> replacement parts for models several years old are still plentiful. Data point: Just replaced a battery in a six years old Samsung smartphone in 20 seconds. It did not even cost me $10. Incredible value compared to…
A friend of mine enjoyed her first years in school in the Pannonian basin; I am not sure, whether they did something special - but it was enough to get her into a selective German high-school specialised in maths and…
Firefox 56 had some kind of performance regression[1], but FF Quantum is a joy to use. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74irm5/is_ff_super...
Met a guy in his twenties recently. He wanted to share something with me on FB. Told him I had no account. He replied politely: Oh, yes. I believe the many people in tech do not have one. He was a smart guy.
I wholeheartedly concur. Most people see the problem of power in that they don't have it. I believe, fewer people understand, that power itself is the problem, and not its particular location in a point in time. > We…
> most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth Sandberg (somewhere else recently): "We are explicitly not a news company, we are a tech company."
Would give this study a fresh angle, wouldn't it?
The trouble with this study - if I should guess - is selection bias: How many of those high IQ individuals are actually member of Mensa? Given some test many years ago, I might have been qualified to become a member of…
> However, Facebook really is, at this point, a clear monopoly. But here's a point: The zero-cost marginal cost characteristics of many software businesses makes this sector prone to be monopolistic. Acquire: data,…
> 1 billion people shouldn't have their lives dictated by a proprietary, opaque Skinner's box with no regard for privacy or rights. Of course they should not. Or should they? We live in a free society and you are…
Yes, true. But I am not a salesman to sell you a solution. All I ask for is to be more conscious about these, sometimes subtle, sometimes less so - things. If it helps you, here's a simple framework of mine to develop…
I'm sorry for being short on content, but I wish, more people would really go deeper into theory and open their eyes on the things around them and realize, that capitalism is an extremely aggressive beast that has…
Fun fact: Capitalism depends on crises - they are not the exception, they are the rule. People forget that and treat it as something that happens, like a natural catastrophe. This is unfortunate, because this is a…
> So, for example, a family would go to their local technology artisan to put together a smart home system tailored specifically to their needs. I am a software developer and consultant and you do not figure how…
I am the proud owner of a Laptop, that I can enjoy for years to come, since I can upgrade and replace disks, RAM and battery (hint: it's the last Macbook Pro that allowed this). Recently my smartphone battery died and I…
Gini coefficient is the among the highest in Europe, about 0.76. About ten years ago, a neoliberal shift loosened labor laws and saved the overall economy by letting less skilled workers not get unemployed, just take a…
> Germany is becoming a low income country for a lot of jobs and the unions are doing nothing against it. Yes, this is true. About 39% of the currently employed have so called atypical jobs [1] - some of which are…
> 23andME HAS handed your most personal data over to the authorities. Now just wait for some strange shift in power. I hope I do not wake up in ten years, leave my house and am welcomed by the authorities (maybe the…
> The amount of mindless, repetitive boilerplate one has to write because the language tries to be "simple" at the expense of abstraction, genericity and expressiveness looks intolerable to me. After wasting half a day…
I'm sure I read this long ago but wasn't thinking about it. But it seems very relevant, unfortunately.
Thanks for this story. I believe a lot of people would love to work on some greater good. I, for one, would love to work for a aggressive non-profit, if there is such a thing. Software and automation is the way to the…
I believe the tech sector is extremely prone to this: If you cannot climb out of a technical role, over time, you realize just how clueless most people are, especially those who imagine themselves of being "in control".…
> so my guess would be 2025 at the earliest. And since we are in guessing mode, here is another one: In a few years we will have multiple sci-hubs and pirate edu sites so by the time the public arrives at completely…
The research system is kind of ill[1] and this illness (ratings, prestige, grants, publications, metrics) is very much in line with the interest of publishers. So both the researcher and the business man have a shared…
Best of luck. Elsevier and other giants are putting significant resources in mimicking free and open structures in their portfolio to hide the infamy of their business model (selling a few bytes of publicly funded…
> replacement parts for models several years old are still plentiful. Data point: Just replaced a battery in a six years old Samsung smartphone in 20 seconds. It did not even cost me $10. Incredible value compared to…
A friend of mine enjoyed her first years in school in the Pannonian basin; I am not sure, whether they did something special - but it was enough to get her into a selective German high-school specialised in maths and…
Firefox 56 had some kind of performance regression[1], but FF Quantum is a joy to use. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/74irm5/is_ff_super...
