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by edejong 7y ago
Our Samsung Flip is really snappy and relatively affordable. Still enjoy whiteboards more though.
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People don’t make purely rational decisions, especially for ‘saviors’ and especially when it’s about respect.
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You forget that she can be both a figurehead and a leader. That’s actually where the real problem is: as a ‘savior’ she anthropomorphises the climate crisis. Most people don’t know how to attack abstract ideas, but as soon as the idea gets
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by edejong 7y ago
In which way exactly? Having worked with many, many different package managers, I've come to appreciate Maven's way of doing things. Even though it has many drawbacks: - XML structure is verbose - Plugin architecture makes standar
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I hope you’re /s
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The established car manufacturers are too highly optimized for their specific suppliers. Over many decades an internal culture appears within these companies that immunizes against heavy risks. This is done by (unconsciously) selecting for
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Skills Matter De-Platforms Scala Leader John DeGoes(twitter.com)
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Yes. Fun emerges due to sharing of similar goals. People have fun because they play the same game, enjoy the same movie or simply have the same freedoms. I agree that it helps direct and motivate us. (Thanks for that insight!) I guess I jus
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by edejong 7y ago
No, because a dragster has a specific function. It is a perfect counter-example to the senseless: 'look how fast our super-car can go.' There are many more values involved in dragster racing: knowledge, innovation, joy, creativity
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Yes, but there is an interesting difference between the two w.r.t. status. Status is generally derived from the signaling of certain values. Wealth is one such value, but in general we assign status to a combination of values. Aesthetic + W
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idk... I've always assumed that the pointlessness is in the playfulness: extending our boundaries, setting new rules. We value the daring, the boundless, the discoverers and the challengers. And I understand we connect a certain status
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This got me thinking. Once I thought it was fun , but the more I look at it, the more I feel it is utterly pointless. A racing car has a function: to get around a track faster than other cars (over a period of laps). To do this, it needs
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by edejong 7y ago
A supermarket is not a public space. All I am saying is that all information gathered in the public space should be shared publicly. The idea being: anyone could have been there and recorded that information (since it is public). This will
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> At least right now, that's not true. It's harder to automatically scrape Facebook than a random decentralised system - mainly because decentralised systems need to have the data sharing built in to work. Sharing the data in a
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Ah, I see now. Back to your original comment: "To prevent cities being turned into panopticons, we should make sharing data with people trying to build them mandatory" The reason why panopticons work is because the prisoners don&#
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Quote from?
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Regulation proposal: all video data and derivatives (face recognition) of public areas must be publicly available. Sort of GPL-like. The resulting effects will force people to rethink and reevaluate current policies.
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Your freedom is primarily based on the amount of power you decide to give to others. Due to social media, a tremendous asymmetry of power has been created in the hands of a few. This power is made visible in areas that are slightly outside
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Yes, it certainly does, for a variety of reasons. First of all, it is much easier and cost-effective to gain full knowledge of the graph data in a centralized system. Instead, by working on a distributed system, we could change the protocol
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With great power lies great responsibility. People give great power by using centralized social media from a single nation without fully understanding the implications of it.
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Maybe now people will stop using social media. Ah, wait, no. Everything in the name of convenience.
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IMHO, publicly gathered information should automatically be made publicly available. That should give people something to think about.
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That. They could’ve just supplied a default .profile / .bashrc. It’s these kinds of bells and whistles that causes most security bugs due to additional attack surface. Is it the root user fetching the news with wget/curl from a re
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by edejong 7y ago
But when is a tool specialized? Would a dedicated XML / JSON / YAML / ASN.1+DER / Avro / Protobuf / Parquet editor be specialized? And what if that hierarchical standard would be the de facto industry standard?
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Perhaps you should stand on that soapbox a little more often. People are way to enamored with their little 1970's ed and ex derivatives. Every veteran in the field knows that data and data structure are the primary enablers for almost
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No, voting is passive. Be politically active: talk to your neighbors, at your local sports club, at work and at local events on climate change. Contact your local legislators. Give options to local polluters by researching options for subsi
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Would be nice to contrast this with the energy necessary to produce 1 kilogram of various foodstuffs.
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Another problematic bias from the article: "Respondents stating that they used an e-bike were categorized as e-bikers, independent of whether they also used a conventional bicycle." So, since belonging to a group of bicycle use (l
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Article: "Users who reported any use of non-electric bicycle (including city bike, mountain bike or bike-sharing) but not e-bike were categorized as cyclists, those who did not report any bicycle use, as non-cyclists." Aha! So, we
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And we shouldn’t believe for a second this isn’t already happening with multiple three letter agencies.

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