dmos62

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   by dmos62 8y ago

   These are valid points and I don't think this comment merits being down-voted, especially without any replies. Outright calling Apple a parasite might not be particularly tactful, but it's hardly deniable. In fact, even if some of
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   by dmos62 8y ago

   I had a job writing software for piloting a drone with Myo. Myo recognizes a small set of palm and finger gestures, not continuous movements, so, for example, you couldn't record yourself typing on the keyboard. It does stream arm move
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   by dmos62 8y ago

   The original idea with patents was that they should make it worthwhile to invest in innovation and otherwise expire as fast as possible so that eventually all profit. Our current patent system has forgotten that second part and morphed to &
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   by dmos62 8y ago

   There's a problem that's increasingly relevant here on HN. It's commentors who only read the headline and leave a comment that is irrelevant and inadequate more often than not. I do wish we as a community would respond more t
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   by dmos62 8y ago

   It should not be complicated to move the repository somewhere where a search engine query with "mylabname/project" would find it. As a side note, it would be nice to see scientists stop using git for dataset management. There
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   by dmos62 8y ago

   Exactly, most internet consumers like that their internet experience is extremely centralized. For them it's an entertainment system and the more centralized it is the simpler and more fluid it is. Who cares that monopolized content de
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   by dmos62 8y ago

   I've been using startpage.com to search Google anonymously for the past year. Startpage proxies your query to google and back while leaving off the identifying metadata, making the query anonymous. At first you notice the slight increa
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   by dmos62 8y ago

   I believe that the inability for business in our society to be socially aware or responsibile stems from the separation of private life and public life. I can't remember what book this was, but it looked at what war criminals were like
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   by dmos62 8y ago

   > abstract everything away with money The thesis of capitalism is that acting only in self interest is good for the collective, i.e. your own capital is all, i.e. we can abstract everything away with money. I think you're completely
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    by dmos62 8y ago

    I'll make an observation that you seem to equate incomplete comprehension and frustration, exploration and struggle, confusion and discomfort. An intellectual challenge can degrade to something unpleasant, like any experience, but it m
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    And then there's technical debt that is so vast that it engulfs the majority of programmers in solving poitless problems.
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    Same everywhere where there's artisan bread-making. Just ask if they have some and they'll gladly gift it to you or tell you when to come back.
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    > I wonder how China is prepared to handle the impact Global Warming will have on agriculture. Look up China's artificial rain furnaces in the Himalayas. Also on a related note, China controls a large portion of neighbouring countri
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    Noam Chomsky pointed out that, for the last century, US has been the most secure country, but its people are the most insecure.
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    > The Riksbank governor, Stefan Ingves, called for new legislation to secure public control over the payments system, arguing that being able to make and receive payments is a “collective good” like defence, the courts, or public statist
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    A bit of a late reply, but in case of bank transfers proof of transaction is actually an interesting topic. You use PageSigner[0] to make a cryptographically secure webpage screenshot of your bank statement. I'm still a bit confused ab
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    That would presuppose that the dog knows that he has a fit immune system, which we couldn't really explain either. I think the causality relationship is less interesting than that there's a correlation between different aspects of
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    I'm happy to see the above summary of the principal benefits and motivations behind such trustless, private and decentralised systems. I think it's worth talking about the fact that the discussion too often degrades to "good
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    Look at how bisq does it. Trustless, private transactions of relatively large sums, with escrow and arbiter resolved disputes. Bisq is the best crypto-fiat exchange system if it's ok for the transaction to take a couple of days.
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    If anyone finds this train of thought interesting, look at literature around Neuro-linguistic programming [0]. As pointed out in the Wikipedia article, this body of work is heavily criticized, and I'll address that, because I think tha
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    I've been looking for gmail alternatives and this is my conclusion. Protonmail plays the part of the secure and private email provider, but, technologically, can't provide that. The only concrete thing their users have going is th
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    I don't think the ability to squat comfortably depends on race. For example, Soviet (so Eastern Bloc as well) prisons had a culture of squatting, due to overcrowding. Sometimes you still spot an older man squatting, like he could do it
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    Trustlessness, in other words the property of not requiring trust in the ledger's correctness, is the cornerstone of cryptocurrencies.
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    It's pleasant to know you're not alone. Same here: cli, tmux, vim, rust, lisps, unix way of system development, webapp allergy, gopher > web, irc, dumb phone, eink reader that lasts months. I'm not anti-modern either, but
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    You'll do fine. Invest those bitcoins to altcoins, like Ripple or Ethereum. Cryptocurrency capitalisation is still steadily increasing. People are just dumping BTC for altcoins now, which is normal at the end of a strong uptrend. 6 mon
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    I swear for about 3 minutes I thought the title was "Racism for Realism". I said to myself, of course, Pixar. Can't have a believable fairytale without it.
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    Well you have a poor outlook on people. To backtrack a bit, throwing money at people doesn't work. Look at the failure of post-colonial African aid. More fundamental and intelligent help is required. UBI is not about that. It is about
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    Other people look at work as a meaningful part of one's life and take care how to spend it. Some people, once they have basic security, financial or other, look for a fulfilling role in society. That is admirable and sustainable. Your
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    Reference, or explanation?
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    by dmos62 9y ago

    They seem to be the veteran in this space, but their docs seem largely US oriented. For European clientele, it's mentioned that an EU issuer is partnered, but not if EUR cards are supported, or what the exchange rates are.