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by merelydev 3mo ago
Clearly the system has vulnerabilities. Billionairs managed to exploit these. Asking whether this is good or bad is liking asking if hacking is good or bad for society. If vulnerabilities exist someone will exploit them, thats the arbitrage
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by merelydev 3mo ago
That's a fair argument.
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by merelydev 3mo ago
I agree, generally competition is a good thing, but in this case I think we're having a divide and conquer scenario that works in Google's advantage. We're seeing that compute and investment liquidity is effectively a zero-su
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by merelydev 3mo ago
In the last week Alphabet has positioned itself to go on the offense, going after exccess liquidity and excess compute. I fear that OpenAi and Anthropic would not be able to compete against an adveserial Alphabet which owns it's own mo
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by merelydev 3mo ago
Opensource doesn't mean open to contributions. The source code is available, you can fork it and apply your patches there. This is the way to go to reduce supply chain vulnerabilities and to reduce time of mainters reviewing LLM slop.
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by merelydev 4mo ago
That's 80B that doesn't go to OpenAI or Anthropic.
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by merelydev 4mo ago
> Isn't that just an instance of the political problem for all ages: who controls what, who gets to rule and who obeys, the fundamental power struggle apparent in all human history. Yes. But modern technology, especially software do
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by merelydev 4mo ago
Would you agree that to some extend, the ability to control technology is an incentive for companies to develop/innovate, and the more control they have the more profitable it is?
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by merelydev 4mo ago
What does "democratic elections" even mean in this new world where traditional politicians don't understand these dynamics?
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by merelydev 4mo ago
I believe the great problem of our age is deciding who controls technology. The technologists who create it believe they should control it, the people who use it are starting to believe they should control it and the governments who write t
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by merelydev 4mo ago
> This is beyond resepectless and shameless to the bones. I don't care about that converted code, what i see is an embarresment. I disagree, as a programmer having my code being used long after I am gone would be a great honor. >
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Copyright vs. Copyleft (2007)(gnu.org)
30 points by merelydev 4mo ago|0 comments
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by merelydev 4mo ago
I agree with you and the article. I was just pointing out though, that the main innovation in bitcoin is not the cryptography, but the game theory which goes far enough to allow adversaries to work together, follow the protocol/law. Th
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by merelydev 4mo ago
As someone who is somewhat a long time disciple of Cory Doctorow, having read his book Little Brother, when I was 17, which introduced me to Linux, Privacy/Cryptography and the Surveillance State. I think he is really downplaying the c
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by merelydev 4mo ago
Yes, the UI/UX of decentralized systems is so difficult for users that it creates demand for centralized systems to manage it for them, Coinbase, Gmail, Github, Twitter, The Pirate Bay.
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by merelydev 4mo ago
Thank you, for the clarification.
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Judging AGI Output (2020)(lesswrong.com)
2 points by merelydev 4mo ago|0 comments
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by merelydev 4mo ago
As it relates to religion, the West prays and the East meditates. Praying is to look outside of oneself, meditating is to look inside. This might explain the difference in source of truth.
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by merelydev 5y ago
Generally Frontend is complex, Backend is simple. Both can be easy or hard depending on the project.
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by merelydev 6y ago
You are probably using an adblocker. On Firefox you can open private browsing: ctrl+shift+p
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by merelydev 6y ago
I think it is Free as in Freedom.
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by merelydev 6y ago
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7wbtg/who_is_o... - Oleg eats lambdas for breakfast - The Y combinator fears Oleg - Oleg knows all the programs that halt on a Turing ma
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by merelydev 6y ago
Play it online here: https://drummyfish.gitlab.io/anarch/bin/web/anarch.html To the creator thank you for making this. I also enjoyed reading the manifesto. Keep up the good work and never stop fighting capit
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by merelydev 6y ago
The author posted this on reddit [0] a few months ago: Vale's main goal is to be as fast as C++, but much easier and safer, without sacrificing aliasing freedom. It does this by using "constraint references", which behave dif
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Proprietary Software Is Often Malware(gnu.org)
3 points by merelydev 6y ago|0 comments
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Suckless Philosophy(suckless.org)
2 points by merelydev 6y ago|0 comments
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by merelydev 6y ago
[Warning Advice from a Beginner] I started self learning Maths (number theory) this year from scratch I am extremely slow but I am progressing. My advice is take a textbook of the kind of maths you want to learn and skip the theory jump str
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Copyright vs. Copyleft (2007)(gnu.org)
84 points by merelydev 6y ago|84 comments
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by merelydev 6y ago
I think not using cloud computing and servers when not strictly necessary is more planet friendly. For example using decentralized p2p technologies like WebRTC is a good way to not use servers I know you still need servers for peer indexing
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by merelydev 6y ago
> I really hope Github's learning and (job) recommendation algorithms do not take this into account. Github is becoming too powerful.

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