dalbasal

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by dalbasal 3y ago
I don't get it. You mean that old Judaism was pagan before scripture?
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by dalbasal 3y ago
"Middle Age" Europe is poorly named. It's based on an idea that ancient europe is Greece and Rome. Then, dark/middle ages. Then Renaissance and modernity. The problem is geography. France, Britain, Germany and such were
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I think it's better to think of these as different, rather than superior... especially given our times' proliferation of mediums with differing cognitive implications. Is Twitter > books? Is HN > podcasts? Every medium has i
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by dalbasal 3y ago
This is perhaps abstract and tangent but.... Especially for this quote, I like attributing it to Socrates as Plato did. We obviously don't know the details and nuances. However, I feel it captures the (perhaps inexact) tension between
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by dalbasal 3y ago
>basically just marketing operations. "Just" might be a dangerous reduction here... You can reduce a lot of things to "just marketing." Prestige unversities attract students, teachers, researchers & grants with pr
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by dalbasal 3y ago
I disagree. This may or may not be effective, but it's not theatre. Criminals, terrorists, dissidents, politicians, even intelligence people sometimes... they're users . Just because they can sideload, or otherwise use more sop
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by dalbasal 3y ago
..if not all. And they certainly knew it then too. Maybe they didn't really care, and had a similar view to us about the matter. I don't think anyone believes the Vatican is sending actual true cross relics for the coronation. Sti
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by dalbasal 3y ago
How about politicians? Bob Dylan told them he'd " stand over their grave to make sure that you're dead. " Springstein disparaged congressmen's children. If cops get protection from hate speech... why not politicians
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by dalbasal 3y ago
The word "censorship" has gotten frivolous, imo. I don't claim any specific boundaries for the term, but... there are more angles to this than censorship. Spielberg is from perhaps the most commercial art form, cinema. They m
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by dalbasal 3y ago
There comes a point where reasoning about rights by analogy loses its bite... imo. Digital rights, digital ownership, digital business models, privacy, security, speech, digital policing... they're all very different from their analog
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by dalbasal 3y ago
There's an important point to consider. Our ability to detect "real" dialogue, images and whatnot will develop as we go. What fools us now will not fool us as easily in the near future. That doesn't mean technology won&#
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by dalbasal 3y ago
Speculating motives based on surname is, I agree, bigoted. On the rest, I disagree. You are essentially making a theological argument, that "academic, mainstream" Islam is the "real" Islam. As a nonbeliever, this is mean
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by dalbasal 3y ago
It would, though I wonder where and how human behaviour would change in response. If you see an orange vested church group
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Idk. Freedom is a big word and can mean different things to different people. To me, in this context, I think it means openness/breadth of what is normative and also the ability to nonconform. That's also why I said it's li
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I think there's a limit to freedom as a compass, especially if we emphasise social limitations. At some point you're not after freedom. You're after change to social norms, not people's right to break them. Depending on
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Not entirely, but that's neither here nor there. Rational dress, free the nipple, cover the nipple, victorian style, SV hoodie culture and all these other fashion/dress movements are about deciding/changing what is broadly ac
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Speak for us!
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by dalbasal 4y ago
In a sense, this is the organisational fallacy, of our time. The baby version of this was 15 years ago, when Jobs was Musk and being an asshole was the main/only feature visionary executives emulated. Maybe the lesson is that we&#x2
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by dalbasal 4y ago
True, until it isn't. That is, once a device is useful or otherwise desirable enough... Issues like awkwardness or microefficiencies fade. I think the issue is that there's not enough to do in vr/ar. If we had a vr game of th
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I chuckled, but let's not. I apologize.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
Actually they're more like teenagers.
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by dalbasal 4y ago
IDK... I do see you point, but I'd like to think both I and the commenter I responded to were using analogies in an ok way. Analogies are a pretty good rhetorical device, IMO because we kind of think in abstract analogies anyway. We co
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by dalbasal 4y ago
It feels like all the content here is subtext... so I guess I get to do Philology. These are the given reasons: | this probably isn’t 2008, for three key reasons: (1)Policymakers have tools to solve banking crises, (1.5) and the bigger bank
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by dalbasal 4y ago
"A software engineer's take on why an SQL query is slow." isn't the correct analogy, IMO. First, this isn't a banker, it's a bank. A banking crisis isn't the equivalent of a script either. Should you trust
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by dalbasal 4y ago
A powerful "Bootleggers and Baptists" pattern seems to have emerged in tech space. In online media, and social media the power of major platforms became apparent at some point. Happenings in twitter or FB can determine politics, c
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by dalbasal 4y ago
The key point here is loyalty, or solidarity perhaps, if we're go with the military analogy. "Google cares deeply about making xyz more ABC." We know this is, at best, flowery language. "Google" can't care ab
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by dalbasal 4y ago
>>If growth stagnates, there's no guarantee for job replacement. No guarantees, but no hard rules euther. PCs are the ultimate clerical and administrative machines. You don't need secretaries or typists. Don't need memo
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by dalbasal 4y ago
I agree with everything, but I also think there might be genuinely by g opportunities here. Idk about teaching kids. At adult, or near adult levels... I think these programs may very quickly be a major learning technology. It's good, s
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by dalbasal 4y ago
There is some British humour to this, but I think this is FT taking themselves seriously . It's an old case, but timely and relevant. The story, now being old and quaint, provides a lower complexity, lower stakes model for monetary ac
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by dalbasal 4y ago
>> the illusion that the government operates like a household That's one way of putting it, though kind of specific to current discourse. You might also say the "illusion" that a central bank is just a bank. You could s

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