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by polemic 4y ago
Moot in this case. Musk has gutted the work-force and instigated a wide range of changes. All bets are off when new code is being introduced.
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by polemic 4y ago
If you're looking for something that actually tracks tabular data there's https://kartproject.org . Geo focused but also works with standard database tables. Built with git (kart repos are git repos), can track PostgreS
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by polemic 4y ago
Ah yes the tax avoiders dream: a permanent and public record of all your financial dealings, protected only by your own opsec.
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by polemic 4y ago
On the other hand, scientific consensus isn't "groupthink", and being a contrarian doesn't automatically entitle you to other people's attention and time.
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A Requiem for Descartes Labs(philosophygeek.medium.com)
1 points by polemic 4y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 4y ago
I think pg underestimated the long term effects of (9) and (10). Generations of new software developers picked it up, because that's what universities offered, because that's what the big hiring companies of the time mandated.
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by polemic 4y ago
And all that map data sits on geodesy which come with their own bucket of false assumptions.
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by polemic 4y ago
It's entirely rational. He's on the hook for $1B. He is highly incentivized to obfuscate, lobby and otherwise delay making that payment any way he can. It's not about being right, at this point.
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by polemic 4y ago
A lot of us don't feel it appropriate to "just ignore" technologies with massively negative externalities. We are effected whether we like it or not.
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by polemic 5y ago
Another good option: https://secateur.app/
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by polemic 5y ago
Quick Google search finds the concept being used in medical sensors. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220301205420.h... When correctly shaped, graphene can harvest energy from motion, such as hu
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by polemic 5y ago
The name "GitBOM" and use of the logo breaks pretty much all of the Git trademark rules: https://git-scm.com/about/trademark
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by polemic 5y ago
Yeah this is exactly what I do, works great.
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by polemic 5y ago
It's discombobulating to read an article about DND being "killed" while we're in the middle of what is surely its golden age. There are people making real money running games, creating maps and assets and 3rd party softw
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by polemic 5y ago
The application owner gives up control to a secondary market for no gain. They'd do better to simply buy and sell directly, and maintain full pricing control. They already control scarcity, they don't need some other mechanism. Me
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by polemic 5y ago
But this is the wrong abstraction. The application becomes the central authority for some arbitrary token. Yes, in theory they could use "an NFT" to represent a key to some in-application capability but at best the owner of the NF
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by polemic 5y ago
Yep, several years ago it was trendy to shill the idea of "cadastre [land records] on the blockchain" to solve some imagined issue with the central authority of land registries, never mind that of any particular asset class, lan
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by polemic 5y ago
That's.. a good point. Reminds me of the moonlanding counterfactual: if the USA did not land on the moon, don't you think the Soviet's would've said something about it? Or was the cold-war fabricated as well.
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by polemic 5y ago
This is very cool, and while people here seem to be confused about the value of art or whether this was needed , a huge amount was learned in the modelling, fabrication and testing process. This is art with benefits, and it looks stunning
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by polemic 5y ago
Progress is lumpy and prone to manipulation by companies who an exert undue influence.[1] But even so, in 2021 you can make a free video call around the globe for free. You could be using Facetime or Duo or Skpye or one of the many, many ot
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by polemic 5y ago
All consumer services tend toward free. It seems to me that if this becomes a successful (consumer) product it will either become free – or be replaced by the free version. The free version would generate revenue through advertising or by d
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Terraria developer locked out of Google account, removes Terraria from Stadia(twitter.com)
2 points by polemic 6y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 6y ago
As usual, context is everything. > They demand the preservation of architecture at all costs. I assume this is a reference to the Wellington Spatial Plan and efforts by Wellington land owners to prevent old homes being converted into apa
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by polemic 6y ago
Is it hard living on the wrong side of Popper's paradox?
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by polemic 6y ago
> ..cancel culture incites a mob to promote digital violence.. ah yes definitely much worse than inciting _actual_ mobs to promote _actual_ violence.
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by polemic 6y ago
Where's the lie.
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by polemic 6y ago
> We either have free speech or we don’t. Perhaps one of the best things Americans could do is throw away demonstrably false dichotomies like this. You have defamation laws, you have copyright & IP law, contract law etc. Freedom of e
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by polemic 6y ago
You need 1.63 W for 1200 seconds (i.e. 1960 J, assuming no losses) to reset the system. I.e. the same energy you already got out. If this worked, you could get free energy from any sort of gearing system - e.g. you could put a fly-wheel o
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by polemic 6y ago
For clarity: an approximate solution
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by polemic 6y ago
This is getting down-voted but it is something of a myth that Sweden ever had herd immunity as an officially adopted policy. Yes it was discussed at high levels but it is not true to say this was the strategy adopted and implemented by

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