Zeklandia

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by Zeklandia 7y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." ―Arthur C. Clarke Wikipedia has several articles about these phenomena (e.g., information theory, thermodynamics): * https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
I'm not sure what you think religion is. But this is not religion, nor is it baseless. In fact, the opposite. This is ordinary, empirical science.
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
This article, that came out today, shows to what degree advertising is a cancer: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3naek/how-to-make-a-phon...
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
If nothing else in your life gave you the idea to buy something but an advertisement did, it's not your idea to buy the thing. I needed a new chair because the one I used to have gave me back pain. I went on Amazon to look for a replac
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
You're not describing an advertisement, you're describing a listing in a business index like a phonebook or a classifieds section. You don't have to buy ads to show up in a Google search. You buy ads to float your Google sear
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
> Good thing there's no authority telling us why we exist and we're each free to decide for ourselves. You aren't. Everything you do, even doing nothing, has consequences that are beyond your control. Even worse, your acti
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
It's not my decree, it's nature's. The world does not have infinite resources. We have to be careful how we use them. If you cannot live efficiently, you will exhaust your available resources and your lifestyle will die out.
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
There are so many other ways to escape, something virtually everyone needs to do at some point, that don't require someone else's time and effort to do. There are even productive ways to escape, like sports (can keep you healthy).
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
You aren't free to ignore them. To even look at them to identify whether they are advertisements takes time. Even if it took a millisecond, with a billion people looking at it that's 12 days of man-hours lost on every advertisemen
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
Entertainment and relaxation are necessary, you are right. However, both can be done in ways that are at best productive and at least not-counterproductive. Entertainment does not have to unproductive. People who play sports or do other rec
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
We only tell our selves we can afford. The truth is we are constantly putting off work that needs to be done as if some future generation will fix all these problems. There are tens of millions of Americans living in homelessness, shanty to
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
Why do I have to let a company consume my time and mental memory? Why does anyone? Why are we as a society accepting the continued robbery of our time, attention, and thinking?
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
> It's been dishonest since the start. Criers lying about the effectiveness of some tonic, the attractiveness of some woman, the strength and wisdom of some leader. If those are harmful practices, why would someone turn them into a
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
You are not immune to propaganda. No one is.
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
There is a difference, whose significance seems to be lost on you, between peer-to-peer, voluntary communication and centralized, forced distribution. You are not forced to read pamphlets nor do they insert the content of the pamphlets into
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
If you have to tell people they need something then they don't need it. Escape rooms are an entertainment luxury. When there is essential work that needs to be done (infrastructure, healthcare, education, &c.), it makes sense that
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by Zeklandia 7y ago
Their shareholders?
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
Rights that aren't asserted are not likely to be respected. Yes, of course these rights apply to everyone, but the laws and policies being enacted aren't taking those rights away from everyone, they're taking them away from t
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
How condescending and moral relativistic of you to say that there is a wrong time and place to assert what is and is not a human right, that there is no unselfish reason to do so, and that human rights are merely a matter of individual pref
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
Imagine thinking trans rights are a matter of political perspective. This post brought to you by human rights gang.
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
Overperformance is when a worker overexerts themselves, by working themselves harder or for longer. Overperformance is a problem because it exerts pressure on the other workers to do the same, leading to a runaway effect of increasing expec
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
Because now the NSA has a strategic foothold. If they acknowledge the hack, then the adversary will move on to something else. If they don't acknowledge it, they can secretly mitigate it, by feeding false data, for example, and waste t
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
I'm convinced that "privacy tools" have become the homeopathy of computers.
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
He doesn't want money, he wants his work to be in the public domain.
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
Is your name short for Pavlov?
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by Zeklandia 8y ago
There are a few major convention changes, most notably that print is now a function and must be formatted differently to work. People are using libraries that aren't being updated because some people don't want to go update their
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by Zeklandia 9y ago
Anything to get more competition in that market is greatly appreciated. Intel products have become a massive disappointment.
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by Zeklandia 9y ago
The Dutch would have pronounced 'thee' closer to 'tay' (i.e. /tʰe/) whereas modern English speakers would pronounce it like the word 'thee' (/ði/).
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by Zeklandia 9y ago
So, a new Infobitt?
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by Zeklandia 9y ago
I'm just glad that uBlock₀ works in Firefox 57.0 for Android.

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