kktkti9

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by kktkti9 5y ago
Maybe that says a lot about the real value of digital social networks as we know them now. Perhaps we should just have dumb pipes, and let people network over them without a MITM running psychology and behavioral economics experiments on pe
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Sort of how Elastic using the license that’s biting them; can’t really expect much else so long as “it’s a private company they can hire as they see fit” is the default political posture. Your problem transcends one whiner on Twitter; priva
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Windows is opt-in
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Xsolla is another payment platform for merchants? Why not fire the CEO for being disengaged from coming up with a novel idea? The meme is these people work so…much…harder. But none of them built the patterns and infra that enable these comp
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by kktkti9 5y ago
You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice? I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry ar
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by kktkti9 5y ago
You don’t think Amazon would notice orders not coming in? Google wouldn’t notice code not being checked in? Call centers wouldn’t notice Q’s backing up? No one would notice if Reddit’s front page was days old? Commerce now relies on people
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Literally isolates. I seem to recall an invention called “Internet” which allowed for concerts, talk shows, and numerous other social events to occur during covid.
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Work from home during the worst of covid was the best time to threaten a strike. Everyone loaded up on extra TP, a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the country. But feudal exploitation by the rich and each other locall
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by kktkti9 5y ago
If the public isn’t going to push back against establishment politics looking like they did 100 years ago, good luck. Like waves and particles; it starts with individuals changing their behavior. But we’d all rather sit around debating ephe
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by kktkti9 5y ago
They’ll scan content if you have it set to goto iCloud so as to avoid being an accomplice. Turn off sync to iCloud, make local backups only. Who is to say politicians who started threatening tech companies publicly haven’t made threats behi
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Apple has a right to protect themselves from being an accomplice to distribution of child porn. Maybe you freedom fighters should have heeded the warnings over the decades of creeping corporate control and stopped buying their products? Ooo
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by kktkti9 5y ago
It’s a shared planet and resources but unfortunately you don’t own any of it. Political ownership calls the shots. Might look different if the politically detached organized against rent seeking and monopoly but you’re all busy building ren
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by kktkti9 5y ago
They are not anti-systemic The system will emit one system that will always align with our understanding of reality with constants we cannot violate. The perimeter is programmed; physics. All this modeling is filling in the middle. What it
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by kktkti9 5y ago
I don’t bother with Bitcoin; you think I have any faith in cellar dwelling computer nerds? I gots a masters, I know elastic structures. What do I need other math nerds for? In the end they’d turn to the same old nation state for a bailout.
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by kktkti9 5y ago
As a long time HNer who quit caring about the points long ago, the overall comment quality on HN tanked a while ago. As a mathematician, I’m often dismayed by the fantasy and fallacy the tech crowd buys into. Tech hype isn’t high quality co
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by kktkti9 5y ago
The inability to build housing is emotionally coupled to lack of political will to raise taxes, empower workers… The owners want to keep power. We’re basically servicing last generations success in that we’re obliged to let them fund our wa
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Indeed. Our superior intellect of the fifth order to ninth power above tribal humans of course obliges us annihilate them along with the stable human environment. It’s terrible what China is doing to ethnic groups. They should chase extinct
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Because you think you noticed a trend it means the first abstraction that pops into your head. Sure, that’s how it works. I’ve noticed a trend of people good at abstraction believing they know the state of all particles that ever were and e
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Duh; society is built on an honor system. We look away to “live our life” and tacitly believe others are behaving honorably. And they all do. Economists teach us inflation is good because if we increase worker buying power they might own mo
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by kktkti9 5y ago
We’ve had empirical measure of industry related climate change since the 1860s hidden away by industry, who continued to be confirm through private research over and over. If our math models can predict the Higgs decades before it’s experi
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Creditors CAN accept them because states do not disallow it. The point is taking the language in that document literally is a ridiculous exercise. The men that wrote it had barely discovered electricity. We romanticize the achievements of m
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by kktkti9 5y ago
I suppose since we use paper bills, and debit cards, most states are violating the “make any Thing but gold and silver…” bit. Pretty sure the only bits in that doc taken seriously are the lack of rules against meddling in elections, and lev
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by kktkti9 5y ago
It was stupid to put all our manufacturing eggs in one basket, not just for nation state politics but species security against regional war, acts of god… In the end our decisions were guided by elder concepts of correctness, that coincident
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by kktkti9 5y ago
If any of these people dropped dead today the technology and those that can steward it remain. If they’re under so much stress and disconnected from the average person, it’s time to stop crowning kings. None of us have to believe in extreme
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by kktkti9 5y ago
These places exacerbate material waste and trivial spending. Dollar objects get replaced much faster than better quality objects. They’re manipulating that “new purchase” high similar to Facebook juicing us via likes.
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by kktkti9 5y ago
People will make a mess of a large project regardless of the language.
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by kktkti9 5y ago
By “It can’t simply be…” I mean economic theory as a basis for accepted political norm. Which form of meta-analysis we use to normalize against politically isn’t up for debate in the market of free ideas and information exchange.
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Pseudoscientific is the default state of the mind. Propaganda research became behavioral economics, advertising, marketing, and various psychology programs, but surely that’s not been used socially to titillate biology and insert desired ta
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by kktkti9 5y ago
Capital being money, the flow of which is managed by Fed policy and laws. So, yeah, calculated from the top. Handed to those closest to the tap. Look into our transfer payment system, our system of political budgets, and apportionment. Befo
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by kktkti9 5y ago
There are internal corporate studies out there that try to determine which manager or technology brought productivity gains. The math is so complex they could not draw any conclusions. Understand; we listened to lesser educated men of the p

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