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by zanny 8y ago
A large part about why there is a low availability of XMPP clients and why clients like Pidgin don't implement features for years is because of how verbose and, as OP said, much of a disaster it is.
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by zanny 8y ago
Cross-platform compatibility hurts exclusivity and revenue protection. Its why Disney et al are trying to claw back ground against the Internet with their own subscription based viewing platforms. Trying to get media companies to agree to a
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by zanny 8y ago
They make high end phones, but their sales volume doesn't make up for the margins. In terms of manufactured phone volume, the Galaxy line makes up a tiny fraction of their total sales. I feel like the vast majority of the Android ecosy
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by zanny 8y ago
It wasn't until consumer 8 core / 16 thread chips started entering mainstream that I even started thinking about upgrading. And even then its generally meh with how much software is single thread bottlenecked. Meltdown and spectre
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by zanny 8y ago
Hey we could still see a sea change at the US federal level of either progressive or adherent libertarian representatives that curtail the fear / police / surveillance state in the 2020 election. Its about as likely as bitcoin tak
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by zanny 8y ago
> we can either grab them and email them over or they can come review them at our house. Better yet, we all have functional first class per-machine ipv6 addresses and our respectful ISPs provide us DNS records for convenience to route to
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by zanny 8y ago
Storage at nation-state levels is largely solved by pump-storage hydro[1]. Yes, its expensive, especially if you lack natural reservoirs to convert into pump basins, but the economics of it are well known, the technology is mature, and impl
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by zanny 8y ago
There is ample evidence that in the absence of substantial GPL contributions (Linux kernel, KHTML, GCC, etc) there would be a much reduced substantive body of influential free code available. Apple in 1998 definitely weighed their options b
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not by coincidence though, TPTB use economic pressure to institute common policy and ideology anywhere they can influence. That is why pretty much any nation with rule of law also adheres to US IP doctrine and has treaties in place to b
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by zanny 8y ago
The value in strictly adhering to religions like software freedom or veganism isn't so much to cause any meaningful change yourself - you are actively harming your own experiences and potential in restricting yourself in most any way d
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by zanny 8y ago
> is a boon to creativity. Its a boon for one generation of creatives, but then the buck stops there and you are right back to proprietary everything no creativity left for the masses such as on mobile platforms. Copyleft guarantees crea
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by zanny 8y ago
You can also compare 1940s Russia which conquered eastern Europe and put most of Asia under its influence. Stalin starved and slaughtered millions.
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by zanny 8y ago
North Korea persists because China keeps it alive. If China joined the rest of the world in sanctions and a no trade policy NK would fold in a week. The USSR largely collapsed due to its economic isolation. It couldn't keep pace with t
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by zanny 8y ago
Rule of law vs rule of Xi Jinping.
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by zanny 8y ago
Mastodon has per-user RSS feeds you can subscribe to but they are non-interactive. For interactive communications ActivityPub is the standard at play and the one to promote. Let RSS be good at one-way consumption and ActivityPub be good at
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by zanny 8y ago
Instant electronic payments with upwards of 5% transaction fees for technology that costs them what rounds to nothing. I feel like at least the payment processing part of finance today is something ripe to be nationalized if you had a democ
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by zanny 8y ago
The thing is this is largely by design. You don't make an absolutely finite, reducing supply commodity and expect it to do than anything than turn into a valuable and rare token. If you wanted a cryptocurrency to actually see use as a
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by zanny 8y ago
I get the impression that the Rust community is wholly burdened in this third wave mindset. Everything is dual licensed Apache / MIT to guarantee maximum developer freedom. There have probably been a billion man hours poured into devel
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by zanny 8y ago
I do honestly agree that the FSF position has weakened over the years. I personally am more IP-liberation minded, but I more generally want some apparatus whereby I can inspect, modify, and reuse the software running on physical devices I o
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by zanny 8y ago
I'd prefer neither, and as a US citizen reserve the right to criticize the totalitarian practices of both my and foreign governments. Criticizing evil does not implicitly mean you endorse your own localized evil. The rampant systemic a
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by zanny 8y ago
Unless you live in about 80% of the US where ISP monopolies still only get you 2-3mb upload at best.
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by zanny 8y ago
"its easier to ask forgiveness than permission" is an ancient tenant of business at this point
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by zanny 8y ago
If you work 30 years in the industry and live for another 30 after that you are basically getting paid double per year worked without interest. Getting the money upfront and investing it could be substantial, but thats still a much better n
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by zanny 8y ago
Systematized unethical behavior is much more generally assumed fair and reasonable than outlier behavior like bludgeoning raccoons with garden tools. The guy also probably has substantially less money to lobby congress and the FDA for speci
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by zanny 8y ago
> I understand that it's important to "gain broad interests" Its important, but I definitely agree with the OP its not ~40k a year and 3 prime years of your life important. Its also something high school should be presenti
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by zanny 8y ago
The kind of people who like living in dorms should then live in dorms (many reproduce dorm-like conditions after school anyway by sharing a house with other tenants) and the people who don't would rather not be compelled at a societal
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by zanny 8y ago
The problem is the mandatory part. Even the standard education is in large part optional for both students and parents. Its a gross violation and overstepping of fundamental liberties to have grown up free to turn around and point at our de
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by zanny 8y ago
There is a huge real downside, and it is a massive one, is compulsory military service begets reasons to use the military. Most of the free western world has recognized the invalidity of a large standing army or extravagant military spendin
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by zanny 8y ago
The behavior of NIMBYs is a microcosm reflection of why wealth inequality is so detrimental for democracy. The property owners of major metro areas have both a vested interest in defending their profitability and crowd out those who want t
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by zanny 8y ago
If their homes were rezoned for skyscraper development their quarter acre that could host a hundred apartments vertically on it alone would go from 1.5m to 150m overnight. The NIMBYs are going against their own economic self interest by r

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