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by api 11y ago
This is brilliant. I wish I had time to write more. A few points. The time tested old school way to avoid this problem is to limit openness and impose internal structure. The long lasting subcultures of old, namely the ancient mystery schoo
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by api 11y ago
The entrepreneur who most closely resembles a Rand hero couldn't have done it without government loans and subsidies. That should tell you something. Markets do some things very well. Hard core innovation isn't among those things.
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by api 11y ago
That's the basis of the war on drugs. If it were about health soft drinks, cigarettes, junk food, and hard liquor would be treated like narcotics. If it were about preventing addiction, casinos would not be allowed to use cognitive neu
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by api 11y ago
If he really did attempt to order a hit on someone, that changes the game a little. Now we're no longer talking about just drugs. But I agree that it's absolutely insane if the charges are just drug-related -- rapists get far less
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by api 11y ago
Firewalls were always an ugly hack that got grandfathered in as a 'best practice.'
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by api 11y ago
84.3% of all statistics are pulled from the nether regions.
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by api 11y ago
Read Blindsight by Peter Watts. Also one of the best hard Sci-fi books I've ever read, both for its ideas and writing quality.
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by api 11y ago
But "mobile is the future!" The idea that mobile is categorically the future of everything has been on my valley echo chamber meme death watch list for years. Everything you say is true. Fundamentally I think it can all be distill
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by api 11y ago
The push for surveillance is clearly something that is a "must have" from Washington's point of view -- to the point that it trumps ordinary political concerns.
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by api 11y ago
It's not by any means the only challenge out there, but it's a particularly good one. It's multi-dimensional, drawing upon virtually every human talent imaginable: technical, social, aesthetic, scientific. It's long-term
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by api 11y ago
One consistent thing I've learned in life is that you do not grow by staying in your comfort zone. You grow by going outside it. Take exercise for example. If you can run ten miles up hill, the ordinary physical exertion of climbing a
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by api 11y ago
As I expected, the article does not actually discuss any of the deeper or well thought out reasons behind why some thing settling another world is a good idea. It's incredibly one sided. I balanced article would discuss the frontier th
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by api 11y ago
I'm not aware of any political system that turns out, in practice, the way its theoreticians envision it "genuinely" being. Our mental simulations of what should happen in a human society ordered by some principle usually tur
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by api 11y ago
I'd discourage the creation of so many distributions. The fragmentation problem is really bad. I'd encourage people to focus on one core upstream distribution and then fork it downstream closer to the specific point of customiza
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by api 11y ago
They do it verbally. I'm the author of a number of open source projects, and some of the messages I've received are just insane. The latest thing is... get a load of this... it's now no longer good enough to give your code an
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by api 11y ago
It's fine to spend $5 on a cup of coffee, but "information wants to be free" even if it's the product of years and years of grueling work. This petulant entitled mentality is vile, especially when it's directed at a
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by api 11y ago
Gibson is incredible. He's the most prophetic sci-fi writer by a huge margin. I re-read Neuromancer a few years ago and to me it seemed that with the exception of certain details (e.g. the pay phones), it's aged spectacularly well
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Meta-study of twin studies finds near 50/50 nature/environment split(upi.com)
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by api 11y ago
Most people will believe anything if it's surrounded by the correct cultural signifiers and dog whistles. We use that stuff as a proxy for direct investigation because, quite frankly, we have neither the time nor the energy to investig
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by api 11y ago
By that logic, life should have stayed in the sea. ... And yes, there are loads of sci fi heads who talk about this stuff without thinking about it deeply. But those are just noisy internet fanboys and fangirls. It doesn't mean everyon
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by api 11y ago
The thing that's concentrated in the Bay Area is capital. You can work from anywhere, but raising money is exponentially easier when there's a ton of it in your back yard.
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by api 11y ago
... for the first few generations, until people figured out how to live there. People are pretty good at that. Look into native American tribes that lived in the arctic, or ancient peoples who lived in harsh deserts. People would eventually
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by api 11y ago
I somewhat agree on TED, but even more I appreciate the author's "meta" point -- that it is perfectly okay to be annoyed or disgusted at something. One is not required to like everything, nor to pretend to like things in orde
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by api 11y ago
The idea that all human beings are "equal" in the sense that they deserve dignity and respect is a modern idea. I'm not aware of any other time in human history that there's been this sort of universalism among more than
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by api 11y ago
IPSEC is a usability nightmare, mostly on account of the implementations.
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by api 11y ago
This is the tip of a large iceberg. There is no reason all sorts of drugs can't be made in this way. Get a bit of that yeast and you can do it yourself.
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by api 11y ago
You're conflating private spirituality and philosophy with civic matters like law; inner with outer. The latter is powerless to affect the former. The chair thrower and the erudite intellectual must be subject to the same law. Otherwis
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by api 11y ago
I'll raise you my law of circular credulity. When I was young and naive, I believed a lot more silly and bizarre things. Then I got older and wiser and more cynical and learned to dismiss them as nutty, jokes, satire, etc. But... As I
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by api 11y ago
... easy to distribute HUGE statically linked binaries. Go solved the DLL hell and/or VM platform hell problem by just punting it. Of course, I have wondered for quite a while if it might not be interesting to do away with DLLs in fa
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by api 11y ago
I heard they're working on Yo Enterprise. It'll have features to collaborate and listen.

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