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by elliotec 3y ago
I wrote an article on this topic a while back and how to use the Deseret Alphabet on the internet with web fonts which was a super fun project: https://elliotec.com/writing-in-the-deseret-alphabet/
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by elliotec 3y ago
… yeah exactly. You just named the most valuable companies in the world, after the subject of this article. They do this too, and win way more often than not.
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by elliotec 3y ago
The answer is that we are in a market economy. Money wins, period.
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by elliotec 3y ago
It's explicitly not a business. But to your point, I wish they went more into explaining how their system works without it being a business.
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by elliotec 3y ago
Mutual Aid _means something_[0], and it's not just places where people share tools to work on their own stuff, but it is that too. These sorts of places aren't uncommon because maybe, just maybe, that's how things have been f
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by elliotec 4y ago
The latter.
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by elliotec 4y ago
> But will they close the positions? Yes. There will be hundreds to thousands of job losses, for sure. > Closing CS’s trading arm could reshape the entire US trading arm over night. Yes, it could and it will. This is one of those thin
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by elliotec 4y ago
Yeah but the key word here is “downsize” - there will be layoffs.
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by elliotec 4y ago
Fascinating. I wonder how soon it’ll be before it can do the devops for you too.
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by elliotec 4y ago
I mean, I agree that incremental improvements are great but also I think your hyperbole is a bit of an overreaction. I use markdown and templates and Software people rightly prefer reuse and DRY principles but handwriting html is honestly o
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by elliotec 4y ago
What do you think is the good reason?
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by elliotec 4y ago
The more advanced features of chatgpt are $20/m as I’m sure you’re aware. What do you get out of chatgpt in this realm? I feel very annoyed by its constant tropes and predictable style. Is that something you dont need to care about?
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by elliotec 4y ago
Do you have evidence backing up the claims of “keylogger spyware”? Is it less of a keylogger or spyware than chatgpt in any way? It obviously doesn’t write hilarious haikus. It doesn’t write anything and that’s the point. It suggests improv
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by elliotec 4y ago
Try Grammarly. It's extremely good at this, and with an incredible UX.
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by elliotec 4y ago
That’s the hope. The struggle is how stubborn people are.
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by elliotec 4y ago
Why would you trust the seller?
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by elliotec 4y ago
> If we don’t die we don’t evolve. Not as a species though. We just have to keep reproducing more of us that are good at staying alive and also reproducing to evolve. You and I theoretically could live forever in the same state, and stil
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by elliotec 4y ago
You don't wish average prices were higher - you wish the junk and fake stuff were eliminated.
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by elliotec 4y ago
Obviously not easy - but how quickly do you think you can get on another payment processing platform? If you're desperate, is it possible to jump to Braintree or Square or Shopify or something in the immediate future?
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by elliotec 4y ago
Every year the list is prefaced: "Great things and people that I discovered, learned, read, met, etc. in 2022. No particular ordering is implied. Not everything is new." Maybe you skipped that or misinterpreted it, but he's e
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by elliotec 4y ago
> There is not enough sand in the world to build huge living spaces for everybody. This is an absurd statement. There is beyond enough sand, dirt, and land in the world for way more than all of the humans that have ever existed to have p
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by elliotec 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Aaronson > Aaronson grew up in the United States, though he spent a year in Asia when his father—a science writer turned public-relations executive—was posted to Hong Kong. He enr
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by elliotec 4y ago
Zapatistas (EZLN) are a common example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapatista_Army_of_National_Lib... Also check out Intentional Communities: https://www.ic.org/ And of course, the IWW is an anarchis
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by elliotec 4y ago
Ok, I'm going to mince words here because they're important for this topic. Anarchy does not equal and must not be confused with Anarchism. At the risk of sounding condescending, which truly isn't my intention, I'd stron
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by elliotec 4y ago
The PKK is not an anarchist organization. They have some similar political viewpoints but they are by definition not anarchist for many reasons, especially the points you make about having a strict hierarchy and leader. More to your point t
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by elliotec 4y ago
Anarchism means the abolishment of coercion _and_ hierarchy, especially authority. This doesn't mean structureless, but structure and organization via free association to your point. Linux in production as a people org is definitely NO
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by elliotec 4y ago
Just to be accurate in case this comment scares folks away - it's 61 pages including all the appendices and bibliography, but 46 pages and 3 chapters of the core content.
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by elliotec 4y ago
The author did not need to define schizoid because: 1. It is their blog, and they probably assume their audience is educated in what schizoid means or is capable of looking it up. 2. Schizoid does not colloquially refer to schizophrenia, an
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by elliotec 4y ago
I see no reason why the answer shouldn't be "yes" to each of those bullets. I don't think the logic falls apart. Public goods and services should be public goods and services, full stop.
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by elliotec 4y ago
That's a pessimistic and myopic view of transhumanism. Where it becomes a good idea is a context that humanity is limited in its current (biological) form. There are lots and lots of things that could kill our species over the next sev

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