tisFine

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by tisFine 5y ago
Neither does Apple’s App Store; users can pick Linux. Anyone pushing into the App Store specifically then complaining has their own initial choice to blame. But of course that can’t be right…
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by tisFine 5y ago
I keep hearing about walled gardens, and not how it’s merely a choice among many. Linux works on tablets and phones. What’s that? It’s a janky mess? Maybe developers could stop looking at the green grass on Apples side of the fence and brin
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by tisFine 5y ago
Agreed. Software is not hardware. Behavioral patterns for a user are not tethered to one ephemeral implementation. I ran a huge VMWare cluster in 3 data centers across the globe, not so different from an AWS/EKS pipeline. Yes, I had to
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by tisFine 5y ago
At least with the founders I’ve worked for it’s hard to agree they are owed that much more. They fund raised. Poorly. They offered zero direction, touted a big number as potential revenue. They traveled ostensibly to fund raise, but usually
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by tisFine 5y ago
Crypto would be more interesting if the networks offered federated compute capabilities. Owning crypto would be akin to owning a certain amount of capacity to use the network to do work. Similar to land to farm or build housing on. A founda
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by tisFine 5y ago
That’s fair. I should say instead the historical basis for such protections is rooted in logic similar to what I wrote.
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by tisFine 5y ago
Police forces have protections as extension of the state, it was decided they’re necessary to keep the state from being stuck on a catch-22. The state can’t bring criminal charges if the violation was due to performing work for the state. I
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by tisFine 5y ago
I predict the demise of this company when one of their entitled rent-a-cops gets 2nd Amendmented for harassing people without legal authority.