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by hans1729 5y ago
I never said that HN gets by without moderation. I said that I don't feel censored here, and made sure to annotate that I haven't given that specific part of my argument particularly much thought. HN was in no way the focus of my
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by hans1729 5y ago
>Any platform that embraces free speech will gradually become /b/ I don't like this absolutism, because from my POV, this assumes that the audience has zero culture. /b/ is what happens when the participants are
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by hans1729 5y ago
Ha, I just worked through this a week ago: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-release/source/toolkit/compone...
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by hans1729 5y ago
Unfortunately I don’t think belittling these employees helps much here, especially considering how good a dedicated phisher can become at their craft.
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by hans1729 5y ago
It’s a thing in big orgs, where macros are enabled in excel and employees can be tricked into opening mail attachments. Windows defender should suffice, but like you said, from a compliance/insurance perspective it may me valuable to s
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by hans1729 5y ago
> Instead, I now have FB Messenger, WhatsApp, iMessage, Discord, and Signal all running and taking up space in my dock. Why don’t you use a matrix client with bridges? I use telegram, WhatsApp and signal over Element. The bridges are not
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by hans1729 5y ago
Or one where pursuing them was still worth it for the lessons in/the pursuit of it.
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by hans1729 5y ago
That’s true of course, it comes down to the relative position in maslows model. Maybe I just assumed that the HN-audience is at the top of the pyramid almost by definition, but failed to do the adequate elaboration. Thanks!
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by hans1729 5y ago
I disagree heavily with this. Lots of people make a living doing what they love/building a better world. Just because we normalized selling our attention to the highest fiscal bidder, doesn’t mean that the highest fiscal bid is actuall
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by hans1729 5y ago
> I imagine building solutions to problems I see in my surroundings. For some irrational reason, I feel a desire to give back to society. I think there is nothing irrational about this. Look up “purpose economy”. Grinding away your life
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by hans1729 5y ago
From the post: > If you want to be good at activity X, you have to start to see yourself as an X-er – to act like an X-er. This is what struck me the most. It's a terrible generalization (beyond the limits of a mathematicians comp
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by hans1729 5y ago
>..so much for the irony of calling out hubris and stating 'the author is not even close to being competent' I don't see how your answer relates to my criticism at all. What I'm pointing out is that the author touches
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by hans1729 5y ago
So, so much hubris. - "My analogies are brilliant, but you need to already understand the field for them to be brilliant, which I learned after tons of people told me that the analogy is actually not brilliant. But they are brilliant!&
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by hans1729 5y ago
> Nobody can build something with squirrel levels of manipulation and agility, even in simulation. Isn’t that what alpha go or the StarCraft league are? Organic strategies in well-defined contexts (action options of the squirrel at Tn)?
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by hans1729 5y ago
After having tried Dvorak for a couple of days (weeks?) a couple years back, I found my peace with the american default layout. Typing on dvorak was fun, and the learning process was really fun, too - fighting two decades of muscle memory w
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by hans1729 5y ago
fwiw, I speak German and find the german layout to be insultingly unusable, especially for coding. So I use the american hardware layout (which lack three german letters) and type Umlaute äöü with alt+u+{a|o|u}. It doesn't feel like it
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by hans1729 5y ago
Needs some error-handling in populating their template strings: > Did you know that you share a birthday with about people around the world and that approximately people were born in the same hour?
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by hans1729 5y ago
For the same reason almost all relevant ui-elements are left-aligned across operation systems and apps: because we are tuned to process things left-to-right and the mouse is more often on the left side than it is on the right, and it feels
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by hans1729 5y ago
Why so cynical about it? That's just what the situation was. The topology of our species' communication changed entirely within a single biological generation, from centralized orgs that delay and transform the signal, to the poin
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by hans1729 5y ago
>Can you back that claim up? Yes-ish. Since we could theoretically just culturally change how we look at wealth, the current distribution of resources is a symptom of our cultural and societal systems design. People don't know how t
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by hans1729 5y ago
>you're perhaps conflating innovation and "Einsteins" (read: genius) a bit too much you're right to step over this, my point was directed at broad intellectual progress rather than Einsteins. That's because there
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by hans1729 5y ago
>Once this kind of infrastructure for progress gets compromised then things will become very hard. I think of it differently: it already did. The old world is already dead. It will just take a couple of generations until that realization
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by hans1729 5y ago
Because the feedback-loops that allow for notions as isolated material wealth will lose traction (or at least that's what I estimate will happen). Where do you think automation will lead us over the course of ten generations? What will
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by hans1729 5y ago
The reason I see us continuing to progress is: we have tons of spare intellectual resources. I can't imagine a world where millions of people live in rich countries, who can code, who can read scientific publications, that just stops
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by hans1729 5y ago
fwiw, that's a very time-local judgement of the progress we made. Objectively, as a species, we solved inter-connectivity, high quality media, etc. - the fact that we currently live in a culture where these means are distributed in t
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by hans1729 5y ago
Let me offer a diverging perspective: >we could be doing so much better as a species ...relative to your expectations. If your model of the world (from which these expectations arise) was accurate, it would predict the world as it is, op
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by hans1729 5y ago
This is ridiculous. We’re seeing innovation EVERYWHERE, and looking back, this will be a golden age for progress (if the species makes it far enough to look back, that is). Think of it like this: we invented personal computers. At the time,
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by hans1729 5y ago
Its an opinion piece.
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by hans1729 5y ago
>And I’ll ask you how in the world a visitor to my website is supposed to know or care whether my site is hosted in the US or EU. I’m not even 100% sure myself. Pretty sure we'll see indicators for that in browsers in the foreseeabl
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by hans1729 5y ago
Either the customers who care about privacy trust you, or they don't. Let n cases show up in the news where US-companies are ignoring the respective rulings and the US-market will simply lose any attraction it still has left for europe

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