andres_kytt

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by andres_kytt 10y ago
You are at absolute liberty not to do any of this. Don't like the non-monetary cost of free services? Don't pay! And, as already noted, there is always a trade-off between utility, security and privacy. You want an efficient well-
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
It's a feedback problem. People seek to solve problems and by doing so create new ones. Which also need solutions. That create more problems. Packaging, transpiling etc are already second order problems and there are third and fourth o
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
These coincidents can usually be explained by a latter analysis. That's the main point of the article: til now there is no logically sound string of events that explains the observed events, demolition, fire or otherwise. These events
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
Russian doctrine of information warfare seeks to create confusion, distrust and ambiguity about truth. Part of this ideology is to label everything as propaganda, to claim there is no objective truth, that everything is influenced by the fu
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
And when you have cash, a single robbery can destroy your life savings. Or police can come and seize your money. There was someone in the thread amazed about the trust people put in the complex stack. I'm amazed the trust people put in
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
Cash transactions are anonymous only if most transactions are cash. I take x eur from the bank and give them to you. You put x eur to the bank. That's linkable. And the people sign up to all sorts of savings cards en masse making their
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
Government does not meddle with interest rates. Not here, at least
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
I find this approach really curious. All the transactions can be monitored by third parties anyway as all the pos systems are networked and subject to even lesser legal scrutiny than banks. Random adverisers can and do build comprehensive p
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
From system thinking perspective, addiction can be described pretty well with a fairly simple model of a few feedback loops. Regardless of the exact feedback structure, the mechanisms are both social and bilogical, human biology will get hu
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
Dawkins and his memes should have been worthy of mention as well as Hawking with his model-based realism. The flat-earth folks just have a different model of how the universe works. It has sufficient predictive power for their purposes and,
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
Yes, the pesky economy preventing good wages. The "economy" is not a magic thing that can be turned better or worse at will. It is a complex machine driven by feedback and some basic rules. Jobs for less skilled are not plentiful
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
No. He key idea of Marx was that the person adding value should own the means of doing so. Which, if you think about it, is exactly what's happening. The key element of value creation is the mind and that is owned by the person. Marx h
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by andres_kytt 10y ago
That's not how entrepreneurship feels. That's how life feels. Why is it that "entrepreneurs" re-discover everything from religious practices to basic organisational theory and then feel compelled to spend their apparentl