BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
> As a professional YouTuber, the main issue I instantly see with this is the lack of monetization. As a video watcher, the main issue I have with YouTube is the presence of monetization.
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by BrenBarn 3mo ago
Relevant from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697335 ("The case for physical media ownership").
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
But when will we see a return to "aspect and subject oriented programming": https://web.archive.org/web/20080705061956/http://www.alenz....
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
How about a sarlacc, a garbage dump, a factory pipe spilling toxic waste, etc.?
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Actually it means less than nothing, it's a negative, because it shows that working outside the system can be popular and potentially woo away users, which challenges the supremacy of the organization.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Do you also run around firing bullets at random people just in case they might decide to attack you at some undetermined point in the future?
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Okay, but "never talk to the police" is a normative statement, not a descriptive statement, so your contrast of it with a people's attitudes towards police is kind of apples and oranges.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Musk is an extreme case but the general pattern is pretty common. See for instance rules passed in various jurisdictions to the effect of "a budget must be passed by date X", which then is circumvented via loopholes or changing t
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
So stalking your ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend is actually a public service as long as you solve some crimes along the way!
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
There are other options. One is to allow them to be audited not just by judges but by various "watchdog" groups which themselves go through some kind of vetting process. If you think police would be wary if they knew judges were
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
The fact that most people believe it's not good advice doesn't mean it actually is not good advice.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
I think the fact that these symbols are "not words" is not in itself super earth-shattering. What really matters is whether they have to be learned like words. You could learn the words "New Driver" as a single "s
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Citizens United gets a lot of flak, and it wasn't good, but it's far from the only factor here. We can at least go back to Buckley v. Valeo which gave us the idea that "money is speech". Corporations are a problem, but
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
I feel like the "clear ex ante timeline" is a big problem for us in the US. A prominent feature of US politics (and indeed culture) is constantly setting such targets and then chickening out and moving the target back as the time
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
I think the level of surveillance Meta inflicts on the population at large is also something the law didn't anticipate. The solution is new laws that illegalize broad swaths of what Meta currently does.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
The way to handle this, which no one seems to be willing to face, is to make laws that are not wealth-neutral. If you are a mom-and-pop landlord (with a relatively low net worth), your should have more leeway in dealing with tenants. If y
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
But that is also the thing about everyone's rights. No one should be subject to Facebook's surveillance, whether they work for Facebook or not.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
That is still the insurer saying they know more about the medical situation than the doctor. The doctor is the one who is equipped to decide what is necessary.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
I don't see this article as inconsistent with exercising critical thought. In a sense, this policy the author is describing is itself an exercise of critical thought. And it's one way of narrowing the sources from which they con
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> People are allowed to set their expectations/standards but in 2026 taking the position that use of AI is lying (when not disclosed) and trust destroying (when disclosed) is basically going to set you up for a lot of disappointment
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
I think it's possible to acknowledge that the technology has value while still being pretty much entirely opposed to AI as it exists and is being used today. It's sort of like believing we should have a police force while also be
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Yeah the email workflow is not my cup of tea. :-) Heptapod seems promising in some ways, but from what I saw it's entirely based on topics (not branches or bookmarks) which is also a peculiar workflow. Plus it doesn't have anyt
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> Not caring is why we are in this place where rent doesn't go down. Not sure what you mean. What I mean is that I am fine with policies that effectively force the building owner to lower the rent (if their net worth is high enough
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
The side takeaway from this is that most rich people won't voluntarily give away their wealth, so it will have to be taken.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
The part about political accountability made me kind of chuckle. > The PP candidate for Assembly President, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, promised to deliver 30 new miles (48 kilometers) of metro by the next election, compared to the 14 miles
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
I mean, if you can have higher unemployment but still build good subways and overall have a good quality of life, maybe that suggests unemployment isn't a great metric for evaluating societies.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
I've lived in the same apartment for more than 15 years and I haven't experienced this. Some things have become somewhat more run-down but overall it's fairly stable.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Apt username for this question.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
> So, what’s next? There are a lot of Git forges out there. How about some non-Git forges (like Mercurial forges)? That's what I'd like to see.
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by BrenBarn 4mo ago
Not sure what you mean. The goal is a good society. Allowing certain individuals to keep certain things they currently have was never any part of my goal. (I can't speak for others in the thread of course.)

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