naringas

42 ms·

361.
by naringas 7y ago
> Perhaps this is all because humans are human? going even further because the sun shines, and further still all this because time goes on...
362.
by naringas 7y ago
> This project is nearly complete. wrong, it is already complete. But it's a sort of softer (or blurrier) slavery. one difference between old classic slavery and modern employment slavery is that the slave-employees are not bound
363.
by naringas 7y ago
alternatively headline: Amazon takes drastic measures to stop sale of counterfeit Nintendo products
364.
by naringas 7y ago
> I'm not sure I believe in completely open data because entire populations with access to it are not completely rational. certainly not. but we are at the beginning of a cultural shift in line with the renaissance and the age of en
365.
by naringas 7y ago
> But the point here is that there's data that shouldn't be collected in the first place I just don't think that's feasible. The cat cannot be put back in the box (so to speak). I think the solution goes more in line
366.
by naringas 7y ago
growth != success edit: not saying it didn't used to be, up to the 20th century it certainly was.
367.
by naringas 7y ago
Agreed 100%. I don't think I would work as a software professional if growing up I had to buy (or somehow finagle) computer manuals for closed-source systems in order to learn. Maybe I didn't read the code, but I learned so much b
368.
by naringas 7y ago
> both those companies' value propositions would fall off the face of the earth. what do you think are their value propositions? I think they biggest part of their value proposition has to do with a centralized git repository as a s
369.
by naringas 7y ago
what if google built androd on top of BSD?
370.
by naringas 7y ago
I think there's also a cultural shift underway. > a new economic model based on social behavior. this reminds me of China's social credit scores. It seems to me that this is (in a way) automatic-money. Imagine if instead of hav
371.
by naringas 7y ago
in order to picture what is coming (I think it'll have get worse before there's any real pushback) imagine that "evil soviets" from the USSR had the today's internet at their disposal.
372.
by naringas 7y ago
> we have the capacities to centralize this data but we also have the technical capacities to descentralize it (federate it?) interestingly enough, it is getting more centralized. Is this due to economic incentives?
373.
by naringas 7y ago
I disagree. There are some resources which are resources no matter what anyone says. Water, land, and food come to mind
374.
by naringas 7y ago
this is not about columns nor line lengths, it's about the width of the single column relative to screen size.
375.
by naringas 7y ago
the cool thing about it is that you can adjust it to your preferences.
376.
by naringas 7y ago
agreed, the "better" motherfucking website wastes all that precious space with it's gloriously large and dumb margins around the text. the kind of silly idocy that makes me glad there's a reader mode to undo that crap. t
377.
by naringas 7y ago
I meant to say that neither party can close off the other. that's the restriction
378.
by naringas 7y ago
but it's restricted such that you and whomever you depend on must collaborate on the shared code
379.
by naringas 7y ago
Firefox Reader Mode is now one of my favorite features (Chrome probably has somethign similar?)
380.
by naringas 7y ago
I agree with his sentiment based on my personal experience. But we'll see, maybe this will actually be better? also, maybe we should stop googling in "kewordese"?
381.
by naringas 7y ago
I wish they would let us use the "keywordese" engine as it was 10 years ago if we want to instead of funneling us along with everybody else into the newer intent search engine.
382.
by naringas 7y ago
is this the same piece of news as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353861 ?
383.
by naringas 7y ago
I still don't understand what the hell is "quantum computing". I think my problem is my own conception of classical computing. My best approximation for what a quantum computer actually is. Is that it's some sort of devi
384.
by naringas 7y ago
> Science is all about gathering data. isn't it about the replication of experiments? you can gather all the data you want, but if you can't repeat an experiment to get the same data, then I don't think all your data quali
385.
by naringas 7y ago
I think part of the issue is the cost of those kinds of movies. I heard Jackie Chan talk about in an interview. All those great funny stunts aren't really due to anyone's amazing talent. They would just shoot as many takes as they
386.
by naringas 7y ago
"too big to prosecute"??
387.
by naringas 7y ago
worldwide? really?? Where I live (big urban metropolis) it's completely normal and commonplace for at least 1 or 2 cars (and sometimes up to 3 or 4 cars) to pass through after the signal turned red . It seems drivers consider the yell
388.
by naringas 7y ago
I think he means the European second state, the one after the church-backed monarch state, i.e. nation state. (I also think his use of the nth-state analogy is slightly is confusing). I think he is referring to the media establishment&#x27
389.
by naringas 7y ago
really good, I wonder if there's a "Earth and Moon"?
390.
by naringas 7y ago
how does soemthing transition into being known? is it once a scientific paper about it gets published on a peer reviewed reputable journal? is that the only way? or do alternatives exist?

More ›