meribold

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by meribold 5y ago
If the citizens of a particular country want to force Apple to allow alternative app stores, they can. It's their country. Apple can ignore their market if they don't like the rules.
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by meribold 5y ago
IMO what cut Apple deserves is the wrong question. A democratic society can in principle decide that the public would be better served if Apple had to allow alternative app stores, and enact legislation accordingly. Whether Apple deserves t
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by meribold 5y ago
I completely agree that any new law should apply to not just Apple and iOS, but to all similar products. Of course what exactly "similar" should mean is likely a tricky question. Perhaps a rule like this would be sensible: If a de
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by meribold 5y ago
> If you're a customer and don't like this, then don't buy an iPhone. Vote with your feet. Buy an Android. That's a good option. At the same time I can also work together with other citizens of my country to force App
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by meribold 5y ago
I have a `git snap` command that's similar to your `git cam` command with a small twist. The commit is added to a special snapshots branch that isn't checked out. I push the snapshots branch and don't rewrite it, but rather k
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by meribold 5y ago
In C++ (for example) getting the minimum and maximum is an O(1) operation [1][2]. I guess this is probably enabled through some extra bookkeeping and many other languages may do the same. [1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w&#
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by meribold 5y ago
It's a battery in the sense that you can use it to buy electricity?
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by meribold 5y ago
In general you make a fair point but GPs business is cloud storage [1] and, as far as I know, they have one datacenter in SEA and it's in Hong Kong [2]. Presumably GP could open a datacenter in e.g. Singapore/Taipei/Tokyo ins
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by meribold 5y ago
Does anyone else take notes by sending messages to themselves on Signal or another messaging app? I've been doing that for years. Taking notes in dedicated note-taking apps always seems to involve more friction than sending myself a me
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by meribold 5y ago
I'm on iOS and I believe I'd have to pay Apple an annual fee for the privilege of building Signal myself and/or installing the compiled app. (Maybe I'd also have to buy a Mac or MacBook?) I also think I would have to rei
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by meribold 5y ago
I guess not since both platforms use centralized protocols. With the Signal client being FOSS [1] and WhatsApp being proprietary, I also think that me using Signal to message someone on WhatsApp would still downgrade my privacy because I do
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by meribold 5y ago
Conversely, it wouldn’t really make sense for Signal to interoperate with apps that don’t offer the same level of privacy.
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by meribold 5y ago
Commenting may work if the issue has one or two large backers that can independently be vetted to be trustworthy. But if there are several dozen small backers, having to track them all down after closing the issue seems less than ideal.
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by meribold 5y ago
Some projects use a copyleft license like the GPL or AGPL by default but also sell their product under another license to parties that want to avoid copyleft. This way the product is FOSS but companies that want to use it in their proprieta
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by meribold 5y ago
Can anyone recommend a service that allows people to back specific GitHub issues (pledge money) other than Bountysource?
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by meribold 5y ago
If that's how it's going to work, what stopped nations from making a treaty in which everyone commits to an immutable monetary policy so far? And how does Bitcoin result in whatever it was not being a showstopper anymore?
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by meribold 5y ago
> It's also very possible that transactions fees alone actually will be sufficient to support a high enough amount of hash power to secure the network. I have to admit that I have no idea how much work is actually needed to secure t
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by meribold 5y ago
I don't see why many nations would jump at the opportunity to make Bitcoin their monetary backbone. For example because an immutable monetary policy won't be seen as a feature.
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by meribold 5y ago
I don't see how cheaper energy would help. Bitcoin needs a certain amount of power in units of cost to be tied up mining to secure the network. If the cost of energy goes down ten times then the same PoW requires ten times the energy.
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by meribold 5y ago
I imagine the idea of a hard fork of Bitcoin may become more popular as the supply limit is approached and transaction fees go up. The current transaction fee is only a few dollars but the cost is over a hundred. Eventually the fee will hav
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by meribold 5y ago
I think another top-level comment (by csomar) answers your question: > you can sign a transaction later and have a lower timestamp, there is nothing that prevents you from that.
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by meribold 5y ago
> It's a system with an immutable monetary policy. Is it though? It seems minor protocol tweaks aren't uncommon and hard forks managing to eclipse the original protocol in popularity are also conceivable. https://en.
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by meribold 5y ago
I'm usually happy to put some effort into configuration upfront as a new user if it buys me the peace of mind that I won't be thrown under the bus later. OTOH, I recall some classmates being unaware that Vim supports syntax highli
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by meribold 5y ago
That sounds like DRM. Wouldn't less DRM be a bigger win for end users?
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by meribold 5y ago
He only linked to one. It's also not obvious what words may come off as pretentious for someone less experienced with English (I don't know OP or his background, but personally certainly didn't share your visceral negative re
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by meribold 5y ago
I recently watched most of your demo videos and later some of Immersed's and found it quite odd that Immersed, unlike Simula, has a virtual monitor concept. Adding a monitor even looks a bit janky as it makes all monitors disappear sho
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by meribold 5y ago
Fastmail is working just fine for me. At least the web interface was briefly offline yesterday, though.
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by meribold 5y ago
> Or what Arch has become. What has Arch become? I've been using it for 10 years and the only thing I can think of that has changed is the init system.
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by meribold 5y ago
I do the same, but it irks me that when a video is removed or set to private, YouTube also removes the Watch Later list entry or leaves the entry but no longer shows the title or any other metadata.
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