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by naringas 6y ago
I'm only trying to say what they really are. it would be unfair to judge them only based on what they are. then again, I see open source slowly but steadily losing ground. and if open source has a tough time. free software has it even
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by naringas 6y ago
they have no face, just a series of rules, methods, procedures,..etc. in all, a culture desgined by multiple generations of firm executives optimized to make profit in any way they can.
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by naringas 6y ago
when they don't stand to make a profit because they own the "IP" then they want openess
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by naringas 6y ago
why?
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by naringas 6y ago
I thought that ticks are insects? however the diseases they cause are caused by bacteria and other non-insects which they carry around, which I think is the point
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by naringas 6y ago
and no amount of studies will get this into the heads of those who need to accept it
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by naringas 6y ago
but make certain choices easier, much easier. just use chrome, it's just less of a hassle. I dubbed this "convenience herding". nobody is forcing you to do anything; they are just making some things very very inconvenient rel
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by naringas 6y ago
> It isn’t really a credible source. are there any "credible sources"? nowadays eveything is biased. the trick is being aware of the biases in your sources and reading sources with different biases.
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by naringas 6y ago
All in all, what they are really accomplishing is making it harder and more techinacally difficult to track individual people. i.e. NOT impossible. In the end, given enough money (or lacking enough scruples) it will still be possible to tra
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by naringas 6y ago
Nubank (a Brazilian based startup-style fintech company) does everything with clojure (on AWS). They bought Plataformatec makers of the Elxir lang.
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by naringas 6y ago
just in case you've been missing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFc40M1g8kA they have recorded 4 of his quartets arranged for guitar
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by naringas 6y ago
In my own worldview companies such as this as at this point autonomous entities made from money and owned by other money. This is the stuff that skynet is made from. This particular one seems noxious, but there are others which do make usef
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by naringas 6y ago
rich wealthy country corruption: the building gets built and (if)when disaster strikes, the corruption is revealed by broken safety regulations. 3rd world country corruption: the project gets started, maybe they put the first stone in a cer
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by naringas 6y ago
I tried checking out two articles but couldn't find any content other that a couple of videos not even 3 minutes long. Additionally, the site annoyingly asks me to join the newsletter on every page. https://forbiddenstories
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by naringas 6y ago
"don't you worry, it's secret for your safety." they probably do really think like that. or at least claim to while their real reasoning is a private affair.
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by naringas 6y ago
and so is free (FSF-style) and open source software. but apparently a healthy economy (with a 'free' market) is more important... o̶h̶,̶ ̶a̶l̶s̶o̶ ̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶u̶r̶i̶t̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶
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Triangle notation for exponents, logs and roots? (2016)(science4all.org)
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by naringas 6y ago
> but there really is no "deeper truth" here. I disagree, I do think there's a deeper truth. It seems to me that you have already internalized and understood it very well; that is the goal. would you at least agree that t
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by naringas 6y ago
however amazon is not really a tech-first company, their main business is retail (even if a lot of their revenue comes from AWS).
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by naringas 6y ago
> The required amount is greater than 2/3 (67%) I'm not sure that's correct (the tweet doesn't get into any details so I went to ethereum's website https://ethereum.org/en/developers/doc
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by naringas 6y ago
One thing I haven't been able to figure out about proof of stake is this: if one entity somehow manages to control over half to the total ETH tokens, does this enable an attack analogous to bitcoin's 51% problem (which happens whe
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by naringas 6y ago
they can help you avoid malformed requirements. and/or preempt situations such as "oops your reservation has vanished because a bug; but now thanks to your complaint we've fixed it!"
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by naringas 6y ago
> formal thinking is not how we learn. The way I've thought about it is that we cannot understand a problem until we've faced it ourselves. And too often we try to teach each other by going straight to the answer, and then it
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by naringas 6y ago
I am pretty sure that evo morales was quickly kicked out of there because he wasn't gonna easily let global corporations mine in a "cost efficient" way. so now that he's out is only a matter of time before there's c
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by naringas 6y ago
> Science isn't in the business of answering why. I agree as long as science is a business. But why is science a business? If science is not meant to answer why, does this mean we cannot know why? should we just give up on having st
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by naringas 6y ago
there's just way more people too
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by naringas 6y ago
I wish all this technology were more accesible. but they gotta protect their trade secrets (I guess...). I've heard about something called 'dycryl process' (in chip photolitography) but it is not the kind of info that it&#x27
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by naringas 6y ago
I hope you're right. in time we will know.
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by naringas 6y ago
it's a bit like a pun, because by doing that they make a business (and a profit) out of sticking their noses where they shouldn't
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by naringas 6y ago
I think he meant it from a purely technical standpoint... (curious use of the word 'business') I think you're both right.

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