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by rvense 6y ago
This is a strange argument. You are arguing that HFT has a big effect on society (ie. the rest of us), but at the same time you are saying that society should not have a say in how or indeed if HFT is conducted?
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by rvense 6y ago
This is a sort of determinism built in to capitalist morality: If money can be extracted from something, then it is always good and just to do so. Natural, in fact. (And to be extremely clear, I would say the same thing about pushing ads: j
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by rvense 6y ago
That's an interesting analogy, because I often find that the counterarguments sound a lot like techies arguing that encryption cannot have negative consequences.
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by rvense 6y ago
> And well-functioning capital, labor, idea and resource circulation markets are at the very heart of that system. Sure. But I'd question whether high-frequency trading is a necessary component of that, as opposed to regular-frequen
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by rvense 6y ago
This all sounds so perverse to me. There are so many obviously brilliant people working on these things. Why aren't they doing something productive with their time? Fighting climate change, educating uneducated, feeding the unfed. All
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by rvense 6y ago
The CLI is Java and probably not well documented. In the past I think Open Whisper systems have been hostile to third party client builds interacting with their servers, so I'm not sure they'd welcome third party client implementa
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by rvense 6y ago
I think it's a bit much to expect their entire support staff to write in perfect English, since they are not based in an English-speaking country. I don't think it's a very big operation, either. I have one of their boards an
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by rvense 6y ago
I would love to have something like this but self-hosted and without the Firebase dependency. But maybe this would be a starting point.
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by rvense 6y ago
There is a very new web standard for registering your site as a sharing target. It only works on Chrome and I assume Apple won't be rushing to implement it. https://web.dev/web-share-target/
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by rvense 6y ago
Tell us more about that. Is it based on some encryption library?
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by rvense 6y ago
YMMV. I started learning on Eagle and switched to Kicad. It's correct that library handling and pcbnew/eeschema interaction is a little weird, but just for laying out things I always found Eagle's user interface to be obtuse
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by rvense 7y ago
Pango is a jewel of the free software world.
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by rvense 7y ago
My personal laptop is a Lenovo X200s from 2008 or 2009 with 8GB RAM. I use it to write words, read PDFs, do some software development (most often C and "vanilla" web stuff), design electronics in Kicad, and casually browse the web
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by rvense 7y ago
With LiveView, you've got one code base. There's no frontend/backend split, so you don't think about the API, you don't worry about going back and forth between JSON and all the associated error handling, you don&#x
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by rvense 7y ago
In Denmark, universities (and possibly high schools too, I don't know for sure) get paid by the government based on the number of students passing exams every semester. I think this is part of what's called "new public manage
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by rvense 7y ago
I think we're a middle generation that grew up before the internet that this makes sense for. The CDs are probably going at the next move, but I expect to keep my MP3 collection forever.
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by rvense 7y ago
There's no really separate video memory on the original Mac, just the 21kb buffer that's updated by software. When it needs to, the video circuitry grabs the bus and reads the pixels it needs and outputs them. (There's probab
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by rvense 7y ago
> I don't see how single page apps invalidate the base concept of separating data, structure, and styling into separate layers, regardless of the format or code language of those layers. It does not. But using utility-first framewor
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by rvense 7y ago
I'm not saying you shouldn't make abstractions. I'm saying that Tailwind (in the context of a SPA framework) makes for better abstractions than traditional CSS.
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by rvense 7y ago
I also grew up in the CSS Zen Garden era, and I've become a big Tailwind proponent. To me what is cringe-worthy is hanging on to ideas about what this medium is that just no longer apply. For better or worse, the web stack has been app
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by rvense 7y ago
I would like to opt out of this, but how? I don't think my life has improved in the least since my bus pass stopped being a piece of paper I replaced every month. Physical cash is a good concept, it works and it would continue to do so
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by rvense 7y ago
They are not building it to be censorship-resistant. They are building it to be a public alternative to commercial digital payment services.
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by rvense 7y ago
I'm sorry, but it seems like you also have, if not an agenda, then at least some preconceptions you don't want to adjust. "I'm sure of X" really isn't much of an argument. I remember a story of a linguist (Dan
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by rvense 7y ago
I think it's a significant distinction. This idealized barter economy contains a the same rather specific notion of value (as something countable, comparable, fungible, etc.) that is like the idea of value that a monetary system rests
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by rvense 7y ago
I've seen obscenely complicated DMA controllers that can do that and more. Check the NXP iMX6 SDMA peripveral for instance.
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by rvense 7y ago
> I imagine that hardware was relatively expensive. It cost money, but the next step would have been a rack sampler and probably a mixer which were much more expensive.
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EDRi's Guide to Ethical Web Development [pdf](edri.org)
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by rvense 7y ago
> It is also one of the reasons why English is taking over (and in less serious cases, borrowed from). English is fully developed for social, scientific, technical, complex, specialised and precise communication to an extent rivaled mayb
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by rvense 7y ago
> But to me it feels like the major divisions as we know them in English are intuitive beyond language. Did you perchance grow up as an English speaker, or a speaker of a language with a set of colour terms similar to English? > Surel
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by rvense 7y ago
> The Scandinavian countries don't have a minimum wage either That didn't mean that people were working several jobs to get by, not that they were paying to work. Maybe it was the easily accessible public welfare that forced em

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