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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
this talk was pretty interesting and scary at ccc https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12004-please_identify_yourself
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
I would have though the service is suspended due to image generation being too expensive, but it looks like google maps quota has been exceeded
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
> these systems are designed by ... I don't understand what you're referring to, this firefox addon? Or standard firefox? I'd image that firefox developers actually use it as their browser too..
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
I think it's more a "if I fall I'm gonna get eaten/injured and not be able to reproduce" kind of thing
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
don't hooks break the whole concept of one way data binding?
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
I don't think OP was arguing to completely get rid of all wired transactions. And for all the points you made you still missed OPs major gripe, paying a third party for every single transaction you make. Wanna give your children pocket
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
depending on your age that may have been true, I think old crt tvs refresh rate made it so that dogs would not be able to perceive the actual image.
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
DO does accept cryptocurrencies, that could be an option
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
why compare Russian and Ukrainian government portals? btw I can't read Russian or Ukrainian but found this https://diia.gov.ua/ i think it's just a web portal version of the Ukraine app you linked?
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
but this still requires trusting a third party to not change their policies, or to not be hacked or coerced into releasing the data and a myriad other options that a state-backed actor has at their disposal
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
Interestingly enough it seems that there are more and more UX designers than ever yet the UX of so many applications keeps getting worse. Anecdotal experience/rant: UX designers seem to increase complexity (maybe to justify their posit
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
> the economy of buying something that has two or three years shorter support life Unfortunately there are no other options in that form factor. The closest would be the iphone 13 mini, which has an even earlier release date than iphone
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
because apparently we just like going in circles
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
I mean, maybe it was unintended, but you can't deny the irony. You don't have taste buds so you'll never understand saltiness, so now let me cover you in salt for you to understand what salt tastes like. IMO the whole point i
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
They were asking, as a Mahayana Buddhist, what westerners get out of reading the daodeing. Implying that it is a a somewhat pointless philosophy that does not provide a path to follow (comparing it to nihilism). Also pointing out the differ
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
That is the irony of the whole thing, it starts out: The Dao that can be talked about is not the Real/Eternal Dao - then proceeds to talk about it for 81 chapters. He was just funny like that.
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
Not OP but "Wandering on the Way" is a great collection of later daoist writings https://www.google.de/books/edition/Wandering_on_the_Way/dpF...
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
> I just don't get what westerners get out of reading the Tao Te Ching. I really don't understand how ethnicity or provenance has anything to do with this. This is a philosophy book from more than 2000 years ago, the person(s)
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
If you haven't read it yet I can highly recommend the Italian collection of translations by Augusto Shandena Sabbadini (curator), which also provides translations to each individual Chinese character in the book. (btw looks like we com
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
"The above is the most accurate translation of the ancient classic available anywhere at any price." I have read a few different translations in different languages, and the interpretations are often quite different. So I think th
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
Did you read the article? The whole point of it is about "rethinking the luddites" to understand them as pro workers rights (which would be nice to have more of in our field), rather than anti technology.
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
I can't say I agree with the person you're replying to, but i distinctly remember being quite shocked by this https://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/16/tech/mobile/npr-american-...
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
Interesting lecture on the connections between Q and Qanon by Wu Ming 1, also detailing some of their LARPing and hoaxing exploits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdcAT7pXYko
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
I always have to think of the Wu Ming Foundation/former Luther Blisset collective and their fake news/LARPing missions[1] that showed how easy it was to fool major news outlets back in the 90s. Too bad that now those same techniqu
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
this was also my first thought after watching the DEF CON talk: An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification[1] 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
i don't think anyone ever argued in favor of ceasing the usage of all greenhouse emitting fuel sources all at once. However we can't even agree to gradually phasing them out in a realistic timeline, see Kyoto Protocol
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
this is the kind of post i would expect to see on r/videos. Is this hackernews eternal september?
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
Apparently East Asians have more neanderthal DNA than Europeans so I'm not sure the region of initial discovery really matter that much. Also Neanderthal 1 is 40000 years old, your family may have arrived in the region even a 1000 year
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by dudefeliciano 3y ago
i would agree if someone is suspected of committing or witnessing a crime but to require ID for simply asking directions, and then getting arrested, seems like exactly the kind of overreach that gives a bad image to cops.