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by lovecg 6y ago
Which is great in theory, as everyone’s incentives align.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Imagine if it stays as is. A ruin of a former empire, something for future historians to explore.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Well sure, all of this is true. But the other side of the coin is the myth of America built by scrappy immigrants. What country we want to be is probably at the core of this and many other issues. You can’t be both a worldwide magnet for hu
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by lovecg 6y ago
At first this didn’t make much sense to me as the incentive to protect the official is still there — you’re getting something you want, so why ruin it? But reading the abstract it’s referring to a specific kind of a bribe — where you have t
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by lovecg 6y ago
Might be latency. Landline travels at the speed of light, while some video calls I’ve been in had latency measured in _seconds_. It turns meetings into carefully orchestrated back and forth and makes any kind of spontaneous communication im
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by lovecg 6y ago
But don’t you think your desires would grow accordingly? To go back to my “medieval peasant” example, a simple shirt is something we take completely for granted and is arguably “post scarce”. But before industrialization, people would think
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by lovecg 6y ago
Would the world of today seem “post-scarcity” to a medieval peasant? I don’t think humanity will ever have “enough” — it’s just not in our nature.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Network effects are a thing. You personally could, but you can’t do anything about hundreds of millions who won’t.
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by lovecg 6y ago
It’s a bit of a stretch but imagine if China bought Twitter for some reason: Joe Biden: We stand with independent Taiwan. Fact check: This statement is false. Taiwan is part of China. Does this hypothetical not give you chills?
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by lovecg 6y ago
We treat large companies differently from small ones all the time (antitrust, too big to fail, etc.), so I don’t see imposing extra restrictions on something where so much public discourse is happening as too extreme. If it causes smaller c
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by lovecg 6y ago
There are a few parts to your question. Can I find anything salvageable in the flagged statements that he made on Twitter? Definitely not, I’m pissed off we elected someone who thinks it’s OK to say things like that in public. I think Colbe
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by lovecg 6y ago
Can we have a conversation about broader implications of the increasing power in the public discourse of Twitter et al.? I’m no Trump supporter but I do wonder if the tables were turned and Twitter e.g. turned Biden’s page into a wall of hi
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by lovecg 6y ago
See, that’s the kind of thing that’s absolutely fascinating. Some scribe thought they were being clever a few centuries ago, and the glyph will now live on forever in our modern equivalent of a collective myth known as “the Unicode standard
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by lovecg 6y ago
Are there actually historical examples of mass migration due to food shortages? My understanding is that most migrants are relatively young, healthy, and resourceful. It’s hard to travel thousands of miles while literally starving.
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by lovecg 6y ago
I had to go and find a file to see what keys my fingers have been pressing all these years.
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by lovecg 6y ago
I've read that! This passage stood out to me at the time. If you asked me what people knew of the astronomy in the sixth century, I wouldn't have guessed this: > The whole of this earth’s globe, as thou hast learnt from the dem
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by lovecg 6y ago
Studying this stuff puts me in a spiritual mood though for a different reason. At the sub-cellular level it’s just a bunch of chemistry. Molecules randomly bump into each other and stuff happens. It’s all “push”, not “pull”. Yet we talk of
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by lovecg 6y ago
That’s not what’s happening here. Have you actually looked at the examples of the PRs linked? They’re not fixing minor typos, they’re introducing nonsensical copy pasted changes. These are not low effort commits that you could argue don’t h
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by lovecg 6y ago
“More money” is a very narrow view. Companies care about all sorts of things. Money, power, prestige (some open source projects, publicity). But yeah in general if you’re working for someone it doesn’t hurt to make sure your work matters to
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by lovecg 6y ago
I don’t buy this. It’s not like humans had a species-wide conference and decided to adopt agriculture. It must have taken lots of tiny steps, each one somehow beneficial to the individuals taking them. The end result is not a guarantee eith
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by lovecg 6y ago
It’s possible that the least bad though still horrific scenario is an obvious accident that instead of leading to a war results in a universal backlash against these weapons.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Mutually assured destruction sounds like a viable approach on paper except for the fact that accidents happen even in the best designed systems. And there has been a number of close calls already.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Or the whaling industry charged with bringing in an absolutely meaningless required quota of whale carcasses with tragic results. It’s almost like a runaway AI chasing an arbitrary goal.
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by lovecg 6y ago
The talking points I heard was that this was done because of 1) Payroll tax revenue 2) Unions feeling threatened The implication is in either case it’s an explicitly hostile action by the government in favor of special interests, and the ma
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by lovecg 6y ago
That’s for tourists. No one is talking about closing the border to Canadian citizens coming home. Pandemic or not this seems completely unimaginable.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Does anyone know the legal status of this project? I was pretty excited about it as it bills itself as a “re-implementation”, but looking at the code like this for example [1] it seems suspiciously like a straight up disassembly/revers
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by lovecg 6y ago
None of that sounds “ok”... Technical question for you, how does this time tracking work in practice? Do you pause every 6 minutes and note what you’re doing? Or just roughly remember at the end of the hour/day?
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by lovecg 6y ago
One thing that stood out to me when reading Arabian Nights is how central the smells are in every story. Makes one wonder what we’re losing with this sensory deprivation in our overly hygienic lives.
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by lovecg 6y ago
The users don't have to be technical to benefit from those freedoms though - there's a level of indirection involved. I might not have personally scrutinized every line of the Linux kernel, but knowing that there are tons of peopl
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by lovecg 6y ago
Yes! They have some examples here: https://blog.lookingglassfactory.com/announcements/the-memor... The live stream of the bird cage is a very interesting application.

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