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by zanny 6y ago
Just FYI folks this is quality assurance, when one of the main devs is replying to the bottom comments on the HN thread.
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by zanny 6y ago
Seriously, the Note 3 and S4 have los support for Android 10. 6 year old devices. Its not the exact same as vendors supporting it though since its los devs backporting Android 10 to 5 year obsolete kernels but it is the power of free softwa
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by zanny 6y ago
Proprietary rent seekers injecting themselves into paying for services so they can creme 5-20% off the top of all the money movement. Its basically the same thing credit cards do, but are more egregious because they also try to platform the
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by zanny 6y ago
Water and sewer pipes run under that road I heard. They ended up raising the bridge 8".
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by zanny 6y ago
Because there are now structural incentives put in place by lobbyists to prevent public engineering. Everything has to be contracted and red taped so the bribers of politicians can inject themselves into the taxpayer money pipeline. Its in
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by zanny 6y ago
> The public sector won't do it because people complain about the public debt. This isn't true, though. The US consistently elects republican administrations that jack up deficits to cover tax cuts for billionaires and nobody b
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by zanny 6y ago
IPFS isn't http. Web browsers as software are meant to access and render html obtained via http. Content addressing on IPFS is entirely different to how dns resolution works and as such you shouldn't just glue on an entirely diffe
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by zanny 6y ago
Probably less than 1% of browser users have any idea what IRC or SMTP are. For your average user chat is whatever FAANG puts on their device / screen and email is whatever address one of the several services you signed up for when gett
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by zanny 6y ago
Theres a directory literally on the front page of the "main site": https://joinmastodon.org/
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by zanny 6y ago
I live a few hours north of Philly and while there have been bad years, the last ~4 have been generally great. Generally mild winters and only intermittently unbearably hot and humid summers.
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by zanny 6y ago
Monopolies are bad in generally free markets. Intellectual property and copyright are antithetical to markets. Copyright exists to grant (in the modern era thanks to Disney, permanent) monopolies to applicable works, thus divorcing them fr
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by zanny 6y ago
Most shops are just resellers but System76 and Purism do firmware and software attainment and development for some of their hardware. In that case you are paying to support the industry by buying a computer with comprehensive whole stack so
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by zanny 6y ago
At Ryzen's launch mobo vendors weren't investing a lot into the platform because they were largely burned by previous AMD generations that failed to compete with Intel. It wasn't until Ryzen 2000 / 3000 in particular tha
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by zanny 6y ago
I'd imagine if you offered people hardhats and heavy machinery to fix the roads they complain about quite a few would line up to do it "for free". Before wrecking the equipment and destroying property. And like I said, people
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by zanny 6y ago
Its not about advocating for. That would be paying people to not reproduce, which is another perverse incentive. Presently a relatively small fraction of western populaces can afford children without assistance. Trying to artificially prop
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by zanny 6y ago
The one child policy worked though. The 70s 2 child and 80s-2000s 1 child policies prevented 400-600m births. Almost all the consequences were a fallout of sexist cultures in China against women killing or abandoning their female children.
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by zanny 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction The combination of our global population and our resource consumptions per capita have devastated ecologies the world over and led to the deaths of innumerable species
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by zanny 6y ago
Yet you would probably agree giving every mother $100,000 for every child they have is a poor use of tax revenue? Or that it might produce some undesirably perverse incentives? This isn't a black and white or moralistic "with or a
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by zanny 6y ago
How about this position - being against paid family leave like this but being for tax-funded professional parents. IE, train and treat parenting as much of a profession as it honestly rightly deserves, let people specialize and pursue a car
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by zanny 6y ago
It is, and parenting is in and of itself a job. Imagine a society where its an actual career - parenting, as a job, apart from teaching. Professional parents paid to raise children. That is basically what nannies among the rich are now anyw
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by zanny 6y ago
I'd strongly argue you want to deplete reserves of foreign immigrants that want to come fill in any population deficit you have before you start subsidizing reproduction. Humanity as a whole is still growing, that population growth is
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by zanny 6y ago
Having both the terse and the verbose is so valuable for onboarding. I feel like the reason pointers as a mechanism in native languages is such a barrier to cross for a newbie is because they are this magical star symbol * just floating a
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by zanny 6y ago
This implies that Wall Street fully expects a total rapid recovery from 20-30% unemployment and near instant realization of demand for everything again in short order. Including planes, restaurants, vacations, tourism, etc. I'd love to
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by zanny 6y ago
> To optimize this system, we should identify which extreme is currently posing a larger threat and back away from it. Except to back away from it is to alter a relationship where the incumbent ruling class holds all the cards and contro
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by zanny 6y ago
The Switch is a direct successor in a line of Nvidia tablets that were regularly priced at $200-$250. That being said, I'm not sure about its profit margin. But I know for a fact that since launch the Xbone and PS4 were profitable. T
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by zanny 6y ago
Video game consoles, especially modern ones (the Switch is an Nvidia Android tablet, the Xbone and PS4 are AMD NUCs) are fundamentally owner hostile devices. Their business model is to sell you a computer with crippled software and no ccont
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by zanny 6y ago
The mp3 patent expired last year so you can now distribute mp3 libraries freely. Of course there's still h264, aac, etc.
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by zanny 6y ago
They tried that in the 90s, its called Java. Didn't really work out for that purpose. In practice things like Twitter and Facebook, interactive programs, should really be just that - programs you run. If the interface is nigh static an
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by zanny 6y ago
Projected before any response. That was pre-lockdown. That was at a time where there were no tests because the CDC botched trying to manufacture their own. If business as usual carried on since mid March we could have seen those numbers r
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by zanny 6y ago
They don't walk the lines at their factories or monitor the staff on the floor. They have penthouse offices with private access elevators at worst, but more likely are just staying home until this all blows over. The article actually t

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