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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
so math has gone the way of studying history, it only makes sense if your entire life is paid for by rent-collecting relatives of you.
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
the church started as the government and this is sometimes very confusing.
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
proof assistants have taken over?
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
comes down to what your goal really is. you are either being sarcastic, or just super cynical. in any case, I don't have enough fucks to give out for fame, my intention is different from the person who wrote the article who clearly enj
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
all they need now, is that some other computer buys it and consumes it.
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
Ah, yes. the tragedy of modern academia, turned into yet even more tools of imperilistic control out of USA (but culturally, as English as the new Latin) against the world through physics spiraling out of the real world version of the even
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
the logic of exclusive ownership asserts itself on a cyber-space in which it is not necessary.
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
yea, you (both replies to my comment) reinforce my point hahahha. you are of the stance "there's no collective madness, just evil rulers"... it's naive
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
should have been a politician!
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
> That must not get lost in all this. I fear it will. so long as we keep being all confused between individual things (actions of persons) and systemic truths (actions of institutions). e.g. "Putin be Bad"... uhm, he's jus
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
we cannot live in a society where I must demonstrate to another human that I'm human with a piece of paper just because the other human is a bureaucrat with a computer. this is an 'online only' problem
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
yes, when we do this to history, it becomes filled with conspiracies. but is merely a process to 'understand' history by projecting intentionalities. this 'compression' is what 'understanding' something really
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
your comment reminds me of this very dark comedy skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR76R4gaC48
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
as soon as we can find an economic paradigm that doesn't rely on taxing the trade of exclusive assets we can have a digital renaissance. the thing with digital information is we can all copy it. the problem is that our economic paradig
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
> That's a mis-characterization of what's going on here. it's not. it's a point made in a much more generalized context of discussion. we're mixing different levels of generalization in this discussion, hence the
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
let's just please not forget that they lived in a different time and place... I'm sure in Hilbert's time there was nothing bad about what he said like there's now. not that I particularly like Hilbert, he gives me a bad
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
but how long should we pay for digital assets that have already been created? to pay for stuff already made is not an economically productive activity. it doesn't create any more value. and this is even worse over digital assets; also,
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
another way to frame the "entitlement to free stuff" is to consider the real costs of duplicating and copying digital assets: there are essentially negligible (and less than marginal) though I suppose this is a little difference b
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
I peered behind the curtain and I cannot lie to myself
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
i don't? I just wanna have physical ownership of the photos I upload into the cloud if my shit goes down, only me is to blame and only me has a problem if my house get's blown over by a river, I have bigger problems than streaming
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
the cloud is a failure of the internet originally we were all going to be able to host our own stuff in our closets, the 'intelligence' goes in the edges. then the industrialists went full-cloud on this idea. and the 'intelli
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
google is the new microsoft. has been for a few years now.
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
solution: make sure people lose access to such "dangerous" tooling this will surely make Adobe stock rise even further. it's a win-win! (and yet... I have a sensation we all lose) /angry sarcasm.... I just keep reading a
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
on the other hand. the very 'late' results of criminalizing drugs are also really terrible.... e.g. latin america
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
the free software movement and its close companion movement of open source are in need of a renewal I think we should call it "liberty minded software"... software which cares and caters to the liberties of the users and makers of
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
the concept of "this idea is mine, hence not yours" cannot die soon enough.
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
improving language (and communication) is never a solved problem
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
you pass it in? it looks like it is a two argument function
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by BSEdlMMldESB 3y ago
> Why did geniuses during these periods exercise so much cultural force? because of "historical leverage". the same basic idea as a lever but instead of 'amplifying' over space, it does so over time.

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