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841.
by hkt 4y ago
Assuming salary maps to value add, let's say if the CEO is worth 300x the secretary, he needs 300 secretaries.
842.
by hkt 4y ago
I'm charmed and delighted that seemingly multiple microsoft employees are here giving non-apologies. Honestly people, just don't use the product. A putty session to a Linux box still beats anything Microsoft can offer.
843.
by hkt 4y ago
> solipsistic tendency Beautifully put. The idea that a social network should be personalised is.. well it is as crazy as expecting any social setting to be personalised, really.
844.
by hkt 4y ago
I really didn't want to snark at this: I wanted to see something technical and interesting. But it turns out putting "clubhouse" and "relevant" in a sentence together ended exactly as I expected.
845.
by hkt 5y ago
No argument here, I was just being a pedant really
846.
by hkt 5y ago
It is a great pity that so many of those havens are shielded by western countries too. The UK has the crown dependencies (Jersey, Guernsey, various Caribbean holdings), the US has various vassal states (as I understand it), France is the sa
847.
by hkt 5y ago
At this point, is anybody surprised that high end real estate is a crook's game? Whether it is London, Dubai, or anywhere else, the chronically dishonest gravitate towards effortless capital gains driven by financialisation and rent se
848.
by hkt 5y ago
Actually, wind turbines do produce heat but we generally let it dissipate. It may be that it is not really usable, but wind turbines that only produce heat are a thing historically: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/
849.
by hkt 5y ago
CO2 generated by Facebook and Amazon would be interesting to see. Worldwide computing usage too. Fair point though: companies should be embargoed for wrecking the environment at this point. Even a handful of big western countries doing it w
850.
by hkt 5y ago
Here is a crazy idea: maybe the security services like the NSA, GCHQ, etc, should be out there fixing vulnerabilities in common, critical software, rather than hoarding exploits. They're better termed insecurity agencies today, imo. So
851.
by hkt 5y ago
I agree with most of this, but > it raises the barrier enormously for onboarding new people. is.. a little ironic. I've never met any of the gazillion frameworks out there that have made it easier to get people up to speed, despite
852.
by hkt 5y ago
Responding only to the title: not true in my case. In my case, 100% of software "engineering" is this.
853.
by hkt 5y ago
The announcements are already peer to peer in BGP. Again, what does block chain add that eg, BGPsec ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7353.txt ) does not?
854.
by hkt 5y ago
Does this achieve anything that signed announcements wouldn't?
855.
by hkt 5y ago
https://www.carscoops.com/2019/11/tech-genius-steve-wozniak-... Might never happen.
856.
by hkt 5y ago
Turns out Musk's dad gave an interview and confirmed the emerald mine: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musks-dad-tells-bi-abou... Key quote: 'We had so much money we couldn't even close our safe' So
857.
by hkt 5y ago
True, but it has fewer limitations. I'm a fiend for Stellaris and Endless Sky, what can I say?
858.
by hkt 5y ago
It is awful, isn't it? I do wonder how many joules we waste on poorly performing web apps that could be made more efficient by applying less engineering rather than more.
859.
by hkt 5y ago
I've done this but got tired of it eventually. I had an 8gb raspberry pi 4. I ran xfce4 under raspbian/raspberry pi OS with lightweight applications - luakit for a browser, claws mail for email, terminal, and a few background proc
860.
by hkt 5y ago
Exactly this. I found out the embarrassing way (by asking a journalism tutor) how to end up being a writer like Perry Anderson because I enjoyed one of his longer pieces in the LRB, reviewing the work of an illustrious writer on the history
861.
by hkt 5y ago
I can't pass the paywall but have the sense that this may actually be.. a trial in humans? Can somebody confirm?
862.
by hkt 5y ago
Amen. But.. Bittorrent is actually about 20 years old. Maybe getting on for 25.
863.
by hkt 5y ago
It seems weird to say that Musk did those things. Surely the army of engineers, the public subsidies, and the cash from his dad's emerald mines helped?
864.
by hkt 5y ago
What's the best way to encode the data though? I'm imagining QR codes. I'm guessing the DPI of any router that could do this would be pretty poor and limit your data storage though. Has anyone done it?
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by hkt 5y ago
I'd be delighted to learn that all our laws before 2000 had faded from the statute book.. but you're probably right, it seems durable enough.
866.
by hkt 5y ago
Maybe the most reasonable interpretation of people's professed desire to not ban books places them into two categories: books that inspire acts of terrorism or are otherwise tantamount to inciting, and books which introduce political o
867.
by hkt 5y ago
They aren't - that's the point Marx makes in describing the idea of alienation from the fruits of one's labour. Because labour is commodified, the rate of pay does not relate to the value at the point of consumption - the dif
868.
by hkt 5y ago
Marxist exploitation occurs in the labour relation - it isn't really about consumers. The thing he was referring to was the price mechanism, for which Marxists have entertained quite a few alternatives based on the use value, labour co
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by hkt 5y ago
5G near me is something like 15x faster than wired broadband. I don't care about it for mobile, but I'm excited to finally ditch my landline and crappy 20mbit line.
870.
by hkt 5y ago
"Biden's 9.6%" - I'm not american so this seems like a peculiar way of putting it since inflation is spiking across the whole western world. It seems weirdly partisan, was that the intention?

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