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by ewzimm 4y ago
HN is still my favorite social media site. All the best online communities I've kept up with since the 90's have been community-driven BBS derivatives attached to a centralized entity where the community discussion is only tangeni
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It would be interesting to know why Mark didn't choose this option because Alphabet had already structured their company exaclty like this, separating Google from Other Bets, and so there was a clear precedent from a peer. Did Mark eve
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This should definitely be fixed, but this applies only to network connections that are established before the VPN is run. Since you can't connect to .onion services before running the VPN, this is less of an issue for this type. Apple
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This is specifically mentioned in Buddhism as one of the ten hindrances, "sīlabbata-parāmāso," attachment to rules and rituals. In Christianity, this is similar to the idea of works-righteousness which was the basis of Martin Luth
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This might be true, but I wonder if there's really anyone so unlikable that they couldn't find an audience in the long tail. Extremism unfortunately seems to be able to find a way despite deplatforming. See examples like Nick Fuen
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The first person who gets charged this fine could make a lot of money from publicity if they're smart about it. It's nice that this has been so widely circulated.
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Personification is a special case of reification, but it is the underlying issue. We reify signifiers based on memories.
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Evolution depends on multiple minds coordinating. A virus’ fate will be decided by thinking people eventually. It’s not fair to talk about something as broad as evolution if you only focus on the early period where determinism is easy to re
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I like this explanation, but I might say abstractions are mutually translatable in a society. People having similar ideas is convenient but not necessary. I could imagine a society where everyone thought differently but used AI as a univers
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I’m talking about how the framing makes people think and how we can drift toward abstraction over reality. When we talk about the police or the state being created to do something, we’re implying that the intention involved in its creation
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Every individual makes this judgment all the time. When people notice a problem with their ideologies, sometimes they will just ignore the issues, and other times they will decide to rebel. When enough people make that choice not to follow
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I'm not upset in either case, but that's another good example of the problems in attributing personified intelligence to an abstraction. Especially in the early days, people tended to substitute "God" with "evolutio
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My answer would be that individual intentions are ultimately the only thing that matters, but they are shaped by cultures which use abstractions to communicate and connect. Social control means learning which abstractions will stick, like f
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In these discussions, there's always an implicit assumption of certain intentions being the "real" ones. Statements like "police were created to..." first imply that there was a creator whose intentions define the p
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The Federal Reserve sets interest rates for banks. To slow rising prices, they have been increasing interest rates, which makes people want to buy more bonds because they have better returns. As more money moves into U.S. dollar-based inves
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I had those “Pullman Towns” in mind. This type of system opens up obvious opportunities for exploitation, but so do our existing prison systems. If we ever did replace prisons, I think it would involve something like this. Since Amazon Pris
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If there were an Amazon Prison option, I wonder how many people would choose it. Need to serve time? Skip the cell and stay home with a robust suite of real-time behavior analytics to ensure compliance. Conversations are processed locally a
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This is a terrible truth, but the situation has changed in this war because everyone is contributing in organized volunteer centers. The amount of coordination is orders of magnitude greater than was possible a hundred years ago. I don’t th
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Not everyone would be involved in directly fighting, but there are intelligence networks, supply networks, opportunities for discreet sabotage and falsifying critical data, and many other ways that people can support a resistance movement t
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This is a good comment, but rather than tens of millions of new citizens, they would get tens of millions of new insurgents. Nearly the whole population of Ukraine is involved in the war effort in some way, and it would be impossible to bre
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Constantly renegotiating definitions comes with the territory, so I wouldn’t expect this to go away. The name is meant to be provocative, so it fits. Defining it outside theory is an interesting take. But doesn’t praxis eventually require c
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From the article you linked, “the Zapatistas have rejected and defied political classification.” I think they main issue is that they have a deep indigenous tradition outside of socialist anarchism, although they have clear intersections of
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If you exclude organizations like the PKK, which ones would you consider to be the true anarchists? How about the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the most prominent international anarchist organizations? You can read the constitutio
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You can define anarchism to mean the abolishment of hierarchy, but you would be distancing yourself from most anarchist movements. One prominent counter-example would be the Kurdish Workers' Party based on the philosophy of Abdullah Oc
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Earthquake resistance is increased by strengthening the concrete, but it mainly depends on how the structure is built, not just the shape but additoinal measures used to strengthen the structure. We've been stuck on rebar for so long t
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Modern uses of Roman concrete go beyond what the Romans did. We can create completely different types of structures using the same principles. Here's an example of recent developments in research: https://www.sciencedaily.co
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Concrete construction without rebar is more durable and worth bringing back. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_concrete
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I bought a Kepler GPU in 2012, and it's been my most valuable technology purchase ever. It can even handle 3D game development in Godot. I only run free software on my desktop, including firmware, and nouveau works really well. Now I s
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For my project, I could get most of the functionality I needed from an Arduino board by attaching some additional modules, but for more powerful SBCs, I’ve been impressed by Olimex products, although they may have limited quantities availab
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Although obvious, I think it’s worth mentioning plenty of great examples of this even beyond the modern media. For example, “less than 1% of people become addicted to OxyContin” (Purdue Pharma) or “AIDS was created by the CIA” (Da Baby, als

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