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by jddj 7y ago
If there's any truth behind the stories of Bitcoin seeing widespread use (purchased, not mined using subsidized electricity) as a store of value in countries in the grips of hyper-inflation, surely a coin which is pegged to a basket of
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by jddj 7y ago
Yeah, a bit annoying given that Facebook must have been aware and they could have changed a single letter somewhere to avoid it. But I guess they assumed that languages are pretty good at dealing with this sort of thing, and we'll end
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by jddj 7y ago
I appreciate the comment, but I'm not sold at all. It's a stretch to say you can't have two cultures in a lawful society unless they have different laws or one of them is breaking them. This is the first time I've really
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by jddj 7y ago
We could probably look to the rest of the West for inspiration, they've been navigating these grey areas in the interest of accountability for a while now. It's still a developing science though, see the conflict over "was As
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by jddj 7y ago
I'm curious about the monoculture point. I reflexively disagreed with your parent post when they said it but now that someone else has agreed I'm second guessing. Where is your line for where a culture starts and stops? Do we real
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by jddj 7y ago
The fact that it's the case for the majority of tech companies is actually new. The internet trends slides which were on the front page a couple of days ago showed just this phenomenon.
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When I was in my early 20's a good friend of mine (mid 30's) was on the methadone program. He functioned more or less fine all things considered, but used to get a little more than he needed and would trade the excess for weed wit
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by jddj 7y ago
Hackaday's case was interesting, they quickly hacked (sorry) a fix together and by mistake ended up piping all comments into the RSS feed. https://hackaday.com/2019/06/11/the-day-hackadays-theme-was-...
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Schrodinger's Cat Lives(hackaday.com)
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This is one of those scenarios where it could be amazing if the whole ecosystem were mature from top to bottom, but the incentives aren't really in place to have it happen naturally. As an example: I'd love to be able to allow (an
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by jddj 7y ago
Depending on the price point, I can imagine myself paying some non-zero amount monthly just for the peace of mind of supporting the existence of a Mozilla browser. Although there isn't much information, I can't see myself really w
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Nasa announces the ISS will be open for commercial business(latimes.com)
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Facebook suspends app pre-installs on Huawei phones(reuters.com)
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by jddj 7y ago
Interesting. But how do you reconcile the many counter-examples? Pointing to an incident in time is fine, but someone could just as easily point to the US bill of rights, the general trend over time towards personal liberties in the West (w
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by jddj 7y ago
Are people really 'trading' these things? That seems like a bit of a stretch. I'm having a hard time imagining somebody justifying flying more/further because they aren't using plastic straws in their day-to-day lif
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by jddj 7y ago
Ugh. What is this authoritarian nonsense? Two AFP raids on journalists in one week, both for reporting on the military/government. How did we get here and how the fuck do we get back?
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by jddj 7y ago
I'm not going to reach, but there must be parallels to this in other industries. In the US those JavaScript developers are probably paid enough that they should know more about the giants whose shoulders they are standing on (to the ex
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by jddj 7y ago
The internet has enabled some people to deploy complex systems into New York datacenters from a beach in Thailand in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately, it's also enabled a selection of less socially aware and/or socially responsi
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by jddj 7y ago
The bank shown in the article's photo is (somewhat lazily) Australian. To clarify a bit: The photo doesn't seem to appear in the article itself, but in RSS feeds and on the article index.
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by jddj 7y ago
Some communities are more transactional than others. Everyone has an angle in that we're generally a social species and being around people we like and who confirm our worldviews and validate our ways of life (and make us laugh) gives
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by jddj 7y ago
These threads about whether it's moral to kill mosquitoes en masse always seem to end up being about unintended consequences and ecosystem collapse. Some points to consider: - Those who study the strains of mosquito (a generous 50 out
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by jddj 7y ago
Outsourcing recycling to developing nations seems like such an ethical minefield. It's a promising sign that Malaysia and the Philippines are putting their foot down and rejecting anything which isn't suitable or has been contamin
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by jddj 7y ago
You can add me as a datapoint as well, it definitely factors into some of my decisions (eg. Should I layover in the US or somewhere with saner immigration + security controls?).
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by jddj 7y ago
I'm not GP, but the UK has negotiated four opt-outs (you could also include Cameron's pre-referendum requests). This is more than any other EU country. The economic and monetary union (the euro), Schengen, the Charter of Fundament
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by jddj 7y ago
This reminded me of something which made it to the front page a while back about how people came to a different result when they considered Trolley Problems in their second language rather than their first. But that article framed it as the
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by jddj 7y ago
Can you point to something which supports this claim? In all of my reading it's been personal data, and definitely wouldn't apply to the things people would usually associate with "industrial sensors" eg. Carbon monoxi
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by jddj 7y ago
This isn't so strange in a complex world. When you're struggling to put food on the table you don't have time to philosophise about how a better future would look. You do have time to do the less coal = fewer jobs for your im
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by jddj 7y ago
I found it amazing how far a single "trip" (~US$1) on the Barcelona public transport could take you. What a great way to generally enable the people living in the smaller towns around the city, and keep the towns themselves alive.
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by jddj 7y ago
Another advantage: - Compared with a repository pattern or typical fat-fingered ORM, separating command and query models in code can make it easier to let the data store / search engine do the things it has been optimised to do well on
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by jddj 7y ago
This resonates with me, and I want to get on board. But was leisure so much more creative with television and work rather than Netflix and work? I've had some conversations recently about how [my generation and socioeconomic group] wou

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