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by lukifer 5y ago
The risk with relying on reading alone is dogma: quoting someone else's words as being unassailable truth. I love a good quote, or aphorism, or copy-pasta'd thought technology as much as anyone. But there's profound power in
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by lukifer 5y ago
I think it strikes an emotional chord with the ongoing trend of private capital enclosing every social Commons it can. While I don't think it's the right hill to die on (Wordle is a trivially cloneable public good; NYT's actu
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by lukifer 5y ago
I don't blame the dev at all, I'd've probably taken the same deal, but an Exit To Community would have been a baller move: https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/exit-to-community
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by lukifer 5y ago
Offline voice-controlled jukebox using RPi via Mopidy, and just pushed a branch with Mac support via iTunes/Music.app https://github.com/lukifer/voicetunes
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by lukifer 5y ago
> you 100% trust your import source This is a perfect circumstance for the adage "trust but verify".
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by lukifer 5y ago
It also means you are not necessarily entitled to rents for your “discoveries”.
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> calling the acceptance of trans people a sign of societal collapse > tries every tactic in the book to discredit a group of people At the risk of taking the bait: this is clear evidence you've never listened to the show. If you
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by lukifer 5y ago
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and id
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by lukifer 5y ago
The primary issue is being uncomfortable with other people making free associations (Rogan and his audience). One's product being carried in the same store as someone else's product is a tenuous "association" at best.
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by lukifer 5y ago
I just read his statement for the first time, it's quite interesting. He doesn't actually mention Rogan by name, and instead targets Spotify explicitly: https://neilyoungarchives.com/news/1/article?id=Spo
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by lukifer 5y ago
Free speech is not limited to First Amendment protection of censorship by the state. It can also be inhibited by chilling effects, self-censorship, market power, taboos, etc. But I think the motivation for "free speech maximalism"
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by lukifer 5y ago
One could interpret this call to action being targeted as much at individual workers in SV, and its general culture (as in, quit your high-paying VC-backed job, and work on something FOSS/federated). In either case, I agree appealing t
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by lukifer 5y ago
I don't think this is in response to anything specific. It's more an acknowledgement of an ongoing "boiling frog" problem. I recently heard Eliezer Yudkowsky make this comparison in the (somewhat) related domain of AI sa
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by lukifer 5y ago
In my experience, a disproportionate number of engineers also refuse to own Alexas.
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There is no shortage of snake-oil and perverse incentives in the space; but the most charitable reading is that Web3 is a diverse family of technologies attempting to fill in two gaps from Web1: (a) self-sovereign identity, and (b) distribu
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by lukifer 5y ago
The difficulty does readjust based on the hashrate; but the hashrate is driven by the cost/benefit analysis of hardware and electricity vs. block rewards, meaning as the asset price goes up, more miners are incentivized to join the net
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by lukifer 5y ago
I think it's functionally impossible for Bitcoin to hit literal zero. It could someday run on a network of ten hipster tech-history enthusiasts, worth micro-pennies like DOGE in the early days, but it still wouldn't hit zero. I ag
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by lukifer 5y ago
Thank you for clarifying. I'm assuming (without endorsing) the "capitalist realism" and "rational self-interest" Overton Window of the industrialized West. I suppose what I'm pushing back against, is the conven
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction
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by lukifer 5y ago
It was definitely a light-bulb moment, recognizing that in some cases, taxation is not a necessary evil, but a positive good (in this case, pricing externalities) [0]. At this point, I care less about what carbon taxes pay for, than making
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by lukifer 5y ago
Fair, "rational" is a thorny term in general. I suppose it's easier to invert the proposition, that it is not obviously irrational : one can have complete information, and be of sound mind, and yet still choose to buy into a
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by lukifer 5y ago
It's any interesting question whether or not it's rational to invest in a speculative bubble, solely on the basis of everyone else also investing in that same bubble. On a per-transaction basis, each step can be individually ratio
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by lukifer 5y ago
> What is your opinion on Henry George's argument for a single tax on land value? I think Henry George was right. > What is your view on Marx's Labor Theory of Value? I think the labor theory of value is true, but it is not
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by lukifer 5y ago
I find the existence of "testnets" for blockchains fascinating. All the major chains have a parallel/shadow network used for testing and development, effectively identical to the real thing. Yet merely by social consensus (an
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by lukifer 5y ago
While I haven't seen any actual data, I suspect tax dodging is also a significant motivator in the NFT market (just like the market for physical art assets)
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See also, the work of Robert Trivers [0] on the evolutionary utility of strategic self-deception. Sometimes we deceive ourselves so we may more effectively deceive others (or more charitably, perhaps to signal in-group loyalty). Ironically
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by lukifer 5y ago
The Jan 6th event (whatever word one uses) was far from secret. Most of the coordination happened in public, and the participants were not shy about their intentions. After reddit shut down /r/TheDonald, the "pedes" migr
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I recently learned that Baudrillard (author of "Simulacra and Simulation", referenced in the first Matrix) criticized the first film as being something that The Matrix would have produced itself, to feed its prisoners an illusory
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Streaming services truly flip the "economic calculation problem" [0] on its head: the stakeholders would supposedly gain more reliable information on the value of different IP licenses if we all made purchases a la carte. As it is
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Every policy has tradeoffs. We could save around 20,000 lives per year (in the US) with a simple policy change: just cap all speed limits at 45 mph. I think it's a fair critique that some lockdown measures go too far (particularly thos

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