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by wrinkl3 5y ago
There's currently a huge push online to make Solarpunk a thing, as a kind of an optimistic counterpart to Cyberpunk, but I'm skeptical about whether it can attain the same level of cultural traction as the other big *punks. Cyberp
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
> I see many famous athletes who go to their hometown in America and invest in under developed neighborhoods they grew up in, and see that as a model for investing in communities on a global level. But those athletes became famous and su
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
> RT's current approach seems to be to focus on Protasevich's alleged role as a propagandist for the neo nazi azov brigades in donbass and, of course, the whole Snowden/Morales affair. They're deflecting because Lukas
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
Even if you accept that Signal absolutely had to integrate a cryptocurrency, MobileCoin is still such a weird choice. There are privacy-focused coins with a proven track record out there (e.g. Monero and Zcash), while MOB is a no-name proje
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
Imo the main difference is Signal locking you into an arcane cryptocurrency, while Telegram provides you with a large choice of mainstream fiat payment processors. I agree that the features are not that different, but Telegram's approa
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
> unlike whatsapp, wechat also does not require me to share my phone number. Doesn't WeChat in China require users to sign up with their national ID?
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
You probably want GNU-centric social spaces. Any other type of programming-focused board will inevitably become dominated by people who work at the biggest companies that employ software devs.
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
Is there a huge overlap between the types of people who worry about this and Whole Foods customers?
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
This is basically what happened in Ukraine - they overthrew a Russia-aligned dictator and had to deal with a Russian invasion within months.
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by wrinkl3 5y ago
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of the way the article is written. The concerns are undoubtedly real, but the pearl-clutchy tone and the endless barrage of asides and pop culture references make me doubt the author's conclusions.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
I enjoyed the piece because I love these types of feel good national narratives, but yeah the hypemanship here is hard.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
Instagram was a much more niche app back when it was iOS-only, and it didn't have the likes of FB, Twitter and Microsoft racing to copy all of its features.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
I love how you were correcting him and then made the exact same mistake.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
The article feels like a plea to go back to the 80s and it's not entirely clear who the author is pleading to. There's no cabal of Frontend Developers pushing their Agenda. Instead there's employers, customers, and requiremen
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
> I think Serverless would be another ideal use-case for Swift, where the productivity, clarity and correctness tools it offers would be a huge benefit. I agree, but sadly none of the big cloud providers has any interest in pushing it -
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
Not really. In PoW you convert money into electricity, then use that electricity to claim mining rewards. In PoS you lock down your money, then use it to claim minting rewards. The two are not fundamentally different, PoS just skips the &qu
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
For those who didn't read the article: > The family of a 20-year-old stock trader who killed himself have sued the broker Robinhood for his death, citing its “misleading communications” that caused their son to panic over what he wr
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
Reminds me of Tumblr. I wonder if it'll have to do a similar crackdown if new legislations get passed.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
> N = 15 I'm not a scientist but isn't that a tiny sample?
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
I'm a fan of Stephenson's work but I couldn't finish Fall. Such a waste of paper.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
Do you consider voice assistants, DLSS and protein folding predictors to be non-monetizable art projects?
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
Yeah but for how long? Unless Australia is willing to keep screening all arrivals and containing outbreaks indefinitely, Covid is gonna start circulating there at some point.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
> i said i was proficient in Linux and all the questions i was asked was about docker Why is that bad? The purpose of an interview is to see if you're fit for the role, not quiz you on the skills on your resume.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
I remember Satoshi's old posts where he claimed that Bitcoin Core was the only viable full implementation of the Bitcoin protocol since it had too many quirks to be efficiently standardized and reimplemented. I wonder if that's st
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
Can't wait to join a distributed computing bacchanalia.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
I mean it's literally a board that caters to engineers and technology enthusiasts.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
I read most of the post before glancing at the date and it definitely explained how.. innocent some of it sounded.
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
> Galen was a pretty accomplished medical researcher, and Roman-era medical implements were quite sophisticated, and were well-established by the time of the dark ages. Were those implements actually practiced throughout the dark ages or
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
> I've suspected for some time that medicine is actually closer to the dark ages than we like to think it is What does that even mean? Nobody's claiming that modern medicine is anywhere close to perfect but the "dark age
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by wrinkl3 6y ago
> But it's not even really good at that. It's not liquid, it's prone to bugs and attacks, and it doesn't even seem to be that anonymous. All software is prone to bugs and attacks, and for something that's only ju

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