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by lifty 6y ago
Defaulting is a much better word, I shouldn't have used 'bankrupt'. And I agree with you, I think it's a nearly impossible for the USG to default on its debt, even temporarily. The only situation in which that can happen
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by lifty 6y ago
I agree with what you are saying, but even before that point, the USG which is sovereign over its money supply, will be able cover any liabilities it has by creating the necessary money. This is what I was alluding to when I mentioned that
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by lifty 6y ago
Hilariously weak? I think they lay out a reasonable argument considering the amount of debt around the world and the fragility of the economy. The big question is: will we have deflation or inflation? I am not sure, but I doubt the USG will
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by lifty 6y ago
A lot of it is going into prop-ing up corporate debt. I remember that they even bought junk rated bonds.
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by lifty 6y ago
A very promising project is https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy . It is an all in one server that can both receive and send email.
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by lifty 6y ago
Most probably because fats were not as common as carbs were when our metabolic system evolved.
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by lifty 6y ago
Can you mention what are the tools that you use as alternatives to compose?
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by lifty 6y ago
No need to be snarky. I think his idea is quite good, even if not 100% unique.
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by lifty 6y ago
This is a great idea and a desktop app is the right fit for a product that aims to give sovereignty to the user. The app should be able to generate HTML files and then upload them to one of the supported providers (netlify, private vps, etc
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by lifty 6y ago
Ok, I think there really is a difference in how people perceive slowdowns. - Google Docs is substantially slower than MS Word, especially when you have more content inside. - app.diagrams.net seems to be quite good with the few shapes I add
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by lifty 6y ago
> Functionality of most downloaded apps with good performance should be easily possible in a browser. I don't understand how someone can make such a statement. Maybe I am more sensitive to subtle slowdowns but I rarely see web appli
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by lifty 6y ago
I love it. With password managers becoming better and by owning your domain, it almost feels like a self-sovereign identity system. It would be great if services would implement better support for browser form auto-fill, and ask the minimum
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by lifty 6y ago
I sympathise with the walled garden App Store argument. I hate it that Apple keep such a tight grip on the application distribution channel. At the same time, I really hate the trend where browsers are operating systems and I use native app
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by lifty 6y ago
We have micro-disposable income.
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by lifty 6y ago
Gold backed coins, like PAX, are very easy to censor. While all the coin ownership information sits on the blockchain ledger, the gold sits somewhere in a vault and the custodian company has the capability to blacklist coins. Virtually all
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by lifty 6y ago
Check out /e/ ( https://e.foundation/ ). It’s an Android rom that is privacy oriented and that removed google services. They also sell devices that have /e/ preinstalled.
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by lifty 6y ago
What about Netflix and Amazon? Those examples seem very valid to me.
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by lifty 6y ago
He took a principled stand and risked he’s whole business and I appreciate that. If apple would enforce the same rules for everyone I think people would give them some slack. But as it stands, they don’t.
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by lifty 6y ago
I didn’t know that they allow different prices. A few days ago someone replied to my comment on HN and told me that it’s not allowed. If indeed it’s allowed, I think it’s more reasonable for Apple to require app makers to offer the IAP sign
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by lifty 6y ago
Sounds like a hassle. You might as well run it on a separate computer, at least you will be able to use them at the same time. I would prefer better app isolation so I can run everything with the same user, but still hold the apps accountab
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by lifty 6y ago
The external provided software repos are one thing I find superior on Linux, compared to macOS and Windows. It gives you an OS managed way to do updates to 3rd party providers, as opposed to each app shipping their own update code, many tim
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by lifty 6y ago
I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to make a more granular extension permission system that also has stricter sandboxing. Safari is already going in that direction. The new extension system is more restricted, although I don’t know if
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by lifty 6y ago
If you use a Mac, a 5k monitor with integer scaling (2x) will take fewer GPU resources to run than a 4K with fractional scaling (1.5x). This why I refuse to switch to a 4K monitor for now. Will do the leap to a 5k monitor but the options ar
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by lifty 6y ago
Not sure I follow. Are you saying that font rendering on macOS is bad?
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by lifty 6y ago
I agree that Apple provides a great experience, and I am an Apple user for most of my computing needs; but Apple's approach uses the user experience stick to squeeze out monopolistic benefits out of their platform when it suits them, a
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by lifty 6y ago
What about the fact that we buy their 1k phones or 3k laptops? Does that not count for anything? Apparently not, it's not enough anymore. Large companies like apple want a piece of every pie. If this trend continues you will soon be ab
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by lifty 6y ago
Does apple allow different pricing on a service sold both on the app store and outside of it? That way people could choose convenience or a better price.
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by lifty 6y ago
Thanks for doing that! I think a viable long term strategy to increase the health of the Tor network, is to increase the number of relays (not exit nodes) and make it easier for companies/websites to expose their services as native Tor
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by lifty 6y ago
Since you mentioned Dolt, I will add Noms [1], which is the original db that Dolt is based on. The folks that created Noms are working now on Replicache [2]. I started using Noms in my project and the offline first tech is really wonderful;
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by lifty 6y ago
The software industry needs to adapt to the challenges of a fully digitized world and at the moment things are a bit behind. The first and most important part is to have reproducible builds and core signing, so in cases where the source is

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