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by frabcus 5y ago
There's now a £2.99 a month subscription, which can be cancelled at any time, that gets you all maps - and you can download chunks in advance too: https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/apps/os-maps/
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by frabcus 5y ago
For Standard Oil, splitting it up actually increased shareholder value massively. https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/break-ups-and-stock-price... The same could happen with big tech. The market correction could be upwa
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by frabcus 5y ago
What's a definition of "simulation"? Bostrom's original paper (which proposed the "simulation hypothesis") doesn't define it properly that I can see. It's a very late C20 / early C21 computer tec
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by frabcus 5y ago
Yes, exactly this! Jef Raskin's Humane Interface is like that: "An end to stand-alone applications - every software package should be structured as a set of tools available to users on any document." https://en.wik
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by frabcus 5y ago
Profit to fund orbital technologies?
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by frabcus 5y ago
Presumably copilot will easily do (bad!) code reviews as well, trained on all the world’s PR comments…
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by frabcus 5y ago
Voluntary use of tools like uBlock Origin shows the way, ultimately though we need regulation to stop the arms race you refer to. You're right that GDPR hasn't been enforced strongly enough. It is actually quite a good law (imperf
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by frabcus 5y ago
If advertising wasn't a viable business, all of these pay for services would suddenly get much more popular. That said, advertising without tracking across multiple sites/apps is perfectly viable - The New York times does it ( htt
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by frabcus 5y ago
If I was running a large country, I'd want transactions to be entirely local for national security reasons. Generally, in the event of a world war, I wouldn't want it to be trivial for other countries to remotely cut off my whole
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by frabcus 5y ago
I think the real answer is legislation to let purchased digital content get moved arbitrarily between accounts. This would also create a second hand market, which there should be.
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by frabcus 6y ago
Is there anywhere with a writeup of how this works - how it was generated and the data feeding it was generated? I've seen the description at the bottom of the page, but would like more detail!
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by frabcus 6y ago
The other advantage of the UK being small and everyone working in country is you can therefore still meet up easily say every couple of weeks, or for smaller groups to work together for a short time. I guess in the US people can fly for
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by frabcus 6y ago
I really like the iOS version too. With a shortcut I back up all my photos straight to my own SFTP server.
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by frabcus 6y ago
The general pattern was predictable - I was involved in making an early ad blocker in 1996. Adbusters magazine was a thing then. Technically, the detail of super-cookies is inventive and surprising. The general trend for how capitalism inev
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by frabcus 6y ago
Most likely. However, given the strength of Facebook's monopoly, they have the power of a state over people's lives (e.g. via a livelihood that depends on a Facebook account). The lack of due process ( https://en.wikiped
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by frabcus 6y ago
Is having a Facebook account randomly banned common these days? Does anyone measure this? The consequences are quite scary, and we have no means to recover from it - control is from remote people in another country, with no means of complai
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Could you set your Signal profile picture? It makes the app feel more human
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by frabcus 6y ago
Anyone know more about Jack’s Bluesky initiative to make decentralised social media that he mentions? He announced it a year ago. Who has moved to work there? Strategically how could this work for Twitter?
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by frabcus 6y ago
Another option would be for Europe and the US to get people from Asia and Australia/NZ to teach us how to track and trace.
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by frabcus 6y ago
In constrat, in the UK, we unbundled our ADSL monopoly, and forced them to sell access to the cables wholesale. And then let competitors put their own hardware in the local exchanges too. It still needs more work as everyone seems to have t
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by frabcus 6y ago
The nice thing about splitting a software company (unlike a company with physical assets) is that you can fork the assets. Give both companies the ad platform source code.
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by frabcus 6y ago
Memrise | Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Frontend Engineer (React), QA Analyst | Full-time | VISA for EM | London (or remote UK) | https://www.memrise.com We're making a product that genuinely helps people understand and b
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by frabcus 6y ago
Slack does this really well - it remaps things like @here to @ici in French, both to read and write them.
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by frabcus 6y ago
Certainly ten years later it was too abstract. Lots about compiler theory. Computer science is sometimes useful for software engineering, but only occasionally.
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by frabcus 6y ago
How does Playwright compare to Cypress?
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by frabcus 6y ago
Interesting. Could be either test capacity going up, or medical practices improving, or more infection of young people? Good advice I heard was that hospitalisation with Covid symptoms is a better measure than deaths (happens sooner) or pos
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by frabcus 6y ago
Exponentials are very unintuitive.
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by frabcus 6y ago
This Europol report gives some history of IS using decentralised tech. https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-documents/islamic... It mentions RocketChat, ZeroNet and Riot in use from about 5 years ago.
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by frabcus 6y ago
It’s even more ridiculous that it is 2020 and the only method to get a verified email is by sending an email with a link. There should be a standardised protocol and flow which makes the experience much better for both users and developers.
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by frabcus 6y ago
It's worth understanding the kind of disruption you mean - product to product, or product to commodity. Simon Wardley has a blog with lots of posts about this. Also his free book about Wardley Mapping is useful for understanding the ph

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