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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   There is a corporate- and government-approved standard for false dichotomies, but it works as a de-facto standard, not published.
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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   > ADA IIRC (from the days of Electronics magazine) VHDL was also defined for the purpose of allowing US DOD to be manufacturer-independent.
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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   And so thoroughly researched, every episode.
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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   > These SOE's then burn money on everything ... devouring resources Not sure if this adds, but one observation I sometimes come across is this: Both Capitalism and Socialism as we know them are dependent upon resources (energy, conc
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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   > modal popups How about modal NPC bystanders blocking your way, forcing you to notice some commercial signage. You will be a targeted individual in meta!
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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   Relevant systematic review: accelerometers and privacy[1] [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3309074.3309076
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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   Great article. The author explores, among many things and in a sensitive way, finding a closer approach to Dunbar's number. One way to approach Dunbar's number which the author does not discuss is combining "special interest&
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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   Fact check needed, but doesn't 'corn' mean '[primary]staple', officially? So what Americans call 'corn' is technically Maize, according to that view. Somewhere else the 'corn' could be rice -- ag
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   by a9h74j 5y ago

   Christopher Alexandar listed IIRC "light on two sides of a room" as a design pattern. He also went into detail about the need for "intimacy gradient" in housing designs -- another design pattern. Room for tradeoffs. If y
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    West: China invented gunpowder and failed to exploit it. China: West invented nuclear power and failed to exploit it.
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    My post; your question at the very least is a fair one. I believe a hint of metaphor there compares humanity as a whole to a relatively autonomous process. If 'Caton' does not clarify a frame for you, compare a pessimistic Ada
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    IIRC he claimed they feed deep and poop shallow.
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    I have seen the argument (in Derrick Jensen) that whales migrate vertically, so the iron they distribute is somewhere else than originally, placing whales (if so) as a key factor in an iron circulation system.
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Caton in Overshoot called humans a detritus species. Your very descriptive paragraph might be mined for metaphors. For example, in place of a brain, does humanity have going a peristaltic action connecting mines to landfills?
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Great. In the meantime I have also heard the following which addresses US homelessness in a somewhat internationally-informed way: Joe Rogan episode #1719 with M. Shellenberger. He does not use the term, but Shellenberger suggests that mere
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Coincidently, I just listened to this. (Perhaps we saw the same recommendation on HN.) 100% recommend, and the whole podcast approach at econtalk.org is very interesting. Economics plus life-of-the-mind.
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Dumb question: Is 'metaverse' (as Meta wants to use it) in some sense born generic in Trademark/IP terms?
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Next time try MVS -- Minimum Viable Script. Actually, other applicable terms could be: a) programmed documentation; b) script as single-source of procedural truth
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Plot twist: Someone talked Zuck into VR as a step in playing some deep power-of-suggestion trick on him, as in the movie Inception . https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    I don't know if this is a truism in the VR community, but the brain really does want to make consistent sense of things.
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    I thought of a remark a day or two ago, but I have no idea, other than your remark, whether it applies at all: "Does Zuck have Second Life second-system syndrome?"
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Also the early Boz Scaggs Loan Me a Dime -- still being played live (at least in Boz Scaggs' concerts) note perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Recent suggestion for a New Yorker caption: "Honey, are you okay? You are barely taking pictures of your food."
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    "You will own only meta-things and be happy."
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    In a later incident, because San Francisco had no cow to blame, they blamed their great fire on an Earthquake.
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    I did attempt to access the site which had thus become known to me through my travels. Alas, ...
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Or, at least attribute your work to someone famous, to increase the odds for attention and recopying? "Anything really important is also worth doing anonymously."
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    A recent comment on HN led me to Metzinger's The Ego Tunnel . IMO that book alone would get a lot of people past neuroscience-uninformed Philosophy 101 takes on philosophy-of-mind.
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    Have their been any efforts just to work on specifications for a new common standard library, prior to a new language? Perhaps one which other languages could ffi into? IIRC library designers in Rust have at least demonstrated some effort t
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    by a9h74j 5y ago

    And then energy and transportation prices increase by a factor of four, and it turns out not enough money was set aside for solar-farm decomissioning??