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by zanny 8y ago
The problem is that the lack of content moderation was largely a selling point for the platform. Without explicit material its basically Instragram without Facebook owning it and with a worse UI. It might be slow but if you have no strong r
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by zanny 8y ago
Except Chrome wasn't some brand new project. It was Webkit which was KHTML and dated back to the mid 90s. They just wrote their, uh, chrome layer and js engine a half decade later which were, and still are, reaping tangible benefits.
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by zanny 8y ago
Despite how the industry likes to try to pitch it games aren't as disposable as developers want you to think they are. At least for me, I'm spending more time playing titles I've owned for years today than on new releases. An
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by zanny 8y ago
I'll get to my real pain point - anyone know of a replacement VOIP solution like Hangouts dialer that isn't subscription based? I've been giving my Hangouts number to people forever because its more convenient to have every d
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by zanny 8y ago
You absolutely are. If Google cared a decade ago they could have strong arm overhauled XMPP into whatever they wanted. Even Facebook Messenger (which also used XMPP until I want to say 2016? which is coincidentally when I stopped ever using
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by zanny 8y ago
If money is the root of all evil, give technologists and futurists the ability to print money they can swindle muggles into pouring their life savings into as a get rich quick scheme or espouse at a pitch about how life changing it is and h
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by zanny 8y ago
500 years from now we will likely have strong AI capable of rapidly processing the exabytes of data we produced in this day and age as a unit test for the self-modifying system updates. That being said, on a timescale as long as 5 centuries
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by zanny 8y ago
The more general cost is if your country ignores IP while another doesn't you have an immense competitive advantage if the country you are "stealing" from can't in some way punish you economically for it. I'm person
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by zanny 8y ago
This is why since 08 it has turned into an investment, though. The regulators that would fix it are at the behest of the investors paying them to exacerbate the status quo worldwide.
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by zanny 8y ago
I'm really loving just casually writing websites for Rust web frameworks because I get to try out all these new tricks in html / css / ecma7 to avoid pulling in any third party libraries. Then you get goodies like compile tim
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by zanny 8y ago
Thank you for all your hard work. I've been using Rust for two years now and have invoked your code probably a hundred times over. I always feel so spoiled with Rust because it seems every core "functionality" library (serde,
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by zanny 8y ago
What would be useful is the ability to generate diagrams like UML from an AST. I'm sure theres already a Rust crate for it out there somewhere... Then it could just be the case where you pick out a root struct / mod / somethi
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by zanny 8y ago
If you want to abuse the law doing so in a public ledger that anyone accessing has a copy of (such that just reverting commits on github doesn't remove from them everyones histories) seems like a really unwise way of going about it. Wh
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by zanny 8y ago
But thats not how git works. Everyone who uses the repo has a copy of it. Even if you hack GH the worst possible outcome is a hard reset of the repo, which would break pulls anyway. Unless a literal city council thinks its a good idea to no
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by zanny 8y ago
To be fair my grandmothers home page is still mail.aol.com. And its only that because I changed it from aol.com years ago. Its still big money to claim the homepage of most people over 60. Most to my knowledge still don't use smartphon
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by zanny 8y ago
Eliminating redundant work while maintaining the same productivity is good for all humans. It let's you do something else instead. Its up to the society to provide that something or in its failure to a standard of living in its stead
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by zanny 8y ago
Obviously taxes. Those who benefit most from public transit are those least able to afford it, but making the cost baked in to the wealth of the people can driven even someone with a personal driver to maybe fathom using the tube instead on
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by zanny 8y ago
Public transit shouldn't be expensive. It shouldn't pretty much ever run outside the red. The whole point of it is to incentivize its use and promote efficient means of travel. The only reason to charge at all is to disincentivize
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by zanny 8y ago
It takes less than a whole person to supply a common western standard of living to a person living in the west. This means it takes a subset of the population to provide for the well-being of the whole. This is why unemployment is such a pr
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by zanny 8y ago
Bitcoin mining has been custom ASIC dominated for years now. Almost all miners (in terms of hash power) are custom purpose built machines. So no, they really can only do sha256 hashing on payloads of comparable size to bitcoin blocks.
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by zanny 8y ago
The thing is that the trading price of crypto does not mean anything to its adoption or utility. You can write a payout algorithm that grows the monetary base so fast the price can't appreciate. That coin could become unbelievably succ
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by zanny 8y ago
Instead of dealing in black and white absolutes, how about World 3, where 99% of everyone has .9x and 1% have 9x. Plenty of economical arguments exist to supply a profit motive as a means to spur economic development and advancement. At the
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by zanny 8y ago
More like affects the top .02%. What a lot of discussions on economics miss out on is that for every order of magnitude less people you are talking about out of the whole (10%, 1%, .1%, .01%) you are talking about people who then also have
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by zanny 8y ago
Its a generally well documented trend that once rich it becomes difficult to actually fall out of wealth. I'd definitely love some unbiased research in how much better these purported rich people are better at allocating capital. Bec
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by zanny 8y ago
Charisma is only a problem when your representative is a figure on a screen you never see or interact with. Its definitely fallen by the wayside in recent times with the explosive population and suffrage growth not corresponding to a larger
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by zanny 8y ago
So the implication is that Reagan instituted broad and substantial tax reduction for the rich in combination with the institution of enormous federal deficit spending in order to offset rising oil consumption following two oil crisis the pr
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by zanny 8y ago
Lightbulbs aren't magically more efficient at heating. The other 8 months of the year wasting a ton of power on inefficient bulbs just wastes your money when you could have just used more efficient bulbs and a dedicated heater.
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by zanny 8y ago
At that you absolutely don't need a special expensive institution to teach you how to behave. A century ago it might have made sense - formal conduct was rigid and failure to adhere could displace you out of aristocracy. You needed to
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by zanny 8y ago
I've used btrfs as my main fs (with ample backups) since 2012. Plenty of file system corruption and backup restores in the intervening years, but I went from having it happen 4x a year in 2012-2013 to once a year by 2015 and never sinc
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not new whatsoever. I'm sure double dipping predates newspapers who combine recurring billing and ads in between the articles. Cable TV today is a really obvious offensive case of it because unlike with the papers you aren't

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