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721.
by mimixco 7y ago
Am I reading this right? It's a version of Debian that costs 770 Euros? I must be missing something.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Yes, which unlike the building that was demolished, is actually a beautiful and significant piece of architecture.
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Facebook Backpedals on Its Original Plans for Libra(m.slashdot.org)
1 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
724.
by mimixco 7y ago
You can use wpengine.com to build a quick site with WordPress that has all the features you're going to want.
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by mimixco 7y ago
I agree. A freemium model works well for something like this. Pick the most important feature for someone who is making money using your info and charge only for that feature.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Indeed. Juul hasn't made any health claims so the clickbait title that they are copying big tobacco's playbook (when they are big tobacco now) is kind of silly. It was also odd to read Juul's statements that they are an &quot
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by mimixco 7y ago
They keep saying this is a "stablecoin" but there is no way it can be stable. First, the basket of currencies in the reserve is chosen by Facebook and will fluctuate against the value of the Libra as Facebook (or the verifier node
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Malpractices at Rocky Flats Plutonium Facility Near Denver (2014)(youtube.com)
2 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
That scenario falls apart when the global poor don't have any money to buy FB coins, which they don't. Agreements with banks won't give the unbanked the free cash flow to play around with digital money or buy a bunch of stuff
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Siemens Gamesa Announces World's First Electrothermal Energy Storage System(cleantechnica.com)
3 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Facebook's PR acts like people who didn't have money available will now suddenly have it on their phones, but the Libra technical docs say one can only obtain Libra by buying it with fiat (or by buying their separate investment to
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by mimixco 7y ago
The suggestion that this is a way to help the "global unbanned" is also disingenuous. If people don't have enough money to put any in a bank, making up a new centralized currency isn't going to change that.
733.
by mimixco 7y ago
Most non-native English speakers around the world will be taught British rather than American English, so this 'accent' would be what you could expect from them in real life if they were to speak English.
734.
by mimixco 7y ago
No one so far has mentioned that actual Russians who learned English would be learning British English and not American so that 'accent' for them seems totally on point. Making people read subtitles would only serve to eliminate
735.
by mimixco 7y ago
This is a big step toward the full merger of Windows and Linux on the desktop, which is the most logical way forward for both platforms. Kudos to Docker for taking a primary role and following Microsoft in this direction.
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by mimixco 7y ago
I don't think so. It's more the result of enterprise users needing full access to source code so that it can be audited for security issues and modified to meet their needs. This is where computing began, before piracy was a conce
737.
by mimixco 7y ago
This is, frighteningly, entirely on point. All cryptos other than Bitcoin were dead from the starting gate. This is FB disrupting crypto (with something that isn't crypto) and taking fintech away from banks and PayPal in one fell swoop
738.
by mimixco 7y ago
11 years on and this is still prescient. Certainly free is the future of software for nearly all users, a huge shift back to its origins where software was given away and freely copied to support machine sales. We are entering the era whe
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by mimixco 7y ago
Because, other than a universal cryptocurrency like Bitcoin which already exists, there is no real use case for the fully distributed blockchain. What FB is making is a centrally controlled digital coin, no different from Beanz, an early at
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by mimixco 7y ago
Link should be: http://computerarcheology.com/
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by mimixco 7y ago
Socialism/communism/statism are just ways for one small group to control another larger one. The idea has had disastrous consequences and left people dead and starving in many countries around the world where it's been (and i
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by mimixco 7y ago
The new potential of geothermal comes from the fact that you don't have to drill very deep anymore. Instead of water, it uses fluids with a lower boiling point. In some places, like Boulder, Colorado, you can even install geothermal in
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US Dept of Energy estimates geothermal power's untapped potential(arstechnica.com)
11 points by mimixco 7y ago|4 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Those exist only on paper. I'm speaking of actual production reactors which create dangerous amounts of plutonium-laden waste that needs to be cooled, monitored, and protected from human intervention for hundreds of thousands of years
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by mimixco 7y ago
That "mission" came from Amazon. It wasn't any part of the pitch Jamie gave on Shark Tank. This is just another example of surveillance capitalism and it's pretty sickening.
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by mimixco 7y ago
If he's buying into blockchain because it's decentralized, then it sounds like he drank the Kool-Aid. There isn't any proven use case for the blockchain yet except currency and that's already covered by Bitcoin. I can&#x
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UN and Western countries covered up facts on health toll of Chernobyl radiation(fairewinds.org)
3 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Half life means that radioactivity is reduced by half, not eliminated. A single particle of plutonium is enough to cause cancer and kill a person. This is why nuclear fuel rod storage (the waste products) must be guarded for hundreds of tho
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by mimixco 7y ago
This article is troubling. It raises an important point that, yes, all technologies are always used to subjugate and control other people. But emphasizing this aspect in the history of photography is really overstating the case. The person
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by mimixco 7y ago
1984 was actually about socialism; the totalitarian society depicted in the book is called Ingsoc (English Socialism). Orwell's prescience is still relevant not only because of the warnings against socialism but also because he conne

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