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by acephal 6y ago
Fortnite for ducking fees
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by acephal 6y ago
I'm very very surprised that the number one parallel has yet to ever be mentioned in these kinds of discussions: the 2005 Paris riots. French police were held responsible for the deaths of North African teenagers and riots broke out al
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by acephal 6y ago
>Part of the last 2000 years has been the attempt to development systems of government which inherently reduce the importance of this question. For example, by enforcing churn on "custodes", by creating a culture in which radic
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by acephal 6y ago
>The reality is that you have systems and people that prey on human weaknesses for time immemorial. It is much more interesting to examine how those technologies/systems operate. Welcome to the wonderful world of Michel Foucault&#x2
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by acephal 6y ago
I don't think this is particularly true in the case of Chrome. In the case of FF, maybe, but Chrome had a well-oiled marketing machine behind it. I was volunteer coaching a HS debate team, none of whom had any interest in "tech&qu
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by acephal 6y ago
Isn't this, put another way, Taleb's ethical precept of "having skin in the game?" - Post-Soviet and Trump Administration governments both demonstrate a complete lack of stakes in the outcome of the common person. The on
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by acephal 6y ago
I'd grant they're pretty big cultural differences between Slavic, Germanic, and Latino European (the latter two constituting Western Europe plus or minus Czech Republic, Slovakia which spent half of that time under German rule) c
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by acephal 6y ago
They sent the message they wanted everybody to hear about gaming when they turned the lever on 32bit support
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by acephal 6y ago
All sovereign governments are exceptional in Schmitt's view. Our constitution grants that power to Congress specifically.
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by acephal 7y ago
document.querySelectorAll?
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by acephal 7y ago
Wasn't long-polling the killer feature?
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by acephal 7y ago
Are you saying talking to an encouraging family (encouraging being re-normalization) was the ancestral solution for depression?
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by acephal 7y ago
Could you expand on this?
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by acephal 7y ago
That's a typical quality of game engines, they just blast the whole screen away. If their design is similar to CreateJS' they likely walk the tree and reduce it to a flat array of Canvas instructions. I imagine reconcilling with a
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by acephal 7y ago
I mean, most of human life has taken place in the context of extended familial and community support. I don't think we'd be facing new problems.
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by acephal 7y ago
Yeah, that was bad characterization. This was the first half of 2015.
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by acephal 7y ago
Mmm, I work on a multimedia sequencer (timeline, viewport, etc) in the browser, it would be utter hell if the whole thing was put together via manual DOM updates in something like a Backbone View render function. I know this because when I
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by acephal 7y ago
"Tepid satisfaction"?
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by acephal 7y ago
Except they don't say "ain't no making it", they say "life is about the experiences not making money". I've heard 35-year olds say this.
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by acephal 7y ago
Analytics driven education is the worst thing to happen to education.
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by acephal 7y ago
Also Aristotle: you can't do philosophy without solving all the other necessities and knowledges (he meant math, etc) first.
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by acephal 7y ago
Black SWE here, grew up on the west side of Chicago, I don't think most white people understand how bad the literacy situation is. I could read competently before I even got to school and I went to grammar school in the 90s. First day
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by acephal 7y ago
Or JIRA and its abuses
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by acephal 7y ago
It's not just the loss of context and taxonomy/ontology of information it's that everywhere in our culture people are being further and further enticed to solely think in terms of arbitrarily coordinated stream of consciousne
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by acephal 7y ago
>I'm not totally convinced of this, but I have this feeling that the problem of our cultural reward function is that today, it's mostly defined as "do whatever you like, be whoever you want to be". Maximum freedom, bu
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by acephal 7y ago
>Unemployment + GDP are probably the wrong things to optimize for. Personally I believe Unemployment is overloaded as our optimization function for economic health, where median wage increase is more representative of livability. This is
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by acephal 7y ago
> Is it hard to switch between two verbal or written languages you know? People do it mid sentence, I don't see how it's any different with programming languages. Well, to be fair, humans have dedicated hardware for natural lan
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by acephal 7y ago
Even granting Marx wasn't particularly specific, the specific invention of Leninism, the Party as "intermediary" between the proletariat and History with a capital H, is conceived of absolutely nowhere in Marx's work, bu
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by acephal 7y ago
Severely off-topic but this is also how I feel about battling racism in America, but the general notion of systems vs specific agents was strongly reinforced for me by the Slovenian political writer Slavoj Zizek in a book of his after 9&#x2
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by acephal 7y ago
Or simply, be self-critical, which is the number one trait disappearing from public conversation, if not for the fact that being self-critical is seen as weakness, perhaps the reason you're reiterating yourself

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