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by lukifer 6y ago
I'm guessing that was an autocompleter mangling "Bucky".
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I'm a big Graeber fan, and it's a good book; but one can get the gist of the phenomenon from the original viral essay: https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/
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Credits also contain logos/symbols (near the end), and often have stylistic flairs as well. Video compression is based on making predictions and then adding information (per Shannon's definition) for the deltas from those predicti
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I'd to posit that the "Yes, and.." through-line in this discussion is that there are no narratives/memes which cannot be weaponized into infectious parasitism by Moloch; including the very model of ideas as viruses, the
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by lukifer 6y ago
I think the argument against would be pragmatic: the cost and time it takes to run a new election, and the mad scramble for new candidates, presumably leaving the incumbent in office in the interim. (For more local elections, where running
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by lukifer 6y ago
Thanks for your post, I'll dig into your links. I hadn't heard of STAR in particular. Two counterpoints: - I'm aware of Arrow, but I file it under "perfect being the enemy of the good". :) Whatever the flaws of IRV,
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I think that's probably the case. Nonetheless, I would claim "lesser evilism" would be greatly reduced due to RCV (and Approval) being better at capturing preferences: you get to vote for your favorite option, and against y
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by lukifer 6y ago
Obligatory plug for electoral reform. Lesser evils aren't inevitable; they're a product of a bad voting system. https://www.fairvote.org/rcv https://www.fairvote.org/alternatives Maine has convert
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I can form a trivial argument for why almost any hot-button political opinion is "hate speech", even through the most charitable definition of "advocating violence or diminishing essential human dignity". - Pro-Life: Y
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"The burden of proof is on state power to justify itself." It seems very plausible that WL/Assange disclosed information irresponsibly, and if so, he should be held to account. The real concern is that I think we all know he
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by lukifer 6y ago
Ah, interesting. My assumption is that "just give it back to people" would entirely sidestep the question of how to spend the funds, but I suppose it suffers from the https://xkcd.com/927/ problem ;)
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by lukifer 6y ago
> E.g. a flat dividend isn't progressive enough for portions of the left Huh, that's news to me. Can you point to any prominent left politicians/pundits opining that? Is it just that they prefer Green New Deal? Do they obj
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https://outline.com/PzjuRt
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Tax & Dividend isn't necessarily the fastest-acting policy in the world, and I'm keenly aware that we're on a clock; indeed, it seems exceptionally likely we're already beyond an inflection point, and will need som
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Yes, I agree. There are arguably some corporate initiatives that are trivial PR stunts, or attempts to pre-empt government intervention; but $2B is a big chunk of change, and this doesn't seem like either. From Amazon's perspectiv
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> What is your alternative proposal? According to the "The Largest Public Statement of Economists in History": a carbon tax and dividend [0]. The technology of markets is one of price signals and feedback loops, generally on ti
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by lukifer 6y ago
One mnemonic that stuck with me: you can remember the start and end characters (/^foo$/) by imagining an animal, like a rhino: the ^ is the horn at the front, the $ is the long curvy tail at the end.
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by lukifer 6y ago
I recommend Jaron Lanier's "Who Owns The Future?" [0] on the subject. Trading data for services is not an unreasonable mechanism for value exchange, a priori , and arguably better than nothing at all (the social externalitie
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by lukifer 6y ago
Well done! That was a good pitch, I'll bookmark it in case I need to use these arguments in the future. ;)
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This is one thing I find fascinating about iterative price negotiation: if one party can get a given price to "stick", they can use that normalization as a de facto negotiation tool. And given that there's no collective barga
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Curiously, the term "cyber" originally referred not only to computing, but general issues of control and communication over large distances, particularly during wartime (encrypted radio messages and the like): https://w
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by lukifer 6y ago
> The idea that a business needs a moat to be profitable is a problem endemic to business. I'm pretty econ-left philosophically (socdem short-term, mutualist/ancom long-term), so you can't get much argument from me here. :
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by lukifer 6y ago
From a business model perspective, if Zoom embraced open-source, what would be their moat/value-add, compared to users downloading/forking from GitHub? Not being snarky: I'm genuinely curious what the "good citizen"
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by lukifer 6y ago
Apple has not exactly been friendly to PWA architecture, and their incentives against improving that feature-set are pretty obvious. While web sites/apps can be saved to the home screen, have some data persisted [0], etc, iOS PWA capab
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by lukifer 6y ago
I'm on the left, and I'm not trying to deflect, engage in "whataboutism", or castigate unions in general. But all humans can succumb to perverse incentives: executives, stockholders, political representatives, and yes, e
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by lukifer 6y ago
It isn't one-player exactly, but it's easy to jump into from home during quarantine, so quick plug: FFG's tragically deceased LCG Android:Netrunner lives on digitally at http://jinteki.net , and the community is ve
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by lukifer 6y ago
I'm in 100% agreement on the perverse incentives of private prisons; however it's worth noting that similar incentives exist for prison guard unions, even for publicly managed prisons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by lukifer 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Schelling's ideas on game theory, and focal points in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Schelling#The_Strategy_... I'd love any further suggestions on complex/multipo
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by lukifer 6y ago
The US leads the world in prison population, compared to other democracies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in... Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that I don't live in China. But it
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Context: the new board seat was recently opened after co-founder Alexis Ohanian stepped down, while recommending the board nominate a black replacement. https://alexisohanian.com/home/2020/6/5/what-did-yo

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