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by kolektiv 2y ago
Just to note that in most places at the moment (unless you turn up in that red baseball cap...) the attitude to most Americans is likely to be a kind of horrified pity (again, unless you start saying how great it all is). Most people are ge
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by kolektiv 2y ago
From the outside, it doesn't look like much of the rest of your country agrees with you.
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Because they're not perfect, and they're going to lobotomise societal ability to invent if we're not actually careful with them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504459
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Wizards. Actual, honest to god, wizards(github.com)
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by kolektiv 2y ago
And without any traditional software engineers, who's going to check that those test cases actually do anything useful and verify the important properties of the system? It doesn't matter how many unit tests your Therac-25 has if
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by kolektiv 2y ago
As if the person struggling with the mess will have the requisite skill levels to even recognise a mess!
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by kolektiv 2y ago
> "It pits two dramatically different political systems—one democratic, the other authoritarian—against each other." Mmmm, it feels like that distinction is becoming a little less stark/relevant as things progress.
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Agreed - I'm also a European (well, geographically, no longer EU unfortunately).
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by kolektiv 2y ago
What do you propose as an alternative? That people should have listen to/host a certain percentage of unpopular views regardless of will? There is nothing stopping you creating your own platform, or finding one where you're welcom
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Which of the things in the list contained in the article do you either a) deny are happening or b) consider to be unimportant/trivial? They've presented a concrete set of troubling actions, you've just thrown a banal personal
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Oh absolutely - both are already quite apparent.
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Like a lot of countries, the constitutional set of checks and balances was predicated on the fact that the majority of those involved were basically trying to "do the right thing". It's effectively a state-level gentleman&#x2
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by kolektiv 2y ago
The ACSH is not a credible source of unbiased reporting, in any sense.
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Quite - so far the tech community (at the top level), with a few exceptions, has shown itself quite willing to bend itself to whatever is required as long as it can carry on making money. The cowardice involved is apparent, do not look to c
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Well, you seem to be rhetorically asking a question, so... Your implied answer would seem to have to be yes to support your point, in which case, would you care to give similar examples? What free speech suppression are you thinking of and
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by kolektiv 2y ago
"Give me the man and I will give you the case against him" [0] It isn't that they're discussing anything which would traditionally be considered risky or out of bounds - that's the whole point. It's that they&#
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by kolektiv 2y ago
See my comment to a sibling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43132279 - there's a few simple little functional objects out there which make this kind of process quite easy.
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by kolektiv 2y ago
I did something similar using these: https://eu.aqara.com/products/aqara-cube-t1-pro (or rather, an earlier iteration). Just Zigbee, nothing too complex, and then you hook it into something which knows how to interpret
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by kolektiv 2y ago
> I saw political correctness arise. When I started college in 1982 it was not yet a thing. Female students might object if someone said something they considered sexist, but no one was getting reported for it. It was still not a thing w
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by kolektiv 2y ago
I'd agree with that if I hadn't had commercial products written in Go crash in production. They're the kind of errors that slip through the net, and "it's easy to fix" is shall comfort at 2am staring at a downs
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by kolektiv 2y ago
I'd heard of it as a thing some years ago, but never actually saw it "in the wild" until I was skiing in Norway over Christmas a few years ago. The hotel had it on in one of the lounges, which filled with a variety of nationa
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Is there a deadlocked thread that should have rendered the 'n'?
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Don't forget the very real and horrifying links with eugenics and the use of IQ testing to justify sterilisation and worse! It's the gift that keeps on giving.
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by kolektiv 2y ago
Oh, you're right actually - mea culpa. I was distracted by the Camp Nou renovation, you're spot on. Although I'm sure Barca will have something equally wondrous.
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by kolektiv 2y ago
The updated Barcelona stadium has a similar idea but even more dramatic - the whole pitch is lowered underground into a chamber with sun lights, irrigation etc. so that the stadium can be used for concerts, etc. Quite impressive, to say the
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by kolektiv 2y ago
I agree entirely on Le Corbusier, while I love the eventual outcome of his work in many senses (aesthetically certainly), his approach to actual people was (as you say) far less humane than Alexander. Alexander I think saw himself as a part
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by kolektiv 2y ago
That's an excellent summary, and I think it explains what many people (myself absolutely included) got a bit wrong when patterns first became popular in software development some years ago. While I managed to avoid the trap of pattern-
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by kolektiv 2y ago
I know we're not supposed to joke here but damn it I'm upvoting that anyway.
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I just had a look at this (I'd been meaning to for a while, I miss the milkman leaving milk and other bits from my childhood). The milk is literally 4x the price I would pay in the supermarket. It's a lovely idea, but in this econ
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by kolektiv 3y ago
Broadly speaking I agree with you in principle - but in practice over time you come to realise that there are only shitty clients. They might not intend to be, they might not have started out that way, but time is a destructive thing...

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