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   Age-ism, Transhumanism, and Silicon Valley’s Cognitive Dissonance(medium.com)

   51 points by api 13y ago|10 comments
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   by api 13y ago

   joke comprehension error at 0x93: core dumped
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   by api 13y ago

   There are other ways though: sell the software itself, sell services built around something that is itself distributed, etc. But in general you are right. Most Internet business models revolve around monetizing a flow of traffic, and to do
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   by api 13y ago

   I've thought for a long time that you could have it both ways. If it's hard to completely decentralize networks (e.g. meshnets), then why not decentralize the computer? I've got some ideas for an execution environment based o
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   by api 13y ago

   Your protocol doesn't have to run on top of mine. Just build it to use IP and it can run over ZT1's virtual networks or plain vanilla IP or cjdns or whatever. With IPv6 every device could have a first-order IP. We just need to get
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   by api 13y ago

   The real problem is that I can't host a web page. I have to host it in the cloud. That's because there is no (easy) way for you to connect to my computer.
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   by api 13y ago

   NAT can be tunneled around, but there's two problems with that: (1) Every NAT traversal protocol is unique, so there is no interoperability between different apps. The power of IP lies in the fact that it's a lingua franca-- anyth
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   by api 13y ago

   I think a big barrier is the netsec defense in depth / reduce surface area dogma. There's this massive cargo cult of the firewall in security circles, and if you suggest removing a firewall everyone freaks out and calls you an idi
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   by api 13y ago

   It's been obvious to me for a long time that the firewall and NAT are the primary causes of Internet centralization. I think they're a far greater factor than the CAP theorem or protocol / programming model difficulties. For
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    by api 13y ago

    http://blog.zerotier.com/post/58157836374/op-ed-internet-cen...
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    by api 13y ago

    I think of renewables' higher cost as basically paying up front for the fuel instead of over time. At least that's how it should be thought of economically.
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    by api 13y ago

    Java applets are dead, and should be. Great idea poorly executed. Java on the server never died or even coughed. It's huge. It's a very rich ecosystem and performs very well at scale. Java for apps is IMHO underrated. The bigg
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    by api 13y ago

    Any lifetime cost calculations must factor in the fact that the fuel is free. I've seen quick comparisons with combined cycle gas, coal, etc. that neglect this obvious difference.
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    by api 13y ago

    My favorite mystery blog: http://moneyistheway.blogspot.com/ He's the world's foremost financial shaman. The blog ranges from the bizarre to the illucid. Another awesome one along a slightly different genre line:
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    by api 13y ago

    I don't expect to ever be able to retire unless I get truly wealthy. This is a fairly ugly thing. I'm not sure what I would do if I lost my health or my skills fell too far out of date for me to catch up. And I'm one of the l
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    by api 13y ago

    For me it's not about the language. It's about pragmatics. With C++ I can write code that builds natively using standard tool chains and libraries on Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and dozens of other less common platforms. Wi
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    by api 13y ago

    In a template C++ class called Buffer that supports assignments and comparisons with other instances templated for different Buffer sizes: // "Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all." - Whitney Houst
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    by api 13y ago

    This wolf's been cried about many times, but I do think there is a hole in the market right now: Right now Microsoft is the only option for affordable really high-end desktop/laptop computers. Contrary to the current hype, mobile
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    by api 13y ago

    I'd love to see some of these want-to-live-forever transhumanist moneybags actually put some money behind some of these things and move them past the pipe dream phase. I hope this is somehow a step in that direction. BTW: Calico... wha
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    by api 13y ago

    In other news: democracy is dead. It's been hacked. (That's actually been true for a long time. The exploits are only getting better now. It's a bit like SSL.)
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    by api 13y ago

    The article skirts the obvious: Kwame Kilpatrick's corruption: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwame_Kilpatrick The guy went to jail for f's sake. I wonder how much graft and embezzling went on that nobody was e
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    by api 13y ago

    This is unfortunately common in sci-fi and related genres, where characterization and other aspects of literary craft take a back seat to nifty ideas and plot. Good characterization is a complex exercise that requires that the writer spend
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    by api 13y ago

    A comment from the article: "In point of fact, I don’t think you can get around the fact that we need to renegotiate how our economy works. It’s just going to become more and more obvious over time." It's already obvious. We&
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    by api 13y ago

    I agree -- it is nothing like the housing bubble. It's worse. What's really happened is that a college degree has been transformed into a very expensive writ of indenture that is required to get a job. This undermines the fundam
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    by api 13y ago

    Bubbles beget exactly this kind of opportunism. During the housing bubble there were builders who slapped up houses so poorly that they had to be demolished years later.
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    by api 13y ago

    Name one company that's gone out of business because of a security problem, or even had their business significantly impacted. I can't. I'm sure if you dig you could find one, but I'm not aware of one off the top of my h
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    by api 13y ago

    I'd study a lot of right-wing organizations including the NRA. The left sometimes wins the intellectual battle, but the right always wins on logistics.
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    by api 13y ago

    "The real problem is that the fear spreads and kills those fragile things needed to move the society forward - communication, cooperation, creativity." One of the problems is that this is precisely what many people want. Many peop
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    by api 13y ago

    This is a good counterpoint. One of the important roles of government is in defending the otherwise defenseless. Without government, nobody protects the powerless from decentralized local tyranny.
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    by api 13y ago

    It's not a conspiracy in the closed-door pre-planned sense. It's a power network, an oligarchy, an "old boy network" in the classical sense. I never said the word conspiracy, did I? Labeling any criticism of power "