bsedlm

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by bsedlm 4y ago
absolutely agree, but I take it further The language of appropiation implies a sort of 'property'-like dynamic for ideas. If I learn, get to know, understand an idea from somebody else, I have not appropiated them in any way. I me
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I think that's the wrong question IMO, a better question (two questions) is where is RSS now and how did RSS get there?
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by bsedlm 4y ago
it depends on how much you already know about computers... I'm very very curious about the concept of 'suspend disbelief'.. which from my ongoing analysis, is all about how any fictional story is connected to reality. I just
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by bsedlm 4y ago
the fact that the frontpage animation is a cartoon (computer graphics rendering) of what they intend to do, and not a well produced timelapse makes me doubt their entire project.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
all of it, I hope... preferably mostly plants
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by bsedlm 4y ago
yes exactly. you've explained this much better than I did
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by bsedlm 4y ago
it's really terrible how the caring for one's health aspect of the medicine industry has taken a secondary role, the really important thing is corporate profit, patients are getting treated, but not healed this is not to say the t
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by bsedlm 4y ago
just to generalized bad health and possibly celiac disease I'd say that part of the problem is that this chemical makes the gut flora sick, not the human... but given as the gut bacteria are symbiotic with us, we also suffer negative c
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I like to think that in life the code is also the runtime, unlike in computer technology where the hardware is the runtime.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
declarative vs procedural? i.e. saying "what to" instead of saying "how to" ???
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by bsedlm 4y ago
profit is not the same as wealth
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by bsedlm 4y ago
wrong. some of it sucked maybe even the majority of it (if you insist) but most of it is not all of it.
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I was playing patrick's parabox lately and I wonder about a characterization of different outcomes of pushing the box you're in out of it, or into it and so on... but, in terms of lambda-like recursive functions, i.e. a written th
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by bsedlm 4y ago
the ones that only service other banks hence only people working in higher level banking are likely to have heard about. e.g. the bank for international settlements I only found out about this bank because the former president of the mexica
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by bsedlm 4y ago
truly we are living in the age of abundance... but as there are more and more material widgets and stuff, so does the quantity of garbage increase
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by bsedlm 4y ago
agreed, the rise of the corporation as the most powerful institution (above the nation-state) in this new budding global civilization is a long time coming. on the other hand, this is how democracy dies. what structures (systems) exist to p
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> no conspiracy theory has yet emerged arguing that the Empire never really fell at all, and that everywhere from Carlisle to Cairo is still secretly being run by an emperor hidden somewhere under Rome. Which is a pity, because that woul
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by bsedlm 4y ago
how do you know this? how does one figure this kind of thing out?
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by bsedlm 4y ago
it's a train, and it crashed already, but it's a rather humongous train, most of the train hasn't yet felt the shock from the crash also, it's not a literal train, some people will be able to say there's no crash ev
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by bsedlm 4y ago
they're not men, but persons... they're corporate individuals. corporations owned by other corporations. even the men at the top, 'running' this things are following a series of written rules (contracts, standard corpora
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I think it's even worse: Google these days treats your whole query as a suggestion but quite frankly I am a bit of a glass-half-empty person
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I'm still looking to understand the difference between recursive definitions and inductive ones...
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by bsedlm 4y ago
It also has the consequence that from the perspective of the employee getting optimized, what Amazon is doing is exploiting them more, faster, better, and for less effort on Amazon's side. Let's not forget that each of us the peop
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by bsedlm 4y ago
but will you be able to sell fuel and fertilizer?
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by bsedlm 4y ago
and consuming something is labor... netflix should have to pay ME if they want me to gobble up the content they put out...
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I see this, and I just wonder about the millions of dollars in radar technology sold by american companies owned by american congressmen... I wonder if the chips they're using are made in taiwan... heheh
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by bsedlm 4y ago
> What about retention periods? About about paper copies? Should no data anywhere be regulated because it is somehow this nebulously and poorly defined “extension of the mind?” and extremal counterpoint to this viewpoint is that all da
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by bsedlm 4y ago
no, it ends where my own mind begins. the problem here is the "collective mind" aka the cloud of collectively constructed digital information
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by bsedlm 4y ago
I'd rephrase that it's the powerful agents dicating what them searchable indexes can find beyond what the algorithms doing the finding can do that's the real problem. Add in the notion that the police and other important agen
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by bsedlm 4y ago
This seems to trying to pin down the "problem of identity" (how to ensure people maintain a stable identity over a digital realm) I think it's important to be clear about why this is important, depending on the use case (vote

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