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by lukifer 8y ago
I don’t disagree; but, it could be argued that social media giants are equivalently bizarre institutions, that also blur the line between private property and public Commons.
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by lukifer 8y ago
I would have bought AirPods regardless of an audio jack (I love them to death), but am furious about the removal nonetheless. It isn't often that I find myself needing the jack, but whenever I do it's infuriating, either to have t
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by lukifer 8y ago
Moderation is great if it works for you; personally, I’ve found it easier to give something up entirely than to moderate. If I don’t eat sugar for a couple weeks, I don’t miss it, and it takes no effort to stay off it; if I have something s
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by lukifer 8y ago
With apologies for source amnesia, I've read that successful deterrence scales not with severity of punishment, but with perceived probability of getting caught.
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by lukifer 8y ago
While a great deal of jobs create non-zero-sum value, and many people thrive in their roles (in a Maslow self-actualization sense), a significant subset of the labor market seems to exist only from a slavish devotion to the social ritual of
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by lukifer 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
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by lukifer 8y ago
I forget where I heard this, but one approach is to simply lag behind the news by a week or so, on the premise that anything meaningful to you as a citizen/voter will continue to be relevant a week later. (Obviously there are exception
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by lukifer 8y ago
I'm not proposing that such life forms would choose to act the same, but rather that they would be adapted to the constraints of their environment (the speed of c ). (There are countless ways to adapt to the conditions of the deep oce
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by lukifer 8y ago
My favorite solution: The galaxy is teeming with life, but in the form of quasi-immortal software that lives at such vast timescales, they're as uninterested in talking to us as we would be in talking to a fruit fly. (Imagine Space Ent
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by lukifer 8y ago
Point: http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-... Counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw
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by lukifer 8y ago
It’s true, transactions in MySQL work great. But once the change is committed, the previous value is overwritten permanently. If the user wants to undo five minutes later, or I want to audit based on the value a month ago, we’re hosed unles
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by lukifer 8y ago
Rich Hickey's "Value of Values"[0] is what finally sold me on the benefits of pure functional programming and immutable data structures. (It remains horrifying to continue working with MySQL in my day job, knowing that every
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by lukifer 8y ago
Though I agree in principle, I think tools can’t be considered in isolation, but rather in the context of iterated game theory. Is Instagram inherently evil? Obviously not; but through the lens of pre-existing human social dynamics, includi
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by lukifer 8y ago
Meditations on Moloch undoubtedly deserves to make the list: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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by lukifer 8y ago
It's a very good question. There's an interesting argument that the greatest value is not in the ledger, but in a mechanism for reliable, unalterable history: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/05/25/bl
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by lukifer 8y ago
For the lazy: https://github.com/NaomiProject/Naomi
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by lukifer 8y ago
Honestly, the sophistication, usability, and hackability* of modern wp-admin makes it worth the price of admission alone (even considering the performance hit from awkward wp_posts schema). I once used a siteless WP as a CMS for a lean Code
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by lukifer 8y ago
The counterpoint that those n<12 people are supported by, and theoretically accountable to, the vast ecosystem of miners, investors, and developers. ...and the counter-counterpoint: for all the shortcomings of modern democracy, the same
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by lukifer 8y ago
With apologies for Appeal to Authority: Paul Graham elucidates the low value of Ad Hominem in his post How To Disagree: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html It's not as though the author's biases or background
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by lukifer 8y ago
Complete with <blink> tag, re-implemented with CSS3 animations. Well-played, Marvel.
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by lukifer 8y ago
Give yourself permission to define your own goalposts, however meager or humble. It's not unlike learning a new spoken language: just because you have a massive vocabulary in your native tongue, does not mean it's not an achieveme
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by lukifer 8y ago
It's obviously not as comprehensive as compiled or strictly-typed languages, but you can use "php -l" as a linter to catch obvious parsing/syntax bugs. I use this script to check our whole codebase before deployment: &gt
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by lukifer 8y ago
It’s interesting to ponder how much of the smartphone ecosystem was an accidental byproduct of implementation details: namely, the decision to use a stripped-down desktop OS, rather than a beefed-up iPod OS. Allegedly, the latter was also i
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by lukifer 8y ago
The signaling isn't just for intelligence and grit (although those are factors); as Caplan argues in The Case Against Education, a college degree also signals capacity for obedience and conformity. https://press.princeton.ed
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by lukifer 8y ago
A computer is a state machine, with a number of potential states represented by 2^n (where n is the number of bits of storage/memory). As soon as n approaches some non-trivial number (which necessarily includes queued processor instruc
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by lukifer 8y ago
Thank you, Antonin "Emails aren't Papers" Scalia.
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by lukifer 8y ago
For one, Amazon doesn't make smartphones, and I trust them the least. In the iOS ecosystem, Siri can be set up to only listen in response to a button-press (don't remember which is default), and the watch only listens on wrist-rai
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by lukifer 8y ago
Disappointed that Henry George is absent. ;)
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by lukifer 8y ago
Yet another reason why Proof of Stake is destined to outcompete Proof of Work. ;)
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http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-...

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