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   by api 12y ago

   Interesting. But I still wonder how they'd fare in the long term. Would they maintain their cooperative state or devolve into mafia statism as most experiments in radical socialism seem to do.
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   by api 12y ago

   Capitalism indeed seems to consign the masses to work that is drudgery and is intellectually beneath them, but so does socialism. Every socialist experiment I'm familiar with has almost instantly devolved into a form of a capitalism ba
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   The Phases of Titan(adamierymenko.com)

   4 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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   by api 12y ago

   I agree with at least some of what TJ Rodgers has to say, though it's a tad too Randian for my taste. Using cigarette taxes as an example highlights an intrinsic problem with libertarianism: sometimes government is our only defense aga
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   by api 12y ago

   Sometimes the "skeptics" are as fallacy-ridden as the new agers and the conspiritainment trolls. Some, perhaps most, of the things they debunk are indeed bunk. Yet there is no magic truth machine. There is no single ideology, scho
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   by api 12y ago

   "Welcome to the delightful world of Washington, D.C. realpolitik!" I don't understand how the people who play these games can motivate themselves to get up in the morning. Forget morality. I'm just talking about a sense
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   by api 12y ago

   Bullshit jobs are central to how our economy works, and their history goes way back. Most "work projects," unless they are to build infrastructure, are bullshit jobs. I'm convinced that a significant proportion of the militar
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   by api 12y ago

   Containers are far, far more efficient. The superficial benchmarks that suggest that the difference is small are misleading. At a data center where I worked a while back I saw thousands of VZ containers on boxes that could only manage maybe
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   by api 12y ago

   http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/the-rise-of-bullshit-...
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    by api 12y ago

    I think it's a question of focus. The more secure apps are a product of focus on security. The less secure ones are a product of focus on marketing and user experience.
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    by api 12y ago

    How good these are from a security point of view seems (roughly) inversely proportional to their popularity.
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    by api 12y ago

    It's far worse in many other countries: China, Russia, even the UK and parts of the EU. But the alarming thing to me is that totalitarian oligarchy seems to be the direction the whole world is moving. I can't think of any major na
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    by api 12y ago

    Another one for your list: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne Docker integration by a third party user: https://github.com/davide/docker-zerotier ZeroTier isn't Docker-specific, but peop
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    by api 12y ago

    All the major cloud vendors are surveillance collaborators. ... and I have to ask: do they have any choice? Can you say no to the national security state? If I were in charge of a company with employees who have families and fiscal respon
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    by api 12y ago

    I saw this phenomenon myself years ago in a completely different domain: machine learning. There are indeed many cases where people will rave about your demos, tell you what you made is awesome, but... they will not come. They'll give
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    by api 12y ago

    Not only that, but anyone in any embargoed country can trivially redirect through a VPS or Tor and bypass any controls. It's sort of like the war on drugs if pot could be sent electronically. Hilarious security theater...
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    by api 12y ago

    I'd consider it far more evil if it were with human intervention.
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    by api 12y ago

    "Hybrid systems always lead to a worst of both worlds outcome." Not necessarily in engineering, but in politics generally that's true. We have a hybrid healthcare system for example. It combines all the worst things about pri
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    by api 12y ago

    One thing I consistently saw in people that tried these substances is that abusing them -- heavy, careless use -- can be very harmful. I would not recommend it. I saw a few people in my youth who kind of just "never came back." Th
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    by api 12y ago

    http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/2006/06/podcast-042-–-“us...
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    by api 12y ago

    What we want, for understandable reasons, is a predictable way to just make ourselves happier, smarter, and more effective. Psychedelics seem to be able to do that for some people, but not for others, and the effect overall seems like it ha
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    by api 12y ago

    An expert in the psychedelic experience would likely say that through this experience you learned both the nature of depression and how to grow beyond it. These things are not "recreational." Their effects are difficult to predict
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    by api 12y ago

    Thanks! May I ask: given the freemium model here, what features or services would make you more likely to sign up for a paid account? I'm looking for ways to add more value to the professional side of things.
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    by api 12y ago

    Those are all special cases, and are all subsidized heavily. Ordinary OSS authors are volunteers. You can only go so far that way, but people have to build a viable career around things or they will eventually be given up. Meanwhile, the cl
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    by api 12y ago

    But since it's free, nobody will pay for it. If nobody pays for it, it won't get built. Free as in beer is the enemy of free as in freedom.
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    by api 12y ago

    It's a two tier world that's coming. Either you know your gear inside and out, or your gear knows you inside and out.
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    by api 12y ago

    If anything, the tinfoil hat conspiracy wackos of yesteryear were far too conservative in their paranoid fever dreams. They'd never have believed this. I wonder sometimes: if things like this had existed in the 50s and 60s would we eve
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    by api 12y ago

    Democrats tend to be better on social issues and no worse on most other things. Republicans make hay out of being for economic freedom, low taxes, etc., but history shows they don't really mean it. Spending increased dramatically under
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    by api 12y ago

    My trouble with the enterprise has always been that they tend to lag when it comes to adopting new ways of doing things. As a result, if you listen slavishly to what enterprise customers tell you to build you'll be building solutions t
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    by api 12y ago

    (I'm the author/founder.) Old one did distributed breadth-first graph exploration: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/wiki/OLD-Multicast-A... It was nifty and cool and worked pretty well for sm