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by hourago 3y ago
> After the conversations, the groups watched the clips again, as well as new video from the same movies. After further discussion that reached consensus, patterns of brain processing aligned across participants as they watched the secon
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by hourago 3y ago
> In fact, neuroscience shows that the act of seeking itself, rather than the goals we realize, is key to satisfaction. This contradicts the title. It just says that we need goals to feel happy. Meaningful action is rewarding in itself.
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by hourago 3y ago
> copyrighted text… All AI depends so much on copyrighted sources that the only reason all executives are not already in prison is because big corporations think twice before fighting each other. For what happens to common people for sha
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by hourago 3y ago
> So the question becomes: what else do you get out of it? You nothing. But John, John gets it as share owner. He wants employees to work longer hours because he gets any benefit of it but the employees pay with their health and personal
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by hourago 3y ago
> We should be compensated for whatever value we provide, measured in a way that agrees between employee and employer (or between market and person/business). That is a local optimization that hurts the global output. What is effici
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by hourago 3y ago
> This particular article does touch on a goal that isn’t usually explicitly stated: it would make the world “less unequal” if everyone was prevented from working longer hours. Yes, it would, but I am deeply appalled at the thought of tr
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by hourago 3y ago
That could be interesting. I have seen accounts making racist or violent remarks and just deleting them afterwards after a few hours. That accounts seem of normal people engaging in normal conversations. But they spit hate everywhere they g
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by hourago 3y ago
The results are also vastly different as the expectations, the number of platforms to support, the quality of the cut-scenes, ... and the revenue. But there are still indie games developed with such small teams. So, that is still a viable p
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by hourago 3y ago
> During the company’s latest quarterly earnings call on June 12th the septuagenarian rhapsodised youthfully about artificial intelligence (AI) and the latest cloud-computing technology. The joy of writing about the rich while ignoring
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by hourago 3y ago
The economy makes no sense anymore. Add a fee to all financial transactions or financial transactions will eat the economy.
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by hourago 3y ago
The problem is that the open internet is dying. What used to be blogs and forums now is Reddit. Tens of thousands (hundreds of thousands?) of communities that had their own wiki, blog, forum, ... are now reduced to be a Subreddit. The Inter
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by hourago 3y ago
"scandal-ridden" what an euphemism for a well known pedophile that got out of many other crimes thanks to his money and influence. For anyone thinking that "scandal-ridden" is "distasteful" you are just adding
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by hourago 3y ago
Since Twitter fired so much developers, started to price its APIs and monetize its blue marks there are two different reactions: - The Venture Capitalists see these moves as the best thing that ever happened. A way top put employees (mostly
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by hourago 3y ago
> It's very hard to work around human nature and the whole "why am I paying rent like a sucker when the drug addicts on the street are getting free apartments?" A lot of people seems to accept tax cuts for billionaires mu
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by hourago 3y ago
Facebook and other tech companies are a great example of what would have happened if AT&T had not been split up for monopolistic practices. AT&T would have become a middleman in all communications. Can you imagine having to pay AT&a
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by hourago 3y ago
> For all the talk about the Deep State, the truly unaccountable power holders are the C-suite class. Most billionaires realized that they do not need to be in the news or do any work, they can let the CEOs of this world take a small par
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by hourago 3y ago
As bad as nuclear weapons are, they still have a human being behind. > My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer w
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by hourago 3y ago
As corporations "consolidate" choice disappears. More are more products are bound to be removed and only the most successful ones will remain. Only when there are medium sized companies consumers have choice.
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by hourago 3y ago
I am still waiting for them to discover the use of fire. Until that happens we are safe.
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by hourago 3y ago
> More recently, OpenAI shit their pants and threatened to pull out of the EU if they regulate AI too strongly. And what many people is missing: OpenAI will NOT pull out if they do not want to follow regulations. They will be kicked out.
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by hourago 3y ago
> and jump on a moral bandwagon that appeals only to a minority of activists Disney includes minorities because it pays off, what does not pay off is to create bad/mediocre movies. There are many movies even more progressive than th
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by hourago 3y ago
> Salvador Dalí played the part of an eccentric very well, sporting a ridiculous moustache and walking around Paris with an anteater but he was very clearly an astute businessman Like most artists that sell their work in expensive galler
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by hourago 3y ago
> I don't really know why in-app microtransactions, and especially in-app currencies, like this are even allowed in apps targeted at children. Because they can. Corporations will engage in any behavior that is not forbidden by law a
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by hourago 3y ago
> In lots of respects our life's are more comfortable, but I don't think having an iPhone makes up for having a generation that'll never get on the housing market in the UK for example. You are more right that your comment
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by hourago 3y ago
> You can have forever growth while using 0 resources and lowering consumption, because as you say growth is a monetary phenomenon. So, at least we agree that GDP is a bad measure and we need to come up with something better that takes i
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by hourago 3y ago
> It appears true when you look at inequality but any technological development always benefits almost everyone. Less inequality will create opportunities for better education for millions if not billions of humans. That will improve tec
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by hourago 3y ago
> It turns out voters do not much like stagnation; the newish premier, Giorgia Meloni, rails against “Greta Thunberg’s ideology” killing jobs. What an absurd oversimplification. It does not even tackles the issue that most of the growth
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by hourago 3y ago
> let's at least stick to current news So, Adobe will not anymore sue users for using old versions? This is not relevant anymore? Can you provide a link that shows that Adobe retracted of this practice?
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by hourago 3y ago
> Because they also want everything for free. Maybe people just goes to the cheaper option available because increasing inequality has left millions with no disposable income. This is the same logic by which people prefers cheap furnitu
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by hourago 3y ago
> especially the EU, which was mostly built on the basis of confrontation with Russia The EU was build to avoid another World War were Germany/UK/France start fighting. Once all European countries are tied economically for any

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