app
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The reason is that everyone who was supposed to do something about it was "subsidized with VC money".
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> So you are telling me poor folks are poor and struggling? No, I'm telling you that your examples, the "strategy" of getting financial efficiency, and calling it "hedonism" are disconnected from the reality of t
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That's a much bigger problem. People at the limit of survival financially - and there's a lot of them - may not have the luxury of any kind of financial education, or the leeway to experiment and take longer term aggregates and
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by buran77 2y ago
> genuinely lost a lot of reputation Billionaires also genuinely lost a lot of reputation. Present discussion and times stands proof. "Billionaires are dead", to mirror PG's sentiment. Surely you agree that having an opini
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> must meet certain requirements in regard to their ability to pay large claims [...] states and the federal government regulate banks to minimize the risk that they end up needing FDIC funds Deposit guarantees have a ceiling, and in the
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by buran77 2y ago
> a bunch of people misunderstood his point the same way you're doing Nobody implied he meant "dead dead" so that's a straw man, just that he completely missed the mark with his observation. Everything else is a backs

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