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by api 13y ago
"The best of our world answer to the worst of theirs, because we've been colonized by the MBA culture, and most colonial soldiers and officers are people who failed in their own countries." Thank you. This is why I love Hacke
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by api 13y ago
On a side note... I find it kind of amazing how pollyanna many techies' view is of their own industry. The fact is that the tech industry is often surprisingly sleazy and includes quite a few very shady characters. Some of the sketchie
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by api 13y ago
I turned down a really great salary offer in the Bay Area recently because it was not that great given the housing prices. Basically you'd have to offer me over $175k to even consider coming there... and even then I'd be concern
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by api 13y ago
About as useful as debating economics with a baked potato...
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by api 13y ago
"is to write more efficient software. Think about that carefully. It will define success in this next decade." But optimization is the root of all evil... or something.
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by api 13y ago
I'm not sure Bitcoin is money, at least not in the traditional sense. As I said on another thread: one of the reasons I think Bitcoin is probably a fundamental innovation is that nobody quite seems to know what it is, including me. N
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by api 13y ago
"To take one example, the smallpox vaccine was initially considered unnatural, and an affront to God[1]." In hell, conservatives will have the ability to turn off the flames.
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by api 13y ago
Occupy was a brief but larger mass movement that drew in a much larger cross-section of folks.
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by api 13y ago
"where is the "true activism"?" I think that's a complex question. The simple reason: I think most of the people with real grievances are too busy trying to make ends meet. Meanwhile people with financially underwri
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by api 13y ago
It's likely that they do show up to city hall meetings and zoning boards... to block construction of new properties in order to save the Earth and stick it to capitalism or whatever.
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by api 13y ago
Yes, it's sort of a de-facto alliance: conservative property owners and clueless braindead slacktivists. Remove the slactivists and their flimsy environmental arguments from the equation and the purely greed-driven NIMBYism of the prop
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by api 13y ago
"Organization from outside groups attempting to co-opt our struggle in order to advance a broader agenda is quite another and one that is destructive to our democratic process and jeopardizes our over two year struggle in Longview.&qu
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by api 13y ago
The only plausible theory I've read on why chemtrails might exist is that they're tests of some kind of anti-global-warming geo-engineering tech that involves spraying of nano particles to increase the Earth's albedo. So they
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by api 13y ago
Abso-fucking-lutely. Like I said elsewhere I used to live in a "trendy" place that had a huge contingent of these obnoxious faux-radicals. They would organize this silly clownish protests of GMO foods, "chemtrails," free
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by api 13y ago
I think the rent issue is definitely real, but isn't the fault of techies. It's the fault of several interacting factors: (1) Anti-development mentality on the part of city councils, zoning boards, etc. (2) Geographic containment
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by api 13y ago
You're right that techies haven't experienced the great recession... or at least have avoided the worst of it. But the group I am referring to -- overprivileged over-educated trust fund kids engaging in faux-outrage as a form of e
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by api 13y ago
I used to live somewhere where I constantly saw these sorts of "activists" protesting: GMO foods, "chemtrails" (which probably don't exist), all kinds of trendy things to protest. I never once saw them protesting fo
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by api 13y ago
"These are Burning Man hippies, self-styled artists, people who graduated from great schools with useless majors, and the usual constituent of the Bay Area's overprivileged poverty tourists: 20-30 y/o white kids from middle c
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by api 13y ago
Not surprised to see this. The real estate hyperinflation in the Bay Area is beyond sanity at this point.
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by api 13y ago
It's not not a cryptocurrency bubble.
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The Culture that Gave Birth to the Personal Computer(medium.com)
5 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
A bit reason I think Bitcoin is a fundamental innovation is that nobody quite seems to know what it is. It's clear to me that it is not a currency in the classical sense in that it does things that no classical currency does, but it&#x
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Reading the Tea Leaves on App Sandboxing in OSX(gigaom.com)
1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
I hope this works well... I'd gladly pay for a Dropbox-like sync that syncs to my own servers. I know there's a git-based alternative out there but it has some issues and is much slower than Dropbox.
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by api 13y ago
I don't think this is a gender thing, or at least mostly isn't. Software is really a pretty emotionally rough field in the sense that it's got this hot-dog show-off mentality, people are really blunt with their criticisms,
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by api 13y ago
They are evolved to be evolvable to some extent. The difference between a mouse and a human at the DNA level is not that great. That suggests significant mutability if we can find the right levers.
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by api 13y ago
What if "runaway" isn't possible? It might be possible for an AI to be roughly as "intelligent" (depending on how one measures this) as the smartest humans, but that intelligence is the result of many millions or ev
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Kill Lists and Network Analysis(lawfareblog.com)
1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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by api 13y ago
OMNI was a bit more adventurous than TED is today. It routinely delved into very weird topics like "psi" and such, but in a way that avoided being either fluffy-woo-woo or completely dismissive. I personally have a lot of respect
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by api 13y ago
... which is the other problem with TED: it's not really an open platform.

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