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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I here you, I really do but it's worth noting a few things for the sake of some gloomy young person reading this and not giving up hope. Firstly the Federal Reserve has committed to severely raising rates over the next year(s) to comba
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
"Drugs being illegal has relegated them to parties, which I think is the wrong way to look at mind altering chemicals." This a million times. We could build, "safe places" where people could productively use things like
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I think that is an astute observation. Indeed if we look at the history of humans in general we have in some cases even mythological examples of, "substance use" (Kykeon, Soma). It may have been prudent to add, "at scale resp
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I don't think there's currently a political impetus to impose rigid sanctions on China despite human rights violations or perceived economic competition. As far as Taiwan is concerned I think Xi might take a lesson from Putin&#x27
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
...or Tsuoy as the Katakana reads!
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I think there's a generation of young people that are now in/approaching their 30's that got severely duped into believing that the drug culture of the 50's and 60's could somehow be responsibly reinvigorated in the
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
They pay people millions of dollars a year to do research that suggests that their software causes mental illness in children and they continue to hock their products as though they'll be the replacement to the Internet in the near fut
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I don't know how productive this comment will be but thank you for, "getting it." The real, "golden egg" at PARC was the research group itself. It might still be possible to build groups like this again; it's a
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
You might be interested in the design philosophy of Yokoi Gunpei who was the original creator of the GameBoy as well as the Love Tester and other pre-Famicom Nintendo, "toys" from the 70's. He called the design philosophy he
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I have been looking for something like this for years without realizing it. Top form! Top form!
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There's a lot here in your comment-- Thanks for the reply! I'm actually a practicing, "Hare Krsna Devotee" under Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj in the line of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. I think there&#
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Sorry I get a little too, "Dr. Evil finger quotes" sometimes. The idea I'm trying to share; inspired by the work of Brenda Laurel (Purple Moon). Try to consider a kind of digital machine that works kind of like a video game i
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There needs to be a, "third way" developed that isn't, "FOSS/Open Source" or, "Proprietary." It's worth remembering how much of the revolutionary computing of the 194/5/60's was de
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
I think it's worth noting-- there's some serious work exploring these kinds of things in the ancient world (Temple of Kykeon, Soma of the Rg Veda, Amrta, Cintamani) and it's still an open subject. Terence McKenna theorized th
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Does anyone know if it's possible to visit DynamicLand in Oakland? Massive Bret Victor fan.
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It's a common misconception amongst amateur cyclists that because helmets marginally increase the chance of neck injury and that head injuries are relatively uncommon on bicycles that helmets deliver negative returns in terms of safety
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Political instability, the decline of post-war culture, and the ascendency of the Global South is going to define your lifetime if you live long enough. The, "big ideas" are mostly bullshit. Read, "The Hero with a Thousand Fa
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This is an excellent share that's getting left on the wayside because there's an alarming lack of interest in books amongst almost every cultural demographic including software developers.
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How did you figure out our plan.
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To sort of riff off what you're saying; there might be some serious social, "whys" driving the more material, "why" of lackluster brand re-designs in the last 20 years. It seems like as companies are bought up by pr
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This is the kind of Brenda Laurel shit that keeps me going. Great share. I wonder whether, "computers" and, "Fordism" would be a, "Mes?" if the Sumerians could, "see forward in time."
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
This is so sick. I'm going to use this. I'm getting to that point to where, "open tabs" and, "temporary bookmark(s)" are largely that same thing. I've got 23 tabs open right now and each is something I wan
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scHCT4IIN0o
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Vividly irresponsible.
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I don't mean to insult your intelligence but, "changing the laws to give any..." could be just as easily achieved by we common citizens choosing to fund the IRS.
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Please provide this, "ample evidence" and, "multiple proofs" that, "this" (what?) is the case. Edgelording about how society hasn't lived up to your expectations as a modern human being (that apparently di
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by kwatsonafter 4y ago
Just save a bit of money and then quit your job and see what happens when you stop paying your bills. The fact that you're that far removed from actual poverty is both highly encouraging and disgusting at some level.
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I was just reading about Literate Programming. I'm excited to see a, "real" example here. I think that if you can kind of harness, "the power of language" programmatically you can get a lot closer to machines as amp
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Pun not intended.
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Very important to remember the, "original" design for the, "Internet." It's also worth looking at Ted Nelson's work and the Engelbart Hypertext systems. It's such a shame that modern culture took us away f

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