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15151.
by api 12y ago
A degree is basically a license allowing you to get a job above the service and low-level manufacturing industry, so of course it's worth it. Having a writ of noble title was worth it in the middle ages / renaissance area. The r
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by api 12y ago
Russia, China, the UK, and the larger EU states certainly do.
15153.
by api 12y ago
All these governments accusing each other of unscrupulous spying has got to be the biggest bunch of pots and kettles calling each other black in human history. The USA is, despite all its overreach and corruption, much more on the liberal s
15154.
by api 12y ago
The fact that you need to "root" your own property -- I am just astounded that there isn't more yelling over this. Microsoft could never have gotten away with this in the 90s or early 2000s. You probably still couldn't
15155.
by api 12y ago
There are many forms of conflict. Optimistic visions of the future often portray a healthy, competent humanity vs. some unknown danger, mystery, or challenge.
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by api 12y ago
The competent bureaucracy part is really the lynchpin. Because bureaucracies are so incompetent, criminal syndicates just run circles around them. This is why the mafia state looks like the logical endpoint-- basically anarcho-syndicalism,
15157.
by api 12y ago
The most fantastic aspect of Star Trek isn't warp drive, teleportation, or replicators. It's a competent bureaucracy. Starfleet seems to be just that: competent, usually very trustworthy, fair, and honest. Almost equally unbelieva
15158.
by api 12y ago
That's a very interesting concept! What if it were geo-local? When you post an article or text post everyone sees it but you only see comments from people within 100km of your location.
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by api 12y ago
I really like this for not defaulting to the standard, lazy, fallacy-of-self-exclusion explanation of "most people are dumb." The same effect seems to occur with large social movements. I've noted for many years that once any
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by api 12y ago
I don't think you can completely discount radical Malthusianism. While such a scenario is unlikely at this point, it isn't impossible. If we were to head into the final fossil fuel depletion tail spin with no real alternatives, it
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Quantum Computing Playground(qcplayground.withgoogle.com)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
Great strides could be made if Google, Wikipedia, and other major destinations had a day where they displayed a box to non-IPv6-enabled visitors telling them to contact their ISPs and ask for IPv6 and explaining why.
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by api 12y ago
There are unallocated /8's that are privately routed. A lot are controlled by the U.S. DoD. But every time they come up, the response is always "so what? use IPv6!" I generally agree. Putting those in circulation would a
15164.
by api 12y ago
Antibacterial chemicals, not antibiotics. But you're right in general. It's something that we do that we have no evidence is actually good for us. We live in symbiosis with bacteria. Sterilizing your gut would kill you.
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Ld-linux.so is a valid domain name(ld-linux.so)
1 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
You're referring to the concept of a natural monopoly, which is problematic for anarchist and libertarian versions of capitalism. There are certain markets that inherently favor monopoly for physical constraint reasons. Utilities are t
15167.
by api 12y ago
While I agree with the general thrust of the article, there is one fallacious argument here. Cringely argues that cable breaks even and money is made on the net, but that's an artificial distinction. What if cable disappeared? Would th
15168.
by api 12y ago
I tried DDG about six months ago and went back to Google, but I recently tried it again. The gap is closing fast. As of now it's my default search. Google still does a better job seemingly "understanding" queries sometimes, s
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by api 12y ago
I'm not arguing against mobile, just... well... exactly what you say. It will never enter the pro market unless changes are made to the app and security models that allow a user to admin their own device. It won't matter how power
15170.
by api 12y ago
I have for years been a naysayer on "Mobile will replace the primary computer." It's not because the hardware will never be up to it. In many cases it is already. I think it's the OSes. In my opinion it's because th
15171.
by api 12y ago
It's an attempt to make ideas, inventions, etc. into something like physical goods that can be put on balance sheets like physical goods. Accountants like that, investors like that. But it doesn't seem to work very well.
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by api 12y ago
I want to believe, but there's an elephant in the way. GNU, Linux, the free BSDs, etc. have done a lot, but in the end they have only copied the work that came before them. You can see it from the surface down-- the GUIs are copies of
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Using Psychedelics for Rational Work(matrixmasters.net)
1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
That's been going on for a while now, and is due to many factors: https://www.zerotier.com/blog/?p=6
15175.
by api 13y ago
So accurate. Such parody. Wow.
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by api 13y ago
Google might be doing the same thing to everyone with Google Fiber. The solution is to encrypt everything. Smother this business model in the crib by making packet inspection worthless.
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Spurious Correlations finds totally pointless connections between everything(theverge.com)
3 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
Not a bad point. If I, say, donated $100million to Microsoft to improve the Windows UI and did not know precisely where to put that money in the company and what that money should be doing, it probably would not fare much better. Still: t
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by api 13y ago
I worked for a while as a government contractor. I'd become disillusioned with libertarianism (no connection to the decision to take the job), and still am, but that experience cured me of any leanings toward the sort of liberalism tha
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by api 13y ago
I deeply loathe articles of the form: "such and such is really hard so don't try it !" Popular topics we should not attempt to learn include threaded programming, security, encryption, network protocols, and VMs.

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