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by zby 8y ago
Taste is the interesting one - it is kind of self referential: a paper is important when other scientists think it is important.
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by zby 8y ago
There is one more related work: spreadsheets.
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by zby 8y ago
I think an important way to understand the optionality/convexity is to imagine science without it. Here is a paper about that: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf - the idea is: what if there are inventi
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by zby 8y ago
OK - so now everybody feels that there is something wrong with Facebook and maybe other big social networking sites. There is the widespread feeling that there were better online times. This article did nothing to further my understanding o
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by zby 8y ago
Yeah - probably better way to understand it is the predictive mind hypothesis. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding )
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by zby 8y ago
Arguably the whole human civilisation is based on imaginary things - that is on 'pretending'.
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by zby 8y ago
I put my finger on it being too expensive. It works when it is subsidized by all these speculators - but eventually this cost needs to be paid.
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by zby 8y ago
It is always better to have more options - but it is also a matter of trust - how much can you trust a bought zero day? Especially when your opponent is the UK state.
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by zby 8y ago
"Backdoor in event-stream library dependency" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18534392 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/29/why-we-stopped-... ? Trust!
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by zby 8y ago
The fact that that Seth Godins blog post that denigrates 'yak shaving' comes so prominent on web search for the term is really too bad - but he is not even a programmer! I believe that any healthy programmers culture supports yak
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by zby 8y ago
The Bruce Schneier article recently discussed on HN ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18541886 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3273111&... ) is the best answer I know. It is
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by zby 8y ago
OK - that whole talk about making software more understandable instead of churning new features - sounds good. But his rejection of reliance on trust looks like a pipe dream. What is he proposing in concrete terms? How one should decide tha
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by zby 8y ago
Sounds good - but perhaps too general. With binary you also have 'option to understand' - it would just require a lot of work.
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by zby 8y ago
We need to work on our assumptions - why human content is supposed to be good and bot content is supposed to be misleading? We assume that people have good intentions - but, as you notice, this easily breaks if evil organizations can pay pe
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by zby 8y ago
""" What hasn’t happened yet, and what invariably will happen as more and more cases hit the courts, is that someone will ask the question, “what property classification do we apply to Bitcoin – WTF is it that Bob actually o
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by zby 8y ago
"Why can't a visual programming language be functional?" - there is one: https://luna-lang.org/ and it also has a dual textual/visual representation.
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by zby 8y ago
A side effect of open sourcing is that programmers might be a bit reserved to do stupid things in the code. This might be both advantage or impediment I guess.
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by zby 8y ago
What is the best way to watch it online? I have bought Netflix subscription - but I am dissapointed now - the library of historic films available for me (in Poland) is very small and the current productions are kind of mechanistic. And no S
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by zby 8y ago
Just to be clear so you say that there is nothing non-GPL in the software that is bought there? For example https://www.redhat.com/en/store/red-hat-enterprise-linux-ser... specifies that this is a 'Self-suppo
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by zby 8y ago
As the article explains the real problem with that model is that selling software is scalable - but support is not. So a support business will never have the same margins as a software selling business - and will not be able to invest in th
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by zby 8y ago
I don't know - have you looked at: https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms
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by zby 8y ago
To update the terminology - the RedHat model is freemium - you give away something to market the part that you sell. The problem with freemium is always how much you give away and how much you charge for. One idea that I have not yet seen i
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Theory of the firm(en.wikipedia.org)
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by zby 8y ago
Subscription - yeah - but the point is that it limits the possibility of free loading competition selling the same thing. Has anyone heard about a business like this? In the past security was less important than it is now - so perhaps this
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by zby 8y ago
Not really about the article - but an idea I have been pondering for some time now. How about a software business that would sell licenses for signed copies but distribute everything unsigned under GPL?
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by zby 8y ago
Shouldn't it be cooperative instead of corporation?
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by zby 8y ago
They have been at https://www.wolvessummit.com/ - they are preparing for a funding round. You can find them at other events listed on their page: https://fingerprints.digital/event/
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by zby 8y ago
A company I am considering investing into: https://fingerprints.digital/
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by zby 8y ago
I would but I cannot delete it from my phone :( I still use it on my desktop.
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by zby 8y ago
Sounds risky. Not that uber drivers are riskless - but food can be spoiled in less obvious ways than driving.

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