cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Most people use queues to do this. At least I do.

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Yep.

If the people who run wild wonderful off grid (great channel) have taught me anything, it's that battery backup is essential.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Protests are a temporary thing. Our area has none.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

I walk with the dog and sometimes the kids every day, so I see police patrolling around. Had an interesting conversation the other day with the police officer:

  - So officer, how have things changed since covid?
  - Sir, you won't believe the stuff I get called for. Getting teenagers off their cell phones, wife angry that husband didn't do his share of the chores
  - What about what people associate with "crime"?
  - Down.

As crime declines overall (it has been for many years now), I believe we really need to rethink the jobs we ask police officers to do. They are hammers and they go into situations that don't require hammering and bad things happen.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Palantir is basically a private arm of multiple levels of governments.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Not an expert. Comparison to terraform?

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm sure if you break it out by whether they have any responsibilities or not, it would be different. Not generational. My generation was the same.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

can you elaborate? My understanding is this is a separate process.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

No they wouldn't.

Every single plebeian on earth wants the polar bears to survive. But their own economic, day-to-day survival is first. These thoughts you have are only for those with the luxury of time.

Edit: so if you TRULY want to help the earth, help your own kind first.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

http://blog.data-miners.com/2014/08/an-achievement-on-stack-...

remove https

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Oh this plumbum is nice.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Yeah im not referring to that. Every year there is at least one million dollar idea in stocks that doesn't involve penny stocks.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

In the last 10 years (well... even the last year) I have passed up many multi million dollar ideas. All that means is there will be another.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

You said it better than I ever could have!

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

What I do is decide that I am in charge of defining the machine, and the tools implement the machine. The tools are a means to an end. If the tools don't exist to implement the machine, I write them. If they do exist, great.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm not sure if I'm misreading you, you're misreading me, or we're on the same page :-)

Ideally, I map out workflow and find tools that fit the workflow in the Unix philosophy. Well-defined, do one thing well. As opposed to monoliths that purport to do everything.

My experience has been that doing things in this way builds a system that is extremely robust to significant changes.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

That's funny. I was the opposite. When I was younger, I would just say "lets default to other people's solution to similar problems and move on" but as time went by, I've become more "let's define our problems well and find surgical solutions by others". It's a slight difference but makes a huge difference in productivity.

Another way to say it is instead of taking someone else's blueprint, we build our own blueprint and use pre-fabricated parts to realize the blueprint.

In the end, sometimes solutions look very similar but there is that one little bit that gives you a competitive advantage that no one else has.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

My opinion is that it's like tcp/ip, new plumbing (ethereum). So expect protocols and apps to be built on top of it, similar to HTTP and browsers. You just need one killer app to make all the hype worth it.

That killer app might be elections or possibly decentralized trading of electronic assets like stock ownership.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Responding to title only: of course, but the things it _is_ a solution for will be world changing.

cheez

6 jaar geledendiscuss

Nope, I thought the same thing and said it in my comment. But you are smarter than me, clearly :-)

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