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by nercht12 7y ago
I'm talking about desktop version, which is still slow. I don't care about mobile, but that's where everyone else is at I guess. sigh I don't recall what web standards I had in mind at the time I wrote my comment, sorr
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by nercht12 7y ago
... Why not take the obvious answer: It's easy to be pessimistic when you interact with people. Just read HN and see how everyone disagrees. You start to think things won't ever get resolved, even among people with "good inte
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by nercht12 7y ago
Wish that was the case with Mozilla.
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by nercht12 7y ago
Pardon me for interrupting the debate between you gentlemen. I thought I'd toss in a couple cents. The constitution was never fully agreed upon in spirit. It was "these are the rules we agree upon in TEXT", but each man had h
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by nercht12 7y ago
The site doesn't load well for me. Too much JS maybe?
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by nercht12 7y ago
Except creating a fast browser that obeys web standards. I switched to an old fork of Firefox that's fast and now in maintenance mode. Works fantastic.
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by nercht12 7y ago
Seems more of a people problem than a software problem. That's normal. Why not just use a comment that says "Don't use this. It will break."? If people can't obey simple instructions, you have a different problem en
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by nercht12 7y ago
Actually, I can think of some things: 1. Manufacturing heavy equipment will be much cheaper due to low gravity and prevalence of iron. Plus shipping it to Earth will still be relatively affordable because you're only escaping Mar'
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by nercht12 7y ago
The sad part is, even with all these complex toolkits and yada yada, I still haven't seen much of an improvement in the UI, which is, from the user's perspective, the primary ( if not only) thing that matters. Sites just get slowe
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by nercht12 7y ago
It's a POPULAR online forum, which is why people care. If tomorrow no one gave a crap about HN but HN mods still wanted people, they'd have to welcome more discussion like all the other nobody forums.
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by nercht12 7y ago
It needs to be talked about anyways. For every 100 nationals who laugh or scorn, 1 person hears about it and starts thinking "Hm... maybe what I've been taught here isn't so true. Maybe things really are bad here." We ne
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by nercht12 7y ago
> It's not just that the vast majority of Chinese are quite apathetic about politics (though they definitely are) What? You have a source on this? Last I checked, people were jumping out of buildings to commit suicide so the gov pu
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by nercht12 7y ago
> Water resource is consumed, sure it rains again... And sometimes ocean water is rained back on land. Hurray, water cycle!
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by nercht12 7y ago
For your disaster scenario, I think it depends on how low the max is. If 1000 times the median per capita wealth still buys you a couple office buildings and a yacht to boot, the ceiling would still be high enough that the vast majority peo
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by nercht12 7y ago
To your credit, most people probably have an average brain (and roughly the same brain power) that is simply wired differently and focuses on different things. One person is more practical, another more aesthetic, another more mathematical,
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by nercht12 7y ago
I agree with your point on laissez-faire capitalism. Unfettered capitalism never works. However, pardon me for beating down the straw-man. You box things in by naming a select few "socialistic" systems that seem to work (only beca
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by nercht12 7y ago
True, and I did consider that. The list of reasons why it won't work are too long for a single post. Nevertheless, it might be "best" even though "the best we can do" in this chaotic world is no where near "ide
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by nercht12 7y ago
No, there is corruption, but it's better disguised and hidden in the US than in other countries (because otherwise it'd be caught, and no one committing the crimes wants that). People are wicked the world over. Why should it be an
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by nercht12 7y ago
Oh for sure, there are smart people everywhere, as I note in a comment elsewhere. In this case, I was simply returning one overly simply retort with another.
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by nercht12 7y ago
Poor fractals and fractal flames get ignored, even when generated with scripts. Sure, there's no "AI" (yet) behind fractals, but it is the most visually appealing of all simple-rule-based generative art IMO. Of course, my def
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by nercht12 7y ago
> Figuring out how to get people to live in already affordable places is the only way to reduce the pressure on those cities and create housing affordable and livable for average people. ... And thus a bunch of Californians moved to affo
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by nercht12 7y ago
> Only property owners should vote. That's a good slogan for starting a war. One day, people like you will have their land taken from them. Will they still feel the same way? The fact is, if you take away a person's vote, they
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by nercht12 7y ago
> The interests of the occupants are best attended to via short-term control ... but the interests of society are best attended to via long-term control. Sounds nice, but good luck finding politicians and leaders who will exercise just (
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by nercht12 7y ago
Those are interesting ideas, which I've toyed with, but they don't solve the fundamental problems. In current systems, the wealthy figure out or create legal loopholes. They get tax breaks for hiring people, driving, spending, etc
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by nercht12 7y ago
Capitalism does encourage reward for innovation, which is why it works better... up to a point. Innovative people exist everywhere - it's part of who they are - but when no rewarded, they won't work. What we have in the US is that
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by nercht12 7y ago
> Finland? China? The Chinese just steal research papers and pretend they're theirs.
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by nercht12 7y ago
> Not all of the lessons of history apply in a post-scarcity world. "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." I'm not sure what you mean by "post-scarcity"? Things may be "available&quot
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by nercht12 8y ago
I joined Meetup.com, and now I have a growing number of friends every week. It helps to have an interest that other people can join you in. You could start a tech group, a language group, a movie group. Find a place to have a discussion, a
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by nercht12 8y ago
> Users have an incentive to use it, but what incentive do website makers have to join? I would suggest default layouts chosen/optimized for users. Users would be able to view different forms of content based on the website's s
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by nercht12 8y ago
I've considered this same approach, but I would create two different applications instead of one. The first one would be a light-weight "browser" with built-in layout styles. The site would merely have to specify the content,

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