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by hyko 6y ago
“Best 100-page book ever!” Lol.
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by hyko 6y ago
Human brains make logic mistakes all the time.
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by hyko 6y ago
If you’re still using Facebook at this point: You were warned.
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by hyko 6y ago
Note that there’s nothing wrong with adding pleasantries to an IM, the problem is that you’re passing the conversation to your partner at the wrong point. The SYN-ACK bit at the start is awkward and unnecessary.
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by hyko 6y ago
I feel like this is just an exercise in creating stasis in your life. Friends will arrive; friends will disappear.
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by hyko 6y ago
I agree that we should work to undermine the forces of radicalisation; outreach and social justice efforts may bear fruit in decades or centuries. Democracy is at stake today. We must acknowledge that all the rights and privileges we enjoy
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by hyko 6y ago
Absolutely not. Western liberal democracy relies on centralised power; it’s not clear that it could function without it. As an extension of that, getting “power to the people” is usually the rallying cry of someone who wants to weaken the g
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by hyko 6y ago
Centralisation is completely compatible with Democracy. There is no plausible mechanism by which federation would prevent the kinds of issues we’ve seen when giving everyone in the world the ability to publish whatever they like at no cost.
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by hyko 6y ago
Parler is basically irrelevant at this point. Anyone can stand something up on the internet, but without mainstream technical and legal support it is politically dead. The most influence it will exert is in mainstream news articles about
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by hyko 6y ago
Well the first order of business in protecting democracy is to crush the terrorists head on. Doesn’t really matter what their back story is. You must confront the terrorist first, and win. You’re not going to win the long game by losing the
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by hyko 6y ago
If I leave for another company Yeah that’s not a powerful move, that’s the equivalent of leaving the country. What happens if they’re all run along the exact same lines? You can start your own I guess, which is not feasible for most peopl
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by hyko 6y ago
Why is it that software engineers can understand the idea of software ports and adapters, but collectively seem to lose their minds when the idea of physically manifest? USB-C is the one port to rule them all, and is here to stay.
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by hyko 6y ago
The paper doesn’t show a steady decrease.
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by hyko 6y ago
“War can also speed up advances in science and technology that have benefits in peacetime.” Well that escalated from extolling the benefits of studying war to extolling the benefits of waging them rather quickly. “Although anthropologists a
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by hyko 6y ago
My question is - what is the end they’re working towards?
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by hyko 6y ago
Man, this is bleak. Is it just me or do the gurus of today inspire some pretty tepid trains of thought? What happened to all the interesting, utopian, and downright weird thinking that used to go on in the digital space?
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes, you’re right it doesn’t make any sense, there’s no real reason it wouldn’t work. You’d have to rethink national and supranational government at that point though.
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by hyko 6y ago
I’m not saying there haven’t been serious consequences from climate change, I’m saying most westerners have not experienced them yet, and won’t experience them in the coming decade. There’s nothing controversial about that, it’s the view of
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes, but most of the hundreds of millions of westerners (US, Western Europe, Australasia) are unlikely to experience real consequences for everyday life from climate change in a wild ride this decade. That’s for all sorts of reasons,
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by hyko 6y ago
I understand your sentiment, but most westerner’s everyday lives will not be affected by climate change this decade, outside of government initiatives to help solve the problem. That’s why it’s so damn unfair: it’s the poorest people in t
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by hyko 6y ago
There seems to be a general assumption that pre-internet technologies didn’t change people’s behaviour or dramatically alter the contours of their life decisions, which is of course very wrong. There’s no possibility of a decline into an id
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by hyko 6y ago
They’re not? Obviously many of the spacecraft we’re used to spend a fair bit of time in the atmosphere, but even real manned spacecraft have come in different shapes and sizes (usually variations on spheres and/or cones).
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by hyko 6y ago
Be an endlessly fascinating and brilliant friend/relative but refuse to communicate with them via WhatsApp.
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by hyko 6y ago
If by revolt you mean an armed uprising, then we would need evidence of actual oppression, not just opinions about the quality of government. If you merely think that the government is shit, voting remains the best thing the average perso
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by hyko 6y ago
You can disapprove of something without kicking its front door in.
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by hyko 6y ago
faced with the option of accepting or being cut off from their local community. It’s a deal!
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by hyko 6y ago
FB owned = FB. Why is that so hard to understand?
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by hyko 6y ago
The President of the United States can’t admit that he lost, and is evidently willing to throw an entire country and political system under the bus in the service of his ego. One side effect of this personality type seizing power is that th
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by hyko 6y ago
I think the article misses the point completely: this is bad practice because the company has no business buying up random assets using other people’s money. That would be equally true if they bought $400M of fine wine, real estate, or grat
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by hyko 6y ago
Scarcity is a myth I know of no serious economic school that espouses this.

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