college_physics

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by college_physics 4y ago
Can't comment specifically on this or that "dying company", but it is a bit disappointing that after, how many, four decades of open source? and the obvious utility of that paradigm, it still seems a major challenge to build
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by college_physics 4y ago
> thousands of other people who dedicate their lives to the topic to make it plain to you, there were thousands of slave traders who dedicated their lives to the topic, including e.g. how to optimally fill-up the ship with bodies. what d
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by college_physics 4y ago
Honestly the current content is not doing the platform any favors. Who wants another social media option that ranges from the inane to the toxic? Reddit like forums, open source self-hosting, federation, these are all good points but people
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by college_physics 4y ago
I don't think Zuck particularly cares about the next big thing. As the debacle with Apple shows, there are existential risks here and now, not in some sort of FOMO Despite appearances, if the metaverse gambit in the current episode mad
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by college_physics 4y ago
its quite depressing but it applies to much of corporate structure and incentives. how much more performance can you squeeze from an individual that: i) is not intrinsic to who they are (hence visible when you hire them - if its not the rig
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by college_physics 4y ago
He more than did his job. But who is the Doug Engelbart of today? Where are the people that can articulate an actually desirable digital future and rally everybody (including those exclusively focused on pecuniary matters) around a human-
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by college_physics 4y ago
I had not doubt it will be downvoted. Techbros out in force. If its good for my pocket, suck it up, its good for you. But we are having enough of it.
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by college_physics 4y ago
SVB didn't have a chief risk officer. Why have somebody bang theoretically about risks when the business is best placed to assess the real risk /sarcasm
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by college_physics 4y ago
> you can’t stop progress what is your definition of "progress"
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by college_physics 4y ago
> Microsoft is very aware thanks, that is comforting > the cat is out of the bag even if you don't like it thanks for bullying us around > the legitimately talented AI thinkers who exactly authorised you to project legitimacy
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by college_physics 4y ago
Would be interesting to every once in a while test "Using Linux without a network connection" (as in: install everything from usb/media and check all your workflows)
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by college_physics 4y ago
Well said. While its good to surface the challenges diverse people face and hopefully think about patterns that will solve them in efficient, systemic ways, the availability of Signal at the moment of time is of vital importance. Same, e.
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by college_physics 4y ago
people will once again try to defend the indefensible. antediluvian fractional reserve banking as it currently stands is not fit-for-purpose and the price paid by society is high and will keep growin. The other side of lazy private profits
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by college_physics 4y ago
Its possible. Its called sovereign money. You basically have an account with the central bank just like private banks do (but they dont want anybody else to have) These accounts pay strictly zero but can never default. Anybody who wants to
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by college_physics 4y ago
> There’s nothing I should have to do to maintain my claim on my bank account. Thats a wrong statement. You are thinking of money as a public good and thats how it should be, but thats not what it is now. Your claim is against a private
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by college_physics 4y ago
They'll be recycled soon enough like the Lehmann guy. There is a talent shortage in the industry.
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by college_physics 4y ago
If I interpret the action correctly the Fed just granted all banks a giant put option to place any government securities at par for cash whenever interest rates move against them The only decent thing would be to remove the bank's free
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by college_physics 4y ago
Dude, a depositor provides funds. Might get them back with interest, or not. Thats not the definition of a customer, thats the definition of an investor. The fact that it is supposed to be a low risk low return investment does not change th
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by college_physics 4y ago
The business model that Shoshana Zuboff termed surveillance capitalism did not just ruin the internet but undermined the future of the entire tech industry. Tech is far, far more than social or search. Most of it requires significant levels
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by college_physics 4y ago
"Visible to the naked eye" is increasingly a fuzzy statement ranging from magnitude 4.0 to 6.0+[0]: Light pollution means that in the environments where most of humanity lives we can see fewer and fewer stars. Nowadays if you see
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by college_physics 4y ago
Even if its not the "precise" moment, in the scheme of things does perfect timing really matter? Fact is, this shows beautifully that significant new algorithmic capability is becoming commoditised - fast. And thats a good thing.
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by college_physics 4y ago
thanks for the pointer, though from a quickscan this is not really a music theory tool but more like supercollider in rust?
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by college_physics 4y ago
Its a very cool project but as I have seen some other cool efforts as well, I feel that the domain of "open source computer-assisted music theory tools" is quite fragmented and people must reinvent wheels. I wonder if we could ima
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by college_physics 4y ago
how did it come to pass that the more concentrated a sector the better? the exact opposite is true. excessive concentration means an oligopolistic or oligopsonistic sector that is holding everybody hostage: clients, employees and the polit
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by college_physics 4y ago
> Touting “SVB’s deep understanding of the markets it serves, our *strong* risk management practices” (Emphasis mine). According to other news [0] they did not have a formally appointed chief risk officer for eight months. While having a
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by college_physics 4y ago
It is not clear if this was a breach of US banking regulation though. Independent risk management functions within banks become a big thing after the 2008 financial crisis but it was up to countries how to implemented Basel recommendations.
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by college_physics 4y ago
For some context, it seems that this is the first bank failure since some time (Oct 2020) [0] [0] https://www.fdic.gov/resources/resolutions/bank-failures/fai...
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by college_physics 4y ago
municipalities might have a counter-incentive to encourage bikes over cars. parking fees / taxes must be a sizeable chunk of income.
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by college_physics 4y ago
they might want some sort of franchise. push some costs and risks down the food chain for a share of the ad pie
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by college_physics 4y ago
I am not particularly interested about Meta's views on decentralized social networks. But I would be interested to hear what Apple engineers might think about this. After all at some point there was a thing called AppleTalk [0] [0] ht

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