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   by api 9y ago

   I wasn't excluding the left-- hence my comment about Soviet ideology. I was making a general point about the affinity that exists between totalitarianism and irrationalist ideas in other areas and how totalitarianism often adopts these
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   by api 9y ago

   Interestingly the modern alt-right, which is largely a 21st century post-social-media rebranding of Nazi ideology, has its own very strange occultism: https://pepethefrogfaith.wordpress.com https://pepethefrogfaith.wo
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   by api 9y ago

   Touchscreen in car :: Start menu and manual keyboard on mobile device
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   by api 9y ago

   It doesn't have to be as complex as the ICE/STUN/TURN stack but that's not really my point. Building blocks and programmability are better for a long lived platform like the web than giant inflexible monoliths. UDP and w
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   by api 9y ago

   Install Piwik?
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   by api 9y ago

   The world is absolutely crawling with bacteria and fungi that will consume any precursors or early proto-life. RNA and protein sequences are delicious. Anything new is going to just get immediately eaten by the better adapted more advanced
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   by api 9y ago

   > has life arisen independently from other existing life in the last 4 billion years? It depends on how you define life. If viruses are a life form then you have one. If self-replicating meta-structures composed of multiple different spe
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   by api 9y ago

   There's no well understood theory of abiogenesis. For something to be a theory it must be supported by repeatable experiment and/or repeatable observation. The difference between hypothesis and theory is very important. There ar
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   by api 9y ago

   Just tweeted this and plan to publicize. If we had web UDP we could port ZeroTier pretty easily to run in the browser, allowing web apps to coexist with machines on true virtual networks. It'd probably be lighter weight than WebRTC, wh
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    by api 9y ago

    I totally agree on the hub cities phenomenon. I've been noticing it for 15+ years. I've talked to older people (>50) and they say that no-- when they were in their 20s and 30s you did not have to be in one of about eight cities
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    by api 9y ago

    The problem has been popularly summarized as "housing cannot be both affordable and a good investment." Of course that might be an oversimplification. Housing has been an investment class as long as it's existed and yet there
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    by api 9y ago

    Was thinking the other day: could someone prove by signing with some wallet keys or moving some coin that they control enough crypto wealth to be an accredited investor? Could you do an ICO that required that?
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    by api 9y ago

    Doesn't the Go runtime get linked in and would just get decompiled? It would generate a huge blob of C but the idea is just to port.
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    by api 9y ago

    I suspect fear and outrage releases some natural addictive brain chemicals. The fear and outrage porn industry certainly resembles an addictive substance scene.
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    by api 9y ago

    Could you compile a Go program and then decompile to C? I can see actual uses for that like porting to old OSes.
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    by api 9y ago

    This plugin helps for sites like Kite: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...
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    by api 9y ago

    In my experience they have meteoric careers that then suddenly crash and burn spectacularly. Unfortunately after a big crash they're usually able to find more fools and repeat the pattern. You'll often see someone whose career loo
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    by api 9y ago

    It could also get Kite sued.
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    by api 9y ago

    So it can be illegal for me to factor in social or political concerns into a buying decision? Ludicrous.
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    by api 9y ago

    You got downvoted by the boring universe police. No speculation allowed, especially if it is grand or contains any hint of the poetic.
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    by api 9y ago

    Yes, ancient thinkers were starting to notice self similarity at different scales.
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    by api 9y ago

    Why does understanding remove profundity?
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    by api 9y ago

    Not if you factor in charge times for EVs which even with improvement are not likely to be as rapid as gasoline car refueling times. EVs and trains are a great match. Self-driving EV takes you to train, train takes you to another city, and
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    by api 9y ago

    Tunnel systems like this would be for long distance transport. This competes with airlines, not Tesla. Total red herring.
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    by api 9y ago

    It depends on how deep they can tunnel.
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    by api 9y ago

    I'd settle for the ability to verifiably disable the PSP.
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    by api 9y ago

    Distribution is a massive issue with all these. Electron makes it easy but still results in massive bloat.
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    by api 9y ago

    Mods: can we change the title?
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    by api 9y ago

    Another way you can mark the descent of Internet culture into low-effort trash is the rapid decline in the artistic quality of web comics. We went from this to badly drawn sneering blobs, stick figures, and memes.
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    by api 9y ago

    One thing that leaps out at me any time I revisit 90s visionary culture is the optimism. I can't imagine that kind of optimism post-9/11. We still have not recovered as a culture from that day. If anything it's getting progre