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I know your comment is probably tongue-in-cheek but I must say (without disagreeing, regardless) that perhaps modern day digital infrastructure can transcend th

I know your comment is probably tongue-in-cheek but I must say (without disagreeing, regardless) that perhaps modern day digital infrastructure can transcend the considerations early buddhists may have had for the natural world and then-contemporary human-built structures.

okareaman 5y ago
I used to be a data hoarder but I learned to let it go. I save the important stuff, just like the Buddhist monks do. How much of the internet is really worth saving? What will Geocities mean to anyone 50 years from now? The internet is a dynamic process evolving in real time. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man Heraclitus
- datameta 5y ago
  I am a fan of that quote and I now personally eschew clutter. However I'm referring to the examples in the article such as the supreme court justice referencing links that no longer existed. Paraphrasing the article, >75% of links from the 90s are defunct. Sure Geocities may not have value to many, but an astonishing number of links in court rulings and law documents are leading to dead ends. I can see how this could lead to shaky ground upon which it would be more difficult to defend certain internet freedoms.
  - okareaman 5y ago
    Google's recent invention of text links should help this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_text#:~:text=%22Now%20is%20the%20time%20for,21%20(1918) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_text#:~:text=%22Now%20i.... # signifies an anchor :~:text= signifies a text link %22Now%20is%20the%20time%20for,21%20(1918). says show me the text between "Now is the time for" and "21 (1918)."
beaconstudios 5y ago
buddhists fundamentally reject clinging to the idea of permanence as a source of inevitable misery when your wishes go unfulfilled.
- okareaman 5y ago
  I think technology will be invented to keep track of everything and their associations even if the link becomes dangling. It's an obvious problem to work on. You only lose what you cling to Gautama Buddha
  - beaconstudios 5y ago
    the problem is that doing so would require storing a copy of the entire subset of the internet that you choose to persist, which requires you to either choose a small subset, or pay huge storage fees!
    - okareaman 5y ago
      I just bought a 2 terabyte drive for $55, which is mind boggling to an old salt like me. The need to store enormous amounts of real time data will keep driving storage advances. Text and image data may turn out to be a trivial percentage of the overall storage needs in the longer term.

okareaman 5y ago

I used to be a data hoarder but I learned to let it go. I save the important stuff, just like the Buddhist monks do. How much of the internet is really worth saving? What will Geocities mean to anyone 50 years from now? The internet is a dynamic process evolving in real time. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man Heraclitus

datameta 5y ago
I am a fan of that quote and I now personally eschew clutter. However I'm referring to the examples in the article such as the supreme court justice referencing links that no longer existed. Paraphrasing the article, >75% of links from the 90s are defunct. Sure Geocities may not have value to many, but an astonishing number of links in court rulings and law documents are leading to dead ends. I can see how this could lead to shaky ground upon which it would be more difficult to defend certain internet freedoms.
- okareaman 5y ago
  Google's recent invention of text links should help this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_text#:~:text=%22Now%20is%20the%20time%20for,21%20(1918) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filler_text#:~:text=%22Now%20i.... # signifies an anchor :~:text= signifies a text link %22Now%20is%20the%20time%20for,21%20(1918). says show me the text between "Now is the time for" and "21 (1918)."

beaconstudios 5y ago

buddhists fundamentally reject clinging to the idea of permanence as a source of inevitable misery when your wishes go unfulfilled.

okareaman 5y ago
I think technology will be invented to keep track of everything and their associations even if the link becomes dangling. It's an obvious problem to work on. You only lose what you cling to Gautama Buddha
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  the problem is that doing so would require storing a copy of the entire subset of the internet that you choose to persist, which requires you to either choose a small subset, or pay huge storage fees!
  - okareaman 5y ago
    I just bought a 2 terabyte drive for $55, which is mind boggling to an old salt like me. The need to store enormous amounts of real time data will keep driving storage advances. Text and image data may turn out to be a trivial percentage of the overall storage needs in the longer term.