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by lukifer 6y ago
T_D === /r/The_Donald. It's since migrated to thedonald dot win; however vile the content, one of the virtues of the censorship-resistant open web is that we're able to keep tabs on what they're discussing. They wer
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You might take a look at the "unschooling" movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling I don't have any first-hand knowledge of how such initiatives work in practice; but at a high level, it&#x27
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Yet another reason to implement a Carbon Tax & Dividend [0] ASAP. There's certainly an argument that the intentional waste of Proof of Work is more efficient than the overhead of existing banks; but I suspect the whole crypto world
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I'm pro-crypto, but so long as Apple maintains absolute hegemony over their ecosystem (backed in part by an artificial state monopoly on ideas!), even the rosiest scenario for Bitcoin doesn't change the power dynamic. Apple could
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Foucault is explicitly referring to norms of behavior, not the shapes of buildings: - regular chronologies - forced labour - authorities of surveillance and registration
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"Orwell's 1984... is not a fantasy of the future, but a parable of the present." - Robert Anton Wilson
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Interesting, I hadn't heard that, do we know that definitively? (THS was the only one of the Space Trilogy I never read, I should correct that.)
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This is the hat-trick of the "job creator" myth. Narratives have no numbers attached; the quantitative delta between luxuries, and the jobs they allegedly create, belies real economic energy transferred from those living paycheck-
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Curiously "single most important" is a qualitative value statement, masquerading as a quantitative statement: it implies a rank-ordering of Most Important Things. But there are no measurable, quantifiable units attached to such a
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I'm not claiming it's a fully apt comparison; rather, that if one supports a principle of "it is entirely out of scope for government to force private businesses to transact against their will", with no other qualifiers,
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It's worth reading Barry Goldwater's opposition [0] to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, despite him claiming to be "unalterably opposed to discrimination or segregation on the basis of race, color, or creed, or on any other basi
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It's easy to forget the historical context, in an era when the web and cross-platform toolchains have made computing platform choices a function of taste and preference. Bleeding-edge PC gaming and niche applications notwithstanding, w
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I think Metcalfe's Law [0] for networked services is a bigger driver for winner-take-all, than needing deep pockets to compete in a mature product category. For consumer products, a small number of large players can own entire market s
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by lukifer 6y ago
Even though public opinion has largely shifted on the Drug War and marijuana specifically, there remains a problem of vested economic interests in preserving the status quo: pharma and alcohol producers that don't want competition, pri
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> Adobe’s customers almost certainly make up a bigger portion of Apple’s revenue than developers Do we have any actual numbers on that? I feel like developers (and power-users generally) have internalized this notion that we're a ro
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> CDC data says there 99.97% survival rate for all Americans between the ages of 20-49 First: are citizens over 49 chopped liver? Second: there are roughly 129 million Americans between 20-49 [0]; taking the 99.97% number at face value,
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To be clear: I was neither advocating for or against lockdowns. I'm advocating thoughtfulness of trade-offs, informed by (but not limited to) data; as opposed to rigid ideology, or knee-jerk gut reactions. And in particular: to recogni
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There is a difference between holding a principle, and holding an absolutist principle, absent thoughtfulness and discernment. While there are circumstances where it's admirable to risk death for a principle (fighting to free slaves,
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This seems to analogize roughly to the halting problem proof: because one can have no rights or liberty while dead, there is no right which is immune from a contrived example (real or imagined), which would demand violating that right for c
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> Personally I don't care about corperations tracking me because I can generally stop the tracking While I generally agree with your perspective here, it's worth noting [a] even if one eschews all services of tech giants, one i
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by lukifer 6y ago
Quick plug for log2ram, which greatly reduces the write cycles on the boot SD, especially for Pi's that run 24/7: https://github.com/azlux/log2ram
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I'm less concerned with privacy as an individual right (though I do support that), than privacy as a collective right: the balance of power between governments and citizens, and between corporations and consumers.
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The speakers sync perfectly with each other for pure audio, but the setup is definitely unusable for video or games due to the sync delay. It seems to work okay switching back and forth between AirPlay 1 and 2, so I can temporarily take ove
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by lukifer 6y ago
It's a convoluted setup I'm not sure I'd recommend to anyone else! :) Still tinkering on it, but current rig is a Respeaker Core [0] running voice2json [1], which sends MQTT commands to a Mac Mini running mopidy [2], and the
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I keep Siri disabled on mine, and I use a Raspberry Pi for cloudless voice control. They’re pricy for dumb speakers, but worth it IMO.
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It's merely an accident of history that we have general-purpose computing at all [0], let alone anything like FOSS. It wouldn't be hard to imagine a universe where all consumer computers were locked-down appliances, and general co
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> bleed into other industries And what would be so bad about this exactly? The comparison is oft made with closed stores for gaming consoles; but I don't see why regulating console manufacturers to require side-loading or third-part
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I'm reminded of Robert Anton Wilson's SNAFU Principle: "Communication is only possible between equals." [0] Formal hierarchies can create perverse incentives that discourage passing vital information up the chain, lest y
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by lukifer 6y ago
I'll also add a suggestion for Martin Seligman's "Learned Optimism" [0]. A mindfulness practice on self-talk (along with giving up sugar and reducing carbs) has made a huge difference on managing my mental health. [0] h
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by lukifer 6y ago
See also: "pizza arbitrage". https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitra...

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