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by axelroze 5y ago
Nope. This is the reality of contemporary people. Just take take take and never give. Morality is dead. We killed it. Remains dead.
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by axelroze 5y ago
You might also start spending too much time in studying 19th and 20th century philosophy and truly consider your answer to Camus' most important question. It's not a dream job. Far from it. Humans are by nature social animals. Wor
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by axelroze 5y ago
Yes. Universal Basic Income, with perhaps decaying value currencies, is needed once due to inflation everything gets too expensive while wages stagnate due to capital concentration. Or some big marxist wet dream revolution happens and the s
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by axelroze 5y ago
Actually I agree that commieblocks/modern-architecture is very efficient in the same way as Ford's car factory in producing a lot fast. And just as Ford said that the car can be had in any colour as long as it black, so the archit
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by axelroze 5y ago
> Problem is likely mathematically solvable only when such a hub drives the cars too. The great promise of self-driving cars of the future. Personally I am super stoked for these. All the comforts of a private vehicle with (almost) all t
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by axelroze 5y ago
That jump in number of years needed to save for a house. Bit straight into heart. It's a good website with many plots. I also liked how many hours one needs to work to buy into S&P 500. To provide some more context to 1971. It is t
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by axelroze 5y ago
Here an issue is that if all people started using navigation to go via low traffic routes they would clog them and make them high traffic. There is probably some optimal equilibrium but by the time it is reached the rush hour could well hav
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by axelroze 5y ago
Bad old Le Corbusier. Who would have thought moving architecture away from beauty and into "efficency" would end up so badly? (i am sarcastic)
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by axelroze 5y ago
Public transit and compact cities is not the awesome solution people make it to be. (I live in Europe) Usually the commute time is longer because of trips to the station + waiting for the vehicle to come. Even worse people typically all go
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by axelroze 5y ago
Productivity has stalled because there is no more competition with winner making it big. Part of it is too much regulation. Part is just that no-one bothers when the big monopolies can and do destroy you. Bad government policies all around
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by axelroze 5y ago
While not completely innovation focused it was an interesting interview. The open source vaccine idea and the January 2020 availability of Pfizer were quite surprising, for me at least. Innovation-wise the TLDR is that there is too much bur
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by axelroze 5y ago
Good mission statement and socially respectable goals? It doesn't have to be about money.
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by axelroze 5y ago
Only Berliners think that so as to have a reason to consider themselves better than the obviously all-in-all superior Munich ;) It is definitely London as far as new startups go and Eindhoven as far as literal silicon is in question. But no
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by axelroze 5y ago
The no-carbon and current lifestyle does not seem doable IMO. Electric planes are not happening any time soon due to weight of the batteries. Container ships still burn worst type of fuel even in 2021. Our lifestyle crucially depends on log
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by axelroze 5y ago
There is no such thing as simple and sensible when it comes to climate change. Let's say meat and soy farming gets banned. Lots of jobs lost. Economic recession incoming. Politicians lose voters. Changes in liberal democracy happen ver
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by axelroze 5y ago
World population will decline in any case if/when climate catastrophe happens. People will drown, drop dead from heats, die from starvation, etc. It's the Lotka-Volterra model where the predator is the environment. Climate catastr
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by axelroze 5y ago
Semantic Web and SPARQL were developed to solve this problem of open data. However no one uses it. Outside academic circles of Europe most people have never even heard of these two. Why didn't it catch on? There are I reckon two main c
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by axelroze 5y ago
Do you have worries that eventually your work will need to scale out to multiple people and then it might not be possible to find Haskell hackers? I am thinking to make a new digital product in Rust but I am a bit worried that when time com
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by axelroze 5y ago
This is the core problem of the current economy. Too many monopolies. In theory Pfizer should be able to innovate a lot due to their massive size as they are not afraid of failing and being poor + homeless, but all they do is lazy out and b
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by axelroze 5y ago
One problem which stops massive everyone in innovation is psychology and culture. "Places like X" are made of people after all. People want to have kids, want to have stability, good things in life (vacations, luxury, etc). Innova
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by axelroze 5y ago
Reorganization of work so that there are not many bullshit jobs => 15 hour work weeks for any knowledge work. The other time the people can work on something else and/or read about science and philosophy. A truly efficient society d
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by axelroze 5y ago
I don't see it as a quantity problem where importing/educating more Mechanical or Electrical Engineers is a solution. Primarily it is an issue of morality where the best thing to do is always the one which yields the most value (m
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by axelroze 5y ago
The externalities are here the issue. Tesla becoming a huge monopoly and charging exorbitant prices for the taxis. Or refusing to drive you ever again because that one time you puked when drunk at 2am. So you need to go to hospital now? Wel
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by axelroze 5y ago
There is no certainty of an AI winter, let alone of it's harshness. Quantum computing and quantum machine learning are here and they could sustain the ecosystem for this next decade as ANNs did the last one. Money will vanish as it did
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by axelroze 5y ago
John Zerzan and the anarcho-primitivist ideas are all about that. Interesting perspective on life. The collection of essays Against Civilisation is well worth checking out. In essence evolution is chaos. Biological on large time scales, soc
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by axelroze 5y ago
> * Use schema-based data storage Great idea until it isn't. The article is full of bullshit but one thing is very true. We can't predict the future, especially so when we deal with humans and society where stuff changes fast.
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by axelroze 5y ago
From California to be more precise. USA is huge and there are a multitude of 'nowheres' like small factory towns that do not participate a lot in this innovation process. This then ties into something more important that geography
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by axelroze 5y ago
We can't prevent suffering. Cooperative systems like all sorts of communism don't work because people are by nature lazy and even worse greedy. Everyone maximizes their needs and minimizes their abilities. Hence we are left with c
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by axelroze 5y ago
> The older I get the more tired I get and I really don’t feel anymore like fighting to find a place in life where I feel ok. Try to study philosophy, especially metaphysics, and confront any fears about life or death you might be having
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by axelroze 5y ago
Hi, Congrats on the launch. Very happy to see an European startup that is mission-driven. Quite refreshing. Best of luck in making it. I am in data science so my views come from that perspective. Could be that I am a bit jaded that I am au

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