the general issue is that the feature rich web browser contains libraries wrapped around basically every leaf and stem of windows, mac and *nix desktop interface family forests.
(if your building on say, a completely fresh stage3 gentoo system, that equals some pretty good linker load. cairo comes to mind as a huge culprit, whether its webkit or mozilla.)
;) Maybe given Bezos' character, the endowment and the fleet upgrade is actually, well aside from being more cost effective for a lot of reasons .. also .. his best vehicle for scoring some long term points against the Saudis, since they 'didn't hack his phone, or whatever.
So then, at this point, there's nothing he can do to win you over that you can't come up with some conspiracy theory with an ulterior motive where he's bent on world domination?
Let me ask a more clarifying question, then, I guess? What could he do where you wouldn't think he was up to no good?
those people are abusing disqus across practically every site that uses it which ive visited in recent memory. wish they could get a handle on it, its a pretty useful plugin except for the apparent shitpot security. maybe its up to site moderators and they don't do the work, maybe the disqus audience is particularly vulnerable to soc.eng .. w/e, bummer.
Seems as if unapproved comments got auto hidden after a few days or a week, all that spam would disappear?
There are real comments too, though, starting from 8 years ago: "I can't say that I would ever manage to live like this, but I applaud their motivations behind it. // ... Why they don’t use automobiles ... // Actually, some do. ... Local church elders basically determine what is acceptable ..."
recently I started working on a module for nginx and have developed a full-blown crush on the module loader and its relationship with core functionality. haven't seen anything else quite like it, in C, that is. major newb talkin'
also plan9, its nice to read some kernel code that hasn't been tortured by practical requirements for decades.
On my part, I prefer Linode now simply because I won't support a company as openly monopolistic as .. those guys .. if I can avoid it. Also, maybe a little superficial loyalty. Linode was the first provider I found with KVM support when it was a new feature in QEMU, but that reasoning is long expired.
Small thing perhaps but Linode offers new OS image so much faster than anyone else as I have seen them release CentOS 8 image pretty much on the day it was released and DO hadn't got it the last time I checked after a month or so.
When a company has a room to care to the detail like this, you can feel they're not crushed by support requests which may mean they're doing things right.
I like Linode and DO and have my issues with the big cloud players, but I don’t see them as monopolistic at all? There are multiple highly competitive offerings in the market, each competing on features and cost. You have lots of choice and even vendor lock in is somewhat mitigable if you want to put the effort in.
ah- i meant i don't like those guys ' who rebuilt downtown Seattle in their own image.. (it's silly, I know, but I hate to write corp names as proper nouns once they start to abuse peoples trust, and HN is filtering the asterisks I would have used on another medium. ... i mean a$$azon is openly monopolistic.. that works.)
as a student who didn't understand why I was getting it right more often when I wasn't showing my work, the assignment of credit based on this frustrated my education immensely.
figured out, a decade later, doing remedial math to get into calculus, that i was just a touch dyslexic. it had made me vulnerable to some seemingly algorithmic multiple-choice test trickery in their remedial math program, and explained where the requirements to show work had helped me to develop the wrong answer, so many times in high school.
understanding this and being able to give myself a pass where i could expect to transpose some variables .. i was actually sort-of talented and more importantly, i actually enjoyed it ..
In the US we ban marketing tobacco and alcohol to minors, if that is largely okay with everyone, we should consider extending it to ban marketing -anything- to minors.
When I hear someone say 'the system,' I wish they would be more specific.
I think a small group of corporations being in direct control of the mass dissemination of corporation serving behavioral role models and information is a problem that needs to be addressed in order ensure the quality of freedom in the marketplace.
Taking the oceanic volumes of weapons grade, artificial psychological pressure off the kids seems like a great place to start.
assuming the cure isn't open-source/ otherwise impossible to patent and is basically garage-fab easy. ~84K for a course of hep C meds? insulin costing ~6k per patient per year? i see an incredible incentive to provide a more cost-effective treatment yes, but also see that drug companies have incredible incentives to suppress research they cannot control.
Without waxing too poetic about it, its like .. are you deliberately not hitting the nail on the head? ;)
> Perhaps there's a relationship between the perceived need for a scientific sounding explanation and compatibility with traditional medicine for a particular idea.
I think there is a chemical reward system in play in order to even want to seek information, of any quality. Even in its most utterly click-baity, priori, emotionally contrived or pseudo-scientific form...(needing something "science.")
It isn't as deep of a reward system as the one engaged where you are totally in awe of natures order and discover the capacity to produce information and thus direct some control over it through planning...(demonstrable compatibility.)(its too bad the click-bait people aren't selling better dope.)
That biology produces complex molecules which are even 'compatible between organisms in plant and animal is pretty awe inspiring. And, that the control of human intention has any control over nature, electrochemically or otherwise, likewise so.
(if your building on say, a completely fresh stage3 gentoo system, that equals some pretty good linker load. cairo comes to mind as a huge culprit, whether its webkit or mozilla.)