kingsuper20

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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I wonder to what extent the M1 has been designed with thoughts towards vendor lock-in?
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Looking at newspapers from 1900, I'd say that an objective old guard, to the extent it really existed, was a temporary affair.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Perhaps the point was never to educate, but to differentiate. Peeling off the top 10% has it's own value.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>oversight thats not commercially or politically biased My firm belief is that that is impossible.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
The garbage is addictive. It seems to me that a distributed (and more secure) version needs to have something in it that would cause a network effect. The idea of Facebook seems sound, it's just hard to get everyone to agree on one an
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>Literally any other site where one can upload videos would be better. You can make that case, but it's hard to beat youtube. It's not just a matter of the amount of content, but also support on settop boxes/devices, qual
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Could you design a distributed Facebook? Perhaps no scale is really needed, at least in some cases.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
So how do you architect a system that doesn't have a single point of failure on all axis, storage/delivery/financial? It's funny how the early web thinking encompassed nuclear war but not the presence of authoritarian go
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>I mean, having best-years-of-4chan-like content everywhere. With some form of self-moderation, like subreddits, for sure. It's an interesting thought. I rather like the idea as the different political kinks of the big companies ar
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>maintain a solid veneer of simply having an intellectual discussion on a topic of general interest. That's a good point. My guess is that practically everyone knows what side they are on as things get more sporty. The rest is just
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
" "A female POC just lost her spot to a white, middle-aged, male-born son of a billionaire. This is supposed to be progressive?" " Perhaps it's simply a way to more firmly define the progressive stack. We need an IS
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>There's a large segment of the population that feels actively threatened by trans rights. I'd say that's a vast overreach. It isn't like the Trans Army is going to come burn down your house. If anything, it's a
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
lol. I had to look that up. Maybe he hung out with Chuck Berry too much.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>Can someone elaborate the benefits/goals of using the feminine pronoun here? Culture wars, but a much more gentle version than the current variety. There's definitely an agenda here as it wasn't done in any kind of unthi
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
from article: "Jonathan Beale, Defence Correspondent I am on board the warship, in the Black Sea. The crew were already at action stations as they approached the southern tip of Russian occupied Crimea. Weapons systems on board the Roy
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Brilliant. It sounds a bit like those guys who brute-forced every melody below a certain size.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I expect that the main value was in proving you could sit at a desk for eight hours a day.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
"my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defence of myself," For a culture, that sounds like a feature, not a bug. I don't hate the idea of FAANG unions, although I expect you just end up with two abusive quasi-monopoli
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
Maybe there's just an endorphin rush from being outrageous.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
> Schools are controlled primarily by state and local governments, which are not universally controlled by Democrats but split along typical red state/blue state lines: Looking at the uproar about Critical Race Theory, it appears th
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>So how do you prevent schools either going into a vicious or virtuous cycle? I expect that you have to try it and add controls as necessary. Not only are these systems too complicated to model in any simple way, but have multiple playe
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
> I've met plenty of people who have a learned helplessness when it comes to, say, math. That strikes me as an insightful point. I'd say that the main point of math, considering how little the average person actually uses it be
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
It's remarkable how much the per capita, inflation corrected cost per pupil in California has gone up in 50 years. My own elementary school (not in CA), has double the amount of staff with the same pupil head count, plus I don't d
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
You have to ask if the majority of 'educated' people actually do things of value. Perhaps we should simply follow a Lysenkoist approach of simply handing out a diploma to one and all. Forgive me for the old man moment, but I was
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
https://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/intra-elite-competitio...
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>- People are likely to respond in a much more civil manner, they're not just going to yell at you While I think that's true to a certain extent, I'd also say that the internet selects for the loudest, rudest voices. Examp
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
>Cancel culture will make racism and sexism worse. I completely agree with that. Just to keep an eye on matters, and you never know how you need to set up your life going forward, lately I've made an attempt to eavesdrop on snatches
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
and a little desktop box. Gotta be quicker than a Raspberry PI 4 though.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
I think I've read that same article every year for 40 years. Gotta love it.
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by kingsuper20 5y ago
for returns unboxing? first one on a youtube search. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fDMcWYg2wU surveillance economy? www.google.com

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