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by hakfoo 3y ago
A sensible endgame is for the state to control all real estate, and we're all effectively renters. This eliminates the speculation fiasco entirely-- there's no way to bid up a property if the price is determined by a standard, leg
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'd expect it would expand the market for customized SoC/microcontroller parts. We know there's already a lot of "built to purpose" RISC-V products ending up in embedded environments. When you have less obligations
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I was sort of frustrated that while the source exists for 2.11 now, it doesn't quite build right out of the box into a free-standing disc image-- I think it was missing some data needed to build either MSDOS.SYS or IO.SYS. Once you h
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by hakfoo 3y ago
For a while in my town, circa 2000, they had an experimental-format store. The signage said 'Radioshack.com' on the front and it was the size of a small grocery store and went to all those places-- they had a build-your-own-PC de
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by hakfoo 3y ago
We sort of have two forces pushing in opposite directions: * Many transport cards were NFC or RFID or otherwise "you don't have to take the card out of your wallet" years before general-purpose cards were. Now, many transit
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The promise of autonomous vehicles DOES tend to prevent "fixing transit". It reinforces the narrative of individual car ownership. In American society, you are seen as a bit lesser if you don't have an individual vehicle. A
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by hakfoo 3y ago
To maximize the value of public transit, you need a strongly integrated economy. It would help if local leadership could say "You're building a business that has high flexibility in where you site it, so you should place it near a
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Self=driving cars could be important, if we used them in ways that didn't play to the traditional car narratives. An always-connected vehicle could start to deliver some of the "system intelligence" we see in more controlled
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The location might not be "mobile" though. I'd think a common use case is traveling/remote workers. Request the ride before you log out of your workstation for the day, and the car is at the building by the time you get
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I wonder if the QA standards are too high for throwaway goods. Is a soda bottle a high-precision moulding that needs super-precise tolerances? And if so, are there ways to redesign this to reduce the constraints?
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I guess that's the opposite side of the coin I'm looking at. Being able to remove "bad actors" also means it's too easy to remove "good actors" who might brush people the wrong way. Democratic leadership
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by hakfoo 3y ago
While the formal definition of a millionaire or billionaire is based on net worth and assets, I think the issue is likely "philosophical" billionaires. It's a fundamentally different lifestyle, culture, and philosophy. We can
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That seemed to be the message I was getting; spent last week in Toronto and one of the major private broadcasters was running a lot of ads saying "Nasty American platforms won't allow you to see news, so download our apps to see
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's a disappointment that we never used different conceptual "types" for text files with different encodings. You can sort of get there with MIME types and encoding data attached, but imagine if you had a filename conventio
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I guess I find it difficult to buy into the origins of art mattering too much because it often seems to turn into a game of academics arguing among each other over the interpretation of symbols. A particularly spiteful take on this would
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I don't want to see AI copyright, but that's more an extension of not wanting to see any copyright. A lot of it comes down to creativity as a process, or as a product. It feels like many people tend to view creativity-- especial
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by hakfoo 3y ago
> If they really knew what was best for everyone it would be obvious and people would vote for them. I'm not sure most-- or even any-- people really know what's best for everyone . It gets even more complex when it turns into
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by hakfoo 3y ago
A problem is that democracy is hard to build and maintain. Even countries that are showcases for it have a hard time with keeping it stable in some situations. It requires either a lot of good faith by participants (most participants actua
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I wonder if to an extent, the US tendency to use credit card "protections" is an outsourcing of consumer-protection law. Some countries, I gather that the consumer-protection authorities have a lot of teeth, and they're a via
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Is democracy the only acceptable endgame? I worry we're mixing up ends and means. Democracy is a means, and "good government" is the end. In the last few decades, the overall Chinese population has seen dramatic upticks on
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There is a perception that it's magic and untraceable. As you mention, there are obfuscation methods that seem sufficient that criminals have adopted crypto rather than 'Okay, you're gonna have to buy $100k in iTunes cards&q
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by hakfoo 3y ago
State-scale purchasing could be a huge leverage to keep manufacturers on message. .gov to Apple: "We expect a full public service manual repo and parts ordering service, and until one appears, not one government employee gets an iPhon
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by hakfoo 3y ago
You trade flexibility for that promise of efficiency. Since AWS prints money, Amazon-Retail could afford to experiment with stuff. For example, I'd argue that Prime Video hit the market a few years ahead of viability, when we were sti
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It seems like price discovery and liquidity are seen as undeniable good, but I've always been skeptical. Price discovery tends to be awkward for some institutions, because we're not great at pricing future value and resiliency. I
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There's also the fact they're seeing the West trying to steal their thunder in real-time; hard not to be paranoid when everyone IS out to get you. The chipmaking-gear sanctions are both about enforcing a dependency on an independe
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's not reasonable to ask a country like China to suppress their "geopolitical ambitions". When you're that big, politically, militarily, economically, you need to be able to "clear your orbit" of other territ
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I was under the impression that manufacturing moved to China for the bottom price first, but higher value manufacturing remained there because there's infrastructure symbiosis now. If you're a absolute lowest-value-add manufacture
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by hakfoo 3y ago
We can't do Hollywood style compensation because we rely on actually functional computers which are obviously incapable of Hollywood math. More seriously, we need to make sure the entire team is getting the goodies. Even your fairy-ta
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It definitely reminds me more of "x86-64", the name used on early publications before they decided to brand it (AMD64, Intel calling it EM64T or something, and eventually x64 appearing as a shorthand). You've got the "8
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I know there can be issues with thermal saturation on a heatsink design-- it was expected not just to generate N watts of heat, but to only do so for M hours. Can you expect to leave a real 64 on for days or weeks and it will stay up? I w

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