a2decrow

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by a2decrow 9y ago
The average person is consuming , not inventing. Human superiority is based on collective intelligence, inventions made by a few exceptional people, e.g. the top 2%. The other 98% are just riding along, not adding anything useful. Take a l
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Trying to teach them human inventions that are developed by and for humans and then calling them inferior when they don't succeed in using them to the fullest extent is pretty short-sighted. You can't teach every human every inven
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by a2decrow 9y ago
What you are describing is called education and technological superiority . Take one of those away and see what happens. And whether the extinction of neanderthals and other species close to ours is due to intelligence or other influence
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Broad general intelligence? Yes. Field specific intelligence? Not even close.
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Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, incl. social media checks(reuters.com)
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Think about how dumb the average human is and then realize half of them are dumber than that. Humans have become the dominant species for two reasons: 1. Our ability to reason 2. Our technological superiority Many animals can rival or excee
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by a2decrow 9y ago
TFA isn't about honey badgers or their intelligence, but about the arrogant stance of the common homo sapiens on other species. End of the day, humans aren't anything special. They're just another part of nature.
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by a2decrow 9y ago
> is the best thing to happen to the web since ads. Ads are the worst thing that happened to the web.
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by a2decrow 9y ago
The first thing that came to mind: Eagleson's Law: Any code of your own that you haven't looked at for six or more months, might as well have been written by someone else. (Eagleson is an optimist, the real number is more like
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Their own ads of course fit the "standards" that they themselves designed. Any other way and they'd only harm their own business model. This is a defensive move against full-scale ad-blockers, nothing more.
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by a2decrow 9y ago
There are other ways to monetize without (intrusive) ads. Produce quality content and people will be happy to support it. If your entire business model only revolves around ad-driven revenue and it doesn't work any other way, then perh
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Of course not. But even if they were, it'd be only for show. They wouldn't have a say in anything.
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by a2decrow 9y ago
I think you're wildly overestimating the intelligence and awareness of the general population. The media is and has been doing this for decades. If they do it in a totally obvious and outright manner, then yeah, everyone's going t
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Yes, but the number of species extinctions skyrocketed due to human behavior. Natural habitats are being chopped down, nature is being forcefully controlled and developed in certain ways and global problems like man-made climate change are
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by a2decrow 9y ago
> If you mean humans, we don't destroy our habitat. Right, we only extinguish species after species living on this planet along with us. Mass genocide of hundreds of billions of living beings. And why? Because there are only few hum
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by a2decrow 9y ago
> What if most jobs are automated and people everywhere turn to violence to keep themselves occupied? This will be a slow, step-by-step process where the media will be working against the general population. Truckers are going to be amon
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Every time I try to educate friends or family about it, I get the tinfoil look and they call me paranoid. Same with strangers when the topic comes up. The most common (pretty much only) answers I get are that I'm nuts or that they don&
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by a2decrow 9y ago
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did no
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Not sure if you're sarcastic, but that's literally all I get from there. Spam and brute force attempts. The IP addresses fail2ban unbans are banned again 2 to 5 minutes later.
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Android is not FOSS. The Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is, but that excludes all the closed Google apps upon which more and more Android apps rely on. Almost every smartphone ships with Android, not AOSP, therefor there really isn&#x
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by a2decrow 9y ago
> Privacy will be an issue, and increasingly so. Do you really believe that? The way I see it, most people just don't care. At all. Else they wouldn't sell their souls to private companies (e.g. Facebook and Google) without a
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by a2decrow 9y ago
I don't care at all whether people want to sell their lives to a company. If they want to use Facebook, they're free to do so. What I care about is Facebook creating a shadow profile on me, even when I explicitly go out of my way
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by a2decrow 9y ago
You can remove it from public view and remove your ability to log into it, but you can't remove any data. Facebook was never designed to "delete" that data, hence all you can really do is permanently disable your account, wit
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Norway.
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Let me ask a counter question. How much innovation in other countries was stifled because of the way the US companies operate? And to get back to Google and Facebook, these two companies are building walled gardens not unlike the way ISPs i
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by a2decrow 9y ago
> This would, IMO, signal the end of the internet. "Look up www.google.com" "which one?" I'm not entirely sure if you know how DNS works.
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by a2decrow 9y ago
You do realize that not all technology originates in the US, yeah? The US isn't the center of the world. You don't have a monopoly on technology or IT and in fact, most of it wasn't even conceived in the US or by US inventor
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by a2decrow 9y ago
I fail to see how this affects IANA or root DNS servers in any way (not to mention that IANA can be replaced by a non-US entity if it really comes down to that). As for those companies, they'll work the same way as before outside the U
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by a2decrow 9y ago
If this forces non-US Americans to use US IT company services less, there are less angles the US government can use to spy on the rest of the world. Plus, data protection laws in other countries (especially European ones) are far more restr
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by a2decrow 9y ago
Thanks for pointing it out. It's one of the downsides of autism that understanding the intent of other people can be hard or impossible, so I'm always grateful for hints like that.

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