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Dems also had a trifecta in 2021-2023 as well.

There wasn’t (and still isn’t, sadly) political appetite for ending the Senate filibuster, so reform is limited to Byrd rule nonsense.

The ~5 months Democrats had an a functional supermajority under Obama in 2009/10 was used to get the ACA passed as written.

DuskOS != CollapseOS (same author, the latter inspired the former).

DuskOS doesn’t run on z80. It’s i386 or ARM. Whether that makes it a serious effort or not is still up for debate.

To be pedantic, In-q-tel is the literal state-sponsored VC.

DARPA is a step closer to traditional research labs but there is obviously some overlap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

Lots of bills with broad public support don’t even come to a vote let alone become law.

What you meant to say is broad support amongst politicians, assuming that group represents a supermajority of votes in both chambers.

Not often. Sometime they append “uk” for reality or game shows, but it seems more common to give an entirely new name e.g.

“Married… With Children” was remade as “Married for Life”

“The Golden Girls” was remade as “The Brighton Belles”

“Catch Phrase” was remade as “Catchphrase”, which seems on point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_television_ser...

Backdoor defunding by not adjusting for inflation is definitely a thing but that seems like a separate issue from what I was responding to re: where the funds come from and if they are kept separate, not how much should be spent in total.

> Repeat as needed until general fund is handing the equivalent of 90m with the slack taken up by the lottery.

The lottery picking up the slack so that the general fund doesn’t have to do all of it is the whole point.

>The reality is that most of a state’s budget is set holistically and paid for out of the general fund.

Isn't this just conflating states that do that with other states that don't?

Oregon keeps the general fund and the lottery fund separate, 53% of the lottery fund goes to education (the rest to other voter-approved programs).

FWIW, California’s ban on PFAS (in textiles and cosmetics) starts January 1, 2025.

https://www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2022/10/california-bans-pfa...

> On a side note, if I recall correctly, Steve Jobs wanted to use Linux for MacOS.

Steve offered Linus a job, using Linux was never on the table.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/22/2893581/linus-torvalds-li...

More interesting still is an archaeologist debunking Graham Hancock’s nonsense.

https://youtu.be/-iCIZQX9i1A?si=521Y4VpqaQqPeBpq

It’s Greeks vs Romans.

Western finance/accounting industries adopted ‘M’ from the Roman numeral for 1,000 to mean “thousand”. MM (or mm) meaning “thousand thousand”, or a million.

Separately, when the French invented the metric system they used the Greek prefixes for multiples (kilo, derived from the Greek for “thousand”, being the best known). Which is why ‘k’ denotes thousands in most other industries.

Conversely, the metric system used Roman prefixes for submultiples, which is where centi- (same root as Centurion) and milli- come from.

It does, actually.

For another reference, Shakespeare’s complete works are ~885k words.

The Encyclopedia Britannica is ~44M words.

WINE fits that definition but is generally considered to be Not Emulation in a technical (if not colloquial) sense.

Baker was not CEO during that graph (well, she became interim in December 2019). She was chairperson of the board.

Mozilla’s CEO for its decline (setting aside Eich’s brief stint) was Gary Kovacs and Chris Beard.

* The Parking Lot movie

* Carts of Darkness

* Alone In the Wilderness

Three documentaries (broadly) about interesting-but-regular people who don’t fit into society’s mold.

Honorable mention: Tickled

The dates are correct. They expect it to be operational in Q1 of this coming year.

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Vogtle-4-start-u...

Dan Geer (CISO at In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s private investment arm) gave a BlackHat talk that advocated for this, among other things.

https://youtube.com/watch?si=8txvgqH6mqerinkZ&v=nT-TGvYOBpI&...

>> No algorithms

> Why? I like algorithms.

>> No recommendations

> Not sugesting them is a huge win.

Feels contradictory. They’re both just algorithms.

Bit of both, it seems.

https://youtu.be/ygvBSYwxqyE?si=N3PC7F5Vo5J8YtCT

Small correction: No one was forced, and the provision you’re thinking of hasn’t even existed for the last 5 years.

What you describe isn’t research, even to a first degree.

Whether that conversation happens to be accurate or not and to what degree, I don’t know, because the link fails to load.

To be fair, being mad hasn’t stopped them, either.

Plenty of blockchains—Filecoin included—use some amalgamation of IPFS, but the reverse isn’t true.

Heck, even Bluesky uses some IPFS tech. Does that mean it has a blockchain? Of course not.

> Let me put it in another context, would you say Brave has a blockchain? I'd definitely say it does.

I don’t use Brave, but from a cursory glance I think probably yes, it “uses/depends on” a blockchain for some functionality.

https://brave.com/1.39-release/

Can you show an example where that is the case for IPFS?

> What's wrong with e.g. "The IPFS DHT was using Kademlia and is now using Coral"?

Because that’s not what is happening.

The Kademlia-like DHT is not going away. It just has a name (“Amino”) so you can refer to its as an implementation relative to other implementations that will coexist, not necessarily replace, the original.

> The result is that there are now more names for the same thing, and the old names have changed.

They gave a name to a thing that didn’t have a formal name, because it can compete with other implementations. Having distinct names for a service and an implementation isn’t uncommon. The only criticism is that they didn’t do it sooner.

All of this seems pretty academic. The majority of developers and vast majority of users won’t know or care about the branding or abstractions allowing for different implementations. The tools work the way they did, hopefully faster. That’s it.

It is not.

IPFS exists entirely independently from Filecoin. There is no blockchain. Full stop.

That Filecoin uses some common tech with ipfs like libp2p and cids doesn’t change that.

If/when filecoin disappeared, ipfs would keep working exactly the same. Because ipfs does not have (or use or depends on) a blockchain.

> Why does it even need its own name?

So that other DHT implementations can exist and potentially replace the existing one.

Same for go-ipfs being renamed. We generally don’t have web browsers named after the protocol they use. And with multiple ipfs clients, one of them being named “ipfs” is itself confusing.

Frankly, both should have probably happened years ago.

It is more complicated than it needs to be, but very similar to the BitTorrent ecosystem.

https://docs.ipfs.tech/install/

IPFS is a protocol, it needs a client. That client can be a web page or local software, just like torrents.

Curl now supports downloading IPFS resources (but uses an HTTP gateway, it doesn’t talk to the DHT directly).