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by dave4420 5y ago
What do you see that implies that?
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by dave4420 5y ago
Microtransactions are not a silver bullet. I expect you would want to set the level at less that what local fast food places pay to stick their leaflets through my door, yet the paper spam keeps coming. Search engines funded by advertising
873.
by dave4420 5y ago
That depends on what the risk of brain damage or heart disease is. Zero risk is unattainable, even ignoring covid.
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by dave4420 5y ago
It reduced (did not eliminate) the incentive to post spam links to message boards. What will web3 do to reduce this incentive.
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by dave4420 5y ago
They’re not random.
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by dave4420 5y ago
How is web3 going to avoid the spam problem that prompted rel=nofollow in the first place?
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by dave4420 5y ago
With the partial exception of health, none of these issues have much to do with tech.
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by dave4420 5y ago
That proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are backed by energy.
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by dave4420 5y ago
My understanding is that Apple (claim to have) optimised their implementation for energy efficiency, and feel that they would get the blame if using e.g. Chrome resulted in lower iPhone battery life, because users wouldn’t realise it was du
880.
by dave4420 5y ago
1. Microsoft was found to have an OS monopoly (Windows) that they were found to be illegally extending into a monopoly on web browsers by bundling Internet Explorer. Apple has not been found to have a monopoly. 2. Apple does not exclude com
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by dave4420 5y ago
Well maybe, but the abstract says they controlled for this.
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by dave4420 5y ago
> Was there a time when one could have been just a software engineer building websites No. You would also have had to admin the servers, and fix/replace them when they broke.
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by dave4420 5y ago
The P in LAMP stood for Perl before it stood for Python or PHP. And it started standing for Python at the same time it started standing for PHP. Why do I suspect the author wasn’t born back then and is just making up facts to suit their arg
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by dave4420 5y ago
Typo in link. Should be https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/the-calvin-hobbes-resigna...
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by dave4420 5y ago
If this is the same story as the one that did the rounds before: the company was working on a contract for the US defence department, of which one of the conditions was that only US citizens would work on it.
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by dave4420 5y ago
I don’t present to strangers :) I’d hope that all my colleagues realise that the only way to be sure that I’m not currently sharing my Slack window on Zoom is to be on a Zoom call with me :) But I don’t worry about sharing the content of no
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by dave4420 5y ago
They’ve probably just realised that KYC/AML regulations apply to them.
888.
by dave4420 5y ago
I share my entire screen, but most of my windows are full screen anyway.
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by dave4420 5y ago
That would criminalise half the people on the internet. Have you seen the trolls?
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by dave4420 5y ago
Where are you looking? (UK/EU/US/etc)
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by dave4420 5y ago
Are you a student at a US college? What does the law say Spotify has to do wrt service supplied to students? Do they have to charge tax as if the student is permanently living at their college address? Or at their out-of-term-time address?
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by dave4420 5y ago
Are you saying that Spotify are lying about the tax law? If not, what else do you expect them to do?
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by dave4420 5y ago
I’ve had my first dose of the vaccine, got the second dose booked in for next month. Long COVID is definitely more of a worry for me than any vaccine side effects.
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by dave4420 5y ago
Depending how much your social network involves self-expression, you could maybe charge for allowing extra avatars, customising fonts and colours of their posts, etc.
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by dave4420 5y ago
https://elm-lang.org/ and use the elm-ui library?
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by dave4420 5y ago
(2008)
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by dave4420 6y ago
Where does it say that?
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by dave4420 6y ago
There’s also the issue that there aren’t _that_ many phone numbers. A determined attacker who got access to the hashed phone numbers could recover the numbers they were interested in with a brute force attack.
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by dave4420 6y ago
To be fair, this avoids the problem of night (at the cost of the equinox becoming a problem) (and to some extent the weather as well? I forget). I wouldn’t bank on it, but I’m glad it’s being explored.
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by dave4420 6y ago
Last time I checked, any sort of cable or elevator to space was impractical, given the strength and density requirements. Has that changed? Also, a cable would have to attach to the Earth at the equator, which is some distance from the UK.

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