lindseymysse

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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I grew up deep in Reagan's America in the 1980's and it was a paranoid, wretched time and place to be a child. The absolute worst thing about the Trump years is they reminded me of growing up in Billings, Montana. Trump has nothin
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
downvotes provided by the local meth heads, lol
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Well, first of all, an unequal food supply chain has generated survival diets close to civilization, spreading new diseases to the entire world (hi Covid!, next door to bird flu). Second, there are droughts popping up all around the world,
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Err, aren't you on a programming website? Half of the people here are hopped up on meth their doctors gave them. We're as methed up as Germany in the 30's and 40's.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I wonder how much of our economy, that alternately humming along and collapsing around us, is simply algorithms talking to eachother? How much economic movement is being generated by arbitrage ( https://www.ecomcrew.com/ama
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Lol, like climate change and disinformation. There is no one with money who is interested or capable of solving our problems.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
And that's fine by me. I think this computer everywhere stuff is more trouble than it's worth. It's like when we put radium on everything.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
They didn't really resist, because they knew what the long game was. The people who planned the war didn't. We should have bombed them for 90 days and declared victory and went home -- it would have been symbolic and pointless, bu
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
We have enough food for everyone. We should feed everyone. We have enough houses for everyone, we should house them. Space fantasies aren't part of avoiding scarcity thinking. Space fantasies are a distraction to getting everyone'
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I find people's belief in Money's ability to solve problems hilarious. We've been patching over problem after problem and every bill is coming due. We need nitrogen. We started making it with hydro carbons. Now we have toxic
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
we're going to have to learn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
And the moon is 384,400 km away. So, we've sent satellites and probes further than that.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
With the supply chain disruption we might lose digital technology, too. I say good riddance. We'll still have the mathematics we figured out (Graph Theory, Matrix Math, AI). Our food supply is still mostly human powered. Tractors will
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome There is a limit to how much we can pollute space. I personally think we're going to lose space for at least a 1000 years, along with every other disaster this centur
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Well, we just watched the greatest military in the world™ scuttle out of Afghanistan with its tail between its legs, so we know that a primarily agrarian society CAN resist a militaristic society as long as its prepared. Pre-Colonial Americ
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Pat Cadigan's Synners.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Or, better yet: we should all work to make sure every human being has their basic needs met and is treated with respect, and then words like this wouldn't have as much power.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I agree with this. Snow Crash and Zodiak were such taut novels, Diamond Age was a little lush, and Cryptonomicon was a slog for me and then I tuned out. My favorite remains Zodiak -- I read it over and over as a teenager and when I moved to
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
It's really hard to explain. Drawing graphs and keeping them straight in coordinate space is difficult until I flip the graph. It's something about processing linear information -- left to right each unit is discreet and separated
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
There is an old poem called the Psychomachia by a poet named Prudentious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychomachia It is a fascinating poem -- it all takes place in the character's head. The virtues and the vice
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
That is really interesting. I added a comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988027 I wonder if that has something to do with it
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I wonder if my particular experience is relevant: I found out about 3 years ago that I write better backwards than forwards (like Leonardo). It is partly mechanical (I'm left handed) but partly something to do with how I process inform
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
Thanks for that history. Alas, no such thing as a free lunch.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
You can make steel with charcoal, which is carbon neutral in the end: https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation... What I like about this idea is it's a way to take carbon out of the air while m
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I came from janitorial work and temping. I am forever grateful for what programming has given me -- especially these days, where I make enough to live on and get to work on meaningful projects. An aside, but I am truly concerned that our pa
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I'm mostly joking, but painting is difficult mental labor. It requires an enormous amount of mental and physical control. Most people when seeing my paintings are quite surprised to find out I rarely sell them. It's because as soo
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
That's too bad. Because XML is simply the best way to represent data between humans and computers, and you're missing out.
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I'm a web developer who comes from a family of painters. I write software because I'm for the most part burnt out on painting. What should I do?
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I wonder, by percentage, how much of these profits are owed to click farmers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_farm Apple devices claim to be "luxury" -- something I find hilarious, but the marketers certa
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by lindseymysse 5y ago
I remember after the Exxon Valdez oil spill wondering when we were going to get off of petroleum. 32 years later and the cars are bigger and less efficient. Automobiles kill more kids than anything else in America: https://www.ne

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