mnd999

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by mnd999 5y ago
Seems like they started with ‘How can I apply a blockchain to the problem?’ instead of ‘What is the best way to solve this problem?’. It’s easy to do, focusing on the interesting tech instead of the actual business problem.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Cain’s book is a good read and introversion is definitely a thing. It isn’t an in indicator of anti-social behaviour though and nor is it an excuse for it. This article however is not about that.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Betteridge's law says no. Not hard to see how this rubbish is top of the site when we’re flagging interesting technical articles off the site.
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by mnd999 5y ago
It doesn’t even have to be trustless, some of this crap is using RAFT (for speed), the assumption being that the participants are all trusted.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Plenty of people trying to sell private blockchain snake-oil for precisely that purpose. It’s all rubbish, just use a database.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Yes, this is definitely how I look at it. I have deleted my HackerRank account.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Would it matter if I did? It’s essentially meaningless. There’s not really any logic involved.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Then using the platform becomes work. People realise it's not worth the effort and everyone apart from the nutjobs quit.
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by mnd999 5y ago
I would define it as “someone I disagree with and I would like you to disagree with too because they are not like us”. Essentially another approach to trying to create division and tribalism in discourse where it suits the person using it
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by mnd999 5y ago
Not on Apple ones.
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by mnd999 5y ago
WhatsApp has traction, discord is gaining it. Matrix isn’t really anywhere.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Yay, another snarky Twitter bot.
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by mnd999 5y ago
The situation in the UK is shockingly bad. Openreach need to pull their finger out.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Standard Tory. Sell off any national asset to the lowest bidder.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Ahh yes, Theo. Some of his email chains are even more entertaining than the famous LKML ones.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Pretty sure profiting from illegal activity is.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Depends enormously on a persons tolerance. Lemmy (from Motörhead) used to drink a bottle of Jack a day with no noticeable effects. This is probably not recommended though. I think though if you get severe side effects from drinking a bottle
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by mnd999 5y ago
It’s not that simple. Even if getting into earth orbit gets cheaper and less risky, planetary exploration will still be hard, because it is hard and getting into space is not the hardest part.
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by mnd999 5y ago
That’s pretty defeatist. A cartel of corrupt politicians and large cable companies conspired to regulate against it. These regulations can just as easily be removed and replaced with proper net neutrality rules.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I find this kind of subversion amusing. Like all good jokes, it’s pretty close to the mark.
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by mnd999 5y ago
> We need a grey area Absolutely, life is shades of grey and never black and white. Unfortunately the noisiest people on the internet either can only think in black and white, or choose to do so to (to get note ‘engagement’ etc.)
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by mnd999 5y ago
Sure, but why do you want that on your board? Elon might have enough money already but everyone else would like to continue making it. He is very good at guerrilla marketing, but I guess they decided it wasn’t worth it.
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by mnd999 5y ago
I can’t keep up. I guess the other shareholders are pretty dumb. It's pretty clear he's motivated by some ideological crusade, rather than increasing profits.
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by mnd999 5y ago
This is just trolling. He doesn’t have any control over twitter, he’s just a regular shareholder. Sure he could maybe try and get on the board if he wanted to but the other major shareholders would have to be pretty dumb to allow that the w
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by mnd999 5y ago
Sounds like you’re a CCP apologist. Obvs this will be downvoted by the other CCP apologists. It’s still true though.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of hot grits in soviet Russia with CowboyNeal.
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by mnd999 5y ago
There was very nearly one in central London a couple of years back (Hammersmith) and it’s still closed to traffic. But nearly is good, the situation is being rectified before it turned into a disaster. From the noises coming out of TfL this
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by mnd999 5y ago
Pretty sure it’s always been the case it can run as WebRTC in the browser. They make it hard to find, but if you reject all their crapware there is a link to just continue in the browser and join a zoom.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Zoom can run in the browser.
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by mnd999 5y ago
Teams is unbelievably shit though. It’s like they don’t even care.

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