howaboutnope

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by howaboutnope 5y ago
I'm not "struggling". I just see the pointless regression. Why defend it? What is gained by defending something worse as if it was progress? Why can't we recognize flat everything as the failure it is, and make good UI a
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It's an alternative to Discourse though, e.g. it's a SPA. Nothing I see in the description entices me in the least... and phpBB and others are still being developed, and still rock.
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> people are paid not by the value of their work, but by their scarcity So the less people there are who own the majority of the wealth on the planet, the more that is justified? So their value is what, exactly? Scarcity by itself doesn&
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> Applications that check and validate things automatically, even if it's hard and expensive. Then you still need to be competent enough to to assess that this is the case. You can't judge code doing something correctly automa
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But it is not designed, period. It just is. It has no purpose, no goal, no intent -- which is good, too, since the final destination of any and all of it might the heat death of the universe.
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I think it's the result of some people being more and more cut off and alienated from themselves and life around them, so that's why they view it as "just other piece of technology". It says everything about them and n
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> Sometimes the worst thing you can do is give people exactly what they ask for. Alan Moore said this in the context of poetry, but with the caveat that everybody is sometimes part of "the" audience, and that every fully fledge
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> My biggest shock was how much "PR" was generated on Reddit And the winner ist: viggity https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28237827
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> Humans are complex. None of us (or at least, very very few of us) are fully internally consistent. More importantly, humans are different. Some are heads and shoulders above others morally or in other ways, and judge them accordingly.
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Yeah, Microsoft wanting to replace the Internet with MSN, or AOL, Facebook, Twitter and app stores are just so much more impressive. Every time it's the corporate vision that made mediocre boring bureaucrat things or hippie open sour
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But this isn't smoke, this is a photo of smoke. And as I said, the raging fires all of us can see in plain view go mostly unchecked. Where there is a photo of smoke, there may be fire, but where there is obviously a huge blazing fire,
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Well, it's been profitable so far, so of course it's going to get milked for as long as possible. https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pand...
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Alternatively, someone could realize that existing CSAM that's so widespread it's in the database basically equals water under the bridge, whereas creating CSAM that isn't in the DB requires to harm more children. Poverty and
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> deploy censorship [..] but freedom of speech is generally protected Can you elaborate a little? I understand and agree with your overarching point but this bit threw me.
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Downvoting isn't for disagreement, replies are. At any rate, the idea that companies with people who would collude in such a major way don't have any employees willing to manipulating discourse on a site like HN... that doesn&#x
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
> Frightening people man. Bush tried to buy votes towards the end of the election. Goes around, you know, selling weapons to everyone, getting that military industrial complex vote happening for him. Sold 160 fighter jets to Korea and th
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> The net effect of this language system was not to keep these people ignorant of what they were doing, but to prevent them from equating it with their old, "normal" knowledge of murder and lies. Eichmann's great susceptib
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Being aware of that or caring about that is not required for using antivaxxers as an excuse for anything related to Covid. It's not like nurses and doctors have been complaining for decades and were ignored out of greed, affecting live
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> work is asking much more, not physically but in terms of behaviors and beliefs > Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality, or as
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by howaboutnope 5y ago
Well, for one, this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25474372
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> From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’ -- Edgar Mitchell
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> More profoundly, though, Agre wrote in the paper that the mass collection of data would change and simplify human behavior to make it easier to quantify. That has happened on a scale few people could have imagined, as social media and
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But for anything non-trivial, that app that does everything person A needs doesn't do what person B needs, and vice versa. It mostly does what person C needs, who is a whiteboard made subset of the most used features and doesn't m
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This isn't about automation separated from the world it is used in, this is about automation speeding up inequality that isn't just growing, but accelerating -- and the predictable outcome that those who exploit and don't sha
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Let's see if people will also shallowly dismiss Stephen Hawking saying the exact same thing you just said. > If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of
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> If we forget, no other forgetting will ever happen. Everything will be remembered. Everything you read, all through life, everything you listened to, everything you watched, everything you searched for. -- Eben Moglen, https:/&#x
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> I find a lot of talk about it tends to boil down to "kids these days" dismissiveness These platforms are the products of megacorps, using incredibly sophisticated technology. Just contrast even a single CPU, versus, say, kids
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Oh, that's nothing. There's also things like "if this $optical_illusion moves, you have $disorder", or people faking DID and showing off their "alters".
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Actions, in this case what someone uses their time on and fills their mind with, aren't in a place, they're in place of the other actions one could have taken. And hey, one could say literacy also "had its place" when
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As the article says: "The strength of such an argument depends on whether the small step really is likely to lead to the effect." > It is true that a computer, for example, can be used for good or evil. It is true that a helico

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