jMyles

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by jMyles 1mo ago
> How would you design a system that simultaneously achieved all these goals: There is an obvious solution that achieves all of these, that, on 1000 year timescales, seems inevitable: deprecation of the nation-state. The internet solves
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by jMyles 1mo ago
> Cutting them down isn’t the worst idea but it would be nice if we could just elect people that wouldn’t allow this in the first place. Is this really better though? First-party community maintenance is more direct, cheaper, and doesn&
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by jMyles 1mo ago
> 1876 A year when police were relatively rare, and quite new in the western legal experience, having only emerged from slave patrols in the United States and from the founding of the 1829 Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom. This is a
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by jMyles 2mo ago
The institution of police has run its course and is time to deprecate. Flock cameras... I mean, look: our society, without any central organization at all, has the capacity to record nearly every crime that occurs, just by dint of our camer
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by jMyles 2mo ago
Do you have one in particular you'd suggest? That matches the performance, cooling, and profile of mine?
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by jMyles 2mo ago
I love my induction cooktop. I despise - in fact loathe - the touch interface, which becomes useless with the slightest spill of oil (and can thus be stuck on high until the interface is sufficiently wiped off and dried). I have the Gaslan
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by jMyles 2mo ago
It seems to me that there's really nothing at that store that "normal people" want to buy. Everything that we want to do can be done through ordinary collaboration with no need for the state. The special services which the s
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by jMyles 2mo ago
> Disney still gets upset Why do you care about Disney's emotional outbursts in the first place though? > The problem is that it is now explicitly reserved for the rich. That's not new - it has always served entrenched inter
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by jMyles 2mo ago
Even more bizarre than debating over whether we can stop the free flow of information across communications surfaces (we can't)... is the notion that this one person - a highly ineffectual occupant of an office whose relevance is rapid
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by jMyles 2mo ago
> bathroom stalls That's like, elite literary territory though. Let's stick to the discussion on books.
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by jMyles 2mo ago
The era of so-called "intellectual property" is over. You can accept it or not. But it's going to be a lot easier if you do.
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by jMyles 2mo ago
Codeberg being transparent about having a political bent - which all projects do even if they claim not to - is fine. Wonderful even. But I think they got this particular political decision wrong, both ethically and factually. Looking at
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by jMyles 2mo ago
> I feel like I'm asking for peace on earth. FWIW, this is not an unreasonable ask either.
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by jMyles 2mo ago
> I get that artists aren't paid enough, but it's better than the $0 they get from piracy. No it's not. We'd _much_ rather you steal our music if it means we are part of a free, permissionless, seeking-to-be-comprehe
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by jMyles 2mo ago
Surely it's strange to use the term "long covid" to describe the effects of only one covid, when at least four others have been circulating for decades or more and have been causing similar effects?
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by jMyles 2mo ago
It's possible. I think a darker possibility also looms: that there is ongoing astroturfing across the internet in defense of what turned out to be ludicrous policies. In real life, there seem to be so few people who stand by lockdowns
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by jMyles 2mo ago
...there have been dozens and dozens of published papers and now a whole conference on this topic. If you seriously haven't considered (let alone heard about) this, a simple google scholar search could have remedied this in the time i
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by jMyles 2mo ago
> Idk about you but I’ve had enough sex to say with confidence that the drawbacks to condoms are quite serious. Heh well of course I don't deny that there's a dramatic decrease in pleasure. But I don't think that's o
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by jMyles 3mo ago
Sure, but when data did become available (eg, the diamond princess dataset), most reasonable scientists changed their minds. The policies however did not change, and instead continued down a non-evidentiary path.
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by jMyles 3mo ago
The preventative effects of condoms are impressive, while the drawbacks (both first- and second-order) are relatively small. Lockdowns on the other hand provided no measurable benefit whatsoever, and the side effects (both first- and second
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by jMyles 3mo ago
Is the term "long covid" specific to COVID-19 though (in other words, excluding oc43, hku1, 299e, and nl61)? Or does it mean "long coronavirus disease", including all covids? I see it being used both ways.
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by jMyles 3mo ago
The evidence suggests you are incorrect; parts of the world without lockdowns did not observe increased adverse outcomes. I thought this was 100% settled at this point?
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by jMyles 3mo ago
In constitutional / jurisdictional / legal terms, perhaps not. In forming consensus about the philosophical underpinnings of the rights we have with respect to the emerging internet? I think so.
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by jMyles 3mo ago
Is there a first amendment implication? Second? Both?
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by jMyles 3mo ago
We can set some rasterization floor, such as like 3 minutes or something, and live with that. Correcting for a 3-minute offset every few millenia seems easier than trying to understand all this minutia about wobble and aquifer management an
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by jMyles 3mo ago
Oh I wish I was home, mama where the bluegrass grows where the right to repair is made plain!
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by jMyles 3mo ago
What a time for Poe's law.
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by jMyles 3mo ago
This doesn't seem at all unlikely to me. I think we sometimes forget the ease (in terms of scale and cost) of standing up a massive astroturfing campaign. That said, I don't think this particular comment has the flavor, tone, or
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by jMyles 3mo ago
> So you're against any sort of intellectual property? I observe that the universe in which I live doesn't seem to include the concept of intellectual property, and that there is quite a lot of misery and confusion that arises
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by jMyles 3mo ago
Of course, but my point is: Monsanto is obviously incorrect. It's plain to see. Plants grow without permission. Bytes flow without permission. Ideas propagate without permission. All this silliness to create a huge complicated regi

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