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by vvillena 5y ago
In a PoW chain, Vitalik Buterin can talk, propose, and make patches to an Etherum client, but it means nothing unless miners approve the changes by running the updated client. He is the most important voice in that coin's ecosystem, bu
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by vvillena 5y ago
(spoilers spoilers spoilers) The androids make a choice whether to help some remote, future civilization they'll never know, or trying to go on with their own life. Which is kind of the same thing you do when you delete your save: it&#
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by vvillena 5y ago
The game reaches "an end", but explicitely tells you to keep playing by starting a "new game" again. It's more like separate acts. The first two acts cover the same events, but the story is different because it&#x27
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by vvillena 5y ago
My personal opinion is that Nier Automata shines in its artistic design. Character design, combat animation, enemy design, soundtrack, UI (and the fact that it's a meta-UI that also exists within the game), level art design, the camera
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by vvillena 6y ago
The blog post points to cloud software as "the [new] enemy of freedom in computing", but then advocates for using permissive licenses (MIT, BSD, or Apache, instead of, say, AGPL) while "counteracting the monopolising effects
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by vvillena 6y ago
I don't know about Youtube Music, but Google Play Music had no problems in deleting entries from your own playlists when a song wasn't available anymore. It's a form of musical gaslighting which I find entirely unacceptable.
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by vvillena 6y ago
Reminds me of Google Meet: https://blog.plover.com/tech/ui.html It probably looks great in a picture, but it's indeed a UX nightmare.
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by vvillena 6y ago
With both paper certificates and NFTs, their worth depends on the issuer. The NFT craze is stupid, but as you point out, coupling real art with a NFT certificate is a really neat use case for NFTs. A NFT minted by an author and/or a re
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by vvillena 6y ago
I guess so? And if the aim is to make something completely custom, that's fine. But the Spacemacs keybindings are very well thought out, the configuration is just as important as the feature itself.
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by vvillena 6y ago
The vim bindings are only one part of Spacemacs. The other (and I'd say most important) part is the SPC menu that exposes hundreds of keybindings in a discoverable, unobtrusive, and interactive interface.
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by vvillena 6y ago
This is mostly true, but I'd argue legitimacy is harder to achieve than it seems, because of network effects. That said, the current NFT craze is idiotic. As you point out, there's lots of people trying to try external value to a
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by vvillena 6y ago
This is the classical distributed consensus fallacy. Law is only law if there's consensus around it. The "original" law still lives on in the form of ETC, but it happens that the other one generates way more consensus around
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by vvillena 6y ago
How is it superflous? It improves air quality a lot, and it's free to implement. Also, it's not an exclusive policy, it can be done in addition to the things you propose.
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by vvillena 6y ago
Ads also existed before user tracking. Google and Facebook both seem to conveniently forget this fact.
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by vvillena 6y ago
Isn't this more or less the "container ship" metaphor? Forcing everything into containers means the ship carries overhead weight and some unused space, but that overhead is offset by the standardization of everything else in
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by vvillena 6y ago
It's pretty difficult to have a preference when one of the options just doesn't exist.
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by vvillena 6y ago
"I'd rather have" == "this is what I need to stay within the limits of the free tier" Lastpass reasons for doing this are perfectly clear. They want people to use and trust their platform, and there's no better
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by vvillena 6y ago
What I described is the complete procedure for regenerating a wallet set, from zero. If you want a real-world equivalent, it's like teleporting all the gold you own to your hand at any time. You might think the procedure is a hassle, b
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by vvillena 6y ago
That's correct, but there are some extra considerations. Usually, a Bitcoin wallet will generate multiple addresses with different private keys, using the initial key as a seed alongside some extra parameters. The only real-world ramif
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by vvillena 6y ago
Thinking of "implicits" as one single feature can be extremely confusing. OP is talking about "implicit conversions", which transform values from one type to another automatically just by being in scope. Cats imports bri
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by vvillena 6y ago
MDR-7506 are more or less indestructible (and their naked structure means they are very easy to repair). That's why they were used in sound studios, mainly as sound monitors for artists. They behave a bit like Yamaha NS10 monitors in t
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by vvillena 6y ago
It's easier to simply ensure that the apps you need are present in multiple stores.
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by vvillena 6y ago
That's expected, as it's not a mass-market product, and the niche is small and cluttered with free alternatives. The amount of people that would buy a 40-50$ app is about the same the buys the 100$ apps now. And turning their apps
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by vvillena 6y ago
I use the "send tab to another device" feature a lot, and it's true that sometimes it isn't fast enough to be considered real-time. Sometimes tabs appear instantly, sometimes they don't appear for minutes, and somet
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by vvillena 6y ago
No, because their incentive goes the other way around: they want users to buy lots of things. Reviews will eventually have to rely on non-store, external sites.
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by vvillena 6y ago
Yeah, but ask yourself: why are you reading this _now_? The article is 2 years old. Bitcoin and the overall cryptocurrency ecosystem are near all-time high values. Shining a light into this article is probably a maneuver made by someone int
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by vvillena 6y ago
Hydro will be the backup power. With enough solar and wind generation there's no need for hydro to be on all the time. Hydroelectric dams are the biggest energy storage facilities we have.
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by vvillena 6y ago
50M doses isn't something that gets suddenly summoned. It's a big logistics problem. Your assumption is valid only if the pharmas have capacity to make a extremely big amount of vaccine doses. That costs money and (I guess) materi
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by vvillena 6y ago
The game sold about 5 million units in the first week. IIRC the game's budget was about 130 million, so yeah, there are lots of profits, with more to come next year when the next gen versions are released. And there will be single-play
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by vvillena 6y ago
Is there an easy way to play with different configurations? I rely heavily on Spacemacs, but being able to play with custom minimal configs quickly would be awesome.

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