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by hyko 6y ago
Apple are pretty much the only humanist big tech company. They’re a bulwark against all sorts of absolute nonsense that would reduce the technological landscape to more of a dismal-looking, utilitarian panopticon than it already is.
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by hyko 6y ago
Web Bluetooth and webUSB Hard to tell without looking if these things are real or a parody!
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by hyko 6y ago
Does nobody remember the Millennium Dome? They had an exhibit called “MoneyZone” which included a tunnel made out of £1 million in crisp fifties. Good times.
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by hyko 6y ago
If robots can build a house on land you already own from natural resources mined and refined onsite ... If you think that’s cool, you’ll love my upcoming seminar: “How To Live Mortgage Free Using A House and Land You Already Paid Cash For
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by hyko 6y ago
Yeah this is going nowhere.
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by hyko 6y ago
it doesn't really matter how close the screen is to your eyes Yeah, I didn't mean to suggest there is a continuous relationship between trust and distance from the eyeballs :) The promise of AR and VR is that there is a quantu
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by hyko 6y ago
Obviously VR is miles away from mainstream adoption–it’s the fusion power of computer science–but FB are mad keen on not having gatekeepers like Apple moderate their power. Btw, anyone who lets FB that close to their eyeballs is a stone col
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by hyko 6y ago
Well, you’re forced to pay your taxes in specific money, so that’s one thing.
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by hyko 6y ago
Obviously a statement like that requires some explanatory notes? When talking about money, the term intrinsic value means the market value of the commodity the money is made from, versus the face value of the money. This is very real and
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by hyko 6y ago
Well, the first question is: how much money? That question is usually answered by the people willing to take out commercial loans. Without the market supplying that function, you’d have to try and figure this out yourself centrally. The sec
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes. They tend to be straight out of the “monkey lands plane” school of journalism.
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by hyko 6y ago
Except for a handful of very over-priced models that I can't afford to buy What models are being referred to here? Sounds like the OP’s problem can be solved with more money.
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by hyko 6y ago
The returns are diminishing, but if your eyesight is good a 5K monitor is much nicer to work with. Ultimately the reason 4K took hold was part marketing and part display interconnection/GPU technology. The Mac was pretty much alone in
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by hyko 6y ago
So disappointing that modern iMacs don’t have target display mode.
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by hyko 6y ago
Everything is free if you don’t count the price you have to pay. In this case, the price is working like a maniac 24/7 and living in a tiny shack without electricity.
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by hyko 6y ago
Maybe they’ve used software before?
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by hyko 6y ago
Ha! The headquarters are wherever you’re typing this post, Mr Chief Executive Officer. No.
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by hyko 6y ago
Quantity does have a quality all of its own... It’s obviously possible to imagine a scenario where you have a massive number of drones, the question would be whether you could channel that into tactics that would give you an advantage. Nume
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by hyko 6y ago
I don’t really understand this line of reasoning; it’s not like the person bearing the most rudimentary weapons is at an advantage? What’s the plan, lose in aerial combat but win in a fist fight? Who says it has a fragile supply chain anywa
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by hyko 6y ago
The test of a combat aircraft is in combat. Nobody will give a fuck what the programme cost or that it couldn’t do X if it gives you a decisive advantage in war. It’s fashionable to hate on the F-35, but let’s face it: if the allies have to
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by hyko 6y ago
It’s being promoted as a means to end the restrictions because it’s the only plausible mechanism by which we can do so. The alternatives are all pretty terrible, involving restrictions, disability, hardship, and death on a societal scale. A
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by hyko 6y ago
I understand, it’s not an easy thing to have that responsibility. Everyone wants to do the best for their family. There is no silver bullet, it’s not possible to have total foresight. I guess all you can do is get all the reputable informat
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by hyko 6y ago
They told people that they did have enough data, and that it was only “8% effective” in people over 65, which was 100% bullshit. Preprint data on hospital admissions seems pretty encouraging for AZD-1222: https://www.bmj.com&#x
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by hyko 6y ago
Germans are turning down AZD-1222 because they were fed a pack of lies. People will die as a result. https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n414 Edited to add: in circumstances such as these, journalists have a sole
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by hyko 6y ago
there is no real justification for the vaccine The vaccines are the only way we’ll be able to sustainably relax the restrictions we’ve faced for the past year. There is no such thing as perfectly safe, but faced with SARS-CoV-2 or a vacci
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by hyko 6y ago
I mean that when you trust someone, that can mean you either trust them not to screw up or trust them not to screw you over.
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by hyko 6y ago
It will definitely end badly. I guess it’s driven by desperation for returns. Diversification is a risk reduction strategy as old as the Bible; stock picking is not about preserving wealth or growing wealth, it’s about bootstrapping it.
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by hyko 6y ago
There’s nothing wrong with storing your possessions in your car; it’s just not what it was designed for and your possessions are at greater risk of theft. Similarly, if you need a risk-free value store (e.g. because you’re very close to ret
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by hyko 6y ago
has been brought on by the easy money policies [...] aimed at weathering the global Covid 19 pandemic Did the financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent decade of financial and monetary policy responses not happen then? I must have imagined
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by hyko 6y ago
Everyone was probably comparatively lean looking in the circumstances in which humanity evolved; we’re talking about small differences in fat storage and metabolism that are magnified by the environment that we’ve created. Edited to add: ob

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