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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   I think this is sound design consideration in action-- we all have, "supercomputers" in our proverbial wallets-- assuming that conspicuous consumption is likely to continue-- what, "add-ons" could you incorporate into fu
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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   This is an actual and not news-of-the-day topical Liberal, "gotcha." America's wealth is in Her moms! Great comment. God bless Peggy Seeger & Family!
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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   It's raining. The reason you're not more well off is that due to cultural and technological progressions you are overall less valuable to other human beings in general than a smaller group of human beings 80 year ago. This is not
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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   Thank you for your incredibly constructive comment.
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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   Just chiming in to say that I concur with your reply here; this article seems to be missing the fundamental point which is, "when/where do experts capable of avid citizenship come from?" It's worth noting that this can b
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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   As this article very aptly points out, "centralization" and it's counterpart, "decentralization" have very little to do with how, "free" a system is. Consider that when Standard Oil was broken up it became
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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   Great article. I like that it gets to the real meat-and-potatoes of what determines, "tech policy" in the United States. Moving forward it doesn't seem like a movement back to a, "science and research-first" communi
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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   I'll bite; yes precisely. You sound like a brownshirt trying to justify smashing a wealthy Jewish' person's antique statue. The public ruins our nice things and we have a right to complain; we also have the right to keep our
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   by kwatsonafter 4y ago

   I think, "democratizing complicated or beautiful things" (ie. music, Internet, education, information) is the myth of the day alongside other prevalent myths like, "elite rule isn't the norm for humans" "The re
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    It is indeed difficult to unlearn being poor. It is possible though.
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    This obviously warrants a cloud-based, trustless Blockchain system to verify identities on the Japanese Internet. Y-Combinator 2023 class here we come!
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    As I get older I'm more in favor of this kind of thing. Freedom of speech ought (here I go; a terrible Kantian asserting an, "ought") to apply to political speech. Using FoS as a defense against aimlessly attacking others see
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    Thank you for the suggestion!
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    Good. This is how you use the system to fight back against these platforms. Trying to pay nice with them isn't ever going to work. Consider the Treaty of Westphalia; these platforms are effectively like little nation-states. They have
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    I like your comment and I think I get what you're saying but could you please elaborate further.
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    I'm really sickened after reading this thread that the basic answer here is, "no."
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    It's a symptom of our mentally ill society trying to rationalize why in 2022 we haven't solved a bunch or practical problems and yet every year we get new iterations of the IPhone, AI in cars, new services in apps, ect... We start
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    (Disclaimer: I wrote this response before I realized this was a link; I thought it one of those, "Ask HN" questions so I replied in turn. Upon reading the article I think comment still has relevancy.) No. Give up illusions like yo
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    Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for the Ukrainian crisis(economist.com)

    8 points by kwatsonafter 4y ago|6 comments
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    I'm interested in what HN readers from India, Pakistan, and other Global South countries feel about this perspective.
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    Neoliberalismo es muey no bueno.
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    Bookmarked. I'm learning Dutch right now with my grandfather.
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    I clicked on this thinking it would be about philosophy but I was delighted to be once again thrust into Squeakland. God bless you Dan Ingalls!
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    So beautiful and despite being utterly obsessed with The Beats I actually didn't know that Allen's father was also a poet. Perhaps it's because, "The Beats" was just something Allen invented but I suppose that remai
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    In the spirit of Marshall McLuhan; changing the channel doesn't change the media. You're a dignified person. You needn't engage with the world of ideas through your thumbs and a 4 inch light hole at all. You're important
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    I'd like to to leave a link to Doug's 1962 paper: https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html It's worth noting that despite the historical magnanimity of the 68' demo that the real, "
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    I think it's so important we remember that period with Weiner and William Grey Walter and the rest. Ross Ashby super under appreciated. I wish, "software engineering" were more like what an advanced, "careerish" for
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    I love the way you put that. My needs may be met by Wilde, wild slurry.
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    This is the kind of quirky, brilliant link I crave from Hacker News. If I was near you creator, I would garland you and rub your feet.
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    by kwatsonafter 4y ago

    So sick. Are you familiar with Dr. Michael Sugrue? I believe he's also Catholic.