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by api 11y ago
IMHO the problem with stopping this and many other forms of environmental degradation is that it's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven so to speak. Poverty is worse than all but the most severe natural disasters. Infant mortal
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by api 11y ago
I'd vote for naming it Nibiru just to riff on the planet X stuff, though I somehow doubt it'd host anything but frozen gases.
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by api 11y ago
I remember the first time I did the email around the world trick. Back then you could telnet to port 25 and type in a smtp header with a source route and send an email that would bounce across a dozen mail servers as it circumnavigated the
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by api 11y ago
It's an old joke at this point. If you're stupid and want to rob a bank, first you get a gun and a mask. If you're smart you get a banking license and a Federal Reserve account...
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by api 11y ago
The trap: (1) (1-2 years ago) Money is cheap! It won't be this cheap forever! We should raise as much as possible now just in case it gets harder to raise in a few months/years. (2) Now we're under pressure to put all this mo
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by api 11y ago
Cannabis is not particularly physically addictive.
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by api 11y ago
An old friend of mine who grew up in Middletown, Ohio said there was "nothing to do but drugs and church." He also said there was a surprising amount of double-dipping in those things, wrecking a few stereotypes.
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by api 11y ago
If it's just chemicals and devices it will be subject to the same hyper-deflation as other high-tech stuff. It would get rather cheap over time.
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by api 11y ago
It's kind of circumstantial: I ended up out here for a job, lived here for a while, and then started ZeroTier. It could be located in a place like Pittsburgh that has a decent talent pool but now that it's up and running and has
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by api 11y ago
Preaching to the choir. I think it points to deep/immersive telepresence as a major unsolved problem. It's telling that the people who build the Internet can't use it to escape some of the highest rents in the developed world
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by api 11y ago
A book about politics? I think I just threw up a little. I do feel a potential blog post in this, but I'm waiting to see how it shakes out in the near term. Even blogging about politics makes me sick but there are things that might nee
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by api 11y ago
I think some of that results from the limitations of mobile OSes: everything is tied to an app store, jailed, etc. A mobile device is not a "real computer" not because of any hardware limitation but because the OS is designed for
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by api 11y ago
This whole Skype/P2P thread makes me feel very pleased and very optimistic about what we have built already and are building for release relatively soon. You can do P2P on mobile and you can even do P2P with central server fallback wit
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by api 11y ago
Few try to make that happen except maybe people with shopping addictions. For over a decade now we've used debt as a substitute for wage increases.
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by api 11y ago
I'd say financial security sufficient to not live on debt, decent accommodations, health care, and dignity in old age. Applies just as much to everyone as it does to whites or the working class, and statistically the black working clas
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by api 11y ago
You're getting downmodded, but you're right. That's one problem. The other is unfair international trade rules that allow oppressive foreign regimes to compete against workers in liberal democracies with slave labor and no en
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by api 11y ago
Look at Flint, Michigan. The water system is failing. In some areas of the American interior we're at the level of a full blown collapse of civilization. It's the sort of future the peak oil doomers talked about, but it doesn&#x27
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by api 11y ago
They were only touched by the busts, while the booms went unheard. It's a ratchet down for all but maybe a dozen alpha cities and a few college towns. Most of the country has been in a depression of varying intensity since 2000. I don&
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by api 11y ago
It's not a stretch. We live in a serial bubble economy where central banks inflate and pop speculative bubbles to give the illusion of recovery. This has been going on for a long time: dot.com, housing, oil, ... They do this because it
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by api 11y ago
That's the trap many have gotten into. They raised to keep up with the Joneses, but if you raise it now you have to spend it. Now your baseline is higher and if your growth is not utterly insane or if you can't monetize it quickly
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by api 11y ago
I read it with an eye to what got worse, since most things got better. The thing that truly leapt out to me was how awful pop music and the radio are today. There is good music, but nowhere near a radio. You really have to dig in obscure pl
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by api 11y ago
We are sentient but we emerged from a system that works exactly that way. I do think we will eventually transcend the limits of our origins, but I was speaking to the reality of what we still very much are.
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by api 11y ago
Perhaps the designers are too far from production and "over design." Production folks then pare their designs down but try to keep some spirit of the design intact, yielding half a kitten which as we know is not half as cute as a
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by api 11y ago
When I had children I experienced a significant drop in fear of death. Now if, say, someone were pointing a gun at me, my greatest emotion would be fear for how it would hurt them. Fear of death is just a piece of hard coded programming to
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by api 11y ago
Automotive design is in some kind of dark age. It's not just GM.
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by api 11y ago
Of course. It's the web, where we rewrite the entire stack every two years.
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by api 11y ago
Terrorists aren't going to balk at patent infringement.
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by api 11y ago
There was a general global religious reactionary backlash in the 70s and 80s. Over here we got the moral majority and such.
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History of Pseudo.com(en.wikipedia.org)
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by api 11y ago
That's what I mean. It's not a conservation violation, but I could see it as a very interesting way of transmitting energy across long distances. Even if it were inefficient it could still have some fascinating applications.

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