mimixco

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by mimixco 5y ago
How, exactly, would this be achieved? You'd have to filter every internet packet looking for bitcoin transactions and, as soon as you start doing that, someone will figure out how to bury them so your snooping doesn't work and Bit
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by mimixco 5y ago
When the lawsuit story was posted on Fox News, it got thousands of comments. I scrolled them, looking for one person who admitted that this was taking place and had been for a long time. Not one. The thread was full of posters proclaiming t
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by mimixco 5y ago
This is so not important or even mildly interesting. ML to identify people whom you presumably already know... on your on phone? Why? First of all, neither you nor anyone else will look at most of those pictures ever again, a side effect
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by mimixco 5y ago
I don't think there's any escape from the ugly world of packaging if you're going cross platform. And, can I ask, why does it have to be native? IMHO, the "right" (easy) way to do cross platform apps today is to do
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by mimixco 5y ago
People who use trucks for work have reported that they won't be able to use a Cybertruck because they can't load anything from the sides, a major inconvenience.
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by mimixco 5y ago
You are right that most big FOSS projects don't want your contributions, another ugly fact behind the open source myth. And why would they? How could you control code quality if you let randos write your stuff? You can't. No reaso
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by mimixco 5y ago
So mined diamonds are bad because mining is, in general bad. Got it. Now we have synthetics and those are bad because... they take away jobs from miners? You can't have it both ways.
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by mimixco 5y ago
This is a natural, logical, and surely profitable extension of their business. Say what you will about Elon (and I'm no fan), but his charging infrastructure and the simplicity of using it are light years beyond anyone else's. VW
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by mimixco 5y ago
Software was originally free. It was necessary to use the machines so it was supplied by their makers. (I worked at IBM when this began to change.) It was also all open source before that went away in favor of closed and proprietary license
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by mimixco 5y ago
The median number of contributors to GitHub repos is 1. One. The "community" of open source is mostly a myth. Big important FOSS projects are paid for by FAANG companies who use that software. They can't rely on a "commu
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by mimixco 5y ago
Yes, well since many companies (notably Google and probably Amazon, too) have absolute bans on AGPL software, I don't think it's working out. The "religion" of open source is wonky. The truth is that the real value of so
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by mimixco 5y ago
One easy way is not to offer a license at all. Just like when you visit a news website, for example. No license is being given to you. You're just a consumer of the website. If you're selling a SaaS, all your work is copyright unl
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by mimixco 5y ago
Disneyland, Disney World, and The Woodlands, TX (where I live) all require 100% buried power lines. The visual difference when crossing in or out is quite apparent. Buried lines improve quality of life for residents and visitors.
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by mimixco 5y ago
What a ridiculous assertion. No wonder they make such crap UIs at Tesla. Elon doesn't think much of his fellow humans, does he? We can't drive. All our inputs are errors. And we shouldn't be living on this planet. Wrong on al
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by mimixco 5y ago
Fantastic question. Lacking an atmosphere, it wouldn't go anywhere. The ultimate insulator. So whatever heat you produced in your space rock factory would stay right there. There's no such thing as air conditioning in space, beref
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by mimixco 5y ago
Indeed. It doesn't take a billionaire to figure out that, the further away something is, the more it costs to get it to the customer.
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by mimixco 5y ago
The goal of making man an "interplanetary species" comes from religion, specifically the religion of Transhumanism to which both Bezos and Musk subscribe. There is nothing in our history or present day evolution that would suggest
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by mimixco 5y ago
He could start by treating his own employees like humans. There's a great mass of "humanity" whose lives need improving and they're called Amazon workers.
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by mimixco 5y ago
A platform that claims it's about "bringing people together" is now the arbiter of when it's ok to publicly call for someone's death. Terrific.
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by mimixco 5y ago
VR has been the "next hot thing" since 1995. People were showing all kinds of alternative interfaces back then and you see where that got us. VR makes people physically ill and doesn't add anything to the experience of using
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by mimixco 5y ago
Walt Disney World in Florida is also larger than Manhattan.
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by mimixco 5y ago
I'm not in either industry, but doesn't mining (like oil) depend on getting the low-hanging fruit first? In other words, how can you profit from mining if your costs are exponentially higher than folks doing the same work here on
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by mimixco 5y ago
I disagree with the entire premise of using space to fix earth's problem but, were that possible, how does sending a rocket straight up (to 1/4 the height of the International Space Station) and then straight back down help us get
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by mimixco 5y ago
With open source software, the recognized way is to have a 3rd party audit that looks for telemetry. Another way is with something like Pi-hole where you, yourself, analyze the traffic going over the wire. Other than that, no. You're l
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by mimixco 5y ago
This is too much of a pivot to actually take place. Metaverse products have existed for a long time (Second Life) and are already popular (Fortnite) while FB's customer base is considerably older and interested in different things than
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by mimixco 5y ago
This article seems to be really tough to grasp because that's the opposite of what it says and several people seem to have taken that meaning. The premise of the author is that today's grownups are terrible (adolescent behavior
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by mimixco 5y ago
I don't think PornHub will care. The idea of Italy restricting porn ads in their country to certain companies is quite hilarious. The government says you can advertise this porn, but not this porn. Super!
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by mimixco 5y ago
It's still a big deal and the selfish and rude idea that it wouldn't be costs businesses a lot of money and it makes relationships a lot less pleasant. People aren't rude about time (other people's time) because we have
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by mimixco 5y ago
It's not the environment. It's people's behavior. I hate to pull the old card, but lots of boring social qualities are ever so hard to find today: punctuality, thoroughness, courtesy, and in general just "giving a damn.&
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by mimixco 5y ago
In fact, that's not what it says. It says the kids of the 60's and 70's who are already adults are already causing problems today because of attitudes and habits they picked up back then. This is not an old argument and

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