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by nwah1 8y ago
One could be totally uncritical about the current or future intentions of Microsoft and still prefer a version with no telemetry. Data breaches are very common. Employees, hackers, or governments could all gain access to the data. The data
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by nwah1 8y ago
The three adjectives I mentioned are all independent variables that each afford more tax advantage.
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This is likely part of it. Particularly for pedestrians. But for cyclists, I don't think that explains it. It boils down to the fact that cyclists are unusual in most places in the US, and people are impatient and don't like deali
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by nwah1 8y ago
There's thousands of nutritional supplements. Particular vitamins can have dozens of "vitamers," each exhibiting different properties. There's countless minerals, herbs, and novel compounds that people take for countless
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by nwah1 8y ago
Pages already had this treatment. Many pages were just shut down entirely.
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by nwah1 8y ago
That's the problem. There shouldn't be a gazillion things, and the fact that there are is a major reason why rich, savvy, and unscrupulous people are able to game the system while average people pay full freight.
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by nwah1 8y ago
Light pollution in modern cities is truly a shame, and I wonder if we can even do anything about it. If self-driving cars become universal, will this mean we can do away with headlights and most streetlights? We'd need to actually ban
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by nwah1 8y ago
In complete agreement about the need for EVs in general to converge around one open royalty-free charging standard. More on the side of Tesla when it comes to interior minimalism and less buttons. Ideally, voice recognition should control a
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by nwah1 8y ago
The term "intellectual property," while popular, is so vague as to be almost meaningless. It is important to be precise. Patents, which are exclusive rights to ideas irrespective of origin, are much less defensible than other righ
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by nwah1 8y ago
The idea of Land Value Taxation, which was George's proposal, is that improvements are to be exempted from taxation, and the effort of property management is to be considered as authentic labor. Only land is to be taxed. Not capital. N
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by nwah1 8y ago
Henry George thought that land was our common inheritance, but was in favor of free markets. He did not support rent control. He thought of rent as a fact owing to the value of the location, and the question is not how to make the rent lowe
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by nwah1 8y ago
I don't understand why they didn't want to base it on the formally-verified, capability-based micro-kernel called seL4. Formal verification is the difficult but necessary next step for security-intensive applications. Also, any ne
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by nwah1 8y ago
The MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses, which Fuchsia uses, have almost no restrictions aside from attribution. Anyone would be able to fork Fuchsia and re-license as GPL.
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There's other reasons why fuchsia is arguably better, such as using a micro-kernel and being "capability-based." The license is liberal enough to allow relicensing it as GPL, if anyone cared to fork it.
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by nwah1 8y ago
Citation needed
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by nwah1 8y ago
One of the main benefits of trust is to be able to rollback transactions. A warm fuzzy feeling of trust is not what is needed. This provides the fuzzy feeling without any tangible benefit, and all the of the downsides of trustlessness.
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by nwah1 8y ago
There are a number of them like git and bitcoin which start out with one guy building a novel algorithm and then releasing the source to the world afterwards. The definition of open source might include such a thing, but a project that orig
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by nwah1 8y ago
I guess the corporation, in this case, is acting as a benefactor just as the government would be in other cases. In order to work on pie in the sky ideas, you need to hire brilliant people for long periods of time, with low certainty of suc
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by nwah1 8y ago
Open source tends to work great for re-implementing technology that is already understood. It tends not to work for exploratory research, since that requires risk and ingenuity, not a designed-by-committee approach. R&D of this sort is
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by nwah1 8y ago
That's why I mentioned smart parking meters. They would set prices so that there's always spots available for those willing to pay more. The end result being less congestion and shorter commuting times for everyone, by avoiding th
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by nwah1 8y ago
I'm rather shocked at how complacent everyone in this thread seems. Why is it ok to settle for neighborhoods that are built around cars and not suited to the tasks of every day living, outside of them. In cold conditions, walking a mil
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Also, if the environment is not soul-crushing and polluted, then it might actually be pleasant to go for a short walk. If you have to push a baby carriage 2 kilometers just to go to the store, then that is, by definition, not a very walkabl
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by nwah1 8y ago
>Penalizing people for doing what they have to do in order to go about their lives is a recipe for a populist uprising that undoes all of your changes and sets the effort back a decade True. The yellow vest riots in France were ignited b
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by nwah1 8y ago
I think the combination of ideas that Silicon Valley is inching us towards is essentially what Personal Rapid Transit has always been. Electric cars are about eliminating the issue of pollution. The idea of ridesharing is to eliminate the m
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by nwah1 8y ago
If you live in a walkable area, handicapped accessibility means ramps and elevators, and handicapped-accessible public transit. Even in our current largely non-walkable cities, there's neighborhoods with high walkability scores. Doesn&
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by nwah1 8y ago
Livable streets, which are a joy to walk down, are essential. And the author of this piece is correct that you can't just use a top-down plan to segregate roads and streets. It seems to me that the key is to find ways to make automobil
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by nwah1 8y ago
No. My comments were a general statement regarding the undesirability of car culture, and the uninspirational nature of visions which seek to expand it. There are many other possible ways to achieve a modern, prosperous society. One of my f
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by nwah1 8y ago
Solving the collective action problem is a universal issue that is much bigger than the roads issue, and I agree that this is the main issue. But, were it to be solved, that wouldn't necessarily mean going down the same path of every o
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by nwah1 8y ago
I can understand why Romanians would be upset, feeling that they are "behind." Their roadways may feel crowded and unsafe, but if the roadways were improved that would just encourage much more traffic and congestion. And all the o
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The flex circuit technology is the most interesting aspect of the Model Y, if the plans haven't changed.

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