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by fleddr 4y ago
Probably true, but as the article suggests, it may be more than just exercise. Some people seem to be given a creative brain from the get-go, whilst others must work very hard to produce creative outcomes, and indeed...may stop trying altog
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by fleddr 4y ago
Another article I read called the pub "England's living room". It fits the stories my brother told as he used to work in England (we're from the Netherlands). He'd describe that workers would immediately continue to
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by fleddr 4y ago
This author sure loves to escalate things. His optimistic take is for Europe to slide into full poverty, the pessimistic scenario total nuclear annihilation. There's no regard at all for the current aggressive plan for energy savings a
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by fleddr 4y ago
Late 80s, Netherlands. As of the age of 6, I was free roaming on my tiny bicycle. I could go wherever I please, zero supervision, just be back in time for diner. And of course without any technology (smartphone). Modern parents would have a
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by fleddr 4y ago
Well, I think the open part is covered. It's an open block chain and it's not surprising to have analysis tools to work with the blockchain. These types of tools are used by exchanges, federal agencies, even divorce lawyers. The g
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by fleddr 4y ago
I agree, the only thing I have an issue with is hypocrisy or lazy politics. "Sure, nobody can make sure every single thing they touch, up and down the supply chain, is pure good." The above is an agreeable statement, but in realit
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by fleddr 4y ago
You make a joke out of it, but this is how business works. You provide a customer a product or service and generally are not responsible for whether your product is used for good or bad. An incredible array of generic products can be used i
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by fleddr 4y ago
It most certainly is not a distraction. Coinbase provides a blockchain analysis suite and sells it. It's within mission at face value. Some people may find it controversial to sell to ICE specifically. Anyone is free to believe that, b
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's not my call to make, I'd say its highly context dependent. Some politics may be very relevant to a line of business, others less so. In any case I'd say the issue is often not about having the particular political opin
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by fleddr 4y ago
Whilst I'm annoyed with overly political story-lines, it's not proven that this moves the needle. I'd say streaming is the main culprit in combination with the professionalization of the series format. The big budgets go into
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by fleddr 4y ago
I don't agree. The "no politics" path taken by a few companies (Coinbase, Basecamp) is a blunt response against overexcited activists. You know the type. The ones that distract from the core mission of a company. The ones con
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by fleddr 4y ago
Yes, within the context of the type of sites I was discussing. You already indicated that you know that they are not actively maintained. Knowing that, it doesn't really matter if a breakage happens every year, 3 years, 5 years. There&
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by fleddr 4y ago
I once lived in such an extreme anarcho libertarian society. It was called the 80s. In that cash-based society, the government had no real idea how much cash I owned. I also had full freedom of transaction. Somehow taxes still got paid and
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by fleddr 4y ago
That article is a whole lot of words where it never really becomes very clear what the big "fear" is about, until we finally arrive at this: "A feudal system in which the masses are duped into farming the lands of their crypt
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by fleddr 4y ago
That is a perspective with zero empathy. These people are amateurs with near-zero resources generously sharing their content with the world. They may have all kinds of reasons for being unable or unwilling to continuously update their site.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Thanks for responding, you're a good sport. Indeed I'm looking at this from a long time frame. From recollection the main breaking changes I'm aware of: 1. The change from v2 to v3, like you mentioned. 2. The new requirement
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by fleddr 4y ago
I don't buy into this theory. We have plenty of minds currently and are failing to avoid and solve planetary scale issues. My take is that this is an incentive problem, not a lack of cognitive capacity.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm uniquely bothered by this problem as I visit many such dysfunctional sites. I'm active in the (hobbyist) field of documenting species. There's thousands upon thousands of websites created by amateurs containing unique nic
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by fleddr 4y ago
Given how widely used git is, we must also empathize as widely as possible. Meaning, users of git are on a spectrum from hardcore engineer with two decades of Unix experience to casual hobbyist. The casual group may include people very youn
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'd like to call out the somewhat related problem of website rot. Meaning, the websites is online, it once worked perfectly, but becomes increasingly dysfunctional due to technical deprecations. The soft obligation to use HTTPS these d
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by fleddr 4y ago
I very strongly believe AWS needs dead simple dummy-proof budget controls. 15 years and it still does not have it. And with simple I mean this: "when this service hits my daily/weekly/monthly budget cap of x$, STOP IT AUTOMAT
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by fleddr 4y ago
I don't think it's a bad thing either. The African village model is sometimes glorified but it has major downsides too. You depend on the village for everything and it tends to be governed like a tiny dictatorship. You might have
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think Jobs' comments are indeed to be seen within the human cultural context only. Culture being a fancy word for stuff we made up. Quite a few examples in nature where species drop dead directly after mating.
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by fleddr 4y ago
My tone normally is "I believe this should be extracted to a separate function, and here's WHY". The WHY is to typically refer to some best practice, coding standards, something as neutral as possible. I use the combination &
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think it's just a roll of the dice with age as a side effect. Evolution's primary mechanism is to promote traits that increase the likelihood that you'll survive until you can reproduce. Perhaps multiple times. And for some
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by fleddr 4y ago
Today, you may be right, but historically you're wrong. Take any period in human history before 10,000 years ago and you'd find that nothing ever happened. As old person, the world would look exactly the same as when you were youn
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by fleddr 4y ago
Not true in the Netherlands, which is why the average dutch person can open a bottle of beer with various objects, such as a lighter, keys, anything small and stiff, tabletop or teeth.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Maybe we can rephrase it as "visiting the metaverse".
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by fleddr 4y ago
On Twitter, Elon Musk has been posting a lot about how people should have more children. I'm mentioning it not because of him, instead because it offers insight into a common misconception. Those threads show thousands and thousands of
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by fleddr 4y ago
What is striking in this development is the destruction of our social fabric. From African village model to the nuclear family is a massive step, made possible by the nation state. Arguably this impoverishes community/extended family l

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