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by caseyy 2y ago
It will come.
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Freedom to use a general purpose computer with as few monopolistic restrictions as possible.
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Perhaps there is just much more utility per dollar in electricity and water subscriptions. People don’t feel bad about them because it’s a reasonable deal. Let’s say you had to cut a $15 subscription. Is it going to be water or the oomphtee
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Consumer freedoms by way of compliance with laws.
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> A "pocketable" gaming console in the modern world is essentially a smartphone with analog sticks. Yes in a technical sense. But no in a business and ecosystem sense. PSP and Vita had very impressive game offerings that we don
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The popular internet was very innocent in the 90s and early 00s. Much less addiction and anxiety-inducing, which are gateways into depression. Though in the 00s, the internet also had a lot of shock content if you strayed just a bit from th
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Probably there's a handbook rule or policy your employer has that you must use their hardware. For example, it could be a data/IP protection policy that doesn't allow any company data on any storage medium not owned by the co
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Popular soundbite but not true. When the US was making leaps in technological and computing advancements around the 60s, one third of Europe was under the iron curtain and its economic stagnation. The other two thirds had just about finishe
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Yes EU would. Believe it or not, companies in the EU currently have to comply with the same EU laws.
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How does one learn to think about the emotional “room temperature” before they speak? My mind doesn’t work that way so I’m curious. Does one pause before every sentence and play out a little scenario in their head of how people will respond
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Can you give some examples?
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The 90s Asian economic crisis was when we should have learned that the greedy Western speculative investment practices do not work without public bailouts. And yet somehow we all said “Korea is just not western enough” at that time. What’s
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1. Cut fire service funding and jobs 2. Cut forest service funding and jobs 3. “The forest fires are so bad this year, how could this have happened to us??”
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We should let failing businesses fail. Everyone would have learned their lessons a long time ago and we would have less corporate greed/corpo-political corruption. And people should be angry at them for failing and causing economic dis
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I will hopefully reduce your pessimism on one account: just because drugs are not available generally doesn’t mean they aren’t available off-label. Sometimes you need to get a few prescriptions going abroad before you can convince your doct
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Nice to know, thank you
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The old colloquium exam format reigns supreme again. And that is fantastic. We shouldn’t reserve it for only “most important” occasions because quality education is important enough by itself.
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We blasted through the “you won’t always have AI in your pocket” phase in a blink of an eye. Local LLMs were running on smartphones before the world got to terms of LLMs being used everywhere. It’s one of many examples of exponential techno
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So, what will happen to all bash scripts once rm is aliased as suggested?
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That's true, we really lost that. Every page would load like static one. Now pages not only take 3-20 seconds to build locally, but there are necessary cookie banner interactions and calls to action (Substack, Medium) that you need to
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What is legally complex about hacking your own TV that you own, in the comfort of your own home? The device and all its components are yours. If Samsung or anyone else wants to tell people their TVs are licenses/rentals or some corpora
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I don't think we can scale either fossil fuel energy or renewable energy to several orders of magnitude (10^(2+)x). Do we even have means to extract 100x fossil fuels in the time we currently extract 1x on this planet, and does the pla
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No, but Sturgeon’s law applies, no matter how much LessWrong convinced itself it doesn’t.
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Guilt and shame. Eliminating unhelpful guilt and shame also solves low self-worth and a lot of anxiety. Guilt and shame often comes from setting too high expectations for oneself/perfectionism, which in this case can be socially-prescr
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That’s just how the web used to work in 1901.
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I know the joke, and I am not joking. Once a treatment reaches stage 3 trials, it often becomes generally available within 2 years. Stage 3 is expensive for regular drugs but for treatments like these, the cost of one trial may exceed $100M
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That was a very interesting read, thanks. Structurelessness seems to be very fertile ground for structure and organization.
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There is a study running for this in the UK currently [0], and I expect there are worldwide studies running now. This is the time for those interested and eligible to register. But for the rest of us, the treatment seems to be inevitable no
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They don't turn Alpinesque ecologies into tidal pools if you don't build them in Alpinesque ecologies. The truth is that we are developing a lot of land every year for different purposes, from industrial to residential. The questi
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You might like the second episode of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace. It talks about how techno-utopians tried to model society and nature as feedback loop controllers. One might say a part of the reason they have failed is bec

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