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by neilk 4y ago
I can’t believe it, there is already a checkbox for “weird new form of money”. I feel a little bit bad for dismissing the solution… but not very bad. If low-cost microtransactions were viable, we could do many interesting things. For some r
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by neilk 4y ago
e-postage, knows-SMTP-4, knows-SMTP-5 -> https://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html We have cryptographic identity in SMTP already. In fact, almost all our protocols and formats for signing and identity we
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by neilk 4y ago
Neumann bought ownership stakes in properties which he then leased to WeWork. I don’t know if this meets the legal definition of fraud but it’s absurdly shady, a clear conflict of interest. https://techcrunch.com/2019/0
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by neilk 4y ago
Kudos to these developers. I wish them success. If I can do a small derail: I and some contributors had this mostly working a few iOS versions ago with isign ( https://github.com/isignpy/isign ). This is befor notarizati
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by neilk 4y ago
Salesforce recently acquired Tableau and from what I hear the acquisition has probably improved things at Tableau. This is a very special case though! Tableau is a company with a lot of Fortune 500 buy-in, but an aging development stack and
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by neilk 4y ago
You're right and wrong. Many obese people have done this and lost weight... and then gained it right back again. Over, and over again. There is a persistent myth that the obese person lacks some spiritual strength or willpower. I think
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by neilk 4y ago
As far as I know, such evidence has never been released by Uber. I’m sure that Uber knows, or could, but I don’t think they’ve shared that info. They have an API called Movement which publishes anonymized data about trips, but I think cost
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by neilk 4y ago
The people who are currently working for Uber think working for Uber is a good deal. You might get similarly positive reviews from the buyers of scratcher lottery tickets. There are a lot of articles from random websites saying that it is a
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by neilk 4y ago
There was a startup in 2009 or so that did exactly this. Got millions in investment and disappeared? Can’t remember the name now. As far as I can tell, this sort of use of Wikipedia content - even for a monetized YouTube video - isn’t inher
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by neilk 4y ago
That’s a solution that works for 150-year-old universities, not for little indie publishers. If we don’t have solutions that work for obscure and unpopular ideas - like Susie Bright in the 1980s - what good is the right to free speech? I wi
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by neilk 4y ago
I am not particularly qualified to argue this point. I was explaining what I believe to be relevant context to understand another person’s tweet.
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by neilk 4y ago
This joke might be whooshing over some heads without context. Recently, a Google engineer claimed that Google’s LaMDA was sentient and had emotions, because it could be prompted to say so in some conversations.
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by neilk 4y ago
https://pudding.cool/ Visual essays with data, that could only exist on the web
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by neilk 4y ago
Side note, Max Brod claims to have told Kafka while he was alive that he had no intention of carrying out his instructions. Kafka did not make alternate arrangements. I interpret Kafka’s statement as a kind of performative self-abnegation.
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by neilk 4y ago
Cultures differ. There are some cultures where direct communication and quickly exposing conflict is normal. It seems to me that they consider it impolite to waste people's time by hiding conflict. I have personally experienced this fr
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by neilk 4y ago
Open source has succeeded at creating common infrastructure, where technical vision matters most. Sometimes. Compared with the vast, vast array of software we both need and use, open source has failed. Precisely because there’s a gap betwee
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by neilk 4y ago
Have you talked to people who have handled trolling and abuse at scale before? I ask because there seem to be some huge holes in your model. 1) Message sending is already a victory condition If I understand correctly, when someone comments,
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by neilk 4y ago
Yep, the new style is far more obviously inspired by 1990s design. Right down to the use of yellow. There was no such thing as “clashing” or “too high contrast” in the 1990s. Another poster references Memphis design - that was a huge influe
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by neilk 5y ago
Thanks for being honest. I find your comments fascinating. You mention, in passing, how immigrants are making the country worse because they are left-leaning. The left-leaning behaviors you mention are a disregard for the environment (?), b
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by neilk 5y ago
Try everything.
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by neilk 5y ago
Caveat: this here website has about as much chance as giving you good advice as a post on a motorcycle or knitting forum. Maybe even less likely as people here are likely to share your pathologies. If you want above-average advice, you shou
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by neilk 5y ago
You just described a business model for startups. And likely this startup! Any decentralized network will create abundance, but also all the problems of abundance - identity, filtering, search, stability, etc. Some trusted gateways or inter
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by neilk 5y ago
charles_f: Why do you think your jobs are the issue? What's painful about working there? What was the last job where you were happy? Have you had happy times as a manager before?
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by neilk 5y ago
Theory-curious but mostly workaday programmer here. Does this have any application to detecting spaghetti code in conventional codebases, or is it specific to the Busy Beaver problem? “Cyclomatic complexity” is as old as the hills, but atte
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by neilk 5y ago
It's normal to recognize that you want to do something else. I highly encourage everyone to check in on whether their job gives them what they're looking for. It's also normal for output to suffer when you're unmotivated
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by neilk 5y ago
Let’s be real here. If you’re only getting angry now, you don’t care about democracy. You care about your goddamned Bored Apes and other ways of doing end runs around financial controls. The convoy is anti-democratic. It is not a protest in
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by neilk 5y ago
Another: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
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by neilk 5y ago
There are a couple of threads here that argue Marissa Mayer was the problem. I don't think that can be true. Mayer took the reins at Yahoo in 2012. Facebook had crushed Flickr in desktop-shared photos by 2009 or so, and over 2010-2012
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by neilk 5y ago
Simon is correct. There are a few Quora threads about this with information from insiders. Kellan Elliot-McCrea has the most complete answers about the failure to jump to mobile: https://qr.ae/pGzfWU https://qr.a
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by neilk 5y ago
I understand where you’re coming from, but in my experience, “Do-ocracy” implies a kind of passive consensus mechanism. Let’s say we all have collective ownership of a garden, and it’s starting to need weeding, but nobody’s taken the initia

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