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Having different "likes" doesn't mean a place isn't peaceful or calm. My OC was that the larger cities are where the insanity has been happening for almost ever.

People can be unhappy anywhere, but also people can learn to get along anywhere too... unless there is a riot side your house, or a shooting next door. These are outside your personal influence.
Youtube does not age restrict many videos, it's seriously hard finding one that's neither gore nor porn and still age restricted.
Apparently you haven't read anything by Jean-Paul Sartre.
> Your example is one of a physical good. Of course you don't need an NFT to display a card physically. But what if you want to display it digitally?

It's a QR code, it's already digital
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I have almost entirely given up Twitter, though I often miss the ability to just send passing thoughts into a void. I'm currently casually working on a home-rolled microblog I plan to embed on my personal site as a replacement.

Writing these silly thoughts down and just saving them in a document is another option, but doesn't quite feel the same. At the same time, they're often too silly for me to want to send them to a friend directly. Microblogs fill an interesting niche between those two.
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There's no such constraint, it would be futile even if there was, you can just copy the image to a different web server and get a different URL.

What's going to be interesting to watch is when one of the heavily CDN's used goes down so NFT owners are left with receipts of broken links, even better if a CDN gets hijacked and gets configured to return the same Rick Roll clip for every NFT link.
Devil's advocate here. Recently my employer (large corporate) went all in on (as it is now called) Microsoft 365: Teams, SharePoint online, OneDrive etc.

While I have no illusions about Microsoft's business model and motives, the truth is that "it just works" and makes collaboration very easy.

Create a team in Teams, add a document which everyone can edit (if needed at the same time), click a button, share it with someone outside the team, have a meeting with them, click a button, save the meeting video to OneDrive, click one more button and you're collaborating on a whiteboard. And all this works fully synchronized on my phone too.

As far as I can see (from their terrible website) LibreOffice does not offer this at all. Maybe Germany, known for being "digitally outdated" by 5-10 years, will suffer no consequences from that and their basic workflow is still "type document - print it - sign it - fax it". But it will be a sad day for my productivity when I am forced to switch to LibreOffice.
Forums are for people who have something to say. Tweets are for people following others and mostly grunting.

When I imagine people "participating" in microblogs, I imagine middle and highschoolers wearing several tiny badges they might not even know the meaning of.

Greenpeace, Boyscouts, NERV leaf, Red Cross, Smiley Face, Che Guevara, and so on
I really don't get the hate that Linux Desktop gets. When comparing Mac OS to Gnome the difference feels marginal (at least for normal users) these days - everything feels snappy, consistent and looks nice. What exactly are the pain points?
Isn't funny how the same generation that almost bankrupted the entertainment industry with piracy (their words, not mine) is now crying and stomping their feet because of exactly the same copy-paste 'piracy'. It doesn't go both ways, scarcity simply doesn't exist with digital goods, nor does ownership. We proved two decades ago that average people don't care about copyright, why would anybody be so naive to think adding a blockchain would change anything?
I mean, the collectible theory can be right, and NFTs can still be for laundering money and finding suckers. I can see how they could function as the equivalent of the signature on a signed and numbered print. But no one is paying thousands of dollars for ugly monke or lion picrew pfps based on the art.
There is a massive difference between the New World colonialism that largely ended in the 1800s and countries colonized during the Scramble for Africa. If you HAD to compare New World colonies with Scramble for Africa countries, you would probably compare the fate and status of the indigenous groups.
I don't see how PHP fits into your example either.

Who is writing the code in the first place? They're uploading existing code to a shared host through FTP but then who wrote the code? Is it a prepackaged Wordpress? But then Wordpess hosts already exist.

If the developer is giving them a zip to upload, why can't the developer handle the deployment as well?

You moved the goalposts so far that the example doesn't make any sense anymore.
Which would be better than all streaming platforms today who don't even let you download what you have bought
I've seen these stories pop up from time to time about large entities switch to linux or open source software in general and it seems there's a large number who end up going back to windows/proprietary. Hopefully this is not one of those.
That means nothing: I want to be free to copulate with any mate - what should you do when I approach yours? Well, this is this balance and how to reach it that is the difficulty: what you say has no substance and everyone agrees.
Maybe Russia could manage to get their own people vaccinated.
Al Gore, looking on, went on to make all kinds of false doomsday predictions. He revised some of them, moving the year out, and those failed too. I can't recall -- was every single prediction in "An Inconvenient Truth" false, or just most of them?

Anyway, sure. The greenhouse effect is a thing. But the climate system is a lot more complicated than a glass aquarium with some CO2 in it. It's not a high school science fair project, it's the most complex of complex systems with millions of phenomena all affecting each other. So no, we can't just code up a model and see what it's going to do. It's fundamentally not amenable to simulation.

