cblconfederate

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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Here is an incentive they could use: If a paper publishes the code it used, they can be allowed to skip the methods section about it. Describing code with words is at best awkward and usually error prone as people forget to update the text.
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
I agree, and of course it is. But the underlying issue here is that paper production is the wrong way to do science, there simply isn't enough attention to validate all those papers
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Depends on the field. Let's assume you are not in math /CS/Physics What can go "wrong" - Someone may find a minor rounding error and now you have to issue a correction to the paper which, laudable as it is, is a bad
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Blame popularity and popular culture, it skews history. He didn't even seem to promote the narrative, but people at large think Zuck invented the internet like elon invented rocketry.
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Fun fact, a few weeks ago we were asked by the reviewer of the (EU-funded) H2020 research project in which we participate to add google analytics and twitter to our website so we can give her stats about our website visitors. Even despite o
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
analytics is important to grow an audience. A big website doesn't need to care about SEO or analytics or anything really. Metcalfe's law
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Human rights also include access to learning, education and news. Having them for free online is the best option. But you cant have both at the same time
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Citation needed i think, especially for european sites.
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Is that enough? If a company uses google services , they are liable if google decides to take a bite at this data (because e.g. NSA asked them to). And it's not enough if google makes a contract that promises not to do so. the company
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
The solution is to make a worldwide framework where people OWN their data. That's not what GDPR does, it in fact prevents people from selling their data at will. (People's privacy is protected by constitutions. That is orthogonal
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
> but if I would start a SAAS site today, I wouldn't try to sell to the EU. You 'd still be liable for GDPR by non-europeans since you are located in germany It's like the EU is pushing entrepreneurs to emigrate.
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
posthog seems to be hosted in Digitalocean - an american company plausible.io is hosted on AWS - an american company snowplowanalytics.com seems to be hosted in digitalocean as well as I understand they are equally illegal now. [Self-hostin
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
What's the end goal of all this? Information (data) technology has essentially left europe The EU is never held accountable for the laws they make, and i m not aware with them consulting with local entrepreneurs. It seems only lobbyist
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
It's not a monopoly, it's a vertically integrated business that is using its cash and marketing to lure in and lock in more developers, who in turn end up being working as unpaid labor for them, increasing the value of their app s
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
It will be forever sabotaged by mountains of cash
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
The companies that don't take their business out of app stores deserve all the pain in the world. I'm with apple on this
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Are we supposed to be rooting for monopolies now? Of course not. But you are right, HN used to be about the little David entrepreneur. Since ~2012 it's all about "fuck making a startup and go work for The Man"
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
were all the other positions taken?
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Cloudflare's blocks get in the way of many websites who are simply trying to get a "link preview" of the page, even if it is only a single request from a new IP. I wish they would offer some kind of alternative for the pages
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
will something terrible happen if i just convert my tables to utf8mb4? Will i have to upgrade each column?
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
couldnt emoji fit in 3 bytes as well? I don't think there are that many ...
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
This is great because, finally we can start selling ads with verified "proximal views" to advertisers and make more money! In fact we can think of all the wonderful product synergies here. For example, we can increase the number
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
> Hiring experienced desktop application devs to build a quality native app for each platform is going to be expensive, So it looks like software would vastly improve if silicon valley companies moved to india or russia or some other pla
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
> Do you think web development is anywhere near what it was 20 years ago why not compare web dev to where desktop was 20 years ago. The question from the user perspective is not whether this or that type of development is getting better,
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Most of the "client"/desktop software does the same things that it did in 1997. Most/all of the 'advanced' features such as AI/voice recognition are done server-side because reasons. If the quality of desk
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
> "Teens and college students said they dread the ostracism that comes with a green text. The social pressure is palpable, with some reporting being ostracized or singled out after switching away from iPhones." This can't
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
> How many messaging systems has Google had over the years? many, but also, Gmail
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
They should really add a "pause" that freezes the pic so people can feel less trapped.
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
Amazing to see that the plane belonged to Olympic airlines. This was an airline started by Aristotle Onassis which later became tha national carrier of Greece, and finally merged with Aegean airlines. How it ended up in oregon ... another m
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by cblconfederate 5y ago
I was fooled for a bit thinking that people might be coming to their rational senses, but it does seem there is a media campaign to minimize covid.

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