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by hk__2 4y ago
As well as Greece, Italy, South Korea, Mexico, and a couple others: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Countries-with-a-Fix...
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by hk__2 4y ago
> If you try and force a shared administration and say 'This is the central administration that you register on and instances share' then you no longer have a decentralized social network. I was thinking of something based on c
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by hk__2 4y ago
git is decentralized, so I don’t think this should be part of the tool itself.
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by hk__2 4y ago
> I can browse on my samsung S22 ultra random internet without being swarmed with ads and tracking (firefox and ublock origin, something Apple phones will clearly never have). If you are ok with using Safari instead of Firefox, that’s so
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by hk__2 4y ago
Thanks. I don’t think this really changes the point that no big browser have ever been paid for except Netscape. The "paid for" period of IE is insignificant (and it was barely used at the time) and Opera never had more than 3% of
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by hk__2 4y ago
> Isn't that how decentralisation works? If there’s no synchronization between these administrations I fail to see how this has anything to do with decentralisation. It doesn’t remove the centralization, it just reduces its scope.
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by hk__2 4y ago
> What you want is one large centralized administration that can dictate what each smaller instance can do. Not at all. I want some administration that’s shared between instances. If you take a SQL database and split it into one instance
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by hk__2 4y ago
> Browsers used to be paid software. AFAIK the big ones have always been free, except for Netscape between 1995 and 1998.
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by hk__2 4y ago
> You mean administration is decentralized? (not OP) Not really. Accounts are linked to one single instance, and if the admin of that instance decides to ban you, the other instances can’t do anything about it. It’s not one decentralized
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by hk__2 4y ago
Where is the nonsense? He says he thinks it’s the best solution but is not 100% sure about it so he’s open to discussion.
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by hk__2 4y ago
Thanks; I stand corrected.
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by hk__2 4y ago
> - seeing notifications requires swiping down specifically from the top left Not really, swiping from anywhere on the top (except top-right) works. This is consistent with the other gestures: swipe up from the lock screen to unlock it (
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by hk__2 4y ago
> I think iOS really needs a "Tutorial mode" app bundled with it. Another commenter on this thread writes that there is an on-boarding process that was introduced with the iPhone X: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by hk__2 4y ago
> That excuse doesn't hold for the calculator example, where the 0 button takes up 2 spaces for no good reason, and they could easily added a backspace button instead. It would be a really weird place for a backspace button and you
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by hk__2 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes you think that the commenter you replied to is in the US?
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by hk__2 4y ago
If you’re used to loneliness and not talking to others, traveling doesn’t change that much. You’ll just be a lone traveler; you’ll discover things but travel in itself won’t "get you out of your box of loneliness".
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by hk__2 4y ago
The article talks about Open Source, but it’s more about free software (as in "free beer") in general, either open or closed source.
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by hk__2 4y ago
> Spyware vendors also give away their work for free and your Facebook account is also free. Does that mean these entities can do whatever they like? Yes. (as long as they respect the law, like anybody)
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by hk__2 4y ago
> But the "so big it can strongarm suppliers into pricing" is not value added - it's value taken from someone else. It’s money taken, not value. And giving you the customer the ability to buy something cheaper is value
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by hk__2 4y ago
I do search for definitions/usage examples in Italian. Thinking more about it, I think most of the frustration comes from the Treccani iOS app, which is very helpful because you have all of Treccani offline, but it hasn’t been updated
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by hk__2 4y ago
> So what's the solution to this problem? There’s no problem; Costco is an intermediary that brings value and so it takes its cut. Why do people buy from Amazon, who is also "just" an intermediary? Because you can buy mill
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by hk__2 4y ago
I don’t think this invalidates the point that Costco is not "just an intermediary".
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by hk__2 4y ago
> Cosco doesn't make the goods they sell - they are just being an intermediary between you and the the manufacturer. An intermediary that takes a 60+% fee for their work. It can take such "fee" because it’s so enormous tha
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by hk__2 4y ago
Yes, but it’s not sufficient. It has ~50k words in Italian, which is half of what’s in Treccani (~115k) or De Mauro (~120k). Also, definitions are often of much better quality in the Treccani dictionary.
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by hk__2 4y ago
I’ve been learning Italian for a few years and one thing that’s frustating is searching for words I don’t know. Italy has a lot of local languages/dialects that influence regional variants of Italian; it’s common to see dialectal words
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by hk__2 4y ago
Yep. I’m always amazed when I hear Italian students with no money saying they went to Paris or London for less than €10 with Ryanair. For those who don’t like planes, there are low-cost bus companies over the whole continent. Trains are mor
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by hk__2 4y ago
> You can make local software with collaboration support You still need to have someone maintain the central server that serves as the single source of truth.
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by hk__2 4y ago
> Was it programmed to never hit a corner or was that a side effect of how it was implemented? None of that because it was hitting corners.
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by hk__2 4y ago
That’s nitpicking. These people are called "friends" on FB, not "connections".
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by hk__2 4y ago
To quote someone else in this thread [1]: "there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution." [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32808640

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