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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Sounds like a lot of tech and business blog posts when you put it like that.
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Tech, Tyrants and Us, a new podcast series(codastory.com)
1 points by VieEnCode 4y ago|0 comments
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Facebook became totally unusable for me the minute they started to publicise your likes, comments and interactions all over the wall, broadcasted to everyone you know in your network. Who wants to get involved in a political discussion, or
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
"Accept that the future will bring exactly what one needs to grow." Sorry, but this is panglossian nonsense.
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
That might be true up to a point, but I suspect that enough adversity, poverty and physical and mental ill health can crush the sunniest of dispositions.
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Not when FAANG companies have an infinite war chest to buy out your amazing disruptive startup with the sole intention of killing it or stripping it for parts.
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
You might get some VC subsidised cheap rides or a lower cost stay. But zooming out, what is the wider effect on our economy of allocating billions of capital in the attempt to build virtual monopolies? This money could and should be better
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Absolutely, especially as it feels like the "competition is for losers" people are completely running the show these days. Do it and post it on here. Just be prepared to be flagged a lot.
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What Elon Musk Is Teaching Us About Billionaires(slate.com)
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Just look at the current state of Twitter if you want a further illustration of the issues with capricious feudal tech lords.
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Is it wrong of me to think that at the root of all of this is the VC funding model?
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Pump & hype > IPO > eventually dump all the negative externalities on others. It's the startup dream. We should aim to do better somehow.
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Unfortunately We Are Not Living in a “Simulation”(currentaffairs.org)
4 points by VieEnCode 4y ago|1 comments
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
You can't really just choose a life of enjoyment unless you have the financial means to support yourself in some realistic way. Most fun and enjoyable work is poorly paid because there is an army of people out there who will do it for
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Ask HN: What are you working in the service of?
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Can you please elaborate? What do you mean by the war to liberate ideas?
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape.
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Richly deserved.
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Can you give some examples of category (C)? I'm not quite sure of the type of organisation you're referring to there.
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MidJourney: What the creators say about AI in architecture and design(web.archive.org)
1 points by VieEnCode 4y ago|0 comments
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Midjourney is insane: simultaneously really inspiring and terrifying in the quality of "imaginative" images it's effortlessly spitting out.
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The fall of crypto takes down ‘effective altruism’(codastory.com)
1 points by VieEnCode 4y ago|0 comments
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Europe’s highest court upends anti-corruption efforts on companies(codastory.com)
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
> This is debatable. If they are renting out the houses this could reduce rents which would improve the lives of the poor who rent much more often than own. If they are sitting on them it's much more likely to be negative. Large inv
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
Impact in corporate law is not necessarily close to neutral at all. You may, for example be promoting income inequality and housing affordability issues by facilitating international investment funds buying up huge swathes of real estate in
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Column: Sam Bankman-Fried exploited the ‘effective altruism’ fad(latimes.com)
5 points by VieEnCode 4y ago|0 comments
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
"authentic selves" I'm not sure there actually is such a thing.
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Study: Automation Drives Income Inequality(news.mit.edu)
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by VieEnCode 4y ago
I highly recommend this beautifully filmed BBC documentary about the lives of a few ageing truffle hunters and their trusty dogs in northern Italy: Storyville: The truffle hunters https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode&#
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The warped self: social media makes us feel terrible about who we are(aeon.co)
2 points by VieEnCode 4y ago|0 comments

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