tormeh

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901.
by tormeh 6y ago
Europeans are old. This is often forgotten. Old people are slow to adapt. So Europe is old and old-fashioned. This is not great for prosperity. Same with Japan.
902.
by tormeh 6y ago
FluffyChat is an alternative client that's also pretty far along
903.
by tormeh 6y ago
> This is where your argument totally loses steam. You can't just handwave and say you'll build public housing... that is an incredibly expensive and politically difficult thing to do. When your theoretical solution to the prob
904.
by tormeh 6y ago
> Indeed, the vast majority of increase in housing prices is because rents are so high that 7% YoY returns are possible. Without these returns, then there is no way to justify inflation in housing prices for simple homeowners. The market
905.
by tormeh 6y ago
I once did an `apt autoremove` on a custom install of CentOS handed to my team. Apt uninstalled python (and a lot more), and apt depends on python to run, so that was a bummer. The easiest way out was to reinstall the OS.
906.
by tormeh 6y ago
SpaceX is neither the first nor the last entity to build reusable rockets. It's the most successful one, by far, but now that's it's shown to be commercially doable every launch provider on the planet has a roadmap to (partia
907.
by tormeh 6y ago
> Once you leave office, you get a big salary for life, but can't have another job. No working for a bank, or happening into consultancy. No speaking fees, though you are of course free to give speeches to whomever you like. Yeah it
908.
by tormeh 6y ago
I wouldn't believe anything the Daily Mail writes, even if it agrees with your priors. It's just such an awful newspaper that it makes me consider if the deal was legit.
909.
Kowloon Walled City in My Backyard(pedestrianobservations.com)
3 points by tormeh 6y ago|0 comments
910.
by tormeh 6y ago
Huh? Ericsson is Swedish. Why is it more likely to be US spying gear in Ericsson products than, say, Nokia?
911.
by tormeh 6y ago
You're right, but for the wrong reasons. Aesthetics has always trumped economics when it comes to housing, and the speculators know this. The probability that this will change anytime soon is essentially zero. You're better off mo
912.
by tormeh 6y ago
Germany also has its own controversy about corona software. The government wants to standardize on SORMAS, but many local governments don't want to switch. I expected a dump, but to be honest, SORMAS looks pretty good. It's alread
913.
by tormeh 6y ago
There are alternative clients: https://matrix.org/clients/ FluffyChat would be the main contender.
914.
by tormeh 6y ago
Reminder that cloud providers like Scaleway and Hetzner are 4-6x cheaper than AWS, although not as feature-rich. And bandwidth is typically included to a certain extent, or free.
915.
by tormeh 6y ago
That this is the state of things is pretty amazing
916.
by tormeh 6y ago
This. Not sure about the US, but starting a company seems pretty damn daunting from where I'm standing
917.
by tormeh 6y ago
I hear ASML works like an extremely high-tech consultancy. The tech developed for contract a is not available for contract b, so you can't just call ASML and ask for the same machine they sold to TSMC. That's what I've heard,
918.
by tormeh 6y ago
I only mentioned one problem with the clients, and an abstract complaint about doing one electronic communication but pretending it's physical. Some problems with email, from a user perspective: - The latency is too high for truly real
919.
by tormeh 6y ago
The actor model is brilliant, but I fear it will never get the adoption it deserves because it's too much of a break from convention. I guess it's maybe a bit too much of a leap? It replaces both Kubernetes and messaging queues, s
920.
by tormeh 6y ago
All the benefits you're listing are benefits that any federated protocol, for example Matrix, has. Completely orthogonal to email itself.
921.
by tormeh 6y ago
Thanks! This looks great!
922.
by tormeh 6y ago
Thanks! This looks great!
923.
by tormeh 6y ago
Email sucks. It doesn't need replacement with something else that does the same but encrypted. The whole skeuomorphic concept of electronic mail is just not great and needs to go away. What we need is federated chat, like Matrix maybe.
924.
by tormeh 6y ago
I hear it's the least evil of the FAANGs. And then there are oil companies etc. I think relative to the average company Google's doing alright.
925.
by tormeh 6y ago
Spark has a superset of the functionality Athena has. Athena is faster, but it's also very limited. They're not designed to do the same thing.
926.
by tormeh 6y ago
>But don't Germany and France both have actual laws against offensive speech on the internet So does the US. Try "I'm going to kill the US president" (maybe with a bit more specifics) and see how long you remain free.
927.
by tormeh 6y ago
So, the stock market gives amazing returns, but debt is free? We must have absolutely massive asset price inflation, even if we have no consumer price inflation. I wonder if central banks are looking at the right metrics.
928.
by tormeh 6y ago
Many low-density things need to be shipped fast, though. But I guess that niche is not big enough.
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America’s former defence secretaries sound the alarm over Trump(economist.com)
4 points by tormeh 6y ago|1 comments
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Arnold Schwarzenegger on why Republicans must stop Trump(economist.com)
6 points by tormeh 6y ago|0 comments

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