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by nexthash 6y ago
Identity politics and corporate posturing are two separate things. Everybody is trying to get an edge, including corporations trying to keep themselves prosperous. Identity politics is an idea about your identity playing into how you percei
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by nexthash 6y ago
For context about "experimental polities" like the failed Toronto SideWalk labs [1], I've linked an article below [2]. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/07/sidewalk-labs-shuts-down-t... [2] h
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by nexthash 6y ago
Seems to me like a approximation of the technology adoption cycle - innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards [1]. This process has been embodied in the modern entrepreneurial philosophy of design thinking - consis
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by nexthash 6y ago
Website is broken on Firefox: I was stuck on a blinking eye icon and could not advance to the article.
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by nexthash 6y ago
ROS stands for Robotic Operating System. It is a framework of different tools such as an abstraction layer, libraries, and a package manager that makes it easier to program/interface with different robotic systems/components. It b
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by nexthash 6y ago
I welcome the convenience CBDC provides, but I am absolutely against the abolition of cash. You don't need to be an economist to see that having no cash is a nightmare - every transaction you make across your lifetime is tracked and ca
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by nexthash 6y ago
This is excellent... for Vim users. A lot of developers either are not willing or haven't gotten around to learning the complexities of Vim, and use other IDEs like JetBrains or Eclipse. This workflow won't work for them.
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by nexthash 6y ago
I find both interesting and terrifying the dual-entanglement of modern technology: how the Internet, AI, quantum computing, and satellites provide huge economic growth and utility to the world while at the same time making war deadlier and
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by nexthash 6y ago
Are you serious? Let me remind you that the Kim family's little regime has killed hundred of thousands of people and is under a complete economic embargo for its human rights violations. I can defame, republish, and make money off of a
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by nexthash 6y ago
Does anybody think this might be a permanent shift? I would love it if I could have the convenience of a top-paying remote job in software development. The twitter thread voiced concerns about this trend being like a pendulum that could swi
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by nexthash 6y ago
The Catholic Church pivoted from being a policy maker to a spiritual leader for billions. Maybe journalism can do the same. Now that everybody has a voice and network to distribute that voice, journalism can shift from being the chief relia
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by nexthash 6y ago
This is my biggest fear about the media. If they don't come clean and reclaim their integrity (this goes for both left and right outlets), the public will reject them. Discourse will move to blogs, podcasts, private networks, etc. In t
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by nexthash 6y ago
A lot of people here are arguing that mainstream media had it coming for them because of bias, arrogance, pushing an agenda, etc. But I want to ask all of you: what replaces it as arbiter of truth? For all of the media's problems and i
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by nexthash 6y ago
Not related to the subject of the post, but for anyone interested OP seems to run a stock portfolio tracker for dividend investors, which he mentioned briefly (his blog mostly concerns his investing endeavors). It seemed pretty cool to me a
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by nexthash 6y ago
How is this relevant at all? The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has been grinding on for a arduously long time, and both sides have committed atrocities [1]. War is war, and war is brutal. It is always a universal human tragedy when two groups
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by nexthash 6y ago
I think the #1 reason blockchain doesn't work is very simple - the technology is broken beyond fixability. This article is two years old, but the same variations of these excuses always come up when the crypto ideologues are grilled on
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by nexthash 6y ago
This is unreal... I thought these kinds of things would've been fixed in 2000 with the ILOVEYOU virus [1]. But apparently Excel VBA allows you to manipulate the registry, access Windows APIs, drop files onto the system, and manipulat
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by nexthash 6y ago
An interesting way to approach the documentation issue discussed in this article is 'wiki bankruptcy': when a wiki goes stale, simply tell all devs to save what they think is important before deleting the whole thing outright. The
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by nexthash 6y ago
I feel that there will always be a place for the university - the original need, to connect students with teachers, is a powerful one. The question is in what form this need is met, and it will determine which universities live or die. We h
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by nexthash 6y ago
This whole series of events went down with such a stink. My ordinary perception of the NYT is that of a beacon of journalism. They publish hundreds of pieces a day, and while the newspaper is left-leaning, it is also known for its high qual
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by nexthash 6y ago
Wow, the NYT's actions on this one really made my blood boil. I don't even know how to process this... they typically put out reasonably high quality journalism that I read and enjoy on a regular basis. And then... this. They comp
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by nexthash 6y ago
> Built to “outclass, outrun, and outlast” any car on the road, the Duesenberg Model A revolutionized the straight eight. Still does. Frederick and August Duesenberg were automotive geniuses, with unparalleled engine designs, top speeds,
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by nexthash 6y ago
Crazy for a Gen-Z like me to think about a time when the latest computer developments and chatter was transmitted in actual paper magazines, development was done on bare-metal or very close to it, and the finished product was boxed and pluc
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by nexthash 6y ago
For context, the workers here have been pushing for this for a while. Amazon has put up every scummy obstacle it could in their path: hiring spies and anti-union consultants, firing outspoken organizers, trying to delay the vote, holding da
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by nexthash 6y ago
I recommend you get ublock origin, it works wonders with these kinds of websites. I tested it here - all the sidebars and content breaks with ads gone, all the popups gone, and I experienced faster loading/response times. Browsing the
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by nexthash 6y ago
It is a shame that this only supports Chrome/Chromium. As I'm not willing to take the performance and privacy hits, I won't bother with this application until the necessary technical fixes are made. No matter how small of a g
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by nexthash 6y ago
The academic process at a research university from student to researcher to professor is cutthroat. There are so many obstacles in the way: classes designed to weed you out, GPA requirements, the grad school application process, financial i
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by nexthash 6y ago
Woah! I love this retro-inspired type of design. It feels so fun and appealing, as if geocities was reincarnated. I wouldn't even bat an eye at the $50 lifetime hosting option. I've been watching this new trend away from "cle
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by nexthash 6y ago
Yeah, Python has been the wonder child of the programming world for as long as I can remember. People have very strong beliefs on the subject - I remember how everybody went up in arms over the walrus operator (a := b) issue. I hope that al
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by nexthash 6y ago
Haha, you mean that you are watching me. I do not represent Google. Don't worry, you don't have to fear any Google psych-ops trying to brainwash you into accepting its contributions to Python: Google is probably too big to care

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