So we look to the past. We have pretty good ideas what was going on with CO2 and temperature for at least 500M years, more like 2B years. If mankind adding 100ppm over a century is supposed to cause a disaster, why didn't adding ten times that much cause a disaster when it happened in the past? CO2 has actually been around 20x what it is now. Present CO2 levels are just up off their all time lowest point. We're actually much closer to a dangerous low point of CO2, since plant respiration fails at around 150ppm.
No, that is not how this works.
The ability to share a link to your post on HN, or other social media.
Have you used a version of php from the past decade? Or are you conflating a bad framework or codebase with a bad language?
If you have enough RAM and patience, you can emulate anything even on small CPU. eg. https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linux%20on%208bi...
I agree with you but they did in Munich and then they undid it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
You are free to make a choice even when the end result is restricting future freedom (sword=death, illegal action=prison/death). So you can in any moment "be totally free" in virtually any society as long as concerns for freedom in future moments are irrelevant to you
I've been using Arch Linux on Lenovo hardware (desktops and laptops) and have had no problems in years. I imagine the "easy" distros are even better with even more features. I wouldn't sweat it too much.
Ok, so it's "A German State" (Schleswig-Holstein), not "The German State" (which would be the federal government) - of course this is big news too, but the title is a little bit misleading...
If the FDA is not able to deliver our documents to us in time, maybe it is time to shut it down. Let public do the research and let consumers decide if they want to take the vaccine based on available results.
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Aww come on, I don't want you to agree with me, I want us to have an interesting discussion about what freedom is and ultimately why we want it. It's worth while, trust me.
>How different is really microblogging from forums?

From user standpoint?

Significant.

No any "modern" approach, let it be - reddit, twitter, hackernews, fb groups, discord, mailing lists maybe? gets even close when it comes to quality/merit of discussions that forum can enable
HelloList is the best way to stay organized and get stuff done with the people you interact with most. Create teams with the various groups in your life and collaborate on #anything. Teams could be your friends, family, coworkers, club, school, organizations, or anyone you want. Organizing life is now easier than ever and available wherever you go. Plus it’s free!
An action has an undesirable consequence, does this mean it is impossible to perform?

The question isn't whether we are free under all circumstances, but whether we are free now.
You said:

> It is why you are always seeing articles insisting, idiotically, that RCTs prove depression medications are no better than placebo.

I responded to your claim with a little more colour on that particular trial in order to perhaps start a discussion around what we mean as depression.

Clearly, I didn't succeed at my aim, my apologies ;)

Edit: it's particularly the framing of the trials as "idiotic" that spurred me to reply, so I'd be interested in why you believe this.
>If the Louvre offered the opportunity for someone to be called the owner of the Mona Lisa but they could never take it out of the Louvre or any way control it what would that sell for? I suspect many, many millions of dollars.

I thought that was a fairly normal thing? That is, someone buys or owns a work of art but it's left in a museum in perpetuity.
I think it's misguided.

1) Some orgs are stuck with older LO versions
2) veresions that aren't good enough, MS marketing team probably doesn't have to make a lot of efforts to entice organizations to pay for their stuff. For instance Writer custom fields UI is way too hard to use (to the point i'm not sure it's not a bug). You can't make people work with that no matter how trained they are.
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I like this point. To others, the statement is not a definition of freedom, but a guide on how to make decisions. If you think of freedom as a point, that needs to be achieved, defended, or maintained, you’ll act in opposition to other forces, and choose angles to defend around the past basis. If instead, freedom is a vector, your goal is positive, to expand it, to open new freedoms, and to ensure that as society moves forward freedom continues to grow and be maintained with it.
Aside from the obvious strategic/people power side of it, honestly, I think being a user of closed-source is just the wrong model for a big organization. Ultimately, closed-source software is like running a factory with a machine you aren't allowed to repair.

Having your core means of production and security essentially at the mercy of somebody else's support team seems kind of insane to me. I get the point in the 90s, when software was a smaller part of all institutions, but these days, it's just such a massive strategic disadvantage that even if the software is way better, it's still worse.
One can read and disagree (that's what makes reading philosophy hard; you want to argue, discuss, counter the narrative, take it into another direction, deny the assumption, put forward another hypothesis or explanation... but the book just sits there, static and smug, plowing ahead with whatever very specific point and perspective auther has already made up their mind on :)
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Thinking of both the sheer effort of will and physical work needed to create that brought me almost to tears when I looked at the close up. The last time I was similarly affected by a work of art was while sitting at the top of one of the towers as the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.

