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> Today it seems very possible that another 2,000 years of world governance by ‘powerful extractive elites’ could lead to the destruction of most life on Earth. While it is difficult to assign a probability, the possibility of modern civ
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> I think the UI is an engineering problem at least as important as anything else mentioned in the article. Indeed. > I'm not sure what a good solution would look like What is interesting is that on the business reporting side (w
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by openrisk 2y ago
For Kivy to stop being a niche UI framework with marginal adoption it must somehow tap into the central role of Python in the broader data science / machine learning universe. Building data-centric cross-platform apps while staying (mo
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Oldest known picture story is a 51,000-year-old Indonesian cave painting(theguardian.com)
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> Those who remain level-headed through this moment have the chance to build extremely important companies. But in which sector will these extemely important companies be active? Adtech? Knowledge management / productivity tools? So
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Its impossible to tell, but the sense of passage of time must have been dramatically different in earlier periods of human development. Persistent rituals passed on from elders to youngsters, oral transmission of huge poems and other such &
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by openrisk 2y ago
Yet there is little "AI" specific in this AI infrastructure startup challenge: 1) insane levels of competition towards any goal make relavant minor, secondary, traits that are not obvious before hand. Pure luck becomes more import
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This is the analog (pun) in radio technology of abandoning physical cash and switching exclusively to digital money. Optimisation, efficiency and monoculture versus redundancy, resilience and diversity.
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There is certainly a strong case for the web platform as an all-weather gui platform but on actual mobile and desktops of here and now it is not a no-brainer choice. Its document oriented nature fits some use cases better than others. Not t
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One would think that after three decades of the windows metaphor and billions of man-hours writing such applications, writing GUI apps (for any platform) would be a much more pleasant experience? One could imagine a framework that would abs
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Dense urban-type settlements attracted billions (and continue to do so worldwide) as they offer hard-to-beat advantages. But as these gains are booked and largely taken for granted, people long for the paradise lost, the walkability, the gr
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> Closed loop (off-river) pumped hydro storage has the smallest carbon emissions per unit of storage of all candidates for large-scale energy storage Pumped-storage is a rather special approach as it feels almost like an extension of the
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Any data requirement in the above list that is public knowledge can be solved (in principle), but it takes coordination between parties that are not used to collaborative/coopetitive behavior. There is also the bit of data cleaning wor
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The financial industry never considered a serious open source strategy to be aligned with their interests and that has painted the sector in increasingly narrower corners. Think eg. the comparison with the acumen of the adtech sector, which
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Combined with their second sentence that aims to discredit and erase an entire era / approach as crackpot, the implication is that this is indeed the "correct" way. There may be a lingering fear that the historical false dete
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Umm, not sure what this clumsy attempt to rewrite science history is about? The internal nomenclature of those working within a particular approach cannot restart the clock of an entire field? Resonant bars were the first generation of grav
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Something already lost in the twisted passages of history is that the first generation of gravitational wave detectors was of an entirely different design than the current interferometers [1]. It never worked and Weber's claim to have
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The issue is that even if you peel the hype (which is a fact), python is still far larger. If you check e.g. the journal of open source software (which does not have much ML/AI bias), most of the papers are python, with an occasional R
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The political dysfunction in the US means that a critical design feature of a digital economy, namely what data about individual behavior gets collected, passed around, merged and acted upon gets obscured by various interests. Eg., pro-priv
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Seek we must, but will we find something? Complexity science is the major remaining terra-incognita of our era. The allure of seeking to break into such a genuinely new domain is strong. The intellectual (and not only) rewards would obvious
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> War is the result of humans fighting over the metaphorical petri dish of land, resources, and also power. People do all of that in modern economies without resorting to physically eliminating each other. To get millions of individual
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> our brains remain wired like the tribes that fought for survival If that was literaly true then there would only ever be a single organizational structure for human society, like bees, ants, chimps or whatever. When you look at recorde
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This rings more than true, but it reflects market conditions that are not set in stone (otherwise we'd have lots of hundred-year old incumbents, but the evidence is that companies live shorter and shorter lives). The cost dimension is
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Your argument is that historical patterns of past conditions have to repeat for ever even when these conditions go extinct or get modified dramatically? What is definitely part of inate individual behavior is competitiveness and occasional
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You seem to be confusing traits of individual competition (and even physical violence) with large scale organized war phenomena among increasingly larger and technologically advanced groups. The logic that says that the latter follows from
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When a child is born there is nothing remotely resembling large scale warfare inscribed in its genes and the discretional cultural path that must be travelled before such detrimental collective phenomena come to be seen as innate and inevit
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Because many usage examples could be "live" as you go through the document learning about htmx functionality. Seeing is believing. The very same htmx-enhanced html pages deployed statically would (presumably) fall back to somethin
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Feels like a missed opportunity that the online version of the book isnt a demo of hypermedia in itself? Maybe a serious student of htmx could (as a learning exercise) transcribe the book from asciidoc into htmx? :-) Besides technical merit
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The chain of argument is longish, but nevertheless it feels well connected. Its an important new conversation, maybe critically important. The past of the open source movement does not limit the role it will play in the future. What started
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Maybe its time to start fresh with a clean sheet? (Pun). The spreadsheet paradigm is immensely intuitive and arguably the only alternative to the standard procedural programming currently in use in number crumching. But therein lies also a

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