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by fvdessen 5y ago
It's dominated by businesses where network effects are not in play; commodities, specialist equipment, medicine, biotech, hardware, etc. If there's a cultural, legal, or network element to the business, then the fragmentation of t
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I'm working for a thriving startup in a European country of 11 million people. We had 100% growth per year until we had basically everybody in our own country and then it got massively harder. If we had started in the USA, we would hav
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The reason the US has freely flowing funding is because the VC has an immense amount of cash from the previous generations of successful Unicorns. So why was it (and still is) easier to raise unicorns in the USA ? The thing that separate th
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> Which of their own tech giants has Europe put into check against their own self-interest? None, because they can't create them to begin with. Europe and USA are not playing on a level field. The USA has a truly unified market (com
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Free trade also implies putting monopolies in check which the USA is glad not to do as that seems key to own the top 50 of largest companies. Europe being more protectionist against foreign monopolies would actually improve free trade and c
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As an artist I frankly wonder what's the point of these texture books if you can't re-use the textures in your own works. It's like an audio sample pack where you can't use the samples, or an algorithmic book where you c
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Can journalists visit Guantanamo?
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> not that the domain of morality is a piece of the competition in the domain of global mind share Haven't the 'best morals' always have been those with the most mindshare ?
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To make a real life analogy, In mastodon, people all live in big collectivist housings centered around a project, If you get kicked out you become homeless, or you need to start your own collective, where you will be initially alone In urbi
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> why is it so cheap to drive yourself? Shouldn't it be far more expensive? If people abuse free public transport that is actually a good thing. Yearly taxes on my car are higher than a yearly public transport pass, yet I still have
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> And I wouldn't say "nobody can ban you" [...] And the obvious end state is for a setup like Mastodon It is indeed quite similar to mastodon in the sense that other instances can ban you. The difference is that in mastodo
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Indeed the direct link to an IP address is currently a weak point in terms of privacy, but it could potentially link to an onion address instead to solve that issue. The point is that your identity is on a globally available and immutable b
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While the Urbit tech stack is clearly insane (some say it’s on purpose), The urbit identity layer is interesting and useful. You basically buy your username as a NFT, and that username is bound to signing keys, ip address and ethereum walle
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because it looks stupid
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If the extra step means my money doesn't lose value as government print cash like there's no tomorrow, then that step is quite valuable to me
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> The most a state level actor can do is censor transactions if they were to take over a chain. Which is the exact thing state level actors want to do ! What is the use of crypto if the state can ban me or my country from it ? Isn’t that
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Corrupting many people is easy if you are a superpower and can make laws that affect many people. With PoW you can corrupt many miners, but the other superpowers can spawn new miners to counter act.
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> PoS is resistant to state attacks because it would require buying up tokens on an impossible scale You don't need to buy the tokens. You make laws which the stakers have to follow, otherwise you seize their tokens for breaking the
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PoS is not just a more environmentally version of PoW. It is a lot more vulnerable to state level actors. If the state takes over / subverts / influences the limited number of stakeholders, then it is game over. With PoW the state
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What does 'when the danger is over' mean in practice ? When it becomes zero ? When nobody dies of corona anymore ? If it is that, then the measures are permanent, and if not, what ?
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Is the number of deaths really the best criterion to compare life in different countries last year ? Since when has the world become an utilitarian contest ?
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While I can't say I am that surprised about that happening in Singapore, a country that already had a reputation of placing order above everything, I am surprised at how easily fundamental freedoms have been taken away in more democrat
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Are 3 million dead not a good enough reason to call this kind of research irresponsible ?!?
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> When was the last time you saw an mobile app taking advantage of another one apart from tre camera? The only and most common time Android apps communicate is with Google Play Services. I do this all the time when I use mobile payment a
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The cities were there for thousands of years before the cars. In fact part of them were literally destroyed to make room for cars. It is from that point that the upper middle class left the city to live in the suburbs. Before they lived in
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Cycling is not only good for the environment, but for cities in general. During the last confinement, when car traffic completely stopped, I realised that cars are the single biggest reason why living in the city can be unpleasant. People m
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Maybe people should live a lot closer to their work again
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We were generating hundred of thousands of pdfs per day with wkhtmltopdf and had a lot of reliability issues. We switched to prince, and it has proven much better on all levels; no more crashes, better layout, smaller pdfs, faster generatio
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Or maybe being the best Cook in the world is a very different skill than making good youtube videos. I tried to watch some of Massimo Bottura's videos, and they don't compare well to what you would find in a top youtube channel in
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The EU signed their contract before the UK. So isn't it the UK that should be "in the back of the Queue" ?

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