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For fog of war: > "Everything is very simple in industry, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no ma

For fog of war: > "Everything is very simple in industry, but the simplest thing is difficult. These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen production." —not CPGvC Have you heard Niklaus Wirth's joke about God nerfing academia? (via https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/niklaus-wirth-or-the-importance-of-being-simple/ https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/niklaus-wirth-or-the-importanc... ) > On the seventh day of creation God looked at his achievement. He was pretty happy at the result. He started looking at the list of professions and felt good: all —policeman, minister, nurse, street sweeper, interior designer, opera singer, supermarket cashier...— had some advantages and some disadvantages. But then He got to the University Professor row. The Advantages entry was impressive: long holidays, decent salary, you basically get to do what you want, and so on; but the Disadvantages entry was empty! That could not be. For a moment, a cloud obscured His face. He thought and thought and finally His smile came back. What had happened is that He had invented colleagues.

gsf_emergency 2y ago
3F's I've been mulling about while mucking about with VR triages (Or, trust is the sword that hypernormal&weird (mandies&mechies?) cleaves?) Fooser Friend Fcolleague The thing that has been low-key disturbing me about YC is one gets creeped out both as users AAND friends of YC founders. (it's a simple case of not paying enough attn to the Mandala side of things, I wonder?) Clearly the inner circle is of Fcolleagues.. (dang seems dangdy af which makes me wonder as well) (Aside: as I see it they missed the possible point SPJ made for HW to be mandala oriented because he cared about SW; rocks, smoothed by friction, have a special place in his heart) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5906365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5906365 Ah ha maybe maybe not For some profs outside CS (but not Rainer I guess) the list includes (grad) students If the unharvestable part of friction is called entropy, disproportionately produced by the lowest entropy aspects.. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now >redistribution It will take a long time for piners for noah to get that their enemies trust their gov (& maybe even one another), To repeat your venn in words "all you need to solidarify around is freedom+cash"?
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  Was it Pareto or Orwell or someone else who had claimed that every organisation eventually develops an informal inner circle, just due to the limitations of time and socialising? Even the consensus-deciding Quakers have "weighty friends". Note that Jo Freeman certainly dealt with the phenomenon, pointing out that the 1970s-and-currently best known antidote is making decision-making structure and memberships explicit. (non-advertiser supported sport has a similar problem: if a country wishes to support elite full-time athletes, either a discipline has to have an affluent and widespread group of amateurs who take lessons and clinics, or it has to be able to hide the elite sport budget within the military or police structures) Heh, now water can crash, or it can flow. I just had a vision of one possible future in which there's an entire generation of chinese "lying flat" at their country houses (furnished with 筆、墨、紙、硯, or at least their digital equivalents?), while there's an entire generation of americans (legally-at-will) working 996 in their manufacturing jobs... (and speaking of jobs: there's about half a billion years of stratigraphy, before the oldest still-extant sequences, which we're missing and even the most curious geologist probably never can recover) > I returned, and saw under the sun, that eternity is not to the igneous, nor the metamorphic, nor yet to sedimentary layers; but time and chance happeneth to them all. —not Kohelet 9:11 Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7pOVAQ54Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7pOVAQ54Y
  - gsf_emergency 2y ago
    This (and other vids) looks so leisurely that you should immediately suspect the sprezzaturistas of being CCP-sponsored: https://youtu.be/qafzuXnaXNg https://youtu.be/qafzuXnaXNg (Re: elite sports of the technological societies: are back(-ish) to the moksha-samsara dynamic? Let's say we don't want to invoke TK just yet) One wonders why jobs was also obsessed with paintings and zen gardens.. the quotes might be polished but IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out after barely a generation?
    - 082349872349872 2y ago
      trimming the ink sticks reminded me of nothing so much as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI ! > IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out real artists ship, and shipping (like cherry blossoming) is ephemeral? 花の雲鐘は上野か浅草か

gsf_emergency 2y ago

3F's I've been mulling about while mucking about with VR triages (Or, trust is the sword that hypernormal&weird (mandies&mechies?) cleaves?) Fooser Friend Fcolleague The thing that has been low-key disturbing me about YC is one gets creeped out both as users AAND friends of YC founders. (it's a simple case of not paying enough attn to the Mandala side of things, I wonder?) Clearly the inner circle is of Fcolleagues.. (dang seems dangdy af which makes me wonder as well) (Aside: as I see it they missed the possible point SPJ made for HW to be mandala oriented because he cared about SW; rocks, smoothed by friction, have a special place in his heart) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5906365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5906365 Ah ha maybe maybe not For some profs outside CS (but not Rainer I guess) the list includes (grad) students If the unharvestable part of friction is called entropy, disproportionately produced by the lowest entropy aspects.. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now >redistribution It will take a long time for piners for noah to get that their enemies trust their gov (& maybe even one another), To repeat your venn in words "all you need to solidarify around is freedom+cash"?

082349872349872 2y ago
Was it Pareto or Orwell or someone else who had claimed that every organisation eventually develops an informal inner circle, just due to the limitations of time and socialising? Even the consensus-deciding Quakers have "weighty friends". Note that Jo Freeman certainly dealt with the phenomenon, pointing out that the 1970s-and-currently best known antidote is making decision-making structure and memberships explicit. (non-advertiser supported sport has a similar problem: if a country wishes to support elite full-time athletes, either a discipline has to have an affluent and widespread group of amateurs who take lessons and clinics, or it has to be able to hide the elite sport budget within the military or police structures) Heh, now water can crash, or it can flow. I just had a vision of one possible future in which there's an entire generation of chinese "lying flat" at their country houses (furnished with 筆、墨、紙、硯, or at least their digital equivalents?), while there's an entire generation of americans (legally-at-will) working 996 in their manufacturing jobs... (and speaking of jobs: there's about half a billion years of stratigraphy, before the oldest still-extant sequences, which we're missing and even the most curious geologist probably never can recover) > I returned, and saw under the sun, that eternity is not to the igneous, nor the metamorphic, nor yet to sedimentary layers; but time and chance happeneth to them all. —not Kohelet 9:11 Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7pOVAQ54Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To7pOVAQ54Y
- gsf_emergency 2y ago
  This (and other vids) looks so leisurely that you should immediately suspect the sprezzaturistas of being CCP-sponsored: https://youtu.be/qafzuXnaXNg https://youtu.be/qafzuXnaXNg (Re: elite sports of the technological societies: are back(-ish) to the moksha-samsara dynamic? Let's say we don't want to invoke TK just yet) One wonders why jobs was also obsessed with paintings and zen gardens.. the quotes might be polished but IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out after barely a generation?
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    trimming the ink sticks reminded me of nothing so much as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBb9O-aW4zI ! > IRL the substrata (objective-C? PowerPC?) get cleaned out real artists ship, and shipping (like cherry blossoming) is ephemeral? 花の雲鐘は上野か浅草か