nivenkos

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by nivenkos 5y ago
Well post-WW2 there was a huge boom in construction in Europe at least. Especially since many cities were almost completely destroyed. Even where my grandparents lived in England, the Blitz destroyed a lot of homes and meant mass constructi
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I guess you're on a US salary as a contractor? There's no way I could afford more than 2 bedrooms in the city as a senior engineer, and even that's a push.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
The walkability comes at the cost of tiny housing though. Like here in Stockholm even 60m2 is getting very pricy (~350-450k USD). The main issue is that there is just nowhere near enough housing to keep up with population increases, seeming
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Still better than not having any though?
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Wow, I'd take any offer for that much. Here in Europe our salaries are terribly low, Amazon pays half of what they pay in the US in general. Seems to be the same for Facebook, etc. too. For example, I got an offer from Cambridge Analyt
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by nivenkos 5y ago
TikTok is the closest thing to the early Internet IMO, although it's becoming much more commercial like Instagram now. But that sort of democratisation of view points and content is great.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
They have done it before - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/04/tor-attacks-ns...
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by nivenkos 5y ago
If you drop the P2P requirement, you can use Operational Transformations - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation
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by nivenkos 5y ago
> now that unsafe memory management has been unambiguously shown to be the major factor in vulnerabilities, how safe memory management is still not recognized as the highest priority It is a shame it isn't taken more seriously, espe
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by nivenkos 5y ago
It's colonial in Europe too - the massive American Tech corporations pay very little taxes in Europe, and use their strong monopolies to crush local competition. Then they ship all the profits and high-paying jobs back to the US. Just
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by nivenkos 5y ago
There are alternative Spotify clients, and it has an API.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Yeah, to achieve that you're looking at a minimum of $25+ per month, and probably more like $60 once you take in to account payment processing fees, the service overhead, label overhead, etc. And despite all the virtue signalling, ther
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Why? I think the better approach is to take steps to stop the centralisation of power. Breaking up the mass media corporations, regulating ownership of media, introducing proportional representation and more direct democracy, abolishing the
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by nivenkos 5y ago
> that run _contra_ to what we want I CIA what you did there.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Awesome to see people still producing things with this small form factor. I loved my Asus Aspire One when I was travelling as a student (even before mobile internet was widespread!), though I think that was 9" even. Seems quite expensi
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I just meant that even big projects posted here in the past like the Headcrab debugger: https://github.com/headcrab-rs/headcrab have been seemingly abandoned now. Even Rocket https://github.com/SergioBe
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Post it when it's production ready. A big problem in the Rust ecosystem is the lack of continued work and support on libraries (understandably, since many are new and aren't commercially supported). For example, pyroute2 is still
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Same in Sweden, a pain if you just come for a little time.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Looks expensive, the vast majority of us can't afford property even in standard towns and cities.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
But the banks can be forced to open up their accounts and transaction details. Cryptocurrency-Fiat exchanges should also be banned. You can't copy credit cards in Europe due to the chip on the card. These problems have largely technic
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by nivenkos 5y ago
How is OS X for that sort of accessibility? It seems to be the best for accessibility in general.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
But banning cash, stops all petty crime, tax evasion, drug dealing, etc. immediately. It's such a great solution and we're so close! No-one will rob you when you have no cash to take, and they can't sell your phone anywhere s
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Fugitive is amazing. I was once pair programming with someone, noticed a weird line in the code, used the in-line git blame, then open that whole commit, and could analyse all the changes right there in neovim. Compared to opening up Github
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by nivenkos 5y ago
> My personal wish is to see the fediverse made up of smaller, localized instances that federate across borders. So for example a Finnish instance that only accepts finnish users, but it federates with every other instance. This would be
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by nivenkos 5y ago
I hope to see the day we ban cash. Here in Sweden, it's almost there. It's pretty much only used by tax dodgers and criminals here now.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
How do NFTs help in any way?
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Both could be useful. Remember what life was like before mobile GPS?
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by nivenkos 5y ago
Do you do it after working for 8 hours though? I sometimes do it on the weekend, mainly because then I can program in new and more interesting areas. But after work feels impossible, I just don't want to sit in front of the computer st
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by nivenkos 5y ago
They had much bigger issues than just data sharing though. It's not like things would have been fine if only your medical appointments were never stored on AWS.
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by nivenkos 5y ago
A lot of this seems over-the-top, like the criticism of DoctoLib. Attacking that will just mean the alternative is calling the doctors' reception manually and hoping to get through, and then giving up all medical confidentiality to the

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