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by gglitch 11y ago
I recently switched from Android to iOS, and I deeply miss Keep.
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by gglitch 11y ago
The word for this is "bait and switch."
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by gglitch 11y ago
If a single tracker gets through, it's missing the point, at least for me.
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by gglitch 11y ago
Does it? I don't know. Obviously results will vary. I think the standout example of the brain's wiring no longer being optimal for modern life is of people's physiological responses to anxiety. Elevated heartrate and adrenali
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by gglitch 11y ago
How about, as a start, an ad industry that voluntarily and transparently (e.g, using open source software and business contracts) restricts itself to displaying ads that (a) do not directly impinge upon the browsing/reading experience,
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by gglitch 11y ago
By extension of that logic, the brain is not geared for reason, which I think is probably true.
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by gglitch 11y ago
I have two related points of reference. The first is a chess game, the shifting long-term tensions of which become more perceptible and enjoyable in the opening phase as one increases in skill; and the second is another article posted not s
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by gglitch 11y ago
If I'm understanding this observation correctly, you're saying that capital flows to the productive, which creates wealth, which in principle generates more productivity, and therefore draws more capital?
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by gglitch 11y ago
Out of my depth here, but aren't the real estate and financial instruments being held merely as a generator of more money (except in the rare case that one actually lives on the real estate, I suppose)?
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by gglitch 11y ago
I'm interested in this as well. I've been using org-mode and Dropbox for many years, but have become interested in something I can (a) easily use with a phone, and (b) use photos with. I've been pleased, in these capacities,
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by gglitch 11y ago
The problem as I see it has less to do with the evil being done now than with the potential for the current infrastructure to be abused now or later without the citizenry knowing about it. The safeguards aren't about your emails being
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by gglitch 11y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, and I'm a perpetual beginner with languages, but for me, lisp's syntax was sort of a god-send for clarity. Whitespace didn't matter. Indentation didn't matter. There were no symbols t
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by gglitch 11y ago
If there's a miscommunication going on, the opening gambit came from Spotify. They could have spelled out in the TOS exactly what they would do with the data, and contractually bound themselves never to change that activity without iss
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by gglitch 11y ago
This seems like an unsophisticated view of what 'happiness' is. In my view, you have a more-or-less conscious reason for doing everything you do, with happiness being at the top of the chain, the state you build and maintain for n
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by gglitch 11y ago
Why are micropayments worse than the current web? People have differing opinions on the advertising-pays-for-content-so-don't-block-it issue, but are you referring to something technical?
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by gglitch 12y ago
"Report early, report often" sounds extremely creepy and intrusive to me. I realize my culture is fully embracing the police state all around me, and I try not to play the Orwell card too often, but how can it not seem eerily Orwe
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by gglitch 12y ago
I'm curious about what the proposed alternative for jeans is. I typically own three or four pairs at a time, and I wear them for at least 6 or 7 years--often much longer. I don't know whether from a water conservation perspective
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by gglitch 12y ago
My whole line of thought on this subject changed when we decided to have a child. I am/was an enthusiastic user of public transportation, but the idea of trying to have a baby and not be able to get around on precisely my own terms (th
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by gglitch 12y ago
Sorry, missed this. I date/timestamp everything (a) so that it also functions as a diary, and (b) as an aid to memory - sometimes seeing the time/date helps me reconjure the context of the thoughts.
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by gglitch 12y ago
How is using a VPN different/better than tunneling through your home ssh server? Honest q.
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A Quantitative Linguistic Analysis of the Language of World Bank Reports(newleftreview.org)
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A Response to Sam Altman, and an Alternative Wager(medium.com)
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by gglitch 12y ago
I now use a small notebook, just 80 pages and pocket-sized. All entries are timestamped. When I reach the end and start a new one, I review the last one and my first entry is a list of things from the last that I still find interesting.
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by gglitch 12y ago
I'm not especially well-informed on these matters, but from the outside looking in, raising property taxes looks to me less like punishment or force, both of which are kind of indulgent as terms, than like a community of people using d
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by gglitch 12y ago
In my unstudied and ill-informed opinion, computers and the internet have trained many of us to view intellectual content as more abstracted from the physical experience of ingesting it than it really is, as though the ideal of reading woul
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by gglitch 12y ago
My family prints out pictures. We of course have hundreds of gigs of digital, but the pleasure of having physical books of curated sets of our most loved photos, e.g. of our vacations and kids, is way more powerful than staring at them on o
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by gglitch 12y ago
It's also theoretically the nature of democracy - people pool their assets and collectively decide what to do with them. Not every individual member is going to feel like they're paying in what they want or getting out of it what
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by gglitch 12y ago
No of course not, and I'd like to see less tax money spent inefficiently as well. My point was simply that it's specious to tell any one advocate of increased taxation that they should just foot the bill out of their own private p
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by gglitch 12y ago
I see this argument a lot but it seems specious to me - though anyone can voluntarily overpay their taxes, the lack of a guarantee that other taxpayers will similarly be contributing more means that my personal overcontribution will be mean
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by gglitch 12y ago
I had the same first response, but then, purely in the interest of stimulating conversation, wondered why I'd viewed the situation in moral terms at all. Shouldn't a rational agent in a free market be doing everything possible to

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