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by naringas 6y ago
maybe in a few years (or decades) there can be a book titled: "Fascism 2.0: how technology rebuilt fascism in the early 21st century"
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by naringas 6y ago
it seems to me that often the people who decide whether to use Atlassian products aren't actually using them personally...
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by naringas 6y ago
just tell them to write out the complete infinite sequence of 9's when they are done they will have undesrtood. chuckle
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by naringas 6y ago
> Luckily he has many years before it matters! and depending on career choices, it might never matter at all.
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by naringas 6y ago
strictly bigger than 0
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by naringas 6y ago
to each their own, I guess... I am just (strangely) reminded of Charles Dickens' classic a christmas story: "bah! humbug!".
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by naringas 6y ago
it seems to me, that this has to do with a fundamental difference between selling products and selling services (I don't mean not software services) when you are making products (material widgets of any kind) it is possible to achieve
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by naringas 6y ago
there are many pedestrian overpasses in some big cities (like the one I live in) but it's not so simple, because then you have to climb up stairs, which takes more time... you walk more steps add some heavy duty sun and people rather w
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by naringas 6y ago
attention is 'dedicated' (or focused) time
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by naringas 6y ago
what makes you think they would have stopped?
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by naringas 6y ago
logging out... going offline. unplugging your computer from the internet ?? but then it is not so useful
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by naringas 6y ago
also, it seems to me that current money laundering didn't really exist before the early 70s a series of legislations right around the time of declaration of war against drugs (91st USA congress) pretty much made 'money laundering&
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by naringas 6y ago
> some modest paperwork. and which nowdays is probably done by a computer system without any paper being involved
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by naringas 6y ago
you can probably add them? it's wikipedia after all
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by naringas 6y ago
having put a few older applications into a Docker container, this article tells it like it is. docker run: some error. fix this error. docker run again: another error, rinse and repeat.
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by naringas 6y ago
But in the end, isn't all that sophistication subject to diminishing returns??
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by naringas 6y ago
yes, but at least until everything went back into the (mainframe) cloud, the opreational cost of running the software was coverd by the user. My pc's hardware is mine, and the electricity bill is also mine. So 'licensing' sof
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by naringas 6y ago
let's not forget about the (often overlooked) cost of maintenance but yes, software does have marginal cost, this is a brutal game changer we (as a civilization) are just not dealing with appropriately
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by naringas 6y ago
nice constructive counterpoint to https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/ a key point (IMO) innovation happened online becuase being a new space enabled by novel technology, it wasn't regulat
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by naringas 7y ago
I suppose your right. It doesn't seeem like this would add any new capabilities, it merely makes it easier/cheaper to have this kind of info.
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by naringas 7y ago
> People will pay for convenience and polish. Also, i would guess that Windows users are not likely to be free software purists and just wants something that works with a minimum of fuss. I would say "companies" will pay for ..
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by naringas 7y ago
make it free and open source?
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by naringas 7y ago
But then we have to trust our government... and governments vary in their trustworthiness
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by naringas 7y ago
A bit both: e.g. The circle is an invention. But the number pi (it's value) is discovered
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by naringas 7y ago
at the other extreme, everybody does whatever the day requires and JIRA is just an annoying after thought that for some reason (the agile coach tells us to?) we have to keep up to date and yet is always outdated.
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by naringas 7y ago
> we no longer use engineering as a means to an end to solve a business problem. Instead, engineering became its own thing I hadn't though about why we over-engineer things this way. But I agree I might add, based on the over-engine
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by naringas 7y ago
But life and death are not really that separated. To die is, after all, part of life. There cannot be one without the other. Thus (logcially?) the right to live is equivalent to the right to die.
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by naringas 7y ago
sadly, it doesn't matter whether you're right (in a rational-technical sense from a engineering perspective). Fear makes more people react emotionally.
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by naringas 7y ago
"""and the first human right is the right to live. therefore, so that we all may live on, you must give up your privacy. It's only so that the appropriate authorities may tack down anybody you may have contacted; and if
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Google vs. Amazon compared [comic/pic](bonkersworld.net)
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