charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

It's the same article, published on multiple sites. Is there a reason (eg: only one site has the rights) to prefer Huffpo? My inclination would be the other way.

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

This would be easier if the internet were optimized around enlightenment values (for lack of a better phrase) instead of the values of a tabloid newspaper.

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

The Rio had slow transfer speed (USB), hardly any storage (less than one CD), big ugly form factor... and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t rechargeable. My buddy at the time bought one. It did not impress.

The tech for the first iPod (Firewire and a 5GB hdd) made it essentially a different category of device.

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

I can’t remember any portable MP3 playing device before iPod that wasn’t a joke. Are you thinking of a particular product that was comparable? I’m curious.

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

We seem to agree about the level of risk. It's no more my place to tell you how comfortable you should feel with that risk, than it would be for me to tell you what genre of music should be your favorite. That's just personal preference.

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

Well then. Carry on :)

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

   >  it won't be a good business decision

You don't think it might be better to assume all this data will leak or be hacked? You most likely have decades of life ahead of you, and once a file is free on the net, it's there forever.

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

Good one :(

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

Underrated comment. The Blade Runner esthetic started with Moebius. Hard to imagine what the movie would look like had he never existed.

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

If you post "go ahead and downvote me", whether justified or not, readers feel manipulated, and do.

charlesism

hace 6 añosdiscuss

Google has done away with most of its original competitive advantages. Its biggest advantages now are its name recognition and its size. If Google had started off with paid search results and what-you-search-for-is-not-what-you-get we'd probably all still be using Altavista.

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

I’m guessing once “customer education” fails Boeing, they’ll make a few minor alterations and sell the thing under a different name. Hello “Boeing SFTY9000” or something.

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Why isn’t the Schrödinger's cat thing sufficient? I don’t know much about quantum physics, but if we find situations where matter has odds of behaving a certain way, that seems like evidence. How do we explain events not always having a predictable outcome unless all possible outcomes occur somewhere?

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

  > what you're describing sounds more like a multi-dimensional (above the ones we're aware of) universe rather than a multiverse.

We’re aware of the possibility that we might do something, or could have done something. Does that count as an awareness of higher dimensions?

I don’t know enough about physics to understand how a multi-dimensional (above 4D) universe is different than a multiverse. I assumed they were one and the same concept.

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Shouldn’t the default position be that a multiverse exist? A multiverse is what logic suggests (starting with “a point in motion is a line” and moving up to higher dimensions)

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Everything past Snow Leopard. Lion was a disaster, and there is literally no feature I use that I prefer in any Mac OS created since then. What's more, the OS has become uglier and buggier.

Edit: actually, I like the addition of Finder > Cut, and Finder > Rename. So, hey, there is something!

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

Many of Feynman's capers and eccentricities are covered in the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" It's a collection of his essays. I've actually noticed the title pop up a few times before in the comments here in HN. It's a fun read.

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

It hasn’t gone far enough; not by a looooong shot.

Billions of compromising documents, photos and personal details are now sitting around on the servers of a half dozen for-profit companies.

Only Equifax has given us a taste of what is in store.

Is the world prepared for the day when a trillion Gmail messages leak? Billions of personal camera-roll photos? Trillions of search history entries?

We needs to start taking these issues seriously.

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

I think of the Internet today as being in the “gathering” stage. All our data is just being slurped up, hanging around on the servers of a few dozen companies. It’s alarming, to be sure, but just you wait! A few years from now - when computers are faster and storage is cheaper - we’ll enter the “disseminating” stage.

That’s the stage we’ll enter as soon as an entire internet’s worth of content becomes easily transferable.

That’s when all your private information from 2019 (your medical history, gmail messages, bank details, your search and browsing and shopping history, your private photos, etc) will leak to the public.

It’s just a question of time because any morsel of data only needs to leak once to be henceforth online forever. It will be a complete nightmare.

charlesism

hace 7 añosdiscuss

   > And yet: When people want 
   > to migrate, no one has Finland 
   > on top of their wish list. 
   > It’s America. Always America. 
   > Why is this?

Because Finland is cold.

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