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There is the Common Domain Model [1] that might be worth looking into. The accurate specification of the vast range of financial instruments is quite a challenge. > The CDM is a model for financial products, trades in those products, and
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The article defines care "scarcity" rather narrowly, almost tautologically > In any given moment, you can only really care deeply and individually for one person Yes, but there are many moments in a day / one's life,
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Making money virtuous (eBook) [pdf](socialtrade.nl)
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I am totally convinced we should abandon the π religion in favor of the τ religion, but there is a very unfortunate choice of symbols that stands in the way of enlightenment: A visual inspection immediately proves that pi (the Greek symbol
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Some sort of federation has already been discussed in the Wikimedia universe [1]. It aims to operate at a lower level, federating structured data between different specialized wikibases [2]. AFAIK it has not (yet?) seen much development a
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Depending on how you count the fediverse / activitystream/pub concepts are now more than a decade old. There have been indeed many AP services around, but practically none - except Mastodon - has seen any significant adoption. Tha
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You seem to have missed the point that the OP is about a newly launched fediverse TikTok competitor [1], not Mastodon. I am not sure the people building Loops want it to be "small and unpopular". You are also confusing server size
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> Elon does something particularly stupid with Twitter, Mastodon takes on another wave of new accounts It seems that Bluesky has a different opinion on who actually benefits from the Twitter implosion, at least the last episode https:
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mobilizon is a great concept. It embodies the "decentralization" promise of the fediverse better than microblogging and similar publishing oriented platforms that have no concept of locality. Events aim to bring and bind together
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fediverse (active) user growth is saturating at minuscule numbers https://fedidb.org/ in the meantime for much of the planet the "internet" means Meta properties. if you don't ask tough questions you will &qu
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The alternative to "big tech" is not "open source". The alternative to big tech is a healthy "small and medium" tech economy, or at least a more sane distribution of market power. Imagine if you had to compete
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Not for the 99.99% of people. Maybe you should raise the bar when defining "it works great".
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The fediverse strategy of offering copycats of centralized adtech social media - but without the surveillance and ads - has not worked in the past. Who knows, the launch of Loops might break that pattern, but it would be a more enduring vi
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Beware the AI Bureaucrats(ft.com)
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It is interesting that nobody comments on the "ownership" data point of the post. > And guess who just bought a seat on BlueSky's board with a $15M Series A round? Yet that is the only thing that matters. The technical pie
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my God! it's full of stars! [1] I can't help but think that living and evolving under a starry sky has had a deep impact on our reptile brains and the process is still ongoing. First it was the simple act of looking up to a myster
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There is an interesting contrast between the phenomenal investment boom versus functionally zero job growth... > Even the software publishers and computing infrastructure industries at the forefront of this AI boom have seen functionally
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> The quicker corporate clients become comfortable with chatbots, the faster they may simply go directly to their makers in Silicon Valley. If that happens, the great eight’s short-term gains from AI could lead them towards irrelevance.
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"Digital societies with a poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better" Excerpt from the announcement of the 2044 Nobel prize in economics. It echoes the earlier arg
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Very interesting story (more context in the related wikipedia entry). Makes you wonder where we are today in terms of computing "generations". > It seemed that logic programming was a key missing connection between knowledge en
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Strictly speaking the two domains have very little in common besides "evolving" in a general sense (as opposed to something being static and unchanging). But if we generalize a bit our target system we can make the analogy more fr
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That is true. Exact solutions have further advantages: they are expressed in terms of parameters (integration constants) which means that one can get deep insights into a system's behavior under changing parameters. In a numerical appr
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> The Three-Body Problem is one of the most famous unsolvable problems in mathematics and theoretical physics This claim might seem incongruous with the fact that they obviously analyze three-body systems and "discover" interes
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> they are also dramatically easier to launch and operate Umm, profound insight. Here is a secret: its even easier to have a social media page and vast numbers of digitally dispossessed have no other option. What matters for the future o
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what do you mean by "the web"? The web is all the people, companies, public sector etc. that are setting up web servers (whether self-hosted, cloud etc. it doesnt matter). To say that the web is dead means that nobody outside mass
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Yes, I also think the phenomenal adoption of computing is fundamentally a good thing as it unlocks new levels for society, at least in principle. In the short term it triggered a race to a low-information, consumerist bottom in many respect
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> I think the web is dead The web cannot 'die'. Everything and everyone moves online. Point one: A return to pre-internet days is not likely. Point two: Walled gardens had their peak moment. The dangers of everybody relying on
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> people today just don't care. When did people 'care'? Complex technologies have always been pushed on people. Regulation, consumer protection etc. is supposed to be the informed, delegated 'caring' filter. The
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King of the geeks: how Alex Gerko built a British trading titan(ft.com)
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Her choice of background for this video and the matching imprint on her blouse gives us maybe a hint that "fundamental" physics is too broad a field to actually die :-) I.e., there are ongoing and deep puzzles e.g., in dark matte

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