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I think this is only a way to avoid creating things because we don't focus on collaborative note taking systems. Once people start sharing notes, they will start making friends by …

How is this not the kill-switch for bitcoin? Every bitcoin comes with the risk of having been in a wallet of a criminal. Since all transactions are kept forever, shouldn't every bi…

> And so, for the record, if I may, disrespectfully, unkindly, repeat myself once more: fuck this con, fuck this exploitation and lazy hustle, and fuck this enormous Jenga of grift…

That doesn't explain why the community didn't step up much much more and brought the development to new heights. What is holding back Java developers from using their Java language…

Would it be an option to embrace that development? Instead of assimilating everybody the Borg way, it would also be possible to tag snarky people and allow each user to choose if t…

I still don't understand why Eclipse as an open source project couldn't adapt. Unlike emacs, which is written in elisp, Eclipse is written in Java, the language in which its users …

With a withdrawn self, how can there be a personal failing? My point is that people don't attack her specifically, it's just the way society is. Criticism works for society because…

>what is creating this boundary? is it merely the withdrawing of the self My armchair answer is that this is creating the boundary. There is no 'merely'. People want to interact wi…

By that logic we also don't use an alphabet because we have started using symbols like the smiley. Which non-phonemic symbol have they used that couldn't be replaced by a phonemica…

In which way are Egyptian hieroglyphs and their hieratic form [1] not an alphabet? There is a huge number of ligatures and some determinatives, but that's an ad-on. You can use the…

The world could also improve if the readers of fiction would increase their engagement in research, business and knowledge.

Why do publishers not offer end-users the right to transfer games from one service to another? That would allow new platforms to compete. I can understand that established services…

The infrastructure problem is funny because this wouldn't be a problem if Google would use GCP by themselves. They should also be smart enough to create an export function for goog…

Some standard about unified chargers.

The social web is no problem. We can choose what we visit like the author's father chose to buy those books. What is missing is a beacon of light in the desert of choice. There is …

The users punish. You need a trustworthy core by which you can judge the vote of new users. You can incorporate them until somebody complains about a result that is out of place. T…

Wasn't China's unified standard from about 2007 much more influential?

>You simply can't trust sites, who have a strong incentive to get to the top of SEO rankings Why is it not enough to punish sites that abuse the keywords?

>Because Google would then become a business with virtually no revenue - and no chance of producing revenue. kagi.com bets on becoming a business with revenue. In the same way, Goo…

If the network is that important, isn't there a startup looming that provides such a network to the many people who are not in one? I tend to think that networks are not excluding …

This is fun. A minor issue: It would be nice if nodes could be skipped. E.g. initially, the dog is on the tree and can move to the carrot in two steps. It is required to make both …

Is there a limit to the usability of that accuracy or will there be a huge increase in the demand for electricity soon that is only limited by the ability of NVIDIA and AMD to prod…

>[extrovert] children who grow up in more prosperous homes are less likely to face the kind of stressful events that undermine self-confidence. Is extrovert synonymous with confide…

That's something I have also read about Donald Knuth. In his first years, he spent additional time on solving all available mathematically problems for a class until he became much…