oldgregg

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by oldgregg 5y ago
The corporate-government exploitation of the people is staggering. Corporations do all the spying and then give APIs to the government. No constitutional problems over here.
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by oldgregg 5y ago
There is an assumption that everything in the world should have 10ms latency. Why? Borders have always been meaningful to protect unique people groups. Maybe the extra latency is a way to protect indigenous cultures and allow local solution
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by oldgregg 6y ago
This is intentional. They want you to just follow their AI more than curate your own world. You live in their world.
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by oldgregg 6y ago
The multinational tech companies are EXISTENTIALLY motivated to weaken and dissolve national identity for this very reason. Every country they operate in they will algorithmically and politically oppose any nationalist movement. The tech co
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by oldgregg 6y ago
society has no problem with mass-eugenics? see: abortion. or transgenderism. when you grow up in a digital world where everything can be manipulated effortlessly bringing that human agency and engineering into the real world is rather predi
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by oldgregg 6y ago
What makes you think a multinational corporation would be any better? They are at the mercy of regulators and will always bow to political pressure rather than the truth.
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by oldgregg 6y ago
I agree but for different reasons. There is no financial incentive to run a TOR node-- it's expensive and opens you to real legal risks. Therefore most nodes are run by universities and unknown actors-- in any case they are almost al
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by oldgregg 6y ago
Given the Total Information Surviellance from Google this is relatively a non-issue. Nearly anything that meaningfully restrains Google is a net good at this point. Getting bent over this is like people who dismiss Signal for not having p
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by oldgregg 6y ago
Facebook's survival is precipitated on globalism and an impotent national identity. They can't have any more China's standing up to Facebook's imperial demands for total surveillance of every citizen. Thus, the globalist
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by oldgregg 6y ago
I really think this was more about crippling the browser experience to benefit native apps and P2P apps. Supposedly Sqlite, which is widely revered as one of the best engineered pieces of software maybe ever made, doesn't have an &quot
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by oldgregg 7y ago
Build a dapp in Go right now. It's not good for modeling complex business problems but if your app is mostly API it's great for self-hosted. Memory management isn't a problem but def more verbose and less "fun" than
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by oldgregg 7y ago
Really interesting. Would be nice to see documentation. All their examples show modifying the database by running command line sql queries, does it turn up a normal mysql instance or just emulate? Are hooks available in Go? Surprised they d
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by oldgregg 7y ago
Agreed. Why would a billionaire support a candidate he "believes in" when he can outright own the candidate? There is that saying, "a big lie is easier to sell than a little lie" -- average middle class people comprehend
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by oldgregg 7y ago
You're missing the point. Let's say Spotify pays rightholders 20% of gross revenue for streaming. Then they take another 40% of the gross revenue and pay the major labels for advertising, marketing... whatever. That's hollywo
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by oldgregg 7y ago
Doesn't matter. Do they provide line-level accounting for ad revenue? Do you know what percentage of TOTAL revenue gets paid to artists?
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by oldgregg 7y ago
This. All the major labels did not support spotify out of good will-- Spotify uses hollywood accounting to give the labels the spoils. Same exploitation of artists thats been going on for 100 years.
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by oldgregg 7y ago
If the Ford or Gates Foundation dump hundreds of millions into contraceptive/abortion services in Africa the direct effect is culling the world of black babies. Wrapping it in a veneer of do-goodery is what imperialists have always bee
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by oldgregg 8y ago
Could a company create a warrant canary for every user? Just a simple notice when you login to your account? If the premise of the canary is that they can force you to keep silent but can't compel you to speak, what would prevent a com
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by oldgregg 8y ago
Vultr is good and cheap. You have to use a disposable visa gift card for your first $20 payment, but affer that bitcoin payment is enabled. the best visa cards are the $500 ones from simon malls-- 2.99$ activation fee and no ongoing or expi
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by oldgregg 8y ago
I serialize into grpc and dump into badger.. excellent performance, no cgo kludge
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by oldgregg 9y ago
Decentralized tools come at the risk of being harder to control? Lol I think we all know where Mark "dumb fucks" Zuckerberg comes down on power and control. There is something to this however since he is acknowledging it's a
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by oldgregg 9y ago
"Conflict of interest" yeah right, with their ad sales team
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by oldgregg 9y ago
It would be nice if github made it easy for people to assign a $ bounty to every issue and when it's marked complete payouts are automatic. There are a bunch of issues in various open source projects where I would easily drop $100 on a
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by oldgregg 9y ago
Any particular languages?
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by oldgregg 10y ago
good stuff! elixir+vue is my frameworks dejour right now
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by oldgregg 10y ago
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by oldgregg 11y ago
Corporations are modern city-states. Why would they give up control of their infrastructure to the bufoons in city council?
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by oldgregg 11y ago
Fascinating. I bet they are running their own CDN to prevent Amazon from having full access to their traffic volume/streaming demand. Would be huge competitive advantage for amazon streaming if they could see per-title demand.
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by oldgregg 11y ago
Acquired all the assets?!? This seems really off, who is left holding the bag here?
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by oldgregg 11y ago
No accident. Google controls enough of the worlds email now that can just turn the screws and capture the whole market.

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