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> As much as I love being relatively unrestricted on the internet, is there actually any evidence that censorship decreases trust in institutions? > China is notorious for censorship but from speaking to friends there it seems everyon
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> Even a very small edge in precognition or mind reading (no matter how unreliable) would allow hedge funds to beat the market and make a killing. Ergo these effects do not exist because nobody is doing this. It is known that many people
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> I remember one called SkyOS as well - it was really far along, probably killed by the lack of driver support. Unfortunately it's site seems to no longer exist. Here is the LinkedIn page of the main developer (Robert Szeleney) of S
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> Is it too late to create a version of the web that is just plain text (no markup)? Just do it and post a reference implementation of a server and a client (assuming this is the architecture that you want to use), and the protocol speci
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> Funny how people are adopting the word "DRM" here even though printer cartridges have nothing to do with "digital rights". Thus, it is common in hacker circles to consider DRM as an abbreviation for Digital Restrict
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> Having never had a manager with any clue about maths, This is exactly my point: at least in Germany, the compulsory "mathematics for economists" courses are there to weed out student and are thus feared among the respective s
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> We have all experienced the clueless non-technical manager who doesn't understand why any of this has to be this way and keeps pushing for "common sense" things like accurate estimates for project development. This is in
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> Blockchain stuff is also pretty famous for fraudsters writing technical gobbley-gook in order to hoodwink investors Caveat emptor [1] in particular holds for investors who invest huge sums of money. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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> If a seatbelt doest stop you from dying in 100% of car crashes, I don't understand why they're mandatory? While I do agree that wearing a seatbelt is in most cases a good idea, there still do exist people who are opposed to
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> And yet we are probably multiple decades away from 90% adoption and it is quite possible given the level of coordination required that we may never get to 100% adoption. 100% adaption will never come. Just look how many companies st
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> Microsoft could certainly make this easier by offering a "wWin32" project that only has the wide version of libraries Using API functions ending with ...A (for the ANSI version) like CreateFileA is actually rather lowlevel st
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> Smart contracts are something that can never work, because it is predicated on our ability to write correct code. Laws are of similarly bad quality (in my opinion of even much worse quality than software), we just have at least centuri
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> When you pay someone in BTC, you also have to pay the power company with something. The system is an inherently leaky bucket. The same holds for, say, transactions in US dollars. Here, you also pay your bank or your credit card company
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> Now, let's unpack what people mean by "hard" skills. Do you mean they are difficult to learn? Do you mean they are useful in today and tomorrow's economy? What exactly does the hard in hard skill mean. Hard skills a
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> Experience in grant-writing, data analysis and presentation will serve you well, say Samantha Baggott and Jonathan McGuire. These are in my opinion also soft skills from a PhD program (not 'hard' skills). The hard skills are
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If there are many people who love or can do a job, salaries typically decrease and vice versa (supply and demand). Examples are: - salaries for programmers are lower in game development - the "everybody can program" hype is intend
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That is exactly the reason why I suggested that the user makes such choices in a pre-boot environment.
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> When you're upper management, now you have the problem of wondering if managers are doing their job correctly/efficiently, something even harder to manage and plan for. If this becomes a problem, I would rather assume this as
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> Middle Management is hard. Constantly being torn apart by top and bottom. You either have decent manager that gets your team a huge boost of productivity but stressed to burn out. Because of this, managers are (intended to be) paid so
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> but I also think the orange dot is, for almost all users, a perfectly acceptable solution - visually obvious without being obnoxious. That is why the user should be given the choice to activate it: make it a sensible default choice i
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> The solution to this problem isn't very simple and while the orange dot is causing headaches the lack of an orange dot also causes headaches. If both options have a disadvantage, give users a choice which of the evils they prefer,
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> You’re not really an open-source project, in the conventional meaning of the term, until either > 1. Your project starts accepting code contributions from the community (if perhaps after a gruelling code-contribution process); or
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> No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble. ... we consciously did.
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> But people don’t build desktop applications that much anymore. This might be outside of your echo chamber, but lots of companies still very actively build desktop applications (also completely new ones) for their own line-of-business p
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> On the other hand the "we're professional products, you'll eat the cost and like it" approach worked fine for Adobe. I know several designers from various areas who do serious attempts to free themselves from Adobe&
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> You Can't Buy Someone Else Caring about Your Problems This is easy: when you give people a huge amount of money to care about your problem, they will. This, of course, does not imply that they will be able to solve them. > Yo
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There are six main narratives of globalisation, all flawed(aeon.co)
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> The Case Against Crypto Crypto != Cryptocurrencies (or more generally: cryptoassets)
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> But not if you use 02-12-2021 This is not an ISO 8601 or RFC 3339 date.
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> There has been many that has suggested that we should just scrap the whole thing called The Internet and start from scratch. It would be safer, but I don't think it is a serious alternative. See second-system effect: > https:

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