inigyou

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   by inigyou 2mo ago

   What website isn't? The most shocking part is that Americans care about appearing to follow GDPR, for some reason. For example, HN blatantly doesn't comply and doesn't plan to.
2. 902.▲
   by inigyou 2mo ago

   It's a good read.
3. 903.▲
   by inigyou 2mo ago

   True. Feudalism was the norm throughout human history. But those nobles had limited power because they didn't have the communications technology we have today.
4. 904.▲
   by inigyou 2mo ago

   Moloch is why people don't revolt. Why did you care enough to word count it?
5. 905.▲
   by inigyou 2mo ago

   A lot of pessimism is caused by the current inequality.
6. 906.▲
   by inigyou 2mo ago

   There is, but they're all tax evaders.
7. 907.▲
   by inigyou 2mo ago

   Are you referring to the way they always have to portray the American army as the heroic winners of every war?
8. 908.▲
   by inigyou 2mo ago

   Modern C++ means C++ from 2011 btw
9. 909.▲
   by inigyou 2mo ago

   Only if you put it in a box with a battery charger that turns on if a radioactive particle decays. In which case you may as well remove all that and just set the charger to "on".
10. 910.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
11. 911.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    There are already several but it turns out that network effects dominate all else, so there is not and never will be a market. Just like Sourceforge, nothing will ever replace it until it actually dies. But if you weaken what you want there
12. 912.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    In the case of the bay area yacht club you would have owned the right to be a member of the yacht club
13. 913.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    Why are you using a web browser then?
14. 914.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    They did - Bittorrent
15. 915.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    Mine was that every request took 2 minutes to resolve
16. 916.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    But bittorrent has been successfully censored. People are afraid to run it because they know their ISP will forward them demand letters.
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    by inigyou 2mo ago

    Pretty much impossible because of the incentive structures OSes have. Microsoft and Apple want to surveil you and Linux is a fragmented bazaar.
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    by inigyou 2mo ago

    Did it actually work for HTTP though? Look at the modern web and tell me it's perfectly well.
19. 919.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    The other difference is that IPFS takes 120 seconds to locate a file.
20. 920.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    Pedantically the .git folder is a database, but so is S3.
21. 921.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    Uh, obviously yes to both?
22. 922.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    https://xcancel.com/kellabyte/status/2092105110381908458
23. 923.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    At least two of the countries on that list are quite obviously not working well.
24. 924.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    I think the idea is that you follow the law of the country you're in.
25. 925.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    I think you're supposed to ask forgiveness not permission
26. 926.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    Things cost money.
27. 927.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    They do. You can just break the law. Especially when it's a civil regulation like using recyclable packaging material, you will not go to jail for that.
28. 928.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    Isn't Conrad out of business?
29. 929.▲
    by inigyou 2mo ago

    But a ban on making loud noises after midnight would also impact a gypsy who likes to folk sing after midnight and it would be pretty ludicrous to cite that as a reason not to do it.
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    by inigyou 2mo ago

    I remember this with GDPR