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abolishme | 5 years ago | on: What’s New in macOS Big Sur: Human Interface Guidelines

Didn't see anyone mention this, but one of the main reasons for making macOS look more like iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS is because at some point we will be able to run apps written for the other systems natively in macOS. Seems like an obvious move, why is everyone so surprised? It just means less duplicated interface code for multiplatform products.

abolishme | 6 years ago | on: The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes, Scientists Say

In Minecraft, the whole world is made of cubes. Things are either cubes, or in the empty space where a cube could be. This line of theories (there have been many over the years) argue a few things.

First, our reality might also be made of similar Minecraft 'blocks' and block shaped empty space (that 'space is discrete, not continuous').

Second, that what a block does in one block shaped empty space is not necessarily going to tell us what it will do when it is in a different block shaped empty space. (This another way of saying the universal constants may change at different points in a discrete spacetime, which is ANOTHER way of saying different 'universes' exist within these points.)

Third, that the blocks and block-shaped empty space inform each others border/shape/volume and relate to one another in some way. (All of this together creates a larger structure, which they call a foam).

I think that's the basic gist. A quantum particle is like a block moving positions in this 'Minecraft grid', and as it does this it becomes subject to different universal constants.

abolishme | 6 years ago | on: SEC Charges Comscore Inc. and Former CEO with Accounting and Disclosure Fraud

They're stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, they provide the 'objective' benchmark for the entire media industry. On the other, they have no way to actually capture the value of the data they provide, because advertisers use their data to make decisions on opaque Big Tech platforms. It's a commodity that doesn't have an equivalent exchange representation. On the surface, it might seem like a bad faith data broker. But on a deeper level, this is a canary in the programmatic ad monopoly coal mine. If we can regulate data exchange, but can't regulate data use ... we're setting a dangerous precedent.

abolishme | 11 years ago | on: Show HN: Please Don't Rob Me

So, essentially:

    - if instagram?
      - if on_vacation?
        - if shared_home? == false
          - if dangerous_pets? == false
            = rob_them
          - else
            // wait  
        - elsif roommates_home?
          - if dangerous_pets? == false && if security_system? == false
              = rob_them
          - elsif house_guests?
            - if house_guests_home?
              // wait
            - else
              = rob_them
          - else
            = kill_pets + rob_them
        - else
          = rob_them
      - else
        // wait
    - else
      = chill_with_friends
Seems legit.

abolishme | 13 years ago | on: SBoC: Streamlining TextSecure Settings

Guest posts on a blog during a week-long coding conference for an open-source encrypted communications project aren't different enough for you? Hard to imagine any one of these posts as something other than hacker news.
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