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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I am pretty sure he understands credit money but he needs to show his work :-) The point of my comment is that cryptobros are largely financially illiterate and when an economist undertakes the thankless task to discuss the possibility of a
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Remembe Fuller's quote "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" Big tech is the existing reality and it can only be changed by m
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
varufakis should reade graeber's Debt. the most glaring problem of bitcoin (and the whole crypto world) is that it has this naive "scarcity view" of currency whereas it is an in-your-face reality that a most important role of
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
this will vary a lot by region. some places are more densely populated than others. looking up regional statistics of average trip length and percentiles (like the length of 95% of trips) could give some objective metrics to complement what
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
An idea who's time has come? SVG is an awesome concept, a superpower that has been basically demoted to create tiny vector icons. The story of flash (the adobe / apple clash) is one of those classic tech industry stories where com
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Its the worst of times, its the best of times. The digital revolution (or whatever this is) has degenerated into a bizarre mix of speculative frenzy, unprecedented concentration of control on a background of complete disregard for societal
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
that is in principle possible (essentially replace twitter by RSS aggregator clients) but is not exactly equivalent: for example some entities could microblog on "next-gen twitter" without having a website and there is also the qu
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Maybe the global newspaper folk, who seem to be the most serious users of the platform, should form a joint venture, buy up twitter, disseminate microblogging news (ad)free and simply use the embedded links to drive traffic to their web pla
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
consider though that if peertube just emulates the practices of existing players the result will likely be exactly the same the high thresholds and lack of mainstream polish of most open source projects is a true fact and has to do with the
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
This surely signals the end of an era. Not sure i) if there will be an NFT of the resignation tweet in the manner of the first tweet? [0] and ii) if the future will be "better" than the past in any meaningful way... The stock mark
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
the thing is, mozilla and firefox is the embodiment of a valiant battle for a sane, honest, human-centric digital universe. a battle that was fought and lost in the last decade. dystopia has won and it doesn't think of itself as dystop
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
whatsapp was/is a "market leader" in community watch groups, literally embedded in the city landscape. with the facebook acquisition suddenly all these local groups became a data mining and selling property, with the particip
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
that seems like a more tractable goal if confined to local analysis (something like lines of code in a function or file unit) but people generally try to come up also with overall complexity that seems harder
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I don't know about Web4 and LaTex specifically but Web5 tech will surely be reverting to communication with mouth sprayed color pigments sketching images on cave rocks. I believe this is just an elaborate complaint: The author simply e
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
The Einstein quote is that "something should be a simple as needed but no simpler", but how to be pin down "required" in an objective / quantifiable way? Somehow it is more important to measure "gratuitous&quot
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
It feels a risky proposition at this juncture to go short python. The arguments against/for have been rehashed a million times, the redeeming features of julia have been articulated very cogently... What has not been accounted for is t
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
still some ways to reach omega (the larger sibling of omicron)
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
These measures are good and necessary but on their own will not solve the problem. It is not sufficient to say "no", you need to provide (=invest)in alternatives that show what "good" looks like. For some bizarre reason
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I just hope that the new balance of power in Germany will energize Europe to take concrete next steps towards an altenative way of organizing digital life.
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
would it possible to have a browser ship with htmx so that it is possible to have truly "javascript optional"? (in principle this applies to any full js framework but I suppose it is natural in the htmx context) are there any un
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It went as not planned
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
"If I don't lie through my teeth somebody else will and I will lose my plush condition for no good reason" Having no conscience is a necessary condition to rise to the top of the human food chain
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
cryptocurrency fueled or cryptocurrency heated ? warming up of water with heat from all those coin mining rigs could be a very sustainable solution that could mitigate the reputation of cryptos as delusional Earth burning maniacs just keep
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
economies of scale are "real" until their risks vastly outweigh the benefits - which always happens at some level of concentration. Habitually embedding attenuation in any system we develop (social, political, financial etc) is
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Experts tend to be specialists, focused on silos and deep dives into specific domains. The world is instead getting radically interconnected as "everything" is represented - more or less faithfully - by fungible bits. We are going
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Its a very interesting question why (in the spectrum of community organization size) it is the nation-state scale (> 10 mln or so) that has come to become dominant. "Defeating external adversaries" is in general more of a sabre
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
If it wasnt obvious, the pandemic demonstrated beyond any doubt that the distribution of decision making power in society is completely broken. The nation-state in particular is way too dominant and distorting, especially when you have a bu
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
There is a cure that works 100%. Its called diversification of collective stupidity risk . Never let empires grow too large. Whenever you hear / see something is "scaling" throw a spanner in the works, pull the plug, burn a
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
forget web3. basically we are in a situation where lots of people, smart, tech savvy people, stupid band wagon people, well meaning people, me-too people, go-with-the-next-big-thing people, all made a wrong bet that the particular set of
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Surely somewhere beyond the wall street grifters, the silicon valley data slurpers and the cryptomaniacs there is a fintech community that is actually worth being part of?

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