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by liotier 9y ago
> Companies doing well in the stock market might be exploiting workers, unnecessarily exposing consumers to different dangers, destroying the environment or a plethora of any other bad things and the stock market would not care That woul
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by liotier 9y ago
Liquidity is correlated to trading volumes - so the more people exchange shares of your company, the quicker you can find a counterpart. Investors accept lower returns if they can get their money back whenever they please, so a liquid inves
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by liotier 9y ago
> What benefit does the stock market provide to us ? Direct benefit: liquidity - whether you need to buy or to sell, you have a place where you'll find a counterpart quickly. Indirect benefit: information - just watching the bets le
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by liotier 9y ago
Scratch your own itch ! Free software is in the interest of the users - not in anyone else's interest. So, if you need software and if that software isn't your competitive edge, you have an incentive to cooperate with other users
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by liotier 9y ago
There is a demand elasticity threshold effect. When people traveled overseas, the consensus was that they were out of reach. Cheap Internet access broke that consensus for text & images. Whatsapp broke it for synchronous voice. People c
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by liotier 9y ago
No VOIP system before Whatsapp reached the threshold of general usability for the unwashed masses (a complex matter conflating voice quality, software distribution, contact discovery, network effect, data usage, resilience, system load etc.
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by liotier 9y ago
In Paris, because no fatal collision of a cyclist with a pedestrian has occurred last year, that category has been removed from the yearly report : https://twitter.com/EmmanuelSPV/status/909330409099530245 - the k
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by liotier 9y ago
Oh yes - I forgot to mention the schlepping of VBS code across two Microsoft Office upgrades during the application's lifetime... And the migration exemptions that last for years while the porting is done - lots of love from the deskto
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by liotier 9y ago
> Corporate IT doesn't like the Front Office getting Access, as they still ask for support when their home-brew app goes wrong. The Access contraption then gets an ODBC backend to a proper database. Then parts of the Access Visual B
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by liotier 9y ago
Do the WeChat TOS explicitly allow third-party clients ?
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by liotier 9y ago
> Next step: "dumb" phone. > Next step: no phone. Next step: no nothing Next step: achieve zen
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by liotier 9y ago
Hopefully, users who care about Tor's privacy benefits will have ensured that their client environment lacks connectivity to anything but the Tor network.
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by liotier 9y ago
You should see what large Oracle shops in the enterprise segment do with PL/SQL, though whether they have gone too far is open for debate...
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by liotier 9y ago
Same in Paris.
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by liotier 9y ago
Slotin's cautionary tale is such scary founding lore of the nuclear industry... Complacency born from habit is awfully powerful and that may be even scarier.
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by liotier 9y ago
Indeed, the EU is currently a union of countries - that is the way it was designed: the founders were nationally attached. I would love to make it an actual country, but I am in a minority for now - most citizens of Europe still feel they b
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by liotier 9y ago
> “It gives them tactical advantages” As "critical mass' demonstrations show, bicycles are a tactical advantage for protesters too.
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by liotier 9y ago
> I have heard nothing good about in any "at the water cooler" conversation that I was ever in, over the past fifteen years or so. Whenever I think of something that has anything to do with batch data munging, there is usually
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by liotier 9y ago
> I REALLY want to get into all this but this seems like SO MUCH MORE WORK than just running them traditionally... It is... Unless you have hundreds of servers - and then it pays off handsomely.
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by liotier 9y ago
At some point in the past, such automatic intelligence would have stunned the populace - but nowadays nothing short of sorting, folding and piling on the clothing shelves would let the punters cry "robot !"
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by liotier 9y ago
The mobile tablet is not just a personal computer but a downright intimate one.
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by liotier 9y ago
My feeling is that the "robot" concept requires feedback loops and flexibility to adapt to a wide range of situations. As technology progresses, the required amount of magic required to warrant the title is a moving target.
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by liotier 9y ago
"Ubiquitous computing (or 'ubicomp') is a concept in software engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can occur using
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IPv6 is Classless(datatracker.ietf.org)
2 points by liotier 9y ago|0 comments
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Partyshare is open source file sharing built on the P2P hypermedia protocol IPFS(partysha.re)
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by liotier 10y ago
Just say no, but not for moral reasons: say no because, unless you are absolutely desperate, it is the most profitable choice. Relationships with dangerous people who gain blackmail leverage over you will end badly - probably badly enough t
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by liotier 10y ago
> Pilots become pilots because they love flying and because it pays well (mostly the former) And increasingly so - pilot employment is no longer a sinecure but I have nevertheless seen pilots sacrify considerable career opportunities to
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by liotier 10y ago
Or, because it is a popular multiplayer game (and thus prone to cheating), maybe some addresses are randomized & obfuscated.
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Federated XMPP chat (and more) with Movim: a success story(netfuture.ch)
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by liotier 10y ago
Distributed spidering for a community-fed search engine index would provide comparable end-user benefits while being considerably more socially useful.

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