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by Barrin92 1y ago
>Imagine all the elderly autocrats got to rule forever since the end of monarchies autocracy has been impersonal and institutionalized. You can think of the Pope or Dalai Lama as software, the latter literally being rebooted when the las
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by Barrin92 1y ago
Funny that you bring up Borges and Eco. Eco when commenting on his library, I can't remember if in an essay or lecture, referred to it as an 'anti-library', pointing out that one of the most important skills a reader can poss
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>Do you have any suggestions for supplements to the Japanese course on Duolingo? One source that I (and quite a lot of people on the internet) find fantastic is Cure Dolly's series which is more grammar oriented and you can consume
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>This is also an accurate description of a lynching. No, it isn't. It's an accurate description of policing. A standard practice in human societies. If you think not letting anonymous people talk to children amounts to the Fren
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>it's an accurate description of the terror of the commons. There's no inherent terror in it. Self governing communities on the internet need some means to monitor themselves just like they do offline. Communities before the in
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>This will apply maximum pressure on the government to reverse these parochial laws Whatever the annual revenue of imgur was is now up for grabs for any British entrepreneur willing to build an image hosting site and unless British peopl
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>But the treadmill, used properly, is still significantly better than an extra 30 minutes sitting on the sofa, That's right. Most of the criticism directed at Duolingo seems to be about unrealistic expectations of engaging with an a
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The article prompted me to think about what I would talk about in a situation like this and honestly I immediately jumped to my time abroad working in China. My personal and family life is great, but it's also ordinary. That makes it n
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If you're trying to convince Brits not to enact these policies "you guys made it through The Troubles" is a really bad argument unless you're very unfamiliar with the body count and terror and the public perception of
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> it would allow huge communities to emerge keeping very old software/games working indefinitely. That's a completely backwards take though. Windows is practically the only platform in the world that cares about backwards compa
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>MacOS and IOS have fewer features in EU than USA. In the EU Apple already has significantly less marketshare than Android. In an at least somewhat competitive market threatening consumers doesn't make a whole lot of sense because s
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>While the quality of life really is objectively better with children, the secret to these rankings is probably the calibration inherent in the question. that's not really a secret or calibration issue though, that gets to the core
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As a matter of rhetoric, comparing human beings to invasive ants in your house might be a reflection of the times but I think is probably not the best idea
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it's a few hundred lines worth of scripts to produce an ungoogled chromium with some nicer defaults, why wouldn't it, in case pointing that out is meant to be a criticism.
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No, and this is a very philosophically confused post because it weirdly does not really give any definition of computation. Computation really is a fancy word for calculation. What matters about computation is that its teleological. Compute
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What stands out to me about the people in the article is that they don't seem to be poor in the conventional sense. The woman who sold her 5 bedroom / 3 bathroom house and the guy getting 3k/month in pensions. I don't ha
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Almost all of Eco's points are salient but I think the most important one today (omitted in this shortened version), is the point he makes about a kind of mass elitism: " Since the group is hierarchically organized (according to
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It's basically the difference between "every one of my workers needs to be able to buy one of my cars" industrial Fordism and what Varoufakis coined techno-feudalism, which does not utilize markets or independent workers but
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you know what they said about Prussia, it's a military that happens to have a country attached to it, Israel is sort of like that but with an internet connection
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>We need a better security model where it's still possible to do powerful stuff on the whole machine That's not possible. If you can do powerful stuff on the whole machine by definition you have no security. Security is always
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I'm as eager to anyone when it comes to holding companies accountable, for example I think a lot of the body dysmorphia, bullying and psychological hazard of social media are systemic, but when a person wilfully hacks around safety gua
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> to be able to flip gender more completely than our best biotech and just by conscious will a constant hedonic self modification and individual reinvention is obviously no sign of extreme change but the opposite, banality and powerlessn
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>By definition, if they're tedious, they're not utopias Utopias are by definition tedious because a utopia is an end to history and as such an end to meaning or negotiation of how to live. A utopia is always an end to a story o
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That's arguably the worst argument given that the author has no special authority over the interpretation of the work. Heinlein with his increasingly militaristic views wrote Starship Troopers as a sincere story, but Paul Verhoeven sho
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>the intense chilling effect that zero anonymity would have on political dissent Chilling the discourse would be a feature, not a bug. In fact what discourse in most places these days needs is a reduction in temperature. This kind of def
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>it’s the choices that Japanese people make within this environment that are healthy. Precisely that they don't need to make choices due to their environment is what makes the difference. In the US and EU people love their individua
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>Especially now that you can get Claude to just explain the basics of Emacs configuration to you, which wasn't the case when I started although also worth pointing out that Emacs often leads with the adjective self-documenting for a
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we may or may not but I don't think this is reflective of it. This is just the fragility of digital societies were one hack or outage can kill entire national payment systems. A few decades ago any store could run three days without p
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>why does every app need its own incompatible, usually inferior window manager built in? You answered your own question, because a lot of applications work across multiple platforms, and if you want to have control over the experience be
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>Socrates is said to have criticized writing for letting people to not train their memory And he likely had a point. What I recently noticed is that my father, who had very little formal education but happened to have very old-school tea

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