Bakary

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by Bakary 6y ago
Let's say the coup had been successful. You could then have been part of a database and become a criminal without changing anything about your life, because the definition of crime changed around you. The reason this tech is dangerous
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by Bakary 6y ago
If you look at the website, it's not the mere fact that it's against unions that is disturbing. That's an ideological point of view that doesn't strike me as unusual. In fact, it's pretty rational to be anti-union i
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by Bakary 6y ago
This is another reminder that we have some of the negative aspects of a cyberpunk future without the cool empowering hacking parts. I wonder about the sort of person who would design such a website. Surely you'd have to be dead inside
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by Bakary 6y ago
Multiling-O/Honso keyboard. Any aspect of the keyboard can be customized, but it is obviously a slight hassle
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by Bakary 6y ago
If you start worrying what people think of your phone choice of all things, you are giving them way too much power over your life. In reality, they don't care as much about others as you might think they do.
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by Bakary 6y ago
>I don't think anyone prefers the screen keyboard over a real one I like the idea of a physical phone keyboard but I have yet to find one that would allow me to switch language inputs quickly and customize the keyboard as deeply as
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by Bakary 6y ago
What you describe just sounds like standard neoliberal ideas that tech people with high salaries are likely to gravitate towards. That said, some of these are not necessarily expressed directly or are cloaked in euphemisms and emerge more a
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by Bakary 6y ago
Do self-described audiophiles often perform ABX testing? I think if they did, it could lead to some uncomfortable moments for many
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by Bakary 6y ago
>If VideoLAN were a startup, it'd be a unicorn. Isn't VLC useful precisely because the interests of the devs and users are aligned? If it were a startup, they would have had to ruin it to continue
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by Bakary 6y ago
>I think about what I want to watch twice a month, and when I have time, I don't have to deal with any ads or worry about a spotty night on a cable modem. I don't get why you wouldn't be able to do this on a streaming serv
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by Bakary 6y ago
My bad. In any case, the principle still stands. Looking up some stats I get a figure of 0.17% of the population being homeless. A tragedy to be sure, but a tiny fraction of the whole. In other words, it makes more sense to look at the medi
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by Bakary 6y ago
Ironically hydrogen is having a renaissance as we speak
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by Bakary 6y ago
There are plenty of people having real experiences today. In absolute numbers, there are probably more of them than in the period you describe, since the population has ballooned. The life you want is out there. Plus you are ignoring all th
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by Bakary 6y ago
The median wage gives you a picture that is closer to the real value than just anecdotes. For most people on Earth, there has been a great increase in living standards. It just so happens that much of it took place outside of the West.
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by Bakary 6y ago
We have to make choices, often complicated ones, so just the concept of recognizing our limitations doesn't really help. Or rather it does not change the basic fact that we have to live artfully and figure things out with very little i
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by Bakary 6y ago
If you like this sort of thing, I also recommend Churchill's My Early Life (1930) that illustrates the same contrast described by Zweig but from a different perspective
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by Bakary 6y ago
The possibility of getting wealthy this way is only available because there is a stable society to skim off of, and that is in turn the result of the collective work of millions. Trading does not create wealth but shifts it around, so why s
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by Bakary 6y ago
There's this undercurrent in the FOSS community of people deriving a sense of superiority from using such software. This article is an excellent example with its use of the idea of domestication and other such terms meant to distance t
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's free and unleashed in the sense that the cost is paid elsewhere
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by Bakary 6y ago
I don't think it's a zero-sum game where people would consume quality, in-depth content if not for the existence the shallow sort. These authors you describe could try to change the format for a broader audience, but their work wo
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by Bakary 6y ago
These sort of articles have a fundamental problem. If someone were rich, they would presumably be doing other things than hawking referrals links through personal finance advice. And if the author isn't rich, why should the audience li
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by Bakary 6y ago
His blogging golden age was in reality a time where there were simply far fewer users in general, and they were far more likely to be the type to seek out this sort of content and the activist relationship with the online world that he desc
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by Bakary 6y ago
Wouldn't an audience self-identifying as consuming information "actively" inevitably fool themselves into adopting narratives and consider them to be the product of thought?
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by Bakary 6y ago
You misunderstand the context here. Yes, there's the narrative and the certainty that wealthy people participated in the snowballing/astroturfing and profited from it. But it's still the case that small investors made some mo
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by Bakary 6y ago
I'm hoping this will create an impetus for social change. Occupy Wall Street failed but now that people's nihilism is increasingly justified and living standards drop, I doubt things will go on as before.
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by Bakary 6y ago
This is assuming that programmers from countries with lower salaries are less competent, which is not always the case. It's harder and harder for workers in the developed world to justify that they are more productive than others. For
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's topical to many people beyond hipsters. Huge hedge funds, the backlash against companies controlling too much of online discourse/transactions, institutional control, rigged games for retail investors, and so on.
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by Bakary 6y ago
Most of these hurdles seem really unimportant compared to the salary savings
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by Bakary 6y ago
>how non people centric will work become? I feel being 100% remote I have even less of a relationship with anyone at home. I’m a commodity doing work. Maybe there’s more of a temptation to get that commodity cheaper elsewhere Do not thin
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by Bakary 6y ago
No aspect of a massively successful person's path can be meaningfully analyzed and replicated other than in general principles that are already obvious (be ambitious, proactive, etc.)

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