crispinb

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by crispinb 8y ago
"Scam" is unfair, at least if directed towards motivations. The whole thing is entirely well-meaning. But it's yet another consequence of the emerging pop culture of stupidity (the rebellion against expertise, no-knowledge cr
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by crispinb 8y ago
That's all true, and let's be clear that this problem is fundamental to the very notion of economics. It is not fixable. An 'economy' doesn't map usefully to physical realities. Say you wanted to develop a 'rea
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by crispinb 8y ago
I'm not sure my initial comment quite met that standard, although the statements were directed at groups rather than HN individuals. That might be the best I can do on the civility front.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Well my notion wasn't so much to go back in time and freeze it but to plot an alternative future (now present) when it was possible. Now it's not. And you can't speak for the billion: my material circumstances have improved d
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by crispinb 8y ago
Quick & inadequate worktime response: I believe the 'economy' to be a myth: I don't think it represents a defensible system delimitation, as it abstracts too far from the real systems it's embedded within. The real
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by crispinb 8y ago
> The real question is at what point do people start actually applying what they learn in these serious discussions in how they live their own lives? But they can't. People live in systems with affordances and restrictions. What abo
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by crispinb 8y ago
> What's a shame is that Althusser and others in the 70s warned us about them and explained their functioning rather clearly. True on the warning though I think I'd dispute the 'clearly' aspect. As a philosophy underg
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by crispinb 8y ago
Actuarial approaches die on the horns of a dilemma. They can only succeed by stemming the flow of matter and energy from complex well-functioning systems evolved over millennia (so-called 'nature'/'the environment'
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by crispinb 8y ago
That's a hard row to hoe - a civilisation's foundational superstitions are invisible to most of its members, so a wide-scale questioning of them is unfathomably difficult to prompt. Think Protestant Reformation as the scale of the
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by crispinb 8y ago
If you're talking about climate change as the immediate salient issue, in practical terms (ie. taking politics into account), after three decades of deliberate delay, it's too late. If you're talking about the underlying caus
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by crispinb 8y ago
Thanks, haven't come across that. I'm bemused by their claim to be optimists.
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by crispinb 8y ago
Every day, another sign of collapse. Fluffy-minded business execs, SV megaconsumers, and economist fairy-people will hardly notice (yet).
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by crispinb 8y ago
Events like this are occurring again and again, at increasing frequencies, all over our world. Australia, one of the world's great enthusiasts for human population increase and fake "economic growth", is still in denial about
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Extreme heat wipes out almost one third of Australia's spectacled flying foxes(abc.net.au)
3 points by crispinb 8y ago|1 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
I don't see obvious evidence of 'curiosity' in your replies - they seem more like someone who roughly throws all statements about linux into assumed "linux rocks" vs "linux sucks" buckets. If I've mis
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by crispinb 8y ago
> I think it's a bit contradictory to choose an insecure OS because a more secure one doesn't support a nice-to-have piece of security hardware. Maybe. But that has nothing to do with what I wrote. > I'd be interested
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by crispinb 8y ago
I don't think there's a developer edition of the 9570 model (there's no linux driver for the fingerprint scanner for example), and in any case we rarely get the Dell developer editions here in Australia. I am certainly saying
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by crispinb 8y ago
I see from the obtuse responses you've received, there's really little point in summoning the effort to type anything besides either 'linux sux' or 'linux rocks'.
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by crispinb 8y ago
I've never seriously considered working primarily in a VM. For performance reasons, I suppose, but given how far the VM scene has come, that may well be an out of date prejudice. Maybe Linux under Windows (it would have to be that way
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by crispinb 8y ago
Absolutely. I've been f/t on each for varying amounts of time over the years, and have found each wanting. There really is no good desktop OS in 2018. I have found OS X the best for my purposes, but it exclusively runs on hardware
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by crispinb 8y ago
No doubt every case is different, so there's no contradiction here. If it's efficient for you, great. Ubuntu wasn't worth it for me. The UI is fine, but there's too much that just doesn't work, or works poorly, and
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by crispinb 8y ago
Yep, on the XPS this year (the last time a new Ubuntu install a couple of weeks ago). Many problems. Some fixable, but a poorer use of my time than running or sailing or any number of three-dimensional activities I choose over screen flatla
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by crispinb 8y ago
> I'm essentially trapped on OSX, and have been for a decade Me too until this May, when it was past time for my aging MB Pro to retire. I really couldn't justify a new one given I don't even like them any more (the Touchb
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by crispinb 8y ago
I'd like to use linux, and install it from time to time, but am always eventually worn down by problems, some trivial & some less so, that could mostly be solved, but at the cost of research & fiddling time I'm not interes
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by crispinb 8y ago
If I could be bothered (which I can't quite) I'd set up an "I rejected them" alternative: all the companies I wouldn't choose to work for because they are unethical or corrupt or produce trivial crap that's not
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Attenborough: Collapse of civilisation is on the horizon(theguardian.com)
12 points by crispinb 8y ago|1 comments
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by crispinb 8y ago
Perhaps I should consider myself fortunate to have maintained a decent foothold in the non-tech world.
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by crispinb 8y ago
It's surely unconscionable to write about stone stacking with nary a mention of Andy Goldsworthy!
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by crispinb 8y ago
Where 'can' of course expresses only the possibility of the technocrat (but that's the Graun for you).
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We are last generation that can stop climate change(theguardian.com)
5 points by crispinb 8y ago|2 comments

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