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by jowea 3y ago
Yeah, that's 90+% of what a Linux distro is, packaging software from a wide variety of projects and trying to make a coherent whole. In Windows/MacOS we have one company making the kernel, basic libraries, desktop manager and some
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by jowea 3y ago
I think the "maximize outage" is a good simplification 80% of the time, but the "goal chain" goes from there to maximum advertising revenue, and that requires happy advertisers. And in the case of reddit I'm not sur
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by jowea 3y ago
I'm not sure about that, Facebook was used because that's where people were, but for the example Rwanda, they used the radio. But it seems Facebook actually was the introduction to mass communications for a lot of people according
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by jowea 3y ago
> - Instead of 4-7% payment processing fees, it can be effectively zero[1] There are disadvantages to using Layer 2 of a blockchain, and you are ignoring the costs of on-boarding and off-boarding from cryptocurrency. > - Users of the
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by jowea 3y ago
Wonder if they will care if it's mostly a foreign audience.
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by jowea 3y ago
My point is not to absolve Facebook really. If they're making the software, publishing it to the country, designing the algorithm for maximum profit, profiting when a fake news content farm posts hate speech, and making deals to zero-r
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by jowea 3y ago
The previous parts do say that Facebook was not doing well even when it was just disorganized masses and some provocateurs, but I am the only one who feels it is weird that Facebook, a private company, is expect to "fight" state o
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by jowea 3y ago
From what I understand an actual Dyson shell completely covering a star is probably out of reach of even such a civilization. Would a Dyson swarm make the star disappear?
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by jowea 3y ago
AI powered citogenesis! I'm starting to wish articles had inline citations as a standard.
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I remember the superfish incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Superfish
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by jowea 3y ago
There's new cars each year, but hardly anyone is switching yearly, right?
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by jowea 3y ago
As someone in a similar situation to other poster, I'm still annoyed at the choice between buying a new phone (with the financial and environmental consequences) or having to deal with the maybe I'm invisibly hacked maybe I'm
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by jowea 3y ago
To be honest I think I misremembered about the accounting. It was very bad but I can't remember if any external investor noticing, it was just weird that none of them asked for a seat on the board and also failed to conduct enough due
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by jowea 3y ago
I'll be honest, I never liked this argument. First, it didn't happen then, specially if wages being halved meaning that there isn't even a theoretical possibility of working half the hours for the same pay. And why does doubl
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by jowea 3y ago
I know Keynes said something of the sort, did the 18th and 19th century industrialists also say this stuff?
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by jowea 3y ago
Why couldn't he let Alamada Research burn down instead of letting it use FTX funds?
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by jowea 3y ago
I'm guessing here, and the wanton corporate expenses for the benefit of corporate employees and officers were a big problem, but for the main problem I feel that from their point of view they convinced themselves they were not stealing
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by jowea 3y ago
From what I heard they weren't all that good at hiding the sketchiness when you got anywhere close. Even the outside investors saw the unprofessionalism and decided that yes playing LoL in the middle of meeting is actually a positive a
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by jowea 3y ago
I have no idea how to prove he is lying, but theoretically there would be criminal consequences for lying in this case.
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If the scenario other posters are concerned about where most sites become chrome-only I wonder if something like that will substitute the market niche that Firefox currently occupies. Or will we just have Firefox on Blink like Microsoft mov
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by jowea 3y ago
Yeah but I don't think a indie studio has the marketing budget to convince consumers that this is what they want.
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Fair enough but you'd still need to compare to the actual experiences of the average American in a big city, not a wealthy person who can order takeout of a different cuisine each day.
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Although I'm not sure it will fulfil the goals of making middle games the post mentions like building team expertise. Unless you're doing a very unusual city builder I guess.
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This focuses a lot on the production/offer side, but is there really all that much demand for the size of game advocated for? Aren't those publishers asking for bigger games because that's what the market is looking for?
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by jowea 3y ago
Me too but in fairness "Prisoner of War" doesn't come up in normal life all that much either.
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by jowea 3y ago
It is on the web, and it is interactive, i.e. not just a static blog. The average social media site is clearly a web app, right? What is HN missing? Not looking like it's from the early web 2.0 era?
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What about "2023"?
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by jowea 3y ago
The permission pop-up doesn't actually do anything obviously.
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Not fully disagreeing, but the web feels more heavy on RAM and other resources than native software. Also, the only programming language being Javascript, which is just starting to sort of change with WebAssembly is also far from ideal. Som
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How many of those apps are wrappers around a browser through?

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