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by rusk 5y ago
Nowadays would be but these were far simpler times
782.
by rusk 5y ago
An app so killer they're willing to rewrite a part of it. Nice problem to have!
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by rusk 5y ago
To increase agricultural output would be my guess. There is a parallel to this closer to home. There used to be a bounty on fox tongues because foxes were constantly worrying farm animals. Not sure about the outcome for the poor foxes but t
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by rusk 5y ago
Not bad, except the British Government were in the business of extracting wealth more so than endowing... no doubt someone did the sums on this strategy and said “cor blimey let’s get out of here”
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by rusk 5y ago
> 15 years ago. Keep going ...
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by rusk 5y ago
Yes, thank you - I had a feeling I had missed some critical aspect!
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by rusk 5y ago
Whether you are “addicted” to something or not (and what defines “addiction”) is the wrong question, in my opinion. The correct one is whether your repeated, compulsive behaviour is affecting anyone else. If you knew it was, could you stop?
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by rusk 5y ago
They paid for their phone which comes with Navigation as a feature. Debatable perhaps.
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by rusk 5y ago
> They have an OS running on a consumer device I read this as "prototype".
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by rusk 5y ago
> And they did all the "from scratch" work. We should judge on what has been finished rather than what has been started. After people start to work with it, that's when the real costs will start to be incurred. Apple are a
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by rusk 5y ago
That’s true. But unfortunately all that baggage comes with lots of genuinely useful stuff too. Starting from scratch rarely works, unless you’re willing to put in a lot of time and effort, and are in it for the long haul, and people that wa
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by rusk 5y ago
> without 30+ years of cruft AKA learned experience
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by rusk 5y ago
This is how old google would have worked. Now that google is all grown up they take a more cost conscious approach. How the mighty have not so much fallen, as sunk.
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by rusk 5y ago
I think it’s a different thing but an interesting analog. In conventional information theory you can add another channel. I guess the social media metaphor is like crowded wifi or if I’m being clever alohanet... question is, how do we add a
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by rusk 5y ago
Not really. In my version the energy wastage is a means to an end. Not the end in itself. In particular, energy usage is not coupled to value. It is “collateral” damage. You could in theory replace it with some other proof of work ...
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by rusk 5y ago
Nope the value proposition is that multiple untrusted parties can agree on how much energy they’ve burned and form a consensus based on that.
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by rusk 5y ago
That’s fine. You’re supporting my point in that case.
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by rusk 5y ago
Arguably yes. And arguably spaces are better for indentation as a matter of convenience and accessiblity and you can’t make any strong argument that it’s what tab is “for” based on original purpose.
799.
by rusk 5y ago
Sorry I misunderstood you, I thought you were making the argument that spaces aren’t for indentation.
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by rusk 5y ago
I thought they were for aligning columns in a table (hence “tab”), rather than indentation? This goes back to typewriters. Sure you could abuse it for indentation and perhaps that became common practice at one point but it doesn’t mean that
801.
by rusk 5y ago
Here was I thinking “tab” was for “tables”
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by rusk 5y ago
> any more justification [flagged]
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by rusk 5y ago
A nice side benefit of Europeans insisting on theirs!
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by rusk 5y ago
Trade agreements. You can play ball by whatever rules you like, but in order for it to be meaningful you’ll have to get people to play with you.
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by rusk 5y ago
> What's exactly capitalistic about this? Squeezing as much profit as possible for shareholders while externalising costs. It’s a poster child when you think about it!
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by rusk 6y ago
Ssh don't mention "the thing"!
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by rusk 6y ago
How is that unpopular? I think all but a fairly vocal minority of people (probably direct/indirect beneficiaries) would agree.
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by rusk 6y ago
Well you can go look up literally any other recent article on the topic.
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by rusk 6y ago
> It was then later that some theoretical "usefulness" or "elegance" was attached This Chicken v Egg pondering is interesting. I mean, surely the term "inheritance" was used in this instance because it alrea
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by rusk 6y ago
I share your confusion to a degree. To me it always seemed that the concept emerged from the work on Semantic Networks [0] by Collins and Quinlan. What's interesting is, looking at this now that these two different aspects of what we n

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