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by leto_ii 4y ago
Never.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Yes, but not at Twitter.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
These distinctions are pretty arbitrary, maybe just wait for GP to clarify.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
While I agree that we could probably support the entire human species comfortably given our current level of tech development, I don't think that can happen without a revolutionary change of the economic/social system, away from c
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Couldn't this whole thread just be condensed to: we have a thing called culture which is not completely rational or efficient? I'm sure the aliens would get that - they would probably have something similar, albeit with different
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I realize I'm going way against the grain of other commenters, but this video has made me aware of how little progress has actually been made since then. I mean, the core ideas of the modern internet services we're relying on were
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by leto_ii 4y ago
My two cents: 1. Like other people I found the UX a bit confusing (figuring out that two animals can occupy the same spot, picking which one of them to move etc.) 2. This one seems hard for a first level, if it's addressed to a general
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by leto_ii 4y ago
A few comments: * uBlock Origin I found to be better than Adblock * The TV ads can be avoided too, by not owning a TV :D (or at least not a cable subscription)
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I get that, but I have to say I also see merit in the position that maths is discovered, not invented. I'm currently doing some self-study into more rigorous mathematics and I do often get the feeling that some of the structures are ju
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> that even math is chaotic. Math chaos is actually a kind of order, just not the kind that is intuitively easy to grasp by humans.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I would say the former is a lot worse than the latter.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> I don't have the answer but what's worse? Missing threat intel because one of three people couldn't review your warrant, or over-collecting? My money's on over collecting being way worse. I strongly suspect that the
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I find it interesting that the Dutch push to change the intelligence law coincides with a similar one currently taking place in my home country of Romania. I wonder if these are actually part of a more coordinated attempt to tacitly make th
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> I my attitudes went from Denial to Activism to Acceptance. I think the next step is adaptation. Try to build some sort of resilient life for yourself and your family, try to help out the local community as much as possible etc. Try to
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I think in the beginning recruiters on LinkedIn. Note however that like all parasites they will try to skim a lot off the top. Worse than that, some will try to lock you in and write in clauses saying that they should get a share of any oth
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by leto_ii 4y ago
In Amsterdam NL a backend engineer could expect 80-100 euros/hr. > 100 is also possible, but you may get into specialization territory.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> Within the next six months, SpaceX will put Starship into orbit. Really? I haven't heard news about Starship in quite a while now. > Its biggest rocket yet, the heavy-lift vehicle will be able to carry similar payloads into spa
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Every time I come across posts like this one I think the respective author has spent too much time reading Kim Stanley Robinson and got carried away. I mean, even in the Mars trilogy, which is SF, KSR imagined it would take a few generation
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> I was becoming soft, more predisposed to magical thinking. My experience is only with microdosing LSD and psilocybine mushrooms, however this 'softness' does ring true to me. The good part with microdosing though is that it d
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Surely the waves of massive European brain drain around WW2 and the fall of communism had something to do with it. It makes perfect sense that there would be compounding benefits to being the safest most powerful polity in human history.
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Radu, I'm Romanian too (and assuming based on your name you're Romanian), we have lots of SUVs. Maybe you're thinking of something else? Maybe pickup trucks?
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by leto_ii 4y ago
This corroborated with your replies to sibling comments makes more sense. The thing is, in a big(ger) company, even if you pull in 5 hrs of coding per day, you will be limited by the average speed of the people working around you. You would
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by leto_ii 4y ago
No worries, it's far from the worst I got on HN :)
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I don't want to be too confrontational, but it almost feels like you're doing something wrong. 5 hours of typing a day every day? That sounds unfathomably high. Could you detail the kind of projects you're working on? Also, a
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I think he's been advocating for libertarian socialism consistently for his entire life. He's always careful to distinguish it from state socialism, as in, for example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr_Qp5k5zDY
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Just now got around to reading the replies. I actually didn't intend to be tiresomely provocative, I think the other replies with lists of names are appropriate for the question posed. I just wanted to post a sort memento to remind eve
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by leto_ii 4y ago
> I disagree with him politically. I think if you agree with him on government, big corporations and manufacturing consent you pretty much just agree with him :D What do you disagree with? > Also, anarchy is not so far away from liber
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I won't offer names, but I have a contrarian piece of advice: whenever you find yourself 'resonating' too much with a certain thinker, a certain religion, ideology etc. stop, take a deep breath and start asking why that is. T
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by leto_ii 4y ago
I'm really really curious how Ayn Rand and Noam Chomsky made it on the same list. Actually Chomsky is the only odd one out, come to think of it...
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by leto_ii 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. Indeed I heard there was criticism of his Easter Island case in Collapse, but not that all the examples were wrong.

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