Met a guy in his twenties recently. He wanted to share something with me on FB. Told him I had no account. He replied politely: Oh, yes. I believe the many people in tech do not have one. He was a smart guy.
I wholeheartedly concur. Most people see the problem of power in that they don't have it. I believe, fewer people understand, that power itself is the problem, and not its particular location in a point in time. > We…
> most powerful distributor of news and information on Earth Sandberg (somewhere else recently): "We are explicitly not a news company, we are a tech company."
Would give this study a fresh angle, wouldn't it?
The trouble with this study - if I should guess - is selection bias: How many of those high IQ individuals are actually member of Mensa? Given some test many years ago, I might have been qualified to become a member of…
> However, Facebook really is, at this point, a clear monopoly. But here's a point: The zero-cost marginal cost characteristics of many software businesses makes this sector prone to be monopolistic. Acquire: data,…
> 1 billion people shouldn't have their lives dictated by a proprietary, opaque Skinner's box with no regard for privacy or rights. Of course they should not. Or should they? We live in a free society and you are…
Yes, true. But I am not a salesman to sell you a solution. All I ask for is to be more conscious about these, sometimes subtle, sometimes less so - things. If it helps you, here's a simple framework of mine to develop…
I'm sorry for being short on content, but I wish, more people would really go deeper into theory and open their eyes on the things around them and realize, that capitalism is an extremely aggressive beast that has…
Fun fact: Capitalism depends on crises - they are not the exception, they are the rule. People forget that and treat it as something that happens, like a natural catastrophe. This is unfortunate, because this is a…
> So, for example, a family would go to their local technology artisan to put together a smart home system tailored specifically to their needs. I am a software developer and consultant and you do not figure how…
I am the proud owner of a Laptop, that I can enjoy for years to come, since I can upgrade and replace disks, RAM and battery (hint: it's the last Macbook Pro that allowed this). Recently my smartphone battery died and I…
Gini coefficient is the among the highest in Europe, about 0.76. About ten years ago, a neoliberal shift loosened labor laws and saved the overall economy by letting less skilled workers not get unemployed, just take a…
> Germany is becoming a low income country for a lot of jobs and the unions are doing nothing against it. Yes, this is true. About 39% of the currently employed have so called atypical jobs [1] - some of which are…
> 23andME HAS handed your most personal data over to the authorities. Now just wait for some strange shift in power. I hope I do not wake up in ten years, leave my house and am welcomed by the authorities (maybe the…
> The amount of mindless, repetitive boilerplate one has to write because the language tries to be "simple" at the expense of abstraction, genericity and expressiveness looks intolerable to me. After wasting half a day…
I'm sure I read this long ago but wasn't thinking about it. But it seems very relevant, unfortunately.
Thanks for this story. I believe a lot of people would love to work on some greater good. I, for one, would love to work for a aggressive non-profit, if there is such a thing. Software and automation is the way to the…
I believe the tech sector is extremely prone to this: If you cannot climb out of a technical role, over time, you realize just how clueless most people are, especially those who imagine themselves of being "in control".…
> so my guess would be 2025 at the earliest. And since we are in guessing mode, here is another one: In a few years we will have multiple sci-hubs and pirate edu sites so by the time the public arrives at completely…
The research system is kind of ill[1] and this illness (ratings, prestige, grants, publications, metrics) is very much in line with the interest of publishers. So both the researcher and the business man have a shared…
Best of luck. Elsevier and other giants are putting significant resources in mimicking free and open structures in their portfolio to hide the infamy of their business model (selling a few bytes of publicly funded…