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by cptaj 6y ago
Yeah, most boat manufacturers in the world don't hit mass production numbers. Fiberglass is relatively easy to work with requiring very little tooling investment. You can also easily "clone" other boats by taking a mold of th
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by cptaj 6y ago
This is pretty contradictory even in its biases. You assume people can't do anything for motivations other than money and then you say people should give away their work for free. The first one isn't true and the second one is sim
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by cptaj 6y ago
I think the biggest issue with the entire field is not respecting the users. They're treated as potential criminals, their livelihoods and money are not respected at all, they have no recourse to protest administrative action, etc. Its
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by cptaj 7y ago
Apple software is pretty nice with their user experience. But I feel like 90% of this complaint stems from people comparing a $200 Android phone with $1000 iPhone. Happens in laptops too. Its just silly. Go in the same price range and then
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by cptaj 7y ago
Everything you say happens in real life. But these are all signs of bad management and a toxic workplace. They're not at all inevitable. When a company works you don't hear about it. You just see their success, or maybe you don&#x
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by cptaj 7y ago
Oh yeah? New headline: A man owns the most advanced private air force and uses it to antagonize the US Navy for profit
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by cptaj 7y ago
Sadly its not a well paid skill on average (As in, excluding famous youtubers or whatever)
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by cptaj 7y ago
Yeah, but if you're a ship with a skeleton crew of civilians, you're going to think twice about rescuing a full compliment of soldiers from a dictatorship that just tried to sink you with no reason whatsoever.
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by cptaj 7y ago
I seriously recommend A Challenge to Apollo. An in-depth look at the soviet space program. Its very gritty stuff and a story rarely told.
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by cptaj 7y ago
Falsifiability is not a political cult bugbear. There are very good reasons to pursue it that you can't just handwave away like that, IMO. The psychology and economics examples are very ironic to me as I see the main issue with the eff
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by cptaj 7y ago
My thoughts exactly. Also, it hardly establishes any causation between meditation and reduced brain aging. They compared a monk to average people. Meditation is hardly the only substantial difference between the lives of these people. Monks
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by cptaj 7y ago
Had that same processor on my third computer. Great era to build your own stuff.
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by cptaj 7y ago
I cant upvote this enough. The Vernor really captured this. As a programmer you can clearly see this happening right now. I shudder to think of the massive house of cards we will have in 50 years.
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by cptaj 7y ago
You're being a little myopic. This applies in all industries. Content creation is only one example. You can have the best car in the world, but if all cars are bought in carmazon.com and they ban you, you're fucked. Sure, you can
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by cptaj 7y ago
How do you know that doesn't already happen? Maybe instead of researching the algo and investing in manipulation, they just hand a check to someone at google and you're done. Without transparency, you have no way of knowing. Good
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by cptaj 7y ago
For someone with a web development freelancing background wanting to get into enterprise software, would you recommend going into SAP? Would Salesforce be a better path? Which one is better for a freelancer working from home (if any)? Feel
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by cptaj 7y ago
Maybe just discredit them when they say they support freedom from oppression when they actually support comically transparent dictators?
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by cptaj 7y ago
Except he ignored the opinion of every single venezuelan. He just sat on his couch, read some leftie newspapers he likes and decided about an entire foreign country. Just another talking head clown having opinions with no basis in actual re
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by cptaj 7y ago
These regulations already exist and come up all the time. US and EU have different payment process requirements. Same for data collection. There are numerous examples and all platforms find a way to implement them and comply. Having some cr
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by cptaj 7y ago
I don't buy this. Search placement gets exploited all the time. Hiding it hasn't worked. Ever. All history is against your argument. Maybe it gets exploited because its made exploitable by design. How do you know if you can't
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by cptaj 7y ago
This seems like a fallacy ad absurdum. A lot of people, creators, merchants, etc; often get taken out of business by simple misunderstandings or arbitrary decisions from these platforms. Nobody is going to ruin anything, just have some form
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by cptaj 7y ago
They're not violating due process. There IS no process. They just click a button and you're gone. This needs to be regulated. A simple analogue of the civil process would suffice. Innocent till proven guilty would go A LONG way. T
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by cptaj 7y ago
Most definitely not expropiation. I said regulation. You keep your company, but after a certain size, you're obliged to treat the OTHER hard working companies living on your platform with respect and not completely destroy them on a wh
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by cptaj 7y ago
All platforms after a certain size need to be regulated as utilities. When thousands or hundreds of thousands of companies live and die by your platform, its economic suicide to leave it in the hands of one single private entity. A few thin
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by cptaj 7y ago
Very nice. Alastair Reynolds touches on this concept as well in Chasm City.
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by cptaj 7y ago
So, where is that? That branding and design they made? Seems like this was a big scam.
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by cptaj 7y ago
The project aims to study how we can develop interstellar travel technologies in 100 years. Not to develop a ship that can travel for 100 years. (Even though that might be the case)
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by cptaj 7y ago
Or at least a nobel peace prize
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by cptaj 7y ago
In spanish too. Although depending on region and context you might also use publicidad.
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by cptaj 7y ago
Yeah that's also true. But it still has to evolve that infection mechanism. A virus from so long ago and from a different animal is unlikely to have the very specific mechanisms to infect us.

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