bigfishrunning

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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
> For many people the phone is the only computing device they use. I suspect the crossover area of the Venn diagram between people who spend what a foldable costs on a phone and people who have no other computing device is extremely smal
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
> But under the context of "government has no concept of property and assigns resources to everyone" it is not you (or any single person) that decides that, Under every version of Communism, it's "the government"
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
I think you misunderstand me -- perspective matters. If you have 12 cookies, and I have 2 cookies, and i say "it would be more fair if we each had 7 cookies", then i pretty transparently just want you to give me 5 cookies. "C
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Wouldn't the comrades want financial activity to be monitored, to make sure that nobody is getting more then everyone else? (unless they're a party official, of course)
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
If "assigning resources to everyone" is a net gain (IE the voter doesn't have resources), then yes it is self serving.
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
and now i'm bummed out
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Fair enough, both points are valid
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding you, but the purpose of taxes isn't to "compel people to acquire their currency", it's to remove that currency from circulation and prevent the currency they've printed
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Not having a windows machine is one of the benefits of not having a windows machine! Using a console for gaming is cheaper, more secure, and more reliable then using a windows machine. The only downside is i don't have access to the wi
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Because my playstation spies on my games, not my whole life. It's limitation of scope.
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
This is why I own a playstation
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Depending on the proctor, ELIZA passes a Turing test. The Turing test is an interesting thought experiment, but isn't really a good measure.
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Don't worry, they'll come up with a new acronym to mean really-real AI soon...
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
We don't need to gatekeep the internet, cloudflare does that for us
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
It's GPL; it would be forked immediately and business as usual.
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Sounds like something from https://sebpearce.com/bullshit/
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Yup, i'll believe the hype when Windows doesn't suck anymore.
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
If you were monitoring the power coming into your house, why did you need claude to "put together a whole packet documenting brownouts"? Shouldn't you just have the raw data, maybe highlighted with the offending parts? Or was
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
Unfortunately at the other end of that websearch is a bunch of slop, your agent can't save you from it.
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
So you'll reduce that to just live experiences: abolish copyright, and watch 1 million bootleg Taylor Swift T-shirts suddenly blink into existence
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
A missal generally has bible passages organized by mass date (instead of in the usual order), as well as some hymns and a reference to the order of mass (the things that happen when you go to church)
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by bigfishrunning 1mo ago
> (Wondering how long I should keep this up...) Forever, I'm finding it very entertaining
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
probably karma farming
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
Lol i'm surprised this hasn't happened already. Minecraft is a great platform for scripting as long as you think every single other platform is too fast and convenient.
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
> In general, if you want people to ever see something created by people outside of their explicitly chosen friends: moderation. I saw plenty of things pre-social-media that was created by complete strangers. These were mostly things fou
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
The requirement for strong moderation only exists *because* of centralization. If I'm looking at a linear feed of content, it has to be curated by someone. In the old days, content on the internet was mostly links between webpages -- t
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
I feel like this is true of almost everything apple does -- they take something clunky from a year ago and "pioneer it" by improving the UX.
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
It still can, but until very recently the motivation for keeping software small wasn't there. I'm still hoping the tide is coming in.
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
My confidence in Pangram is pretty low -- seems like a lot of false positives *and* negatives
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by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
i think it's kind of beautiful that weird is a weird word

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