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Why not pseudoanonymous / anonymous identities that work together on a decentralized platform like Urbit? The corporation is obsolete. DAOs will be the future.

> YouTube can choose to keep or delete any content on their platform regardless of truth/free speech/or not. It's in the EULA. You want free speech, go outside and yell. No one is …

Was Jesus disabled? The Pharisees might have thought so, for he rejected their beliefs and tenets. Was Shiva (Adiyogi) disabled? The royal court of Parvati's father (the King) prob…

I was paranoid for a long time about things like SIP and SecureBoot but think of it this way. What is the likelihood that you are infected by a bootkit versus some 0day that affect…

nVidia is on its last legs, honestly. If this is the best they can come up with, forget it. What is the real world application/use case for this GPU? I doubt it would be used for a…

This form factor reminds me of the Commodore 64 and old school retro computing. Long live the user developer! :)

Yeah, I was surprised there is no mention of drift and technical debt. These are the things that make software engineering hard. Someone new will always suggest a rewrite, which is…

Yes, I too am a fan of repdigits.

The neoluddite take is kind of like beating a dead horse. Smartphones are a tool; how you use this tool is entirely dependent on how disciplined your mind is. Not everyone who has …

> And she took on another heart—no longer minded toward earthly things—but ecstatically in the angelic dialect, sending up a hymn to God in accord with the style of the angels. And…

Consider this: China can close their economy tomorrow and most of the world’s economies would crumble almost overnight. The supply chain of most developed and developing nations is…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--KU79Y0DQ

My manager mentioned Hacktoberfest a while back. Honestly I’d never heard of it. When I went to check it out, I was greeted with millions of commits of whitespace. Now I dream of t…

There is also Vyadha Gita within Mahabharata. In it a sanyasi learns of enlightenment from a lowly butcher.

I'm reminded of the scene in the "Last Emperor" when the young Emperor Puyi is weaned at a much later age from breast milk. Have there been any studies on long term consumption of …

It is the same in Japan, isn't it? Hikikomori, NEETs, those hiding in net cafes, etc. The culture will hide them from tourists and society at large.

It's a lot simpler on embedded devices. U-Boot for example is extremely simple and much more robust than GRUB or LILO.