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by hos234 7y ago
Zuckerberg is known to rave about Emporer Augustus achieving 200 years of world peace through "harsh methods". So they cherry pick whatever stories they want from history to justify their mistakes.
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by hos234 7y ago
Just because people can live longer, doesn't mean the quality of life they live in old age is any better. Which also means they aren't exactly interested in being treated for cancer or going through major surgery in their 60s and
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by hos234 7y ago
Well you are productive as long as your kids have access to good teachers, family has access to good doctors etc. Once you need those things frequently and can afford it , small town life can turn into a big headache.
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Mengzi came up with something better than the Golden Rule(aeon.co)
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by hos234 7y ago
Chrome is the prime driver of pushing all kinds of functionality into the Browser from the OS. The rest just follow. They just want more people using their cloud/spending more time on the web (i.e. seeing google ads, using search etc),
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by hos234 7y ago
It used to be an option in Firefox. You have to go dig around bugzilla to find the reasons they removed it - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1249151 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=
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by hos234 7y ago
Learning is like walking through a jungle. The more you walk the more you see. You can always stop walking and sit down and just appreciate whats around you or decide you have seen enough, but after some time it gets very boring. And when p
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by hos234 7y ago
You are pointing at irrelevant people who don't belong to actual power structures. Ex-yahoo exec seriously? How can you even compare the Reddit CEO to Louis XIV. SV people have an overinflated sense of their importance in actual Power
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by hos234 7y ago
Their incentive is History. Specifically Louis XVI. Good ol'Louis knew things were messed up and he tried to rectify things. But it was too late.
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by hos234 7y ago
Nothing happens in few months with one guy. Even if it's Linus Torvolds. There are 1300 contributors to the project - https://github.com/git/git
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by hos234 7y ago
But framing things differently has been done, yet we have smoking, drinking, gambling, mcd and coke. To me it fells like certain people (a percentage of any population) are just wired to exploit human weakness. Sometimes they are unconsciou
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by hos234 7y ago
Why are the "evil soviets" or "evil whoever" the only ones who have the internet at their disposal in these thought experiments? What about the good guys? Where are the John Adams and Lincoln's and Gandhi's? Ar
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by hos234 7y ago
Our leaders (and groups that prop them up) have never had the ability to scale their propaganda and target people as they do today. They need to stop braying about turning into China and admit that this a new ball game. That needs new rules
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by hos234 7y ago
Crocodile Dundee didn't need no rocket launchers man. An Akubra hat was enough.
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by hos234 7y ago
Well I have no idea what Australia has an Army for. What are they defending with rocket launchers anyway?
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by hos234 7y ago
They want their own Football team.
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by hos234 7y ago
I should have added a /s
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by hos234 7y ago
Looks like another Macron. Well done.
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by hos234 7y ago
Salute to Twitter for doing something proactive and not just reacting post facto. That's what leadership is.
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by hos234 7y ago
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/ Use the list to get a sense of whats out there. Then track a couple devs doing things you like. Fix/file simple bugs, improve their docs, scripts etc on their rep
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Concert Promoters Turn Away from Facial Recognition Tech(voanews.com)
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by hos234 7y ago
You have to follow the 'network science' crowd. eg - https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1187331121777786883 https://twitter.com/NAChristakis/status/1187331121777786883
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by hos234 7y ago
I hope someday we learn to make controllable mini-storms. All kinds of interesting things to study thanks to the energy levels. From wikipedia - "Scientists estimate that a tropical cyclone releases heat energy at the rate of 50 to 200
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by hos234 7y ago
Skunkworks & Northrop Grumman sites are all within a 100 miles of the sightings. That's too much of a coincidence for me. "Highly advanced" projects coming out of those locations, usually run decades before anyone externa
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The Education of an Idealist(newyorker.com)
1 points by hos234 7y ago|0 comments
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by hos234 7y ago
It's not just SV. Power dynamics within orgs have changed and are changing. Traditional Hierarchies are struggling because hyper-connecitivity within the org and to the outside world have increased exponentially. This diffuses power at
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by hos234 7y ago
> People just don't talk about them very clearly, or document them Because I am pretty sure it violates Twitter API use. Twitter has no incentive to allow data moving off their network.
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by hos234 7y ago
There is a big difference between people trying to do good, fucking up, and getting trapped by their fuckups and people who only care about themselves. It's easy to confuse the two groups and think a distinction doesn't exist. It&
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by hos234 7y ago
:) That was hilarious. Hook is my new hero.
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by hos234 7y ago
Wall St I know uses mainly TCS and Accenture.

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