Thank you for posting it.
Didn't Munich do this like 20 years ago and it was a complete failure?

Linux and OpenOffice. I think one of the major concerns at the time was that OpenOffice didn't work well with all the Excel and Word documents they needed to open, so people opted out and installed Windows instead. To the regular office worker, it didn't matter much if the computer ran Linux or Windows, as long as it worked.

To the IT admin, it might have been more work to administer thousands of Linux machines, due to the slightly less mature environment.
org-mode appears to be thriving these days, or always was, but either way I'm really glad to see.

I only picked up emacs last year after being a die-hard vim user for 8+ years and org-mode was a large reason why. I wanted to learn how to manage todos and documentation alongside my code - it's incredible. Lifechanging.

The only negative is trying to teach others to use this workflow. I haven't found a tool yet that can easily transform todos in org-mode into something a product manager could use. Exporting to HTML makes sharing docs a breeze. Maybe workflow tools are a rarer use-case or I just haven't dug far enough.

Either way, org-mode definitely worth learning in 2021
You hit the nail on the head, this is exactly why I fell in love with PHP. I learnt it back in the PHP4 days, and it just seemed like the perfectly straightforward way to do web.

In a similar fashion, I abstracted away the database connection, query and returning of results into one lazy-inited function, so talking to the database really was just like

<?=q("select name from users where id = $userid") ?>

I worked a lot with other languages, none feeling as natural to me as this one, aside from Ruby.
I beat this drum on HN and IRL and get tired of being downvoted for it.

Trust is a lower energy state - it allows specialization, and conservation of energy that might need to be spent defending against threats from different directions.

But people who hold anti-social ideas seem to indulge in thinking that they can create a novel system where they have no obligations, just privileges. Crypto prices going up causes these anti-social delusions to flourish because the increasing prices seem to validate the libertarian futurists fantasy of a world with no trade-offs, where we can avoid having responsibility to other humans.
The flip-side of that pronunciation thing is that we're flexible on how things are pronounced. Just listen to the differences between British and American English or even regional differences in those countries. Us native English speakers know all the different ways our letters can sound, so differing pronunciations tend to remain recognizable as long as you don't form a homophone with another word that would work in context.
I mean from a technical server / client perspective.

I agree that from a user perspective it can create very different "illusions" and (over the long run) even modify people's behavior - which is scary if you think about it: simple choices at the technical level can change society
> I think people on here are getting too caught up in the technical. I can print out a shiny charizard pokemon card but it isn't the same thing is it?

In this case it is bit for bit identical. My inkjet printer Charizard would never pass as real.

> A better way to think about NFTs is exchanging a monetary gift to the creator of something you enjoy for a collectable.

This is called “buying art”.
Example? I'm a UK taxpayer and as far as I know you can still do basically that. You can also avoid inheritance tax is you buy a farm to borrow against rather than crypto. See J Clarkson for example.

>He bought it mainly because you don’t pay death duties on land. “That’s the critical thing. So rather than just have money in the bank, and get a statement with numbers written on it that gives no one any pleasure at all, you could derive a great deal of pleasure and pass it on to your children.”
Having to sign up is the first friction point.
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Yes, this is indeed my point.
Consider OnlyOffice or the version offered by Collabora with on-line features. I really don't know how good these options are but they exist.
If you're looking for a SaaS solution, I can really recommend Archbee[0]. We've moved to it from ReadMe[1] recently, due to constraints in ReadMe's product and the challenges scaling it commercially in our model.

[0]: https://www.archbee.io/
[1]: https://readme.com/
Make feature branch off main, push, make a PR, checkout main again, make a different feature branch with a different PR, repeat. Why would I continue using the other feature branch for the 2nd?
Is there any sources for practice problems like this with sed and other Unix utilities? Like a leetcode, but for solving problems in a Unix environment.

I really enjoy these kinds of issues and see some wizards (like this post!) be able to do some really cool stuff, and I’d like to have it in my tool belt, but I’m not sure where I can get practice problems.

