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>arm twisting This is exactly why countries are deciding to reduce their dependence on the US. If you're one president or one policy away from being cut off from technology, tariffed to death or otherwise bullied you're going t
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Genuine entrepreneurship is about developing experience in a technical domain and/or actually running a business. What the article calls "privileged risk taking" Danish researchers a few years ago called the "Veblenian E
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>have to be learned totally separately seems to be inherently cumbersome in some ways. It also has quite big advantages. Because writing systems tend to be highly standardized meaning of most characters has changed relatively little, so
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>If you want to argue against my proposal, I don't need to which was my point. You're trying to advance a position so extreme that you'd make a terrible aspiring bigot in US politics. The ones that have some political brai
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>Why do you judge people that did great things by the standards of everyday interaction Because I don't want to live in a world of things built by socially maladjusted misanthropes, I want to live in a world build by kind and social
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if you, like Cory Doctorow, are an activist there's two options. One you scream from a soapbox with no regard for what other people think in which case it's evident you're doing it for self-aggrandizement and attention, or yo
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Being German I think it's important to point out that possession of Mein Kampf or reading it was never banned, the idea wasn't to hide some evil esoteric secret knowledge from the German people, to a large extent it was a pragmati
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>Some apps are explicitly linked to the play services. But that's the developers problem. Literally what even is the point of a non-custodial crypto wallet that depends on Google's services?
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Yup. Hitchens was pretty prophetic about this when he wrote his "in defense of teenage drinking" piece 30 years ago. Now you have an entire generation of permanently in therapy pill poppers or weed smoking loners. An entire cohort
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>so world models including demons have never predicted any of their sense data. There's a reason they call themselves "rationalists" instead of empiricists or positivists. They perfectly inverted Hume ("reason is, and
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>There's a great meme with the classic intelligence bell curve setup This meme has taken on the character of the "Einstein was bad at math and school" urban legend. Yes, you can overthink it, but you can also under-think i
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It's a big upfront investment but it's one of the things that Org mode with its built in agenda view is fantastic for. I've really never needed anything else for note taking and scheduling.
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Having lived in Japan, and spent a fair amount of time in China: food, fashion, music, film, culture and politics (in a polite way), work, among other things However unless you're planning to visit very rural places I genuinely don&#x2
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Sorry but am I the only one skeptical of this narrative? There is no way in hell a Purdue grad cannot at least land a lame IT role at a healthcare provider, the public sector or in the military. The government is turning 21 year olds from
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>Closer than to the US? Much closer. It's a unitary state with a monarchy and parliamentary sovereignty, it's highly centralized economically and culturally. It's more European than much of Europe. Post war Germany, republ
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I spend a fair amount of time on open source and one thing I noticed is that in real pieces of software it doesn't look like all these 10x and 100x AI engineers are anywhere to be found. VLC has like 4000 open issues. Why aren't
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>Even after having served his time, there's still a certain stain there In Western jurisprudence the basis for society enacting punishment on criminals is that the punishment is just. One characteristic of that is it that it is prop
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>Current evidence seems to prefer decentralized theories of consciousness like Dennett There is no such thing as consciousness in Dennett's theory, his position is that it doesn't exist, he is a Eliminativist. This is of course
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>Humans are statistical models too in an appropriate sense. No, we aren't and I'm getting tired of this question begging and completely wrong statement. Human beings are capable of what Kant in fancy words called "transcen
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>was proposed by Tim Berners-Lee he's actually still working on it: https://solidproject.org/
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is this hypothetical Hong Konger real? Someone who wants to set up a company in Germany and is repelled by a theoretical exit tax should they plan to leave a few years later? We're a big country and the world's 3rd largest economy
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People will drive Chinese electric cars, while the US pulls up an Iron Curtain, people drive 30 year old diesel trucks and closes the universities down. What's next, a down to the countryside movement, everyone has to do five years of
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>can a similar device shift us to mental habits I think the moral of the story is that instead of reaching for something to "shift you" start doing the shifting . You are a living mind, rather than asking for some device to af
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They can do nothing to Android because as the article points out Samsung or the entirety of China and the billions of other people in the world will just work on a fork and that will become consensus. If you have one company acting as the
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>On the other hand it just leads to Chrome monopoly. If a browser engine continues to exist not on its merits but because its users are locked in, there is zero value in it. If 100% of people switch to chromium based browsers (an open so
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an IDE is just what the name says, an integrated development environment. Emacs has robust support for managing projects, compilation, you can debug programs from Emacs including graphically, Magit is exceptional for version control, it&#x2
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Personality rights are a thing, publishing your likeness without your consent in particular in any commercial context is illegal in just about any jurisdiction on earth.
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>seemingly need to believe that it's some kind of Faustian bargain I mean, that's because that's literally what they need to believe. A majority of people has been brought up on an incredibly moralized account of human beh
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It's also an extremely misleading comparison. Basic calculator functions do not in the slightest replace anything taught in a maths class. Using ChatGPT not just to write entire paragraphs (replacing composition), or even providing the
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>Not many cheap hangout options in a lot of places. When I stayed in the US for a while, I'm from Germany, what I noticed was is that there's an extreme "upward striverism" when it comes to going out. In most places I

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