bergstromm466

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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> some quite interesting shows like "Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole" The show that demonizes, humiliates and dehumanizes working class people by filming them being evicted?
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> I personally use syncthing > I even sync back up the played location. That sounds cool, how do you do it?
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Goddammit I hate patents, trade secrets and intellectual property. I want this out there on all my devices. Imagine how much less energy we'd use, how much less e-waste we would generate, and how grateful our eyes would be if we weren&
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Railroads did well into the '30s, and really declined by the '50s and '60s. This kind of decline happened everywhere in the world, except maybe Japan. Genuine question: have you recently taken a train in Denmark, Sweden,
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Many think that Silicon Valley tech corps are super special and mythological, yet they’re just protocols dressed up with a fancy user experience.
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Who cares about Apple haters? I care that it’s a super common device that a lot of people have and could therefore be dangerous
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> The editorialised title is both accurate to the beginning of the article, and more informative. I would have ignored the original title. I don't understand why dang and other mods justify their gatekeeping when they edit the title
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
How do we make education more modular? The hope being that a free and open source self-directed system could be suitable (and thus) compassionate/kind to beginners of all kinds and at different skill levels. That it allows many entry a
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
I understand where you’re coming from. My critique was a bit misdirected. I guess what is behind it is my frustration and anger with the increasing widespread acceptance of black box computing devices - which are supposedly ‘user controlled
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> without passing judgement > cannot be reasonably described as moderate Are you aware that you’re claiming not to pass judgement, and then do so in the very same sentence? I think it seems immoderate to you because, like many others
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> It it too much to ask to have the normal security protections that macOS provides and still being able to block Apple services with Little Snitch or Lulu or letting Apple services go through a VPN as well? This. Apple is making the use
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> The solution is to #abolishcopyright. That's the spirit! And abolish all privatized and monopolized knwoledge. Abolish Silicon Valley. "Place Silicon Valley in its proper historical context and you see that, despite its myth
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Source?
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> You are just completely missing the point of my post. Maybe. I feel like you’re completely missing the point of my post too.
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Sometimes. I think I’ve only listened to a few (like 2 or 3). For me most of it falls under the category of ‘magical voluntarism’. It surprised me in his conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté (who I’m a big fan of) how he was scared to really op
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Yeah it seems Tim’s journey was about faking it till he ‘made’ it: selling supplements > selling book (about selling supplements + outsourcing) > angel investing
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Who do you think should? Boeing should be forced to publish all trade secrets that were used in their planes which contributed to the deaths of these people (so basically all IP that Boeing owns), and they should have all their patent
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
By using the US intellectual property system, corporations can also patent and own DNA.
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> What I want is to see Uber’s technology become a protocol. Same with Airbnb, same with Postmates, same with other companies in the gig and sharing economies. Same with lots of other important technology companies, while we’re at it. Ob
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Don't put your faith in Uber (and Airbnb) (2017)(medium.com)
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> Except if no one is using the protocols, they don't actually solve the problem. Applications built using Holochain are literally using a novel pattern that hasn’t existed before. If you know of a project that uses the same agent-c
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
I thought this post would be related to 'bean dad'
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
"What I want is to see Uber’s technology become a protocol. Same with Airbnb, same with Postmates, same with other companies in the gig and sharing economies. Same with lots of other important technology companies, while we’re at it.
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
They* have great descriptions
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Holochain is a distributed version control system for the development of social applications / protocols. Imagine if Uber or Airbnb were just protocols, able to be used without the company in the middle - in a fully peer to peer contex
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> This is the fundamental issue when the public square is owned by a company. I don't think anyone can solve that. Protocols instead of platforms: https://medium.com/holochain/holochain-reinventing-applicati...
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
So basically the question is: should corporations keep betraying users by giving away their hardware specs? Why are we asking this question? It should be up to the individual but it’s not - and hasn’t been for years. Virtue signaling.
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
Maybe we should just rename America to Amazon Inc.? It’s a joke that at this point Bezos and co. (including all the ‘Amazon-friendly‘ legislators in congress) are taking over and monopolizing all these verticals. It’s never been so apparent
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
I think I sorta get where you're coming from. To me this style represents the urgency to end capitalist exploitation, considering the immense suffering it has caused and is still causing currently. In that sense it gives voice to the a
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by bergstromm466 6y ago
> > We don't own the means of production > You're going to have to break that down for a 21st century software developer on a SV messageboard. I love Wendy Liu's explanation on this, it's the best I've foun

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