Barrin92

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by Barrin92 10mo ago
>then why are so many comfortable people (like me) not out on the street every day? because a lot of people have a kind of built-in main character syndrome and believe they're the protagonists of the world and things can't rea
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>Should one live in a forest, devoid of any city services and company of other individuals extremely bizarre comparison given that 90% of people spend their time on the web which is utterly agnostic as to what operating system you'r
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There has to be nuance yes. But the nuanced position starts with accepting the reality that a ton of people are indeed having their brain turned to goo. Just go outside of the bubble of somewhat tech literate highly educated young people an
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>you can't just go redefining terms until they mean what you want them to mean Sure I can. There's obviously no one meaning of the term. The Democracy of the Greeks has very little to do with the Democracy of Rousseau, or the 2
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I'd honestly turn the argument on its head. It's China that is being democratic, in the most literal sense. Giving the people what they want, clean energy, cheap stuff, infrastructure simply by satisfying market demand. It's
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Dijkstra, On the Foolishness of "natural language programming": [...]It may be illuminating to try to imagine what would have happened if, right from the start our native tongue would have been the only vehicle for the input into
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well if you want a python/shell hybrid there's always xonsh ( https://xon.sh/ ). Really great in particular for people like me who are bash-challenged. I do like Nushell too but I also always had problems rememberin
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>these sites would rapidly become fully competent replacements they wouldn't. For two reasons. Without the capital (that to a large extent comes from ads) nobody could run the herculean infrastructure and software behemoth that is Y
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>Now when you do such things like a running club you are joining a group of very self-selecting people I'd disagree with this pretty strongly. I do workshops at a makerspace in Berlin, which is in itself a pretty nerdy place but we&
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> (someone tell me why that's ever good) there's a quite a few benefits to it. Neurotic people tend to be more self aware, more attuned to danger, more open to recognizing risks than most people. It also often correlates with h
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There's https://v2ex.com/ although it's more project and less news focused. The biggest platform for local communities like individual cities is usually WeChat groups. Shenzhen in particular also has a very active
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and yet the Telegram Desktop App, written in Qt/C++ is the only goddamn desktop messenger app that actually feels smooth and feature rich rather than the webclient wrapper abominations of everyone else that eat half a gig of ram on sta
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>but not a single mention of a global system that is reaching a singularity in wealth concentration that's not the case though and Dan is implicitly addressing this given that China is the subject of a decent chunk of the letter. We
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what does greed have to do with it? The issue at hand is that for many decades now visual mass media have taught children that constant stimulation and entertainment has to be omnipresent. It's much worse than just greed, it's abo
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Well, one part of a proper education of a child is to teach them that life isn't about gratification. Neil Postman made this point already in Amusing Ourselves to Death . By educating kids with Sesame street you didn't teach them
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yes, it's really crazy, if people think you're exaggerating look at this: https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/co... One of the cases why I think obsession with lines
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mostly to avoid the blocking. Those streaming sites used to be extremely popular here in Germany because there was an entire cottage industry ( Abmahnanwälte ) that used to pester uploaders with legal threats. Not sure what the state of it
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>When you are literally dying the last thing on your mind should be whether some blogger deems your thoughts valuable or cheap. to be fair when you're dying the other last thing on your mind should probably be your regrets, so there
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>Having decentralized entertainment platforms How? I don't even think decentralized is the appropriate term. They're distributed entertainment platforms in that they're protocol based, but regarding the distribution of con
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Among non-fiction what stood out to me was David Bentley Hart's All Things are Full of Gods , great book also very fun to read written as a Platonic dialogue. To me one of the most compelling theologians today. Bruno Maçães, World Bu
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>Giving up control is how it works. It's how it's always worked, no, it hasn't. Open source software, like any open and cooperative culture, existed on a bedrock, what we used to call norms when we still had some in our so
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>the best startups are for ideas which are hated yes and so are the worst, and the problem is 95% of ideas that sound stupid aren't stupid and genius, but just stupid. As Peter Thiel used to say, it's not enough to be a contrar
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You have to distinguish between two different versions of "indie" software. What the author is describing, small business products really heavily reliant on marketing and traffic to me don't even fall under that label. That&#
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>But that still does not nullify the local's people preferences, One reason why Lai's fate has only limited impact is because it doesn't resonate that strongly with working people for whom Hong Kong isn't an example o
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>I think 1984 is more of a sign of the times Honestly given that the thing gets brought up about five times per day by absolutely anyone for any conceivable reason I think it's the opposite. The real dystopian picture of the future
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this is one of those 'elections matter' cases. There's no strategy. Americans made it clear they want a country run by real estate crooks, crypto bros, gambling advocates and bizarre entertainment personalities. A country siz
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>that they otherwise might not have. I think this is letting people off the hook. We're talking about adults in their 40s and 50s here. When people like that 'suddenly' endorse extreme views it's because they had held
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>If you build a userbase out of power users But they've never done this. There is a very vocal group of Firefox power users but the browser has always targeted a general audience, marginalization by Chrome over the years not withs
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>with no good way to get back in. which is why at the very least your email provider gives you a recovery kit to print out (the equivalent of the notebook) and if you can get back into that account you'll likely be able to get into
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>and Japan values and tries to preserve their history and culture quite a lot Has to be said though that reform can be interpreted in exactly that way too, as revitalization. Hangul for example is also a kind of patriotic achievement. I&

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