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by gsatic 4y ago
Fundamental difference is there is click/like/upvote/view/follower count next to everything. These counts never existed on the old Internet. Kids were never getting judged with the whole planet scoring their thoughts lik
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Just use grandma's phone for bond villain level activities. That's what Zuck apparently does. Cause you know everyone is keeping an eye on that clowns phone.
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And that leads to - why not let the govt make money exposing bad actors? Why should the tax payer fund the cops?
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Yup something for the unemployed bitcoin buffoon class to get behind.
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Raph Koster's Theory of Fun talks about this really well. There are things you learn while having fun. But real learning requires lot of repetitive boring stuff, sort of like practicing piano everyday for a long period, before somethin
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Its says front end to youtube but it will give you a good idea of whats required-> https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
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by gsatic 4y ago
Yup its just that they have become the largest seller of status signalling veblan goods in history, in times where inequality is at its highest. It would be nice instead, if they used their cash hoard to stop wasting time upgrading the ipho
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by gsatic 4y ago
Recently someone gave me this book called "Difficult Men" by Brett Martin. Nope wasnt about mass shootings. It was about the protagonists created in the most popular TV shows in the US and the minds of the writers behind them. So
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by gsatic 4y ago
The press release also says the MIL complex braniacs, sent 1000 tanks to Iraq to hunt down those WMDs.
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by gsatic 4y ago
Its more an inequality story than a corruption story. Corruption is always a side effect of inequality. If an ambitious, energetic kid is born in a slum or some backward area and doesn't see legitimate ways to access resources/cli
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Thrown out of the window and replaced with what?
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by gsatic 4y ago
Hindu's are great at killing each other. Read the Ramayana and Mahabharata. Total bloodbath.
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by gsatic 4y ago
I think they should kick the Chrome and Android teams (and other assorted empire defense trash) into the Pacific ocean. The world and google will be a better place.
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by gsatic 4y ago
What type of villagers have contempt for the village idiots?
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India ‘on cusp of change’ as global manufacturers look beyond China(scmp.com)
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Not only that. Different cultures who have traditionally had their own sense of color have all started copying each other...cause you know to "appeal to the largest number of chimps possible". Stuff from Europe, Japan, Korea and I
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Pretty sure the outsourcing shops will use it to inject more mountains of shit code into everything. But I guess thats not a bad things for the employment of consultants who will be called in to fix things.
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by gsatic 4y ago
Things are breaking down everyday, and there is a large army of ants scurrying about keeping the lights on with shoe strings and bubble gum. Russia has been bombing Ukraine infra from Oct, used thousands of missiles and things are still run
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by gsatic 4y ago
You should visit big telcos. Things chug along not because there is a great competent army fixing anything. Institutional knowledge is regularly lost thanks to changes in tech, ever changing fortunes of the biz, divisions getting sold off e
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Germany's organic farmers are in despair(dw.com)
16 points by gsatic 4y ago|0 comments
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by gsatic 4y ago
That's cause people today don't just say hey look what I built. Everyone acts as if they are doing something world changing. And it's bullshit, and the backlash is natural and well deserved.
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The larger companies get, the fewer moves they can actually pull off. There aren't that many options on the buffet table, so it can look like everyone is eating the same thing.
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by gsatic 4y ago
Depends on what you need those followers for. Different people have different needs. Depending on those Needs, strategy can vary a lot.
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As Disney turns 100, its business is on a rollercoaster ride(economist.com)
1 points by gsatic 4y ago|0 comments
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It's the plot of Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End.
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by gsatic 4y ago
More than anything else these companies call themselves high tech. They act as if they are doing revolutionary things. But under the surface its just armies of cheap labour cleaning up ever growing mountain ranges of shit.
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by gsatic 4y ago
In Techno feudalism govt doesnt exist. Its just the techlord buffoon class and the serfs (ie people enslaved by their phones). The govt will keep giving Mario Savio speeches and they will end up just like Mario.
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by gsatic 4y ago
More like the system is just too complex for them to do too much. Sort of like dealing with hurricanes. You can't control its path. All you can do is try to protect as many people as possible from disaster.
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by gsatic 4y ago
It's probably more efficient. Reminds me of some paper about Walmart/Amazon systems getting sophisticated enough to run the country better than the govt - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
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Wealth looms big as ever in post-scandal college admissions(apnews.com)
4 points by gsatic 4y ago|0 comments

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