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by laotzu 11y ago
Marshall McLuhan has an alternate but related theory for the difference between "close talkers" and those who like to be able to see the whole person when talking. In The Gutenberg Galaxy, McLuhan infers that "close talkers&q
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by laotzu 11y ago
Reminds me of the JFK quote "We have nothing to fear except fear itself"
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Human brain and human behavior is not "black and white" anymore, it's never going to be. It's a complex system of neuron junctions Aren't those neurons fundamentally firing on and off, like that of a binary syst
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by laotzu 11y ago
Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as failure? Whether you go up the ladder or down it, Your position is shaky. When you stand with your own two feet on the ground, Y
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by laotzu 11y ago
This is indicative of how nationalism, a concept formed as a result of the effects of the Gutenberg printing press[1], is now obsolete and counterproductive in a globalized, electrically interconnected society. [1] The Gutenberg Galaxy, Mar
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by laotzu 11y ago
>The NSA is there to protect us, in theory. who is "us"?
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by laotzu 11y ago
>"The mere existence of the "police state" anywhere is the sure sign of old arrangements being propped up by newer forms that have already rendered the older forms irrelevant." -Take Today: The Executive as Dropout, M
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by laotzu 11y ago
It's doublespeak. Like the CNN article whose title reads "Encryption a growing threat to security". In software, working around existing patents has resulted in vast fragmentation on every platform. Thereby greatly increasing
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by laotzu 11y ago
>There is a lot of empirical evidence showing patents incentivize investment of resources into innovative efforts Do you have any sources of this empirical data? In many cases especially with software the opposite is the case now. Legacy
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by laotzu 11y ago
If the number one security vulnerability is the human element, then shifting a system's security from autonomous unbiased code to the human element is necessarily decreasing security. Advocates for such are either deliberately maliciou
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by laotzu 11y ago
>Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, nam
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by laotzu 11y ago
GDP and Unemployment rates are very poor measurements to look to for indications of "progress"
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by laotzu 11y ago
This hits on one of the most basic of economic principles which is often ignored. If the community becomes unemployed due to automation and is not reimbursed properly for the work done by the machine, then the community will not have the pu
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by laotzu 11y ago
Indeed, tribal cultures are far less reliant on all types of abstractions, whether it be money or the written word. Therein lies the problem it may be: we have become lost in abstraction and confuse money with real wealth. It's like we
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by laotzu 11y ago
It is not so much indicative of human nature as a whole as it is of "civilized" or industrialized cultures. Tribal cultures often exhibit the opposite sort of sentiment. >Primitive commodity money, like the magical words of non
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by laotzu 11y ago
Deflation is defined as: >a decrease in the general price level of goods and services In the Gutenberg era of paper based processes and hierarchies, as stated in your cited speech, a reduction in the price of goods and services is seen a
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by laotzu 11y ago
What do you really want?
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by laotzu 11y ago
What does it say about human nature?
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by laotzu 11y ago
"The government is always the most successful group of gangsters"
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by laotzu 11y ago
>The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. -John Kenneth Galbraith, Money: Whence it Came, Where it Went
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by laotzu 11y ago
Even though the vast majority of monetary transactions are done electrically, it is still at heart a paper-based system built upon the constraints and assumptions of the paper/print medium that has dominated for the past ~500 years. &q
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by laotzu 11y ago
What is there to research? Money is a debt based measurement of economic output. Measurements do not exist of themselves but describe something else. Take an acre of land for example. It is measured at 1 acre. Just because we decide to pret
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by laotzu 11y ago
Juniper back door #1?
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by laotzu 11y ago
Many of the tribes were non literate and had no form of written language which also contributes to the historical obfuscation. Many of those who did use a form of writing, such as the Mayans, had their historical writings deliberately destr
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by laotzu 11y ago
It is characteristic of his role as a Heyoka, or sacred clown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyoka
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by laotzu 11y ago
The argument that an electric system is not feasible because it cannot be made 100% secure is null and self defeating if at the same time it is implicitly in support of a legacy paper system which is already exploited and cannot be made 100
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by laotzu 11y ago
Who is pretending it was a peaceful utopia? That's silly. Counting coup (showing bravery in battle) would earn a man great prestige. Of course there was war between tribes and people went hungry at times, during a harsh winter for exam
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by laotzu 11y ago
If you have anything of actual substance to say I'm open to debate. I see from your comment history you have specialized financial knowledge which might offer valuable comment on this economic theory.
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by laotzu 11y ago
Not but 150 years ago there were still hunter-gatherers who thrived in the form of native american tribes: >Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we didn&#x27
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by laotzu 11y ago
>dollar was near multi-decade lows ~2 years ago. oil was at near multi-decade highs ~2 years ago. Yeah, that's exactly the correlation I am pointing out. Guess who started really blowing up ~2 years ago? ISIS. More instability = les

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