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by nitrogen 5y ago
That's probably what people want anyway. Targeted surveillance is much more acceptable than blanket surveillance.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's the smaller ad networks and obscure sites that are more likely to have malware sneak into the ads, though, so it's safer to block everything.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I don't think geographical partitioning is necessarily the right approach, but it would at least force an interoperability/federation protocol to exist, which could (as it did in the phone networks, and as you suggest for clients)
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'd add data flows as another level above data structures. It helps to think about how data flows into, through, and out of a system, then it's more clear how the data needs to be packaged, and from there, the code follows semi-a
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The point of a dynamic language is to be dynamic, ie you can do those things at runtime. With Rails you have the option of pry-rails, and you can get a list of descendants of important parent classes like ActiveRecord with this: https:&#
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Their torrents were illegal. Was that true in the countries where they had a local presence?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
At least one would, yeah.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Then, there's this permanent humiliation of feeling like a servant in your home-town, because the local upper class makes very clear to you peons, that you're less important than the tourists, and they also think this very clearl
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Splitting Oculus, Instagram, and WhatsApp kind of makes sense.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This one's my favorite. Not every distribution of readline enables this, so you might need to uncomment or add the binding for history-search-backward/forward into /etc/inputrc or ~/.inputrc . Similarly editrc
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Their self-checkout systems have an insane number of cameras per station, including one pointed right at your face. I don't doubt it's being saved for expression analysis as each product is swiped.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
My neighborhood's official presence is only on Facebook, apparently. I don't actively use Facebook, so I have no access to my group of neighbors.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
In Facebook's case they own some of their biggest potential competitors for attention and deliberately preserve their niches. So splitting them up might make a difference. But if not, requiring an open network akin to the telephone s
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's 100% possible to make electronics that do not require a connection to the Internet to function. That is, in fact, good.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There seem to be memetic inoculations (i.e. core beliefs that reproduction at a high rate is desirable) in some groups that prevent those wonders from being worked. You eventually reach a point where all children are born to the uneducated
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Apple could just use the vendor-provided OpenGL (AIUI most of the code is common between Windows and Linux for the major vendors), which e.g. for nvidia still happily supports everything from 1.0 to the present.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
GitLab's integrated CI came before GitHub actions and was super helpful.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It seems like a cartel can form without having a collective monopoly. It's the collusion that's problematic, not the combined percentage.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Not the OP, but actually putting the word "diverse" into a title makes it seem performative (talking the talk) rather than demonstrative (walking the walk). Science should really be more about the latter.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
AIUI antitrust also covers cartels, e.g. this one from the early 20th century controlling lightbulbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If it's successful it won't get a name, it won't be a "thing," it will just be the new normal.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Anything independently reproducible doesn't come down to authority. Reproducibility is fundamental to science.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Either way we (humanity) have to research these things or we are guaranteeing that we will reach an energy and materials plateau and eventual decline as a species.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
> > gas turbine for a pipeline compression station > primary turbine/power system could be built efficiently enough to not throw that waste heat out the back in the first place It sounds like this might be a situation wher
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Reminds me of this optimized city in SimCity: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU https://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/16/magnasanti-the-largest-...
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Do you have a non-shortened/non-tracking link?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Or at least the success and role of schools and the media.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Have to disagree, the acoustically linked evolved hivemind concept was pretty mind opening for me.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
excessive conspicuous consumption Energy is a proxy for accomplishment and development. Humanity's #1 goal should be to maximize energy use per capita while minimizing energy use per activity, such that every human is doing as m
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Yeah, I was recently looking for an ATX motherboard extension cable to hack apart for an evening project, and all the results were for splitters to connect extra PSUs to the mobo's Power On signal for mining rigs.

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