Thanks!
Ubuntu is very stable and easy to get started with. I know there's some frustration with Canonical's direction, but it's still very much the distro I'd recommend to anyone who's just getting started. Everything more or less works out of the box for me (as much as it ever did with Windows), and Ubuntu still has the advantage of being the primary focus of most online documentation.
I like your argument, but there are some truth to what he says, not that I agree with him.
indeed, building vs using is an entirely valid hobby. some people like to repair cars for fun, or restore old ones. i knew someone who restored old steam engines. or people who like to restore/build computers from used parts and give them to kids who need one.

i built my own bike when i was young, but mainly because it was cheaper to get a quality bike that way and easier than saving up the money for a brand new bike. in the end riding is more interesting, so now that i can afford it, i just buy what i need.
I have a personal new tab chrome / firefox extension that does exactly this. A black screen, a button, that's it. Don't install someone else's extension -- make your own off a minimal example on github. It's... well it's about the simplest bit of code I've written that I rely on daily.
Ignorant question: Can downloading the torrent result in charges of 'digital theft' and given the 'value' of the file result in a felony?
The painting example isn't valid. There's 1 original painting that only 1 person (or group) can own. Anyone who buys a print has something fundamentally different than I do; I have the painting hanging in my house. With a digital image, there isn't an original: all copies are equivalent (save for compression)
The welfare system has been deliberately broken though. The bureaucratic hoops erected in thr last 10 years make it harder for regular people who need help to get while doing little to nothing about fraud.
Looks a useful resource thanks!
Munich did that a few years ago, which got rolled back after they elected the dude mayor who got Microsoft to move their German headquarters to Munich. Completely unrelated events, of course.

There were of course some technical problems as well, e.g. because a number of administrative tasks can only be performed using Excel 2003 with VBS macros enabled and stuff like that, as well as "technical problems", like "users can't install software themselves" (i.e. users don't have root on the clients).
Of course it can fail! It's all about chances and risks, no?

For me, there is only a small chance that cryptocurrency will truly break through. But when it does, it will be HUGE.

So a small chance X total game changer = a lot of potential return.

If you invest 1% of your portfolio, you can only lose 1%. However, there was (and still is) a small chance it goes x100, which means a total 100% return on your portfolio. So now you have 200 instead of 100.

I was proven right, and so it's easy for me to say I took the right decision. But when it would have gone to 0, it would have still been a smart move to invest 1%.

For me, the stupid people are the ones who are sure about the outcome. While at this point, nobody knows. You can only see the potential or not.
They undididing the undid
Seems to be a very similar idea to https://www.os-js.org/
I would agree that the Linux Desktop sucks in absolute terms when we think what a sane Desktop experience could look like but compared to Windows, this does not hold true.

Linux has quite improved from the early KDE 4 days. These days, you install Linux Mint with Cinnamon and you are good to go. Super easy to use and just works. It is based on Ubuntu, so you can use all the packages but with the bad stuff and experiments removed.

Modern Windows is absolutely dystopian in comparison. Not being happy with getting money from licenses, they try to gather all the data about you that they can and try to shove their other services into your face. And then the whole update story. Not only do you need to restart the computer, you can't even do anything else while it is updating and it is taking its time.

Plus every damn Windows Computer in every school, university or whatever has always been maddening slow. (Yeah, I know it all depends on the specs and how it is configured and if you are running some silly antivirus and so on but still. Install Linux and you get a fast and responsive experience and it stays that way.)

Honestly I don't see any reason to run Windows instead of Linux in 2021 except maybe running very specific software that does not run well on Wine.
I was more commenting on the general concept than a specific implementation. To be honest, while I tried to be optimistic about Google+ I never used it much and didn't dive into things like Circles hardly at all.

Certainly there can be a need to partition things. Today, I pretty much do it by using different social media for different purposes and, to the degree I blend some things, I keep it mostly uncontroversial and not overwhelming for those who may be only interested in some aspect.
whomever writes the check
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Odd, I'm getting Perl/CGI gigs still. I should tell them to rewrite to...what's cool now?
Ah phew, thanks. The site made it sound like they only supported Algolia.
Living in the bubble of SF, Calendly is the "high-tech" way to sync when to meet, for both private and professional reasons. Most importantly, for interviews, it's highly efficient - rather than give "a couple times that work for you", you just pass them a Calendly link. For a senior software dev that gets bombarded with offers, it's basically the only way to navigate the sheer volume of possibilities.

The paid plan only lets you configure one meeting configuration, so if you simultaneously want to use it for your personal life you kind of have to pay for it. Pretty clever monetization strategy if you ask me. Anyway, as part of this bubble, a large number of people I know follow their calendar religiously - otherwise it's a host of double-booking friends and missing plans that you really did want to go to with people you really did want to spend more time with!

I get that this is part of the strange, strange bubble I live in, but the startup life is busy with a work/life balanced on the work side of things. Not trying to humblebrag that I have a lot of friends, it's more that I'm a wee bit forgetful and don't want to stand somebody up. It's ruder to be inefficient and have a multi-email back and forth to figure out a mutually acceptable time!

(Because I know the people are going to read too much into this: There are people here that don't live so slavishly to their calendar, but if I forget to manually add them to my calendar I'm likely to forget I've made plans.)