Mainan_Tagonist

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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
some would, obviously, but only those that really wanted to, just as some end up buying cigarettes or alcohol. But that would be a fraction of what it is now
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
The term "Too Big To Fail" is probably inappropriate here (was it ever appropriate actually? banks should have been allowed to fail in 2008), indeed Facebook may well be replaced at some point (is Gen Z even on Facebook?), and AI
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
Same feeling here, I loved the early internet, it played a huge part in who i am actually! This said, this is not the early internet anymore, where content was mechanically regulated by a sort of egalitarian rule. Social Media applies a pow
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
It's a commonly repeated trope, yet more often than not such concern being voiced was almost immediately followed by a period of severe decline for the commentator's civilization. Aristotle saw the end of Athenian democracy and t
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
a little Off-Topic but if you ever get to visit Geneva, there is a permanent exhibition at CERN to show how the LHC work and what is the organization around it to collect information, keep it running... etc... it is rather kid friendly too.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
Indeed, i used to work for ANA, and my colleagues used to bring this up fromt time to time, with assorted creepy anecdotes. This disaster somehow struck a nerve in the Japanese psyche. There were even novels written on this topic with a boa
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
As long as it doesn't remind us all of the ill fated JL123 flight...
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
"~1999, you would have had Pentium III @ ~500 MHz max in a laptop, likely less. Pentium M wouldn't release for several more years." and, Boy, did i waste cycles on enabling every eye candy possible on Linux/BSD on the on
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
True enough, though if Trinity could jump between skyscrapers and run against a wall before disarming 5 machine gun totting henchmen, i imagine she could have enabled transparency in her Xterm in Enlightenment. But in more general terms, th
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
This is a nice website, with an interesting purpose. Though i suppose reviewing sci-Fi movies notions of interfaces will soon clash with the dryness of reality. The 90's were wild in that sense, you could imagine that the internet supe
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
deserve? No one deserves suffering... your comment is in bad faith, no point discussing this any further with you...
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
Humm, I have a feeling part of the story is missing here, even though i can relate as i was myself a minimum wage worker in the hospitality industry in Britain for a while (back in 1999, my annual wage was something like 8500 pounds). Long
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, his book title Diplomacy was very enlightening. One thing of note in the spew of bile aimed at Kissinger in the HN comment thread is that it appears to emanate from people who were children or not even born dur
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
The cloud isn't free though, neither is shopping on amazon. Private Email (protonmail) starts at... 4 dollars a month... In light of this, are "technoserfs" who use and pay for the cloud (on not so cheap mobile phone, mind y
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
Now, that's the technofeudalism Varoufakis should talk about.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
yes, and this large part of the population does not therefore have the means to become a technoserf.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
The same old rant, over and over... Communistic rethoric is unable to evolve, it merelly reproduces the same criticism over time, pinpointing the same flaws just changing the target. Ho, and punching Hayek, 30 years after his death, is real
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
Hummm, i still prefered my Ti-book, to be honest, and would be very happy for a modern version of it.
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
And The Watchmen long before that
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by Mainan_Tagonist 3y ago
Well, for the soviet equivalent to James Bond, look no further than Vsevolod Vladimirovich Vladimirov, better known as Max Von Stierlitz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stierlitz