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by lukifer 5y ago
Recently encountered this neologism for pledging allegiance to Mother Earth: "matriotism".
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"The Universe is a dark and foreboding place, suspended between alien deities. Cthulhu, Gnon, Moloch, call them what you will. Somewhere in this darkness is another god. He has also had many names. In the Kushiel books, his name was El
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Pigovian taxes are an example where altering price signals is a feature, not a bug: simultaneously disincentivize negative externalities, and act as wealth redistribution with dividends/UBI. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by lukifer 5y ago
You may be interested in these communities; lots of interesting anarchist, mutualist, and socialist activity in the DAO/DLT space. https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptoleftists/ http://theblockchainsocia
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> problems nobody has Depends on whether one sees the enclosure of social and digital Commons as a problem. Folks like Bruce Schneier [0] and Cory Doctorow [1] have been ringing alarm bells for years on "digital feudalism": des
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I can vouch for Rhasspy, it's an amazing and flexible piece of software, though it does require some setup and tech knowledge (albeit with a usable web GUI); and it's very DIY on defining the actual voice commands. I recommend pai
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2nded. Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL150326949691B199
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I'm less concerned with wasting resources (which is highly subjective), than with ecological and systemic harms. I don't care whether a terawatt is "wasted" on pointless SHA256 hashes, or calculating triangles for Yet An
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PoW should actually stand for Proof of Waste. It's not even unprecedented in nature: many species will intentionally waste energy or resources to demonstrate mating fitness, as with a peacock's tail. https://en.wikipedi
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The focus on fixed money supply seems a little absurd to me anyway, given the triviality of creating new crypto-currencies, and the relatively low transaction costs of trading between them. Imagine making a case for returning to the gold st
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Interestingly enough, as the ledgers are all public by nature, there would be nothing stopping states from forking blockchains into centralized solutions, outcompeting miners by reducing transaction costs to zero. Crypto-anarchists would lo
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While I think it's fair to properly account for the carbon footprint of traditional banking and state military infrastructure, it is an utter fantasy that crypto is in direct competition with them. Crypto has been steadily integrating
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Not that I don't favor a universal living wage, but price discovery for labor lives along a separate axis; the ability to withhold value (or the credible deterrent of doing so) is a bargaining chip that can be used in negotiation. This
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https://archive.md/Z5Mil
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One analogy I find interesting: imagine a book signed by the author (clearly worth more than an unsigned book). Now imagine that the signature could be extracted from its physical form, and traded independently. Is it silly to value that? M
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> media keys, brightness control, keyboard back lighting Gaming and hotkey macros notwithstanding, I think this is what people are mostly lamenting when they complain about the TouchBar replacing F-keys.
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"Pretend spec" misses the forest for the trees: amongst the vast, complex ecosystem of audio-visual ports, 1/8" audio stands out: we actually managed to converge on a connector format that is universal, omni-present, exc
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I'm fond of this distinction as well. One could also parse it semantically as `undefined` meaning "unknown unknown" vs `null` being a "known unknown" (or "this value left intentionally blank"). Where I thi
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[wheels, plans].forEach(x => x.push(x))
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I don't claim that original intent has any bearing on copyrights/patents being enforceable or legitimate. Similar to the 18th Amendment vs. the Volstead Act, the Constitution merely authorizes the power to the state, while specifi
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It’s oft forgotten that U.S. intellectual property constructs were created not purely for the natural rights of individual creators, but as an incentive for public benefit: “to promote the progress of science and useful arts”.
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Even absent any formal system of organization, I've found index cards to be an incredible knowledge-management life-hack. Their size strikes a perfect balance: use a whole card for a single idea, or use fine print to scribble in lots o
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I'd take it one step further: every market is a managed market, and we're only haggling over details. While you could find exceptions (local babysitting clubs using hours as currency), the vast majority of Actually Existing Mark
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The greater fool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory The shareholder/investor model incentivizes "perception management" over real results.
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Does anyone have any knowledge or experiences with sugar alcohols (particularly erythritol, marketed as “monkfruit sweetener”)? So far, I haven’t felt any negative effects from it while in ketosis, and a minuscule amount of research suggest
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This has been my experience as well (and for depression as well as anxiety). They don’t go away completely, but the proverbial volume dial goes from 11 down to 3, and whatever remains becomes manageable.
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This is mostly hunch/n=1, but I think a significant factor is not just sugar, but the sugar/fiber ratio. This is one reason why whole fruits (and berries especially) are preferable to fruit juice: the fiber slows down the blood su
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That comports with my experience: for anyone who’s never been in ketosis, it’s maybe 10-20 days. But once one is acclimated, it’s both shorter and easier; it takes me about 3-4 days now.
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I think Terror Management Theory [0] explains this contradiction fairly robustly: Sheldon Solomon found that reminding people of their mortality, even subtly, increased their support for hostility to out-groups, military intervention, etc.
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Fun fact: propaganda used to be a morally neutral term [0], which we now call "public relations", after the word took on connotations with Nazis and Soviets. Everyone who is advocating for a policy, moral position, etc., is putt

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