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by frazbin 5y ago
So the problem is that it's the not the 15th century, and the solution is mercantilism? Color me skeptical. Now in the 20th century there were these things called 'unions' for a while..
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by frazbin 5y ago
at the end of the day it's all "money... for people!"
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by frazbin 5y ago
holy crap that was terrifying. Basically, an economist and a law professor very authoritatively talking as though the last ten years didn't happen. I guess it figures-- in America you have the Chicago school and the Originalist camp:
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by frazbin 5y ago
That's an absurdly callous worldview and there's a 100 percent chance you would hate getting what you're asking for.
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by frazbin 5y ago
Biggest problem for indoor plants is lack of light. Get a cheap photometer and check. Eyes are terrible at judging light intensity.. if the plant never gets light sufficient for basic metabolism, it will die sooner or later. Bare minimum
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by frazbin 5y ago
Depends on the breed, more than you would think! Some dogs really go more by sight-- shepherds and sight hounds being good examples. Source: had a beagle and an aussie
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by frazbin 5y ago
That's a good point! And dogs don't have great vision-- the the quality of their visual input might be a bound on their ability to recognize the small unsmelly objects that are important to humans. I wonder if they do the head t
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by frazbin 5y ago
It isn't an either/or situation-- turns out the intelligence we attribute to a social animal is related to our ability to communicate with it.. which shouldn't seem weird at all. It's not clear we have a good understand
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by frazbin 5y ago
aka "lacks namespaces"... but it isn't so. The namespaces are paths and they're "linked" by $PATH. /usr/local/bin is a namespace. Is it guaranteed to be a fully qualified namesake? No. But y
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by frazbin 5y ago
I think there's a pretty good chance this stuff gets incorporated: "On a personal level, we are impressed by Sam’s work so far and invited him to join the CPython project. I’m happy to report he is interested, and to help him ramp
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by frazbin 5y ago
yeah I can understand that-- mRNA vaccines are really cool, and my inclination at the moment is to think that they're safer than traditional vaccines, but they are new. I can respect not wanting to use a new therapy-- but it seems to
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by frazbin 5y ago
Let's not fall all over ourselves defending the manufacture of plastics.. it's a self-justifying dinosaur industry. We can go a lot farther with cellulose and chitin and friends, polymers made in factories aren't particularl
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by frazbin 5y ago
Mozilla is still a hell of a lot better aligned with my interests than Apple or Google. And do we not value browser diversity anymore? I understand the irrational fury directed at non profits when they're less than perfect but it&#x
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by frazbin 5y ago
But if the live mirrors go away and the hash method or chunking method change (and they do) then the hash is permanently useless.. so having the thing the hash was generated from isn't enough to make the hash live again. But that&#x2
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by frazbin 5y ago
mind blown
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by frazbin 5y ago
dang, software planning is harder than herding hundreds of entertainment people? Not what I would have expected! I always assumed the 'unknown unknowns' were much larger in real life enterprises than in software ones, and that&#
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by frazbin 5y ago
Thanks for asking! The difference is that Diablo 3 represents 10E6~ dev hours invested into making a fun game, and items make it more fun. The items are a kind of 'share' in the total fun of the game. Now if we imagine NFTing t
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by frazbin 5y ago
tl;dr - dropped out to work in red hot job market.
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by frazbin 5y ago
Beep beep! Obvious police here! All software has cost, in the form of labor. Free software is different because it doesn't associate a /price/ to that cost. Important distinction, because they are totally different concep
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by frazbin 5y ago
Yeah I was with him up to that point. "None of the kits we sell contain anything dangerous, nor is the average person experimenting with biology inherently dangerous. If you are trying to engineer something hazardous — like say a bat v
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by frazbin 5y ago
Super duper excited about this and have been for the past five years. Awesome to see things coming together.. good things take time! This guy is singlehandledly trying to elevate shell, revealing its secret beauty and immense power. My fa
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by frazbin 5y ago
flagged. do the same if you don't need this nonsense.
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by frazbin 5y ago
I was so excited by the headline... and then I was so bummed by the domain name that I now doubt myself for being excited by the headline. I clicked.. there's still no danger of confusing this guy with a scientist or an academic. If
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by frazbin 5y ago
We have thousands of years of oxygen banked in the atmosphere so it's not an issue on the same time scale as co2
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by frazbin 5y ago
i was thinking of algorand, personally.. but all cryptocurrencies are 1. tokenized: we care about moving 'units' of 'value' between 'accounts' 2. ledger-based: having an immutable record of previous state chang
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by frazbin 5y ago
My hope is that tokenized ledger-based distributed consensus mechanisms win, while using them as a currency loses. Like, what if the correct price for a good cryptocurrency is low?
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by frazbin 5y ago
This is probably best understood as an advanced adaptation to the particular difficulties of deploying into a walled garden. That's certainly how the author frames it. The similarity with web comes because of shared restrictions (unt
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by frazbin 5y ago
pull-quote from the article: > Apple has created a mechanism that will ask users to be outdoors and walk in a certain direction to help the iPhone connect to a satellite. Linking to a network also won’t always be instantaneous, with test
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by frazbin 5y ago
I don't know where to put this but I can't get through even a page of his writing.. like the first and overwhelming impression is of a narcissistic haze/stink. Like reading a fart. I like most other science fiction.. what am
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by frazbin 5y ago
Yeah I wondered the same thing. I suspect that it has a part to play at least. There are a lot (LOT) of pretty pure magnesium/iron silicate minerals in the crust (olivine) that can be ground up and reacted with co2 dissolved in seawa

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