Ambolia

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by Ambolia 4y ago
Wasn't smell loss always a (possible) symptom of a common cold? I feel like I'm going crazy, but half the things that people act like never happened before Covid, have always been things that were possible with a respiratory infec
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by Ambolia 4y ago
The problem with web3 and crypto in general is that most people and energy get attracted by the potential to get rich, and being useful is an afterthought. I would be more attracted if I saw more products that tried to be useful first, and
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Running on Empty(ecosophia.net)
13 points by Ambolia 4y ago|2 comments
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by Ambolia 4y ago
There's a huge amount of overproduced managers and elites on universities who don't participate in the productive economy, and the culture war is a tool they use to compete among themselves and to create job programs for their cla
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Same, GTD on a paper planner, because many times I can do planning work but don't feel like staring at a screen. But regarding OP's question about TODO lists, a TODO list should go nowhere near a GTD system. It should go on "
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I guess that depends on your definition of "winning" a nuclear. Would getting Europe flattened and losing a couple US cities be considered a win? I guess not for the europeans. Maybe for the US.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
A lot of this got accelerated through Covid policies, "never let a good crisis go to waste" as they saying goes. Many systems that were put in place, can be repurposed for other goals.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Yes, I think it's hard for normal people to use those networks because at this point they are unable to replicate the network effects of centralized media, as in there is no simple way of going from 1to1 communication and build from th
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Well, there's nothing properly developed, that's why we are still here. The basic building blocks are all there, cryptography for privacy and identity. p2p networks for data transfer have worked in the piracy world for many years
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Empty air, a 2d empty plane would be easy too. If it was 3d tunnels it would be hard, those Descent videogames were tricky.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Yes, at this point of the internet, the fact that most people have decided to depend on big platforms and not develop properly all the distributed alternatives available for many years, it's hard to blame anybody except ourselves.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
If you run an anti-harassment office and you get rid of harassment, you are out of a job and out of power. If you keep finding more and more harassment, you are set for life. Plus if you try to tone it down there's 50 juniors behind yo
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I think it's probably more about job programs and power grabs than about culture. This type of cultural battles let some type of people with some types of university degrees to insert themselves as middle-managers in spaces that before
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by Ambolia 4y ago
They may believe they will have a better life in another country, but also that Rusia would be worse without Putin.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I am not saying I would like to be a subsistence farmer, but I would give up a lot of things to own a house. And I mean actually own it, not a mortgage.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I think seeing how things ended up for Russia after they opened up to the west in the 90s when the Harvard economists swooped in to transform then into a capitalist country explains most of it [1] [2] It is different for many young people w
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by Ambolia 4y ago
It's not that bad, and a lot of people like to own their own land rather than never get to own anything.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Depends what "poverty" means. A lot of poor people were subsistance farmers, able to hold property and carve a space for themselves and their families in the world. That's something that will be out of reach for many "ri
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Maybe it would be better if we stopped pretending that most political decisions have anything to do with science (specially social science) and just admit that it's about conflicting interests that will have to be mediated.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
A bit sad that this stopped working in lambdas in Python 3, it was nice to have in Python 2: (lambda (x, y): x+y)((2, 3),)
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by Ambolia 4y ago
How is the responsivity of the UI? I found that all web based UIs have weird delays, like you start writing text and the first couple of letters get lost, or weird delays on pressing buttons that 90s native UIs never had.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I guess in the microcontroller and IoT world there's still many? Though now there are alternatives like micropython to avoid diving down to the low level.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
You could still have server-owned accounts with that setup. It just wouldn't be the only option.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Couldn't this be solved by chains of trust and "blacklisting" accounts? This is pretty much how it already works in the most annonymous corners of the internet, and those are the best corners.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Intra-elite competition between old media types and silicon valley types has being on for a while in different ways. Musk has been openly exposing some outsider narratives, so he is seen as an enemy to the old media types. I think this is m
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by Ambolia 4y ago
I mean "own" not in the sense of privacy in this case. But in the sense that the account (public key) belongs to the person who has a certain private key. So you can move your content to a different server or domain and keep all y
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Which are the platforms that let you own your data cryptographically and let you move your account around seamlessly for yourself and your followers? Basically the network should be in the data and the servers should be replaceable. I think
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Behind every culture war, there's an economic war. Most of the so-called woke stuff are just job programs in disguise for overproduced elites.
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by Ambolia 4y ago
Seems very difficult because "attention stealing" companies extract most of their value from doing nasty additional stuff in javascript or through cookies. Yes, would be great if alternatives like Gemini grew, I would be willing t
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Rise of the Professionals(compactmag.com)
4 points by Ambolia 4y ago|0 comments

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