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by api 9y ago
It's sad that the person who co-wrote Zero to One would fall into this orbit. It remains one of my favorite business books in spite of the fact that its co-author has gone off and hopped on the crazy train politically. Of course many o
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by api 9y ago
The alt-right is the logical endpoint. It kind of combines all the worst ideas from liberalism over the past 50 years (postmodernism, identity politics) with all the worst ideas from conservatism (nationalism, racism, biological determinism
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by api 9y ago
The core problem is that we are hard-wired for scarcity. Our brains think we are on the African savannah 100,000 years ago. When things get a little tough we clutch and build fortresses. This can make sense as an individual, but collectivel
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by api 9y ago
I went back and watched some Star Trek TNG a while back. It's shocking. There is no way anything that optimistic could be written today. People literally can't even think it.
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by api 9y ago
It reminds me of the endless ghettoes of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy (Neuromancer, etc.) where people are basically warehoused and left to jack into "simstim" and rot. In reality the pitchforks will come out as you say an
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by api 9y ago
There are issues with this, but on the latter point: why are the GNU and OSI models an unquestionable religion? Do they work? Are they achieving their stated objectives? Why can't we question them?
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by api 9y ago
We could perhaps detect distant alien life by finding signatures of oxygen or another oxidizer in a planet's atmosphere. These would be highly unlikely to persist long without something alive to keep the thermodynamic gradient up. O2,
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by api 9y ago
I can think of loads of reasons they haven't made contact, from the altruistic (something like the prime directive) to self-preservation interests. Even if they're massively more advanced, why invite trouble? We're much more
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by api 9y ago
"Amazon is winning the battle for the home audio surveillance system."
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by api 9y ago
Good point. So let's talk motive. EVs and solar are on the verge of a tipping point that will destroy petroleum at least as the world's most important resource. Sub-10k EVs are coming since EVs are actually a lot simpler to build
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by api 9y ago
It's ugly but it doesn't matter. If this hits the USA I will buy one last year. Goodbye petroleum age.
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by api 9y ago
In America that would be the cost of one gas turbine.
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by api 9y ago
I wonder if a vacuum tube computer could survive Venusian temperatures if it was built out of the right materials?
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by api 9y ago
It's still impossible. These algorithms find in gaps with their biases, not reality. If information is not there it is not there.
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by api 9y ago
Apple: an imaginary version of you in the minds of it's design team is the customer. Microsoft: the OEM is the customer. Google: advertisers are the customer and you are the product. Linux: its own developers are the customers.
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by api 9y ago
> about 1 error per 2-GByte of memory per hour Wow! So that means a 16GB laptop will on average experience 8 memory errors per hour under moderate load? I had no idea it was that high. This likely explains why my Mac crashes randomly but
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by api 9y ago
Had a friend who put Ayn Rand next to Marx because he said the repulsion helped hold up his books on the shelf.
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by api 9y ago
Am I the only one who sees this stuff and the thinly veiled neo-Nazi ideology of the alt-right as two wings of the same movement? They operate as a kind of dialectic with the antics of both sides serving to strengthen the other. Under the h
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by api 9y ago
Conspiracy just means multiple people working together in secret toward some common goal. People do that all the time. Why just last week we had a closed door meeting at my company about how we might conspire to create more interest in the
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by api 9y ago
I've come to believe that some number of developers actually like it the hard way. It's the only explanation that makes sense. We have gone so far backward in GUI development tools.
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by api 9y ago
MS really had rapid GUI development absolutely nailed in the late 90s. For some reason we forgot all that.
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by api 9y ago
Forking is totally possible for states. Different factions are constantly vying for power and many revolutions are quiet shifts that occur behind the scenes. This is very true in complex democratic republics but is even still true in monarc
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by api 9y ago
It's worse. Continuous deflation (increasing real value) is a very undesirable characteristic for a currency as it dis-incentivizes the actual use of said currency. Why spend money on anything not absolutely essential if the money it
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by api 9y ago
I think we're approaching a trough of disillusionment with cryptocurrency. There's been a flurry of critical articles, crackdowns, and widespread disillusionment with crummy ICOs.
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by api 9y ago
Sure, but if you study and admire Nazi military tactics while also penning manifestoes defending racial hygiene laws people are going to wonder.
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by api 9y ago
"Just give your customers full control over the product!" Ownership is so 20th century.
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by api 9y ago
What's Gab's policy on advocating terrorism? Has this user been terminated? https://archive.fo/D70Yr
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by api 9y ago
The alt-right really understands the attention economy. Their media strategy is to troll, provoke outrage, and then leverage that outrage to dominate the media in terms of attention and airtime/space. This isn't a new strategy per
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by api 9y ago
Bush II is still easily the worst president of the last 100 years, at least. Trump has yet to come close to the Iraq disaster, though he has at least 3 more years so who knows. Obama wasn't bad but his problem was that he governed as i
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by api 9y ago
Better yet let's kill it and replace it with a near field protocol that isn't so overengineered, fragile, and failure prone. Bluetooth has always been junk.

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