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by 0x445442 8y ago
Post scarcity wouldn't matter anyway. You'd still have the problems of who watches the watchers and the idea that some of us are more equal than others... There is no Star Trek utopia.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Fantastic book!
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I suspect you're wrong.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Have you read Irving's work?
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I find most of the folks espousing "nuance" and "narrative" are, in the end, really just arguing against positions they don't agree with using high brow language. Case in point would be to point them to David Irving
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by 0x445442 8y ago
* Miraculous you call it babe You ain't seen nothing yet They've got Pepsi in the Andes They've got McDonalds in Tibet * -- Roger Waters | Amused To Death | It's A Miracle | 1992
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I love emacs but I just can't get the terminal/shell options it provides to work as smoothly as I can with a proper terminal emulator. What would be perfect is if you could duplicate a terminal buffer for stdout/stderr but ha
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I'd agree with you when you're talking about websites that are, for the most part static and just conveying information. But when you're talking about actual web applications designed to get work done I think things are wildl
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by 0x445442 8y ago
At the very least all those mini UIs are cornered into a more standardized system just from the limitations presented by the chat environment. On the other end, most of the functionality can be driven from textual commands the way SMS &quot
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by 0x445442 8y ago
This may be possible with fzf but I'm not sure of all the features it's capable of. This type of behavior would be a great addition to the terminal or popular shells. Instead of having the command prompt always display at the end
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Duckduckgo David Galernter and Lifestreams. He predicted the feed over 20 years ago but his vision accounted for the exploration aspect as well.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I've mentioned his name elsewhere in this thread but Aza Raskin had some very interesting thoughts on this subject. One of his main assertions was a big problem is the whole app paradigm. The whole notion of silod apps bound to native
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Got most of my music through mIRC :p
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by 0x445442 8y ago
And display hypermedia.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Actually natural language scales quite well. Aza Raskin and his father Jeff did a lot of good work in this area. The discoverability of commands in a system like Emacs is much more powerful than a menu based system. In fact, I bet most peop
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Ding, ding, ding!!! I've been beating this drum for a few years now. The interesting thing about chat bots is the UI not natural language processing. I think people are completely overwhelmed by the massive lack of consistent UI the We
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I didn't read the book but here's the way I think about things. Federal Reserve Notes represent a proxy for some "work" to be done in the future. Gold represents a proxy for "work" that's already been done
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by 0x445442 8y ago
For all the Commodore 64 fans out there, she has a nice introductory video. http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings2.html...
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by 0x445442 8y ago
That's interesting. Are you saying that you view Posts as verbs/processes which only result in side effects of the underlying system but do not change the state of data? I'm trying to understand what you would consider the do
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Exactly, the word "terrorist" is just another example of linguistic gamesmanship. The Gubment doesn't get to recast accusations of murder as accusations of "terrorism" just so they can circumvent the Constitution an
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I sit at the table after dinner and find myself from time to time taking nuts or raisins out of the dish and eating them. My dinner properly is over, and in the heat of the conversation I am hardly aware of what I do; but the perception of
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by 0x445442 8y ago
And yet there doesn't seem to be much concern that only 4% of Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations workers are female or only 25% of Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations workders are men. https://w
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Yeah and what kills me is how ubiquitous tellocomms are for multi-site corps. I can't tell you how many meetings I've been in where everyone was at their desk, headphones on and each was playing the mute/unmute game in order
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Computer Science... Now there's an oxymoron. At most institutions the subject matter is not really about computers nor is it science, at least not in the physics or chemistry sense.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Yeah, while agree with the first part of jillesvangurp's comment I think an argument can be made that the "printing" of money was one of the causes of the increase in meaninglessness work.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
You'd be surprised. I just left a Fortune 50 company for the same thing. I'd never worked at a company that large before and it was, in many ways, more wasteful than the government contracting gigs I had years ago. As for the how.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I don't know... I'd say Metalhead fits your description.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
Let's start with a Government considerably smaller in scope. I'd be willing to accept protections against monopolies, "free" education in the form of vouchers, public works if we got rid of most everything else.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
> Government being the only reason ownership is possible Assertion not necessarily fact. There are other models one can imagine which would refute this claim.
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by 0x445442 8y ago
I think there are also cultural differences between areas where real estate prices differ that have effects on the birth rates of those areas.

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