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by vladms 1y ago
For me the web is something along the lines at the definition of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web to sum up "...universal linked information system...". I think the fax misses many aspects of the
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> God I hate the web. The engineering equivalent of a car made of duct tape. Most of the complex thing I have seen being made (or contributed to) needed duct tape sooner or later. Engineering is the art of trade-offs, of adapting to chan
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States are made of people both at decision and at street level. Many anti-trust laws were made when the decision people that were not very tied with the actual interests - nowadays this seem to change. At no point I think people at street l
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I find it quite ironical that while discussing the topic of logic and correct answers the OP talks rather "approximately" leaving the reader to imagine what he meant and others (like you) to spell it out. Yes, I thought as well of
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by vladms 1y ago
> Any programming or mathematical question has several correct answers. Huh? If I need to sort the list of integer number of 3,1,2 in ascending order the only correct answer is 1,2,3. And there are multiple programming and mathematical q
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by vladms 1y ago
Do you know personally some CEO-s? I know a couple and they generally seem less empathic than the general population, so I don't think that like/dislike even applies. On the other hand, trying to do something "new" is lo
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Not sure what you are arguing for, if it is that something should be done about consumerism/externalities, I definitely agree. People are not "act against free trade en masse" either, it is a policy choice with various impact
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Some will win and some will loose without free trade as well. Or do you think without free trade everybody will be great? For me consumerism seems much worse than free trade. Buying clothes and use it once, change the car each year or other
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by vladms 1y ago
Companies are controlled by shareholders who appoint the board who appoint the CEO. If the CEO decides to pay employees more, the board will change him because shareholder put money to get money out, not to give to employees. Companies can
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Netherlands is generally very sensitive to price, so if the US cloud (plus the 2 millions for the backup) was cheaper than the alternatives they gladly took it. Also, I would expect Microsoft offered them a big discount...
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Isn't the ratio that is important? You can have a linear increase in good science. And, intuitively, the bad science would be "fragmented" (many clusters of lunatics) so good science would "prevail" at some point. M
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But the reasons can be very different. East Europe had severe food shortages until the fall of communism. The result? People eating too much after the fall of communism, which become a cultural thing ("you don't have huge meals =&
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Would you have any reference of why it matters the number of people doing something for some to engage in something nefarious? I would expect to happen no matter the number of people. I feel it is more connected to the culture (for example
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by vladms 1y ago
> If outside entities only allow you to run specific distros or configs, you're done For many years the only thing "allowed" was Windows. There was a big effort done by some people to push back against that. > My jobs V
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by vladms 1y ago
Hating a tool? And software developers with emotions ? (I get it for the artists :-p) In my opinion AI makes visible more structural issues that were always there, but we could ignore. People addicted to various stuff (being substances or s
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Economics works on larger scale than region or sector. I am sure that people that were copying books in the medieval ages would not have invested in the printing press, but someone else did and it was still good for society even if not for
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At voting is a bit late probably. You don't just trust leaders, you watch, you criticize, you communicate and sometimes you act. Political or otherwise as a matter of fact
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I am confused. What "Linux"? There are many distributions. There is the kernel (many versions). Maybe even today they are some distributions that are as you described, used in certain companies or states or whatever. But you can c
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by vladms 1y ago
You can do a bad job with public or private cloud. What if they would have had the backup and lost the encryption key? Cost wise probably having even a Korean different data center backup would not have been huge effort, but not doing it ex
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by vladms 1y ago
Good luck with that. I changed to a different provider like 10 months ago and to be honest I do not see big differences. It was a problem with a couple of other sites that don't allow you to change your user/email, but we can&#x27
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by vladms 1y ago
You have to distinguish between transportation (electricity and oil) and source of energy (only oil). To have electricity you would need to invest at once in both generation, transport (the grids are not enough), storage and change in use (
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by vladms 1y ago
Direct voting is relative. Candidates are supported in the last 15 years also by companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC and coupled with campaigns getting more and more expensive https:/&#
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by vladms 1y ago
I like static types but advocating for enforcing them in any situation is different. Adding them when you need (Python currently) seems a better strategy than forcing you to set them always (Typescript is in between as many times it can det
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While strictly true, I wonder what does this sentence generates in the minds of the readers. I personally would prefer other formulations, because while I agree with the core, I think this idea should just reduce frustration if you don&#x27
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I don't know the distribution of people using left or right across the world and how it is determined. It might be even close to 50% everywhere in early infancy, but once one "main direction" emerged at society level (by luck
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Yes, I think there are many interesting things to consider about maps (like projection, orientation maps fixed on a panel/wall, orientation for digital maps). All those discussion will also transmit the basic idea (there is no "go
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I think might have more to do with the ink getting wiped/mangled when the first books were written. Even today, if I would be to fill a page bottom to up while writing with an ink pen, I would probably make some mess of the text alread
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by vladms 1y ago
> An "upside down" map is just as valid as a right side up map. Is it as useful and/or efficient though? I could write a phrase in English from right to left and if you really wanted you could read it, but it would be high
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Mistrusting authority might be good. What I see happening is in fact trusting too much into "authority" without penalizing it for inconsistencies - I would call it more like blind faith. I feel this happens because it makes it eas
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I prefer a simpler system if possible, adding further rules ("don't try anything similar for X years") seems to me that will make matters worse (who decides if it is similar enough? can you challenge that? at what stage you h

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