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by jdrc 4y ago
Well you should have nationalized it while you could've BTW why is this called hostile?
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by jdrc 4y ago
The users. it s the only think making it worth The web isnt much fun to build because everything is built into very powerful but hard to use APIs. I would like to say that Webrtc is an awesome technology, but it s too much work as the brows
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by jdrc 4y ago
significant - no, but it's always there in the background, a pop song or catchy lyric suddenly comes to mind and you start singing. it's often unconscious i ve come to appreciate some of the golden-age operas, so much beauty and d
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by jdrc 4y ago
> why the status quo financial system is held in such a high regard? the community is extremely well paid in USD. there is every incentive to keep it valuable in any case i doubt the cryptocoin world cares what hn thinks
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by jdrc 4y ago
europe hasnt made a good movie in decades and bollywood is obsessed with copying hollywood
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by jdrc 4y ago
for each art form you mentioned 1 or 2 competitors with practically the same content. that's what people are talking about, lack of differentiation, not lack of access. And while there is 'everything' from the past on the int
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by jdrc 4y ago
it s the paradox of globalization and no borders. in a world constrained, people might pay more attention to the local artist, who in turn gets a chance to evolve her art which garners her more local attention in a virtuous loop. In a globa
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by jdrc 4y ago
and images
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by jdrc 4y ago
yes, for my bookmarks. pinplz.com
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by jdrc 4y ago
I think you made a great argument, if you don't agree with cryptocurrency, stop using wikipedia.
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by jdrc 4y ago
> Wikipedia has no firm rules > Wikipedia has policies and guidelines, but they are not carved in stone; their content and interpretation can evolve over time. The principles and spirit matter more than literal wording, and sometimes
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by jdrc 4y ago
its not just the crypto-buffs. This is a purely ideological decision that actually goes against the original libertarian ideas behind wikipedia. Keeping BTC payments costs nothing to wikipedia, and it actually meshes with the original idea
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by jdrc 4y ago
what about the second statement from wikipedia's principles: it is not a soapbox. It would be interesting to put banks to a vote with the same kind of arguments as well
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by jdrc 4y ago
so has the anti-crypto so we are at an impasse
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by jdrc 4y ago
that was nowhere near the justification given
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by jdrc 4y ago
accepting bitcoin is as legal and regulated as banks and paypal. as if banks don't spend billions in pointless air travel and (empty in past 2 years) concrete highrises. When WP goes down the ideological rabbit hole everyone loses. may
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by jdrc 4y ago
> NPOV is a fundamental principle of Wikipedia and of other Wikimedia projects. > Wikipedia is not a soapbox, an advertising platform, a vanity press, an experiment in anarchy or democracy, an indiscriminate collection of information,
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by jdrc 4y ago
that was not one of the arguments made in the RFC > Common arguments in support include: issues of environmental sustainability, that accepting cryptocurrencies constitutes implicit endorsement of the issues surrounding cryptocurrencies,
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by jdrc 4y ago
> In the last financial year we received $130,100.94 worth of donations in cryptocurrencies.
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by jdrc 4y ago
So this is not great news at all, a totally inconsequential and pointless move for signaling virtue (look at the arguments given), which is contrary to wikipedia's aim to be neutral
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by jdrc 4y ago
It became an TV show. Anything that reaches the point of become a meme for TV shows is already past the end of its road.
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by jdrc 4y ago
apparently their embedded comments iframe does not work for anyone, at least in europe, and it doesnt seem like they are ever going to fix it.
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by jdrc 5y ago
Also their perpetually young audience means that it's inherently not suitable for lots of kind of communities.
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by jdrc 5y ago
zapier sounds like something that doesn't scale, or will be replaced by the platforms themselves. it's like a business on 1000 other people's platforms.
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by jdrc 5y ago
They also have free heating
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by jdrc 5y ago
Has be ever met LAMP?
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by jdrc 5y ago
When people made enough money and stopped having problems they needed to solve. When they shifted their attention to bolstering the reign of the incumbents. When they tell each other to job hop instead of starting something new. There'
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by jdrc 5y ago
what even are chromebooks? i ve never seen one. i assume it s one of the obscure things 'only in america'
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by jdrc 5y ago
also when it has a maxlength which truncates last digits when you paste a copied CC number that contains spaces/dashes. even worse with IBAN numbers
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by jdrc 5y ago
Incidentally are there train startups with novel ideas?

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