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by jackyinger 6mo ago
A quality bike can last a really long time.
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by jackyinger 6mo ago
Just pick up your instrument and make some noise. DAWs are time sinks. Music is about the “feel” first and foremost. Playing music on a physical instrument or singing is a feel thing. DAWs are tools for polishing what was created with feeli
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by jackyinger 6mo ago
What a bunch of fluff. The problem is that prediction markets are excellent vehicles for corruption as demonstrated by the article discussed here. You're arguing that corruption is a good thing.
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by jackyinger 6mo ago
Insider trading is unethical, and has long been recognized as such. It is outrageous for you to suggest that it is a good thing. It is not a free market if there is insider trading. If insiders are trading other market participants are by d
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by jackyinger 6mo ago
I would love it if real people did that, and then acted on what they found with moral integrity.
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by jackyinger 7mo ago
It's not about it being occupied, it is about what is happening inside.
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by jackyinger 7mo ago
“Got off” would be more appropriate
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by jackyinger 7mo ago
How is searching encrypted data not going to be used for exfiltration? What a terrible idea. I’m sure you can name benign useful things you could use it for. But it seems to me you’re blatantly overlooking the obvious flaw. There is no gett
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by jackyinger 7mo ago
Waste… I can’t stop thinking about the waste of human talent and potential. The waste of resources to run AI data centers. The waste of the now old school CS ethos. Yea, wasteland checks out.
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by jackyinger 7mo ago
Fish are pretty sensitive to temperature. It may seem like a river is a great heatsink, but it isn’t without side effects.
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
Ok, great movie. But man, I hate that this is what everyone thinks about when they think of nihilism. It is very challenging to truly believe in nothing. I think it is much more realistic to see nihilism as a label applied to others’ belief
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
While we’re at it let’s get rid of wire transfers, and transactions by bank id / account number. Something more fool proof and transparent is far overdue.
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
The social constructs were the entire point. The spacey stuff was just a vehicle to get a more relatable protagonist into the story.
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
Authoritarian regimes don’t run on facts. They run on the primacy of Authority. Cameras record factual information. Facts are inconvenient for Authority. You know, 1984 Department of Truth style.
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
There are a lot of ways to inflect this question. To ask it bare is usually not the best. Note in the authors third approach they first validate the feelings and then ask for more details. That is a really great move. Tailoring that to the
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
Cultivating optimism is the first step. Optimism is irrational, you can just choose to have it (of course thinking about good things that have happened helps). Optimism is the precondition for doing good. So what if there’s a low collective
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
It’s only a problem if you get the machines up there! Which I’d argue is economically unviable to boot.
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
Unless I missed something the Microsoft underwater data center was basically a publicity stunt. Anyone who thinks it makes sense to blast data centers into space has never seen how big and heavy they are, or thought about their immense powe
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by jackyinger 8mo ago
I get the feeling Apple is the next Intel. Intel went through a phase in the 2010’s of buying gobs of companies with fancy tech and utterly failing to integrate those acquisitions. And even more fundamental, Intel rested on its laurels of h
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
Why on earth do they want water from the national forest when the massive Columbia River is right there!? Is it too expensive to treat the river water? /s
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
Literature on doing things was much more practical. There was a culture of things being repairable. There was a pride in one’s work. Check this out if you don’t believe me: http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/1617/307
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
In art one often follows impulses. Art is about expression after all. Plus, if these were really AI creations new copies can be printed. Unless the human “co-creator” did something like paint on the work after printing, not much has been da
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
Great points, I absolutely agree.
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
You are persistently referring to partisan politics in your comments. I am not. I have repeatedly distanced myself from partisan politics in this discussion. I believe I have not made a single statement supporting partisan politics, much le
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
I guess I’m making the mistake of assuming others have taken a similar intellectual path as I have. I’m an Elecrical and Computer Engineer (ECE) by schooling. But I did pay attention in my mandatory liberal arts class. I took a Political Ph
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
That is not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about escaping that. I’m frustrated with how narrow of view people here are taking on politics. Partisan politics has grown into a nasty oppositional quagmire. But, Politics in general is defi
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
I’m not talking about partisan politics. Do some reading about political philosophy and you’ll see how terribly shallow partisan politics is, and how deep the foundations of politics are. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
You’ll note I never suggested that hackernews was the forum for this. If that failure mode is inevitable in hackernews culture, what does that say about the quality of the technical & business content?
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
I don’t think people actually want yet another echo chamber. Anyone who has been exercising even a modicum of critical thinking sees where echo chambers lead. I think a forum where bad faith polarizers are downvoted and good faith open mind
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by jackyinger 9mo ago
It seems to me you think of politics as being the politics of the sensationalist 24 hour news cycle. Sure, that is a mind killer. But I encourage you to take a look at politics as a broader thing. Read some academic, foundational political

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