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by staunch 9y ago
> ...it’s a blessing that my predilection for hipster technologies has not caused any serious problems. It's entirely possible that this was the primary source of his problems with hiring, firing, testing, and a lot more. The tech
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by staunch 9y ago
Yes! Also James Burke, who inspired a lot of Carlin's thinking. They talked on his show at least once: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-18-a-fly-... Another subject Burke talks about is the excit
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by staunch 9y ago
Ancient people almost universally suffered from severe childhood trauma and abuse. A majority must have lived with deep psychological problems. They did all kinds of messed up stuff, including perpetuating the cycle of abuse all the way to
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by staunch 9y ago
The success of the GUI shows why computing is not driven by concerns over efficiency. PWAs being less efficient than native apps is completely irrelevant. What matters is functionality. Most apps do nothing that requires being native at all
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by staunch 9y ago
There are proof of work algorithms that try to be ASIC-proof. And most visitors already have a CPU and GPU sitting idle. Something that used an extra 25% of your processors may not even be noticeable, and yet it could solve the fake news an
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by staunch 9y ago
You think Apple needs lock-in to keep customers but it doesn't. That's how Microsoft operates. Apple should move to PWAs because they're better technology than native apps. Users and developers would prefer PWAs if they wer
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by staunch 9y ago
That's an imprecise version of the history but what does it have to do with modern iPhones? Many people said GUIs were too inefficient to be worthwhile on early PCs. Then PCs got more powerful and no one says that any longer. The iPhon
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by staunch 9y ago
> Too bad it has to waste electricity... It doesn't waste electricity. It uses a lot of electricity to create a secure global payment network that can solve the micropayments problem. Sacrificing efficiency for decentralization
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by staunch 9y ago
What originally made the iPhone unique and powerful was that it included a full blown web browser, in the form of the Safari app. Steve Jobs announced the iPhone as a "Phone," "iPod," and "Internet Communicator.&quo
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by staunch 9y ago
My comment was civil, informed, and substantive. It includes an answer to the question, and seven supporting citations. It also refrains from any unnecessarily controversial aspects of the argument. The comment very well could've been
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by staunch 9y ago
I most certainly do not use my account "primarily for political or ideological battle" so I am very clearly not violating the guidelines. I answered someone's question with the most accurate and factual answer I could. That
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by staunch 9y ago
> The real problem is when we move from 1000 archers with light bows, to 1000 archers with heavy medieval bows... And ancient battles often had more than 1000 archers. Thermopylae probably had 5,000 professional archers. That's 25
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“There's no need even to have a college degree, even high school” -Elon Musk(youtube.com)
3 points by staunch 9y ago|1 comments
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The N.S.A. used its official Twitter account to send coded messages(nytimes.com)
2 points by staunch 9y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
This is just semantic confusion. A local restaurant is not a highly scaleable technology company. They're both "new businesses" but radically different in every other way. It's an apples and oranges comparison. One good
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by staunch 9y ago
Human brains are super hackable. Propaganda or "Fake News" is literally mind control. The Nazi Party infamously exploited this vulnerability. Fox News was created to be "Faux News" from its inception, and it's work
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by staunch 9y ago
Spy agencies in Russia, China, and the US will have a copy of most of Apple's source code anyway. It's trivial to get a number of employees working for any of these companies. They must all be fully infiltrated, probably at high l
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AM Radio Tower Power(youtube.com)
2 points by staunch 9y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Stop using a service known to be controlled by the Chinese government for journalistic endeavors. 2. Ensure your journalism is helping to improve the world and not enabling oppression.
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by staunch 9y ago
She says "fuck tencent" but she's dealing with a totalitarian government that restricts fundamental human rights like privacy, speech, movement, and even procreation! The question to ask is: why are you as a foreign-based jou
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John Perry Barlow's Adult Principles(reddit.com)
2 points by staunch 9y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
His Principles for Adult Behavior is hard-earned wisdom: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1kgmes/i_am_john_perr...
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by staunch 9y ago
OpenVPN is still going to be the best choice for some time. There's nothing else as well supported across platforms and it does everything most people want, including allowing connected clients to communicate directly. It doesn't
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by staunch 9y ago
Reddit is at a stage where it can attract as much help as it needs, so this seems like a great thing. The startup world has always lacked for investors smart enough to grasp new stuff, brave enough to be first, and ethical/humble enoug
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1x1 tracking pixel used as evidence of treason against 30,000 Turks(boingboing.net)
14 points by staunch 9y ago|0 comments
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by staunch 9y ago
Thank you! And let's all try not to get the users of our software imprisoned or killed: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/28/30000-accused.html
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by staunch 9y ago
Fuck yes! Thank you everyone that worked on this and thank you Elon Musk!
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by staunch 9y ago
The first two federal officers involved in a Bitcoin-related investigation (Silk Road) stole the money and tried to cover it up. Which shows just how bad US law enforcement culture is. People like this can, and should be, filtered out. At s
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by staunch 9y ago
I like it because it's ambitious, futuristic, and the passion is clearly genuine. Good luck! My current interest in VR is trying to collaborate with remote teammates. But in order to justify buying VR HMDs for everyone, I need somethin
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by staunch 9y ago
What the developer didn't seem to understand in this case was the gravity of the issue. I don't think your explanation would have conveyed it as well.

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