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by snaky 8y ago
It depends. For example, there is nothing that technically prevents adding 'add my own key' functionality to the Android phone bootloaders - that would allow user to unlock bootloader, install AOSP or any Android build of their ch
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by snaky 8y ago
> We can do better, and should It depends. Regular user in most of the world is pretty happy with $50-100 MTK-based chinaphone with 5.5" screen and 2GB of RAM - even with factory preinstalled trojans.
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by snaky 8y ago
> Do you have a better solution? There is a somewhat working solution, but it might be incompatible with American voter (for some time) https://www.scmp.com/news/china/poliitics/article/2162036/ch
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by snaky 8y ago
How much Amazon sales figures dropped since they started this?
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by snaky 8y ago
> Communism in 20 years was a slogan put forth by Nikita Khrushchev at the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1961. > In his speech, Khrushchev promised that communism will be built "in the main" by
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by snaky 8y ago
That's not quite 'one global world' we were told about a decade ago.
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by snaky 8y ago
That happened long ago. Low power cores - done. Specialized coprocessors - more and more of them (from VPU to AI and whatnot). Universal coprocessors - Apple has FPGA on board since iPhone 7 (iCE5LP4K).
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by snaky 8y ago
Free, decentralized, federated competitor platforms are not small providers.
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by snaky 8y ago
Or maybe the future is regular users being annoyed by plain dumb advertising to stop clicking on them, bringing CTR down too much, and the industry finally try to use some information they got in a meaningful way and make advertising not th
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by snaky 8y ago
There weren't many FPGAs AFAIK. I wish there were and the cheap big used FPGA boards are all over the market though.
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by snaky 8y ago
A new internet where $273 billion advertising industry does not exist?
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by snaky 8y ago
That's EU after all. They will mass punish everybody, then try to ban traffic. > “Thousands of Swedes have received threatening letters from law firms which accuse them of illegal downloading. They are asked to pay a sum of money, r
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by snaky 8y ago
> Now, Google appears to be changing its mind. Under a plan called Dragonfly, the company has been testing a censored version of its search engine for the Chinese market. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/
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by snaky 8y ago
That's very feasible actually. If someone think YouTube is indispensable, China proved it wrong.
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by snaky 8y ago
> The cultural differences between Detroit and, say, San Francisco is miniscule compared to differences between London and Berlin. What about the cultural differences between SF (or Detroit, Seattle, any other big city) with small town A
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by snaky 8y ago
The problem is not a layers, but the way they compose. Advanced fusion techniques do exist, but it's barely applicable to low-level languages like C.
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by snaky 8y ago
The funny thing is IBM might be the most open in this list.
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by snaky 8y ago
The table of "Combined income of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation" with "Proportion derived from Google" is good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google
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by snaky 8y ago
The worse for YouTube the platform, the better for free, decentralized, federated competitor platforms like PeerTube.
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by snaky 8y ago
> ACL2 has had numerous industrial applications. In 1995, J Strother Moore, Matt Kaufmann and Tom Lynch used ACL2 to prove the correctness of the floating point division operation of the AMD K5 microprocessor in the wake of the Pentium F
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by snaky 8y ago
It might be fruitful to combine two approaches, like for example VigNAT authors did > The beauty of symbolic execution lies in its ease of use: it enables automatic code analysis, hence can be used by developers without verification expe
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by snaky 8y ago
MRI market is very small and regulated as of today. Wider adoption of reasonably simpler devices would change everything, just recall how crazy expensive computers were in 1950s. Among useful applications I would imagine, for example, the f
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by snaky 8y ago
You can make it 1-day workweek in any 1st world place right now, you only need to convince the people to lower their living standards by a factor of 5x.
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by snaky 8y ago
Inetd was a thing since 4.3BSD actually. And IncludeOS is a modern way to do it.
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by snaky 8y ago
There is no place for disruption wrt Amazon actually (eBay is different matter, trying to became the retail marketplace instead of worldwide used goods auction site is the same way Blackberry adopt trying to be an iPhone - with only possibl
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by snaky 8y ago
> ghost people Classics. https://www.quora.com/How-exactly-does-the-scam-in-Nikolai-G...
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by snaky 8y ago
And not only of its citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_passport
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by snaky 8y ago
Is there any success story about crowdsource in India?
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by snaky 8y ago
> toxic content What is considered toxic for you might not be considered toxic by another person. That's personal choice. If you need to eliminate some sort of content, that inevitably will lead to this https://www.reuter
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by snaky 8y ago
The next great language for enterprise web-frontends, maybe.

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