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by ixtli 2y ago
not surprised. this anecdote is some good evidence for how i felt at the time: apple took a good thing way too far and as a result now we have to suffer through the google / windows flat UIs everywhere which are just plane lazy
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by ixtli 2y ago
same. I really thought the community made a mistake entirely rejecting the concept in the past 10+ years
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by ixtli 2y ago
Absolutely incredible long read. I adore people who commit themselves to archival works like this.
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by ixtli 2y ago
these people literally can not
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by ixtli 2y ago
These sorts of people are never honest.
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by ixtli 2y ago
I can’t tell if this is an ironic comment lol
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by ixtli 2y ago
Zionist and other far right twitter accounts being bandied about as an argument for the detention of someone exercising free speech rights.
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by ixtli 2y ago
The dismantling of the American government is going as planned I see?
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by ixtli 2y ago
Came here to say this. Ive had to work on slop, and it never stops being slop unless the stars align and you can do a bunch of work which is short term unprofitable. What people really should do is work on the same project for five years.
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by ixtli 2y ago
I think this is partially correct but as the center moved rapidly to the right I’d say you need to study early 20th century governments and the arc of the US government as they decline into fascism. This is characterized primarily by privat
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by ixtli 2y ago
That’s precisely my point. Where do you live? The west? If not, whatever. But if you do then this is typical of what happens when you try to criticize the US. People do backbends to avoid the cold facts that regardless of what we WANT to be
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by ixtli 2y ago
I got this exact style of education at UMass Amherst's 4 year CS undergrad degree program 2005-2010 and it absolutely made me the engineer i am today. would recommend 10/10.
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by ixtli 2y ago
"capitalism solves this problem, just look at all the revolutions communists did that erased more poverty faster than at any time in human history" i get what you're trying to say but ultimately it just seems like you're
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by ixtli 2y ago
The second thing. Also AGI is a floating signifier thats going to mean whatever is useful to marketers once they've used up the easier ones.
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by ixtli 2y ago
its funny, it seems the point of this kind of response is to imply that my analysis is naive or overly simplistic but there are hundreds of thousands of pages of math and science and philosophy on the topic. im not just making this up, im s
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by ixtli 2y ago
Thats because there is no answer. Marx and all of the people who developed his theories after him have exhaustively and scientifically proved this. That's really whats happening: its not that people dont have an answer is that they&#x2
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by ixtli 2y ago
True but its clear that these systems allow this process to happen at rates orders of magnitudes larger than without it. That changes the severity of the problem and definitely turns it into something people need to intervene in.
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by ixtli 2y ago
Im curious by what metric things are improving in the US? I get that people are very defensive of their ability to say nearly anything they want in public but how has this protected us? The overton window continues to shift to the right, we
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by ixtli 2y ago
This is precisely my point. We define a historical era with things like red lining and lynching but they never stopped. The manipulation of education and words works perfectly: there's no reason to suppress speech. https:/&#x2F
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by ixtli 2y ago
How do you know this isn't what happened in China? Also, the underlying causes being addressed is like saying that redlining no longer exists because its not called that or that racism is gone because we no long live in Jim Crow times.
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by ixtli 2y ago
Thank you for posting this. The people who bring up Tiananmen Square do not have the best interest of the whole of the chinese people in mind so i tend to just avoid this sort of conversation. There are criticisms to be made of China, of co
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by ixtli 2y ago
its interesting to me that that is the way the discussion turned but its not what i originally meant. there were just qualities to this story that are hallmarks of great modern japanese short and long form lit. for example: - referring to c
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by ixtli 2y ago
This is a fabulous example of Japanese storytelling and the translation is rather good, too :)
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by ixtli 2y ago
this is such a US coded essay and to anyone else i think it would be like "you really need to get outa there"
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by ixtli 2y ago
It would set a precedent that is unpalatable to people who sell this stuff.
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by ixtli 2y ago
It depends on how they respond over the next 1-2 weeks.
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by ixtli 2y ago
I think around here people will all agree with you, the problem is that in practice this isn't at any level about cleaning up peoples experience of each other. it's economic protectionism injected with yellow-scare nonsense remini
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by ixtli 2y ago
Its been a long time since i've been amazed by an HN comment in a positive way. This is a really, really good way of putting it. I'd go further: humans are willing to forgive shockingly grievous intellectual crimes (c.f.: hallucin
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by ixtli 2y ago
Binary, polarizing language for clicks. I've had a few mild versions of the "oh fuck" moment they're talking about in the past 1-2 years but outside of some specific cases (writing test data generators, scaffolding, etc.
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by ixtli 2y ago
Yes. Also, the society that breeds this sort of narrative intentionally obfuscates the difference between oppressive and liberational violence. Even though the Palestinians employ violence no intellectually honest person can call the act

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