daoismyname

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by daoismyname 5y ago
> I reflected on why the referendum had become a footnote in history rather than the trigger for violent conflict Because all the propaganda around catalan independence is bullshit. It gas nothing to do with gray hair, which, BTW, are mo
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> Smells to me like major scrapegoating. cough cough massive severance package cough cough
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> were that those employees should have their human rights limited I repeat it: I don't like Eich, I don't like his opinions, but he never laid off entire dev teams, he used his personal money to support his personal world view
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> There are other factors at play than managerial incompetence: I agree there's no single point of failure, but IMO what made Firefox (and Mozilla before it) different was that it was different. they played catch-up against Chrome
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by daoismyname 5y ago
Guess which one is better in 2022, Firefox or Brave? (except maybe containers) Firefox was born in 2002 (under Eich management) as Phoenix, it's kinda obvious that 16 years later (57 is from 2018, Eich left in 2014) it needed a technol
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by daoismyname 5y ago
It's what happens when you fire you engineer CEO for his personal opinions (that I disagree with) and replace him with a "company culture" that has nothing to do with engineering, but has the "right" opinions.
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by daoismyname 5y ago
open a browser, navigate to https://www.reddit.com/r/tits/ , click yes, done!
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> the developer can influence the perceived value of their smaller or newer application by influence you mean "conform"?
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> . This is what people who download the app will do, so they’re trying out real scenarios that will happen let's ban browsers then or chat apps or sharing apps and why not apps in general that play images and videos and that enabl
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by daoismyname 5y ago
That's not the interesting part though. The interesting part is WHY for some people it takes so long that everybody else has to wait. Imagine being on a high speed train and having to travel at the speed of the slowest train in front o
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> Of course, it's a matter of taste, but GNOME and KDE looked pretty bad back then. If I had the money, I'd definitely preferred NeXTSTEP can confirm That's the reason why I was using Window Maker back then
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> Could you sit in front of Blender, Microsoft Office, GIMP or Photoshop without previous knowledge of them and do anything at all with them? yes they have menus, especially GIMP, the ugliest of them all, but menus are everywhere just a
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by daoismyname 5y ago
Yeah! How can we forget new concepts and ideas such as "the Indian Removal Act"?
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by daoismyname 5y ago
I think it's the opposite. If the majority of population lives in rural areas, the prices of big cities have a major impact on the average, skewing it. But actually people living in the big cities can afford housing more than a person
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> The cable-cut might work for a while, I don't see any crypto zealot laying cables in the ocean to connect Europe and USA do you really think the army would allow it? but cutting cables is the nuclear option, I see much more probab
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by daoismyname 5y ago
of course they would not literally cut the cables. they would.block the crypto traffic
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> Why would you give someone's random website (or random gofundme) $1k? for no reason and I won't do it in the future listen, smart contracts aren't more secure as other contracts today, that have been read by lawyers and
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> The web is not decentralized today. We are routing vast majority of web traffic through a handful of monopolies that control all forms of monetization THAT'S NOT THE WEB! I also reject the claim that they represent the vast majori
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by daoismyname 5y ago
> It’s worth considering what the value proposition of crypto looks like if you were to find yourself living under an illegitimate authority The cables where communications pass through are protected by armies If crypto eventually could
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by daoismyname 5y ago
that Web2 VS Web3 schema pretty much summarize what's wrong with the new internet based on brand identities instead of technical merits. A brief rebuttal: - Twitter can censor any account or Tweet: yes, but Twitter is not the web, you