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by hyko 5y ago
This is so cool. I’d buy it.
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by hyko 5y ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my obnoxious rant John. I guess when we talk about destructive power, this topped out in the 1950s with fusion weapons. It’s unclear if that technology will represent the apex of deadliness forever, or
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by hyko 5y ago
The evilest inventions of the XXI century are not “better” guns, bombs, […] The cruellest and the most inhuman creations are infinite scroll and push-notifications. Comparing push notifications to the human toll inflicted by guns and bomb
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by hyko 5y ago
It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship … if you somehow rule out using wood, because “some of the trees might not grow back”. Utter bullshit!
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by hyko 5y ago
Sounds like a fucking nightmare to be honest. We’ve had the technology to do this for many decades, but we don’t do it because of the insane overheads at modern scale, and because the permanent campaigning and rabble-rousing required would
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by hyko 5y ago
+1 for skipping justification, which universally looks like ass on screens. “What about books and newspapers?” I hear you ask, to which I reply: print had expert typesetters eyeballing the whole thing…and even then, some books and newspaper
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by hyko 5y ago
A lot? Very hard to be a great leader without it, so it inevitably comes with a large halo effect.
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by hyko 5y ago
If it’s illegal to secure your own property, then something has gone badly wrong with society. Time for open resistance and support for regime change I think. Legal scholars can then engage in beard stroking around the new laws. In a democr
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by hyko 5y ago
…and 100% the ones that have optimised nutrition, sleep, exercise, sun exposure, and toxin avoidance still die before the age of 122.” (probably well before). Edited to add: the whole point of technological progress is to expand our horizon
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by hyko 5y ago
Lack of universal infrastructure is an avoidable travesty caused by privatisation. What sort of country would have roads only going up to some select houses? A pretty shabby one.
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by hyko 5y ago
Spinach famously was misreported to be misreported to have iron due to the decimal point slip: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127145356... Nothing indicates that the decimal point err
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by hyko 5y ago
we can infer that we’re at an equilibrium point with no real advantage either way We can do no such damn thing! This analysis completely conflates natural selection and sexual selection, and ignores the role of genetic drift.
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by hyko 5y ago
arguing it “emerged from the contentious politics of the 1960s, specifically the civil rights movement and its aftermath This framing has nothing to do with individual psychology, it’s trying to make a political point.
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by hyko 5y ago
Simple, your app receives one of four values to reflect the state of ATT: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apptrackingtranspa... This allows gathering aggregate data on how many users have opted in and out of
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by hyko 5y ago
WTF is this shit? Blame the victim hood ? If you’re living in an unjust world, the solution might not actually come from within; perhaps we could modify it somehow? Don’t bet the farm on findings from psychology.
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by hyko 5y ago
There is ongoing surveillance from the National CJD Research & Surveillance Unit: https://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/figs.pdf
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by hyko 5y ago
Started reading to find the answer, but gave up wading through the hagiography.
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by hyko 5y ago
A proprietary geocode solution remains a terrible idea in general, and especially in this case. The government should buy them, close them, and invest in replacing the system with an open and international standard.
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by hyko 5y ago
“A person, known as the predator , seeks information, known as the prey ” Academics are such oddballs they make software developers look normcore.
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by hyko 5y ago
Yes, that’s true. Knowledge-how will go stale relatively quickly as you point out.
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by hyko 5y ago
I agree that there’s probably not much value in just retreading the old specs, but I’d argue that just having the knowledge that it has been achieved in practice still puts you ahead of the engineers in 1961, and that the intervening decade
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by hyko 5y ago
Worth noting that this funding was not for the leave campaign, but rather the failed “Brexit party” that was formed long after Britain had already voted to leave the European Union.
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by hyko 5y ago
The most expensive reality TV show ever made.
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by hyko 5y ago
Technology has not regressed since the 1970s though. We have the latent capability to go any time we want, it’s just very expensive and there’s no point.
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by hyko 5y ago
Wait, so you think if a Veblen good becomes more scarce there will be no price increases around it? won’t keep anyone from getting to work or the store I can tell you that luxury vehicles transport plenty of people to work or the store ju
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by hyko 5y ago
The empty shelves will cause cost-push inflation, as people try to buy cars from a smaller available pool (e.g. substitute new cars for used). The price mechanism for cars will respond to a shortage of cars. Edit: it’s maybe bad luck that t
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by hyko 5y ago
Increasing bitcoin mining capacity allows the energy provider to “overbuild” solar without wasting energy. Nope. “Free” PoW undermines the whole system. Mining has to be a sacrifice, otherwise it won’t work anymore. There is no “and I can
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by hyko 5y ago
“They’re trying to commercialise the sacred game of football that I already pay £1200 a year to watch on television” Said in a muppet voice. Edit: I guess ultimately it’s the weakness of being a fanatic about anything that isn’t yourself or
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by hyko 5y ago
It’s a good question; the exact instruments used would be for the employees to decide, but I would propose either restricted or common stock for the initial grant.
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by hyko 5y ago
No, my view is essentially that companies should be democratic institutions, and in order to achieve that it means the workers must also be capital owners. Corporations today are essentially authoritarian regimes, whose agents have wide rem

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