mihaic

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by mihaic 4y ago
I actually did miss the feeling of being safe in the serialization/deserialization of my data when JSON became widespread, you're right. These flashback were specifically about WSDL maintenance by hand (it was not very human reada
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by mihaic 4y ago
Can anyone mention some interesting projects/use-case for JSON Schema? I have terrible WSDL flashbacks from a past project, where the abstraction layer was always either too high (something simpler was better) or too low (and written d
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by mihaic 4y ago
This is exactly why I think 3D TVs died out a couple years ago: once the novelty factor fades away, you realize that it's actually hindering your initial goal.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Physical stores already are in 3D, the internet is a different medium that actually is composed of multiple mediums, depending on what device you're accessing the content from.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Agree, and specifically for prisoner's dilemma/tragedy of the commons scenarios we have the option of regulation, which corporate propaganda has labeled as "government intervention is always bad". And we also taught our
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by mihaic 4y ago
I honestly have no idea how the hell the US public is still deluding itself to not make this illegal. Are the only ones that get it so content with their 1-2% pieces of silver that they're fine in trading the wellbeing of the less fort
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by mihaic 4y ago
Yeah, I think the crypto keyword threw you off, I actually dislike the entire web3 space. I also do see change as inevitable, as that's what humans usually do. That's why I think we'd need to have actively describe some desir
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by mihaic 4y ago
Completely agree, cash is great, am not aiming to reinvent the bus! There is though a push to remove it, and it's a bit clearer when we aknowledge the goal.
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by mihaic 4y ago
After being in the crypto space for a while, and thinking a lot about the problem of tracing money, I've come to the conclusion that the system I'd prefer would be a hybrid. Everyone needs a quota of anonymous spending, say $50&#x
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by mihaic 4y ago
What I find so puzzling is how little talk there is about regulating social media, just like we do for instance with smoking and alcohol. With enough coordination we can push some collective control over most social trends, but now every pa
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by mihaic 4y ago
While I was never able to remember Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's name, whenever I read it I almost immediately know it's about the rocket science pioneer. Strange how the mind works. Glad to see him mentioned from time to time anyway.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Ditto, all this is exactly what I do when I want to try some new type of chocolate bar from the supermarket, and want to understand the nutritional, economic and moral implications of what I'm doing.
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by mihaic 4y ago
I'd add another thing to the back of low hanging fruits: it also makes innovators less bold in their goals, limiting them from the start.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Why do you say they are choices? You can't choose to have other grandparents or choose that your society behaves in a certain way. At best you can move to another location, but that means losing your family's presence. These were
555.
by mihaic 4y ago
I think he might have been referring to Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Better or worse than before is a useless debate. While abundance has increased, so have the burdens on the parent. Both of them have to get jobs, there's no longer a grandmother in the house to help with the cooking and cleaning, the c
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by mihaic 4y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but I've personally seen plenty of peer-pressure from women to women, to enforce some conformity. Often it's the high status women that spend the most effort on enforcing established social
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by mihaic 4y ago
Besides the financial and environmental reasons, I see cars as being misaligned with a frictionless culture that the young are used to. It's a real hassle to drive, park and do maintenance/accreditation/insurance on a car tha
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by mihaic 4y ago
Did you maybe skim the comment and not actually read it? My interpretation was that not letting people even voice some state-of-the-world opinions is an excessive speach limitation. I do read the anger though, but I feel it's not the d
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by mihaic 4y ago
I think lots of people that try to think deeply about the implications of AI realize the dangers it poses to society, trust, etc. The most dangerous bunch though to me seem to be the people that overgeneralize and say things like "ther
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by mihaic 4y ago
Since these charges are from the gross, it all depends on your profit margins. If they're >50%, sure, it's not a big thing. If it's 5%, that means that 0.5% extra on Stripe eats 10% of your profit.
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by mihaic 4y ago
The Pixel 5 is still to me the most pleasant Android to use. It's made of non-cheap plastic that's really light, especially when carried without a case, and is the perfect size for me. In several years, I haven't seen a flags
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by mihaic 4y ago
You say 0.01 percent, while I think that the majority of the population needs to have some basic values instilled from an early age, if only to achieve the minimum homogeneity of a stable society. And simply because an evil group uses a too
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by mihaic 4y ago
There is one cool trick I use with metric paper: since A0 is a square meter, and comprises of 16 A4 sheets, when you see paper with weight per square meter, you need to divide by 16 to get the weight of a single sheet of paper. In practice
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by mihaic 4y ago
I've had the exact same thoughts about "kilometer" being more difficult to say in English than "mile", and I've heard the term "click" being used for 1km. I'm not sure if "hand" can cat
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by mihaic 4y ago
Pretty much yes: my points was that there are plenty of ideas that a rational individual would be convinced of, but that are basically unarguable logically to large parts of the population. The flat-earthers are an extreme example, but not
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by mihaic 4y ago
Do you assume most adults are rational in their decision-making process and are convinced by arguments? I'm mostly seeing the opposite in practice, and that indoctrination seems merely necessary to balance things out.
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by mihaic 4y ago
Sure, because it's such a powerful technique for shaping society. Are you saying we should stop using it because it can be abused for evil? :)
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by mihaic 4y ago
Agree, I've come to believe that social ethics is something that needs to be indoctrinated from an early age, otherwise it can't naturally be developed in many people.
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by mihaic 4y ago
You seem to be thinking ideologically-driven, while I'm more goal-driven. Is absolute freedom the end-all purpose? Shouldn't I be allowed to murder my enemies, if I'm willing to risk the vengeance of their group? I know it&#x

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