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by ci5er 7y ago
> Being a representative isn't just about beliefs, it requires expertise in statecraft. I suspect you don't live in the United States - or have never watched these representatives in action in their various sessions and places
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by ci5er 7y ago
I find your predictions of the death of non-digital fungible currency to be unlikely, but, who knows! We'll see, I guess.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Agressive EEs can cover a lot. I started out designing chips. Agressive CS (Compilers, OS, Data Structures, Databases) can cover a lot. Some of the modern stacks dependencies (npm, blegh) leave you with a lot to comb through. Modern compile
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by ci5er 7y ago
Ah, well, I grew up 60 miles from the closest town, and 10 miles away from the closest neighbor, and the house didn't have a phone until I left for school at 15, so I guess my standards for acceptable-levels-of-existence are not up to
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by ci5er 7y ago
Pre-paid debit cards. Also - buy from preppers. It's not like an iPhone with Facebook is a necessity. If you are looking for food, shelter and maybe a library, I don't think it is that hard. Maybe a little hermit-ey, but pretend y
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by ci5er 7y ago
Not as much as developers who can't find their own coding errors might have you think!
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by ci5er 7y ago
It's Apple's call, isn't it? On what they allow and don't allow on their stores and platforms. It is the end-consumer's call, that they are happy with the product functionality and ecosystem that Apple enabled/
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by ci5er 7y ago
I see (at the time of this post) a regional person and a techno-geek respond to your comment, trying to disqualify it as not being universal (sorry globalist techno-geeks!), even though it is, measured by global magnitude. But I am baffled
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by ci5er 7y ago
And buyers can be shrewd in their calculation. I founded a company that, in the 1990s, was implementing a Visa/Mastercard/(Amex, IBM, HP, Sun, RSA, Netscape) backed "Standard" for credit card payments. IBM had "inve
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by ci5er 7y ago
But not more than one bar per 10,200 residents in Salt Lake City!
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by ci5er 7y ago
Great! Depending on geography, one would hope this to be the case...
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by ci5er 7y ago
The thing about evil capitalists is that they like to have low cost equipment and operations and high price outputs. IF you exclude government subsidies, these evil capitalists that are out for a buck are not rushing into implementing what
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by ci5er 7y ago
Ha! I'm in more "not open" systems, but if there is zero noise, it's great! :-)
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by ci5er 7y ago
Why? (I am not taking a contrary position by asking). I'm not really an RDBMS guy (but I can write a select query from scratch!), but IIRC, the Netscape Server API (where Javascript got it's start - not in the browser!), there was
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by ci5er 7y ago
Or money.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Embrace the healing power of AND. (OR is for losers) I taught myself to code, and sold my first commercial project at the age of 14. And learned a lot. I then went on to get a CS degree (in addition to physics, math and EE degrees - all und
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by ci5er 7y ago
It is more than "just" a newsletter, but it is certainly hinged around it, and they are doing more than OK: - https://www.theinformation.com/
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by ci5er 7y ago
SVD is also simple and versatile.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Neat! (Although I knew about it and stand by my assertion, because...) I still can't conceive of using that to build a (say) iPhone.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Well - I did say it's a fantasy. That said, re: Oceans -- I find it hard to believe that "pioneers" could build islands or sub-oceanic cities (Gungan-style), without a nation-state declaring their sovereignty over it. Maybe a
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by ci5er 7y ago
Amazon - often picks all the suppliers, and lets the buyer decide which they prefer. Also - they deal in finished (consumer) goods. There is a whole lot of coordination before that stuff gets assembled and ready for Amazon or one or their
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by ci5er 7y ago
There are no more frontiers on Earth to discover/explore/develop. Everything here is controlled by a more-or-less recognized government over a nation-state. Built. Controlled. Civilized. The expanding frontiers of space represent
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by ci5er 7y ago
That would be true. But like the commenter recommending an HNL two/three day break between LAX and somewhere in AUS, if I don't have to there tomorrow, I am otherwise required to be here. (For arbitrary values of here and there).
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by ci5er 7y ago
You can - and it's about 6~7 days. Still not feasible, but certainly not multi-week.
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by ci5er 7y ago
> assuming you have a few extra days up your sleeve Ha! If I had a few extra days up my sleeve, I wouldn't be flying to Australia in the first place!
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by ci5er 7y ago
Sculpting a company, like sculpting out of clay, or creating a perfectly balanced 4 or 6 or 8 or 12 cylinder enging can be a "work of art". Creating a a system, and then watching it run, and tuning and adjusting and tinkering and
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by ci5er 7y ago
That tool is available at policy-level to other species too; they just don't like to talk about it.
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by ci5er 7y ago
I used to have to fly to SG, through SF or LA, about every two-three weeks back in the late-90s/early-2000s; you don't have to transfer at Narita or Taipei any more?
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by ci5er 7y ago
Yes. Being old, I remember. Well, considering that the "G" stood for "Graphics" and that "Graphics", in my native American English has a hard-g, I'm just going to declare the author of the format to be a t
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by ci5er 7y ago
Some people persist in calling "GIF", "jif", so whaddayagonnado?

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