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by glogla 7y ago
Also, I think European houses and apartment buildings are built from brick, stone and concrete, while in US most of "homes" are wood and drywall, which doesn't isolate as well.
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by glogla 7y ago
> That's crazy. Etsy is not the market, it is a market. If you don't like it, you move somewhere else. Sufficiently big _a_ thing becomes _the_ thing because of economies of scale, network effects and "the software is eati
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by glogla 7y ago
I disagree strongly with your idea of "poor people would just spend on drugs" but there's a nugget of reason in it - there's a high risk that UBI without rent control would just be subsidizing the landlords, without actu
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by glogla 7y ago
Signal started lately (maybe it's AB tested and it happens at differet times to different oeople) doing the annoying "add your name" thing, where you get askedfor your name pretty much every time, and you can only caugh it up
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by glogla 7y ago
It is definitely the case for Czech banks. GP's Equa has about 2.5 % in fact. Worse, there's basically no banks that have under 2 %.
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by glogla 7y ago
I think GP was being sarcastic.
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by glogla 7y ago
It was not just any anonymous developers, it was Google specifically making Gmail and Youtube not working on the Windows Phone. They refused to port their apps, and when Microsoft created clones (i.e. Microsoft built Youtube apps) Google ma
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by glogla 7y ago
Google is not protecting its users privacy, it is protecting their own business. They want everyone's ads to be worse than Google's, so you use Google. Hiding private data from everyone but themselves is part of the plan.
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by glogla 7y ago
I'm curious what attack surface typical "wifi-router" has? From the internet, nothing should be exposed - or maybe OpenVPN port or ssh? From outside, usually you would see WPA2-PSK network. I know there are some attacks on WP
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by glogla 7y ago
Does Mikrotik still require the windows-only utility for configuration? I remember it was a thing.
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by glogla 7y ago
Floppy drive was replaced by two things: 1) For software distribution, CDs. CDs were vastly superior in their read speed and size (400x bigger). CDs are open standard and are not controlled by any single entity and you don't need licen
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by glogla 7y ago
> Mandating that all phones must have a headphone jack would make sense if manufacturers omitted it for anticompetetive or other nefarious reasons, knowingly acting against the interests of their customers. I guess that's a matter o
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by glogla 7y ago
But now that I'm thinking about it more, yes, let's force my preference for open standards, interoperability and reusability on everybody else. It is the ethically right thing to do, it's best for the people.
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by glogla 7y ago
Aren't car controls pretty universal already? At least the pedals, the turn signals, the steering wheel, the "warning lights" button, the seat belt release button, the parking brake whether it is electronic or manual, are pre
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by glogla 7y ago
Good. Let's also make 3.5 mm jack mandatory on any device that outputs audio - without dongles.
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by glogla 7y ago
And of course, collective ownership doesn't require central planning. Things can be distributed.
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by glogla 7y ago
> The alternatives are much much worse. We don't know that. We know that some of the explored alternatives had different sets of trade-offs, in some cases making them pretty terrible.
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by glogla 7y ago
> Long-term, not so much. People tend to remember shitty behavior. People remember Amazon workers have to piss in bottles to not get fired, but they don't stop shopping there. People know of Chinese factories with anti-suicide nets
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by glogla 7y ago
Some could argue, that under sufficiently corrupt or inherently unfair regime, business success is mutually exclusive with being moral/ethical person.
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by glogla 7y ago
The depends - in some cases, there are very entrenched rents that mean money that should go to the people actually go to the wealthy. Like US healthcare, or US education or actual rents. And of course, some times the money goes to the wealt
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by glogla 7y ago
I think it's because they people you normally think of as "wealthy" don't have most of their property in the form of house or car - only the poor or the shrinking middle class that's the case.
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by glogla 7y ago
This is not true at all. People are already familiar with property taxes. They pay them for their houses every year. In some US states they even pay property taxes on their cars. However, there is no property tax on stocks, bonds, etc, whic
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by glogla 7y ago
If you own a house, you definitely have money for a wifi setup with multiple APs - like Ubiquiti with three APs and PoE switch and dedicated gateway - I'd love to play with that, but I'm not going to buy a house to do that. And fo
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by glogla 7y ago
If you are limited by your current wifi. Which most people really aren't.
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by glogla 7y ago
Does he ever explain why he doesn't want recordings to be made? It seems to me like he's just interested at taking at people, but not interested at being talked to. More like a preacher than a presenter.
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by glogla 7y ago
We have the same setup! So this is where our (Czech) lawmakers got it from. I thought it was a bit too smart for them! Thanks for the fascinating explanation.
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by glogla 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, how does it work? Interesting, my country has a kind of strange "necessary defence" law - it covers defending something that is protected by lay, not necessarily your own thing - as long as the defence is ap
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by glogla 7y ago
I think might be a cultural difference? To _physically_ move someone who doesn't want to be move, you have to _physically_ grab them and move them. You usually do this with multiple people, in case the person might get violent or somet
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by glogla 7y ago
Does anyone see the alleged political reason in the post? The only thing I seem to see is that he was asked not to come without a message or something, and now got kicked out. Is that a political thing?
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by glogla 7y ago
> It feels like we (as Matrix) should do a formal response to moxie's "ecosystem is moving" stuff at some point, not least because the original blog post was written in response to me mailing him to consider linking Signal

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