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by api 8y ago
... which will kill it, or at least keep it a niche echo chamber for deranged hate and outrage addicts. If they don't want it to be a platform for rage porn vitriol is an awful name. The word addict here is somewhat serious. One thing
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by api 8y ago
We have some of that problem too. The use of housing as a financial instrument is a plague from the pit of hell.
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by api 8y ago
The American equivalent is useless military hardware, including sometimes hardware the Pentagon says it doesn't even need. Both approaches are wasteful but which is more so is debatable. Our military Keynesianism throws off R&D div
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by api 8y ago
That's sort of what bothers me. This stuff evolved to work in small tribes, not global societies. When you don't actually know the person the behavior is very different.
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by api 8y ago
No. Good news is that it's not "real." It's numbers in a database. The stuff, knowledge, and experience that we have is real.
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by api 8y ago
Agendas are like you-know-whats... everyone's got one. I wouldn't say I agree with them on everything but this is definitely on the sane side as agendas go, especially these days when vast numbers of people seem to have eaten the
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by api 8y ago
I had the thought the other day that what we're seeing here in the West is like an informal version of China's social credit system, and perhaps that something like China's social credit system is almost unavoidable when ev
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by api 8y ago
Unfortunately enough ISPs have abused their position that treating them as hostile is where we're going. VPNs are a stopgap. The future is end-to-end encrypted protocols like QUIC that obscure even connection state information and prev
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by api 8y ago
I'm less optimistic about the conventional auto industry. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that conventional auto companies had to be dragged kicking and screaming into marketing desirable EVs. The conventional auto industry is
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by api 8y ago
I really think I'm asking the last question. Historically we do seem to need "kings" of some form or another. This makes the requirement socially tautological. Kings have to be assholes because people need asshole kings. My
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by api 8y ago
... yet Tesla pushed the entire world to electrify transport. I remember years ago reading article after article and forum post after forum post about how once we finally deplete oil transportation will revert to the 19th century. I don&#x2
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by api 8y ago
Regulation in general tends to be a regressive tax. Larger companies have the bureaucratic overhead to handle it and can also often lobby or litigate their way around it. If they do get tripped up they can pay the fines or hire lawyers. Sma
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by api 8y ago
Yes, that's the sort of stuff I was thinking of. Obama ran on "change" and little changed. We also continued our relentless march toward total surveillance panopticon under Obama, and he did little to nothing to reign in the
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by api 8y ago
I think they mean actually buying the chips. This model of putting revolutionary new hardware in the cloud only is kind of worrisome given the future implications.
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by api 8y ago
Every time the ruling party switches, followers of both parties warp into parallel universes with entirely different realities. Same thing happens for Democrats and their opinions of foreign military adventures. It's an unnecessary war
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Project Tierra (1991)(youtube.com)
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by api 8y ago
I totally agree. I'm not trying to poo-poo this stuff, just trying to ask some questions. I'm asking in part because I'm curious about what has been developed and what's being contemplated for the future. I think one pro
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by api 8y ago
That's a start, but my concern is that the volunteer militia will get swamped and burnt out when the real attacks come. Right now Mastodon and other ActivityPub platforms are too small for a Cambridge Analytica / Russian FSB or ot
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by api 8y ago
How will these systems defend against spam, click farms, troll armies, and AI assisted or powered sock puppeting when they get big and/or influential? This is usually what kills federated and decentralized communication platforms. They
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by api 8y ago
Was the latter imported in part because it was compatible with older Korean values? Just curious.
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by api 8y ago
I keep asking for one cryptocurrency based application or service with a lot of users that is not directly related to cryptocurrency itself and that is not illegal. I keep getting nil. I keep searching independently and getting nil. The clo
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by api 8y ago
The underlying tech is potentially powerful and useful. The current popular implementations are slow, have very wonky hyperdeflationary economics (which makes them Ponzis whether intended or not), and are surrounded by a toxic ecosystem tha
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by api 8y ago
That's what I said -- "dripped by design" OS. That being said I don't see it as something that's going to change. The duopoly behind phones and tablets wants these devices locked down. In Apple's case it's
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by api 8y ago
In re your last paragraph: Quantum computing, cryptocurrency (Bitcoin with its 10tps vs Visa is analogous to Engelbart's GUI vs MacOS), lots of AI stuff that can kind of just barely be intelligent today, the Boston Dynamics robots, sel
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by api 8y ago
Tablets are in an uncanny valley. Phones fit in your pocket and are good for communication, brief transactional interaction with services, and casual stuff. When I want more than that I want a real computer, which means I pull out a laptop.
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by api 8y ago
Agreed. Best visual GUI editor ever made. A modern reboot of similar concepts with modern look and feel would be something I would pay for, especially if you could target both desktop and mobile.
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by api 8y ago
Old Windows 3.1 era MathCAD before the company ruined the UI. Extremely easy to use and powerful symbolic math engine and helped me learn calculus. My dad used to model a lot of analog signal processing and acoustic stuff.
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by api 8y ago
I was responding to the claim that tech exclusively leans progressive and offering my own observations and experiences to the contrary. As for rappers-- you're right, but rap doesn't have a progressive public image at least insofa
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by api 8y ago
That's not how it unfolded. The Nazi craziness came before the deplatforming, and caused it.
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by api 8y ago
Nope. I do have to add though that all human experiences suffer from the curse of small sample size. I guess a more rational takeaway from my comments would be that the liberal bias in tech is not as universal as some people would think, an

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