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1. 8941.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I've heard some great podcast interviews on it. I think the answer is some of both, since I do think political opportunists of many sorts manipulated and rode the wave. I do also recall LW as having a fever ward stench too when I visit
2. 8942.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I remember being in the same circles circa 2012. I found LessWrong to be a bunch of not very interesting wank and pseudoprofound bullshit. I couldn't decide if neoreaction was serious or some kind of many layered satire (later learned
3. 8943.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I look at it as producers vs rentiers. Major cities are controlled by price fixing supply restricting frontier cartels. Producers of art, culture, etc. have already been priced out of cities like SF. The tech people are the only ones left w
4. 8944.▲
   by api 7y ago

   I knew Virgil and considered him a friend long ago when we were both very into evolutionary inspired AI research. I met him at one of the ALife conferences (in Bloomington, IN at IU) and he later attended a group I helped found in Boston ca
5. 8945.▲
   by api 7y ago

   It may be marketing genius if the goal is to appeal to the type of nerd who loves obscure systems and occult jargon... the kind that geeks out on the complexities of D&D while chatting you up about the rococo details of Eastern Orthodox
6. 8946.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Even better would be to run them off on a dot matrix printer.
7. 8947.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Hmm... that is interesting. Guess I will have to see if it uses native controls and is handicapped accessible. Last one is a deal breaker for a "real" UI library.
8. 8948.▲
   by api 7y ago

   Novelty? Quite a lot of that has been driven out already.
9. 8949.▲
   by api 7y ago

   The poor can afford more gadgets, information, toys, appliances, etc than ever before. What they can't afford is housing, tuition, and health care, the three things whose cost has exploded since the late 1990s. In larger cities and esp
10. 8950.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Trouble is its yet another language to learn. Flutter should have just done the cross platform UI part and offered APIs in a number of languages.
11. 8951.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I really wish Flutter wasn't tied to Dart. Dart feels like a yet-another language with nothing over e.g. Go. Go can compile to JS and WASM now.
12. 8952.▲
    by api 7y ago

    What industry was this and where? There are some industries (architecture, design, medicine are some that come to mind) where sleep deprivation is viewed as a macho badge of honor and there's this culture of showing off extreme workaho
13. 8953.▲
    by api 7y ago

    They have an extended warranty on those keyboards. Four years I think. They repaired one of our company machines that was two years old no questions asked. They aren't perfect but I'm not aware of any device maker that is much bet
14. 8954.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Sort of. It's a similar cryptographic hash chain type structure. I believe it's a DAG. Block chain skepticism has gotten as silly as block chain hype. A block chain is a perfectly valid and sometimes useful structure with some ver
15. 8955.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I call it the CRASER: CRaziness Amplification through Stimulation of Engagement with Reactivity. Hey, a straw man left battling a straw man right to an audience of edgelord trolls drives engagement and therefore platform ad dollars. People
16. 8956.▲
    by api 7y ago

    "The libertarian argument that YouTube is owned by a private company which is entitled to police content as it wishes is no longer sustainable. We live in a digital world in which a handful of big tech companies have seized control of
17. 8957.▲
    by api 7y ago

    That doesn't really answer the point, which was that new solar and wind tend to be cheaper than new nuclear as of 2019.
18. 8958.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I think the rise of dark mode is mostly related to really good displays. Dark mode looks like shit on CRTs and even older flat panels with poor contrast.
19. 8959.▲
    by api 7y ago

    As it stands any broad based working class revolt in the US can be effectively nullified by bringing up a culture war issue like abortion, homosexuality, etc. and using it to split the electorate. This has been true for a long time. These i
20. 8960.▲
    by api 7y ago

    That's how it was a long long time ago in Europe, too. Then they got Lords. How do you think that happened?
21. 8961.▲
    by api 7y ago

    Sometimes this can keep you away from turkeys like Thereanos, too. Petty jerkitude is a contrarian indicator.
22. 8962.▲
    by api 7y ago

    It's maintained, but by one dev in their spare time as near as I can tell. The parent libui project is in the midst of a refactoring. We're considering using it for some simple client UI stuff and if we do we plan to make a donati
23. 8963.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I've thought for a long time that this is a broader problem with the whole firewalls-and-NAT network security paradigm. It leads to a "soft underbelly problem" and a complacency that leads to insecure internal systems. From w
24. 8964.▲
    by api 7y ago

    This is much more basic but also considerably smaller. https://github.com/andlabs/ui I really wish libui had more support and momentum. It's literally the only sane cross platform UI project in existence. Everythi
25. 8965.▲
    by api 7y ago

    I still doubt that there's a backdoor in the NIST curves because they're still widely used and recommended for top secret information, among other reasons. If there were a backdoor and it leaked (or the math behind it was independ
26. 8966.▲
    by api 7y ago

    What else should we use that is not over-engineered?
27. 8967.▲
    by api 7y ago

    In our coworking space in Orange County, CA we had a guy come in for an app pitch fest with an app for dating for Mercedes Benz owners. The idea was that the app would be for men -- only men -- who own Benzes, and for female users it would
28. 8968.▲
    by api 7y ago

    That kind of harsh routine along with sleep deprivation, repetition, and calorie restriction are bog standard cult mind control techniques, and yes they do work. All appear to be present in these camps.
29. 8969.▲
    by api 7y ago

    That is unfortunately most likely true. Stalin is a case in point.
30. 8970.▲
    by api 7y ago

    2. The problem is that there are so many terrorists and such. I've become very skeptical of the idea that technology can solve social problems, and unfortunately decades of futility propaganda by the existing order has convinced us tha