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by lukifer 4y ago
Thanks for sharing, TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laborem_exercens
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by lukifer 4y ago
> I'd argue that transitioning is an extremely hard problem. While you're completely correct, I don't think this is a reason to abandon the enterprise (other extremely hard problems: sending a human safely to the moon; dem
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by lukifer 4y ago
The market is an unreliable narrator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest
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by lukifer 5y ago
I don't disagree, my position here is "yes, and". However one construes "rights" (it's a thorny topic both morally and empirically!), in my view, legal defenses and civil defenses are each necessary, but not su
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by lukifer 5y ago
I half-agree: many who lean libertarian like to contrast "positive rights" with "negative rights"; and while it's an interesting academic distinction, in my view a purely negative right is indistinguishable from not
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by lukifer 5y ago
It does not follow that every reaction to injustice is inherently justice. As an exaggerated example, if the punishment for shoplifting was death, I can oppose that punishment without being in favor of shoplifting. Obviously, those who crit
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by lukifer 5y ago
The Maus case provides an interesting contrast: while I agree the reaction was somewhat disproportionate, a dissenting view was still permissible within the "social Overton window". You might get looked at askance for saying &qu
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by lukifer 5y ago
> establishing some sort of commons framework I very much agree, and there are some compelling projects happening in that space as well: - https://commonsstack.org/ - https://commonsengine.org/ Getting V
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by lukifer 5y ago
The First Amendment doesn't grant a right to free speech as such; such a right is assumed to be pre-existing and inalienable (whether one roots such rights in religious belief or secular humanism). Rather: the First Amendment restricts
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by lukifer 5y ago
"Exit to Community": https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community
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by lukifer 5y ago
I feel your pain: I have a large and meticulously tagged collection, and when I upgraded to a new iPhone, it seems to have hit "shuffle" on every single album art, even after I nuked it all and did a fresh sync. It's incredib
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by lukifer 5y ago
It's easy enough to just pull down the file, and throw it away after viewing: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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by lukifer 5y ago
His full-length online novel was the funnest thing I've read in the last decade: https://unsongbook.com/ (a little googling will also turn up Kindle/ePub versions)
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by lukifer 5y ago
Preference collusion in linear voting isn't completely unheard of. I've seen projects where voters in safe states swap with voters in a swing state [0]. (Obviously these are unverified, so they still contain a prisoner's dile
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by lukifer 5y ago
Given the Herculean efforts (and superb results) of Rosetta and Rosetta 2, I'm still appalled that Apple couldn't have found a way to keep running 32 bit apps, even at a performance hit through some level of emulation or container
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by lukifer 5y ago
I really want to love Nova, I was a Coda die-hard for many years, but there's been one thing holding me back: the lack of "sticky tab stops", in VSCode parlance, or what was called Atomic Soft Tabs in Atom. (The world may hav
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by lukifer 5y ago
Obviously the context is different (particularly in the difference between a state and a private corporation, quasi-monopolistic or not). The key comparison is this: who decides what is misinformation? who decides what information/disi
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by lukifer 5y ago
A similar claim of "clear and present danger" was used in 1919 to prosecute anti-war protestors for handing out pamphlets which advocated draft resistance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_State
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by lukifer 5y ago
The classic example is "shouting fire in a crowded theater"; a phrase we still hear today, despite its origin being the prosecution of anti-war activists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
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by lukifer 5y ago
The problem is when you consider the game-theoretic incentives of "Greater Madman" posturing, through the len of Trivers' "Folly of Fools" [0]: that the most effective way to fool others is often to first fool yours
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by lukifer 5y ago
Thanks for sharing, didn't know that. Similar PSA: a common Pi complaint is that SD cards wear out quickly under 24/7 use. Routing most logs to memory rather than disk vastly reduces the wear on the SD: https://github
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by lukifer 5y ago
It's nuts; they're 3-4x MSRP on the secondary market ($70 for Zero2's, $200+ for 4b's). I just broke down and ordered some competitor SBCs (OrangePi's via AliExpress).
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by lukifer 5y ago
Dunning-Kruger much? :P Lots of academic fields look like gibberish to a lay audience. (I suspect GPT could pass a Turing test, of showing real and fake academic papers to those outside the relevant disciplines.)
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by lukifer 5y ago
I think it's a fair criticism, which is why I don't have a high degree of confidence in Bitcoin itself, or the political-economy narrative of "crypto-anarchism". The fact that there's still not a crypto eBay is damn
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by lukifer 5y ago
Rent-seeking is not exactly uncontroversial amongst economists (though some claim it only occurs through state intervention, which is a view I don't share). The most egregious examples are fee-simple ground rents (Adam Smith called a l
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by lukifer 5y ago
So-called "web3" is still early-stage and amorphously defined, born of the tensions between web1 (a user-sovereign Commons, but lacking identity and value transfer) and Web 2.0 (payments and identity, at the cost of surveillance,
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by lukifer 5y ago
I would generally agree, which is why I think the discourse around "misinformation" (IMO, both a legitimate concern, and a moral panic) is missing the forest for the trees. Our failures to respond reasonably and proportionally to
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by lukifer 5y ago
"How are you so great at resolving questions about comets, when you know nothing about astronomy or orbital mechanics? Presumably because you have the right heuristics, the ones about which authorities to trust and which ones not to. B
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by lukifer 5y ago
I'm always reminded of Kubrick's comments on the risk of nuclear weapons: "People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstra
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by lukifer 5y ago
With the caveat that it's been a few years: while he touches on primary education, he spends more time on secondary. The focus is less on individual ROI, but societal efficiency and policy: the core premise being that most secondary ed

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