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Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization (2007)(lesswrong.com)
2 points by giansegato 5y ago|0 comments
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by giansegato 5y ago
I'm not following. Afaik Lambda didn't collapse. It recently rebranded due to a trademark conflict, but they're still alive and well from what I gather. Someone be so kind to explain?
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by giansegato 5y ago
> FB have never built a successful product besides Zuck's original. Can we argue the same point for Google? Considering their dominant position in digital ads, I wonder what this implies.
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by giansegato 5y ago
i'm very embarrassed to admit this, but i literally just discovered this. thought ufw was literally last defense. gotta run to fix this (luckily, all just pet projects with no sensitive stuff - still…)
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by giansegato 5y ago
can confirm for italy: whatsapp is 100% the only expected tool of communication. telegram is making some waves in some circles, but for the most part it's whatsapp only: groups, 1:1, business support, anything my experience in germany
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by giansegato 5y ago
so it's a branch, uh. i'll never wrap my head around the complex corp structure of these crypto juggernauts
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by giansegato 5y ago
they're based in Hong Kong so i'm not sure why US / EU regulation should apply
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by giansegato 5y ago
Congrats for the impressive technical feat! One (maybe naive) question: at a certain point in the demo, Rainbow wallet forecasts a 400$ gas fee. Does this mean that in order to play this game, I need to spend hundreds of dollars for each ro
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How to choose your college degree(giansegato.com)
2 points by giansegato 5y ago|0 comments
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by giansegato 5y ago
I did the same, but with a far less complex system. It's a markdown file synced using iCloud, where input happens using Apple Shortcut. Works quite well. Screenshots here [1]. [1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/giansegato&
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by giansegato 5y ago
They've been already doing server side CSAM, for a while, on iCloud pics. Their issue was targeting all media that wasn't uploaded.
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by giansegato 5y ago
Sounds eerily similar to what happened during the Enron saga. So many employees tricked into keeping all their pension savings into the stock. Quite a sad story.
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by giansegato 5y ago
It could be remunerated. Like: pay 100$ to have a human look at your case. You can appeal (and pay) up to 3 times. This would partially solve the scalability problem + provide partial disincentives for scammers and spammers. I would happily
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Bumble claims IP rights on employee's open-source libs(twitter.com)
605 points by giansegato 5y ago|319 comments
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by giansegato 5y ago
I believe we're not saying opposing points of view. What I'm arguing for is moving corporate law on chain, mostly regulating relationships between shareholders, and keep everything else real world. In Europe for instance it's
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by giansegato 5y ago
You don't need to hire lawyers to create the entity and coordinate internally. I've managed a multinational company: it's absolutely crazy the amount of complexity needed to coordinate between legislations, just because state
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by giansegato 5y ago
Because it's global. I don't need to reason with anyone anywhere, I don't need to hire lawyers, I don't need to make a global enterprise fit local regulations that are often conflicting. I'm not saying it's rec
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by giansegato 5y ago
I'm by no means an expert, but my intuition is that the relationship between on chain and real world should be regulated by real world courts. So, for instance, an on chain DAO hires a contractor, that then does insider trading on beha
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by giansegato 5y ago
That’s actually the point. You theoretically shouldn’t need a court. Everything is regulated by code, and if something goes wrong you have to own it. The code is public. You can vet it as much as you want. Proposals are voted proportional t
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by giansegato 5y ago
100% this. That's why Projector is an interesting project, completely different from — say — VSCode or Replit.
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What's the Future of IDEs?(giansegato.com)
134 points by giansegato 5y ago|227 comments
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by giansegato 5y ago
Why? They can change the policy and ask for a confirmation, as every service out there is already doing.
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by giansegato 5y ago
My issue with it, as others have pointed out, is the lack of extensions ecosystem. It's painful how locked in we really are.
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by giansegato 5y ago
Hopefully this will increase competition in the space. The credit card oligopoly is nothing but egregious.
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by giansegato 5y ago
They do. I know many artists that are now materially rich.
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by giansegato 5y ago
To be fair, an NFT is significantly more liquid.
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What's the future of IDEs?(giansegato.com)
7 points by giansegato 5y ago|0 comments
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by giansegato 5y ago
I believe the OP was referring to the state of Israel, more in the sense that Israel wouldn't grant permission to sell a certain technology without being sure it cannot be wielded against its people. I think it's a sound argument,
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by giansegato 5y ago
It's already happening. It's called Every, it's a writer collective that works exactly as you describe. Its founder was the first Substack employee, that resigned to become a writer full time.
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by giansegato 5y ago
I disagree. Podcasts and newsletter are still enough to keep you alive without platform intermediation. Not coincidentally, they're the two only media that are delivered by open protocols.

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