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by xte 8y ago
Ancient Alto workstations or LispM are build around high level languages and they were FAR superior to any contemporary competitor... So technically IMO that's not a real arguments. Maybe a cost arguments but that's a really compl
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by xte 8y ago
The problem is not only cleanness but also scale and sustainability: we need continuous power so if we go for solar panels we need to imaging a earth-wide electrical network with veeeeeery small losses. IMVHO solar panel are interested in m
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by xte 8y ago
While I'm nowhere near as talented a programmer as both Torvalds and Cook I disagree, perhaps with both. We have tons of crap anywhere due to bad code monkeys, kernel included, and these days with actual computing power keep using low
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by xte 8y ago
I do not failed to notice the commercial and political push toward battery-based EVs, I do not notice that they can be sustained in the mean and long run. We can't produce and dispose enough battery to electrify our personal vehicl
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, I comprehend if they say "escalators dislike asymmetrical charges" but not the argument of going all at same speed. Sometimes we can be in hurry while others can be absolutely calm. We are HUMANS, we are all similar and all di
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by xte 8y ago
While I prize anything that may help go distributed for our freedom and safety I'm not much convinced by IPFS (IMVHO a nearly-unusable monster) and while I comprehend many of it's reasons I prefer a network that distribute content
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by xte 8y ago
Your ability may be relevant but only to a certain extent: for instance I can restore my personal desktop with data and software from scratch quickly and easily from my multiple backups. I use NixOS so my OS will replicate autonomously, I h
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by xte 8y ago
Does you credit card ever lock you out? For most people no it's not happen, for Julian Assange we know it happen. Does we have an nuclear warhead explode by accident? A dangerous thing remain dangerous even before accidents happen.
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by xte 8y ago
I do not want proprietary software nor I want to depend on black boxes to use a service. So if a bank, a public administration etc demand using proprietary stuff that does not came from them they force their customers to buy such black boxe
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by xte 8y ago
Islington (live) to Fitzrovia (work), I see wood slabs covered with lean cement and moquette, buildings with only reinforced concrete directly painted or naked instead of proper well-finished plaster, panels and furnishings used as a quick
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by xte 8y ago
We talk about vehicles, boat, airplane, so moving objects , not connectable to any grid at least in an acceptable/feasible manner. That's the problem, certainly not electricity for buildings!
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by xte 8y ago
Ok, I add a small thing: storing electricity on vehicles/ships/planes etc, so anywhere we can't create a big dam in a nearby high mountains...
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by xte 8y ago
I was for a very short period of time in London and I do not see anything can be dreamed, starting for super-poor quality of ANY buildings... Mean quality I see resemble eastern-Europe ex-communist buildings of the poorer quality, just cove
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by xte 8y ago
So you also can possibly enjoy having 2FA demolish by a simple smartphones vulnerabilities that perhaps grab both passwords and token in a single action... We can't trust smartphones/connected devices in general, that's why I
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, trauma effect can be transmitted simply by education by parents, for instance if a parent have had a trauma with fire they can act with fear of fire and it's children simply absorb that fear observing. I do not know how this can be
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by xte 8y ago
It's a result of Japan environment (not only natural), they are too much and too concentrated as a result they can't live relaxed, they can only stress themselves. Few that born or arrive to a "comfort position" tend to
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by xte 8y ago
Few note in today's "electric fever": - since few (not so few) years all mid-size/large boat thrusters are electric, normally powered by combustible oil generators, they have replaced expensive diesel engines used in the
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by xte 8y ago
Try to live, really, not for short touristic period, in Japan with their education, way of work and live. It's a developed country so you have all food you want, all services you want, but you also have a neurotic, stressogen, society
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by xte 8y ago
Perhaps it's not the right term in English (sorry, my English is really poor), for detached I do not mean "not feeling emotions" or "not caring" but feel the emotion remaining rational, cold enough to keep ratio dri
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by xte 8y ago
A different question: can we build a manageable city for modern era? I think not. More in details we have already accepted that our constructions (roads, bridges etc included) do not last forever even with proper maintenance but I still hav
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by xte 8y ago
I do my best to avoid messaging apps, for people willing to contact me I have mail (with proper tons of aliases and filtering) otherwise plain SMS.
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by xte 8y ago
When a ship is sinking anyone feel the emotion to help anyone, but officers have to know how much people they can save and how much people can die trying to save anyone so they need to remain detached. It's not a lack of empathy, it&
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by xte 8y ago
White army was actively supported by UK, France, USA, Italy, Japan (White Siberian/Kolčak Army for Japan) and many others, even with landing troops, but after the substantial defeat and the food crisis of 1921-23 UK came in through &qu
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by xte 8y ago
Only on paper unfortunately, however you can easily find small bits of information online, mostly about part of governments or single companies supporting many dictatorship even when their country formally combat them... On "élites&quo
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by xte 8y ago
+1
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by xte 8y ago
branded physical token is "a thing from my bank", so something they are responsible for, that for my POV came from them, created and maintained by them, it's not connected to anything and it's a standalone object. My pho
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by xte 8y ago
Google, RSA, ...
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by xte 8y ago
This is modern myth, typical of dictatorial regimes. Even the most powerful people in the planet need others to exist and being powerful. People who deserve their power simply know even by instinct that they have to keep looking at the bi
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by xte 8y ago
China and in general "productive Asia" grab the worse of USA/UK model and push it to the extreme, that's the real problem for them, especially for their citizen.
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by xte 8y ago
Personally I dislike nearly all kind of 2FA for a very simple reason: they add a dependency tie with something big, powerful and outside my control. For instance I perfectly agree to have an extra, branded, physical token, to log in to my

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