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by karllager 9y ago
> That is preferable to the society which underproduces things and where large part of your survival depends on you skill in finding how to satisfy basic needs - food, shelter, etc. I'd rather watch ads than be hungry. And that is p
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by karllager 9y ago
As a kid, I grew up in a country with almost no advertising. Repeat after me: No ads in the streets, in the TV, in the radio, nowhere. One day we found a magazine (from another country), which contained ads. Two people smoking cigarettes in
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by karllager 9y ago
You are good, if you question and revisit your assumptions on a regular basis, because you instinctively know, that there is a simpler and cleaner approach - it is just (with good reason) buried under business matters and deadlines. If some
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by karllager 9y ago
I keep offline notebooks where I basically take notes of hopefully most things, that I read or think about. Ideas for programs, proofs of theorems, lecture notes and so on. I also start small git repos with projects, e.g. for a set of algor
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by karllager 9y ago
I read a lot of both Horkheimer and Adorno. It has shaped my view on capitalism and society in a profound way. Be careful, reading them is like choosing the red pill.
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by karllager 9y ago
I once turned down an excellent offer in order to avoid working in AdTech. It was a lot of money and probably fun work, too. Not everybody can do this, and most people would consider me crazy for having turned done that kind of money. After
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by karllager 9y ago
> Anyone even remotely close to fields like infosec, cyber security, or data engineering know that Facebook is quickly becoming a giant spider web for its users. Exactly. Everytime I see a person using Facebook (so basically every day) I
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by karllager 9y ago
Yes, I love tuning my /etc/hosts as well. In case anyone is curious: https://pastebin.com/raw/4cUS8r8W
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by karllager 9y ago
> I use facebook > I am sensitive to privacy and secrecy. I do not want to be rude, but unfortunately those options are mutual exclusive.
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by karllager 9y ago
> Like it or not there is a social stigma around NOT having a FB account. Yes of course there is. Please do not take it personal, but the problem described in the article still exists, even if most people don't care. In Germany in t
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by karllager 10y ago
No, not worried about that, particularly. But there are few other options, that might be worrying to some: The routine tasks will more and more go away. Still amazed how much is done by hand today (like research, data preparation, communica
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by karllager 10y ago
I hope I am not down-voted. I want to grab the opportunity to sum up my impressions on snap, so I can come back a year later and read up, how stupid they have been. Snap is neither twitter nor fb, which of course is a source of uncertainty.
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by karllager 10y ago
A general question to parents: Is it possible to raise a kid without a smartphone today?
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by karllager 10y ago
Go is just the current incarnation of the so-called New Jersey approach. > I believe that worse-is-better, even in its strawman form, has better survival characteristics than the-right-thing.
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by karllager 10y ago
> not with the data you willingly give them by using their service. Imagine I am a producer of sugared water. Do I want you to delve into health issue associated with that? Not necessarily. As a owner of a site that lives from user inter
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by karllager 10y ago
An observation: I recently watched a presentation from a developer who works at a random adtech company. He was a nice, albeit naive guy. In order to explain the technical topic he gave a bit of context about the business. It was so creepy,
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by karllager 10y ago
I always wonder, how people can associate effectiveness, success and other positive things with the current developments. The price of the progress, as we experience it today, is enormous. Exhaustion of natural resources, severe climate cha