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by mbrock 9y ago
Do you volunteer to be the one to inform business owners and small art house cinema operators that they're now forbidden to engage in any marketing of their goods and services, and all the media that the majority of their revenue is no
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by mbrock 9y ago
Or, like, my life is a nightmare for reasons X Y and Z and now I can't even go on vacation to a warm place when the winter comes? How much of flying is business travel anyway? You think people are going to tell their bosses they'r
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by mbrock 9y ago
Telling people to please stop doing things that are profoundly enjoyable, in opinion columns, seems like the stupidest possible idea for how to solve the climate crisis.
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by mbrock 9y ago
Right on, I'm a huge fan of the idea of decay in information systems!
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by mbrock 9y ago
Aesthetics is an interesting concept. Romantics thought the sublime was the highest aesthetic and the sublime is terrifying. Bach is kind of terrifying too. Even the works that aren't praising Jesus, the God who bled to death from bein
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by mbrock 9y ago
I'm a little bit disappointed with the static hierarchies that organizational tools seem to encourage. Though I use org-mode lovingly, my system isn't yet to a point where it's fully sustainable... I really wonder how to cult
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by mbrock 9y ago
I like the metaphor of gardening. It's almost so literally applicable to everything that it seems like a fundamental principle. By gardening, I mean something like... tending lovingly to a system of interconnected complex tree-like str
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by mbrock 9y ago
I think of art like Kafka thought about literature: “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it
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by mbrock 9y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out!
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by mbrock 9y ago
I don't have a lot of experience, but I suspect that many visual applications could be greatly improved by a well defined command language. The various dialog boxes and widgets in apps like Gimp and Inkscape always seem fussy and annoy
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by mbrock 9y ago
My intuition is that people like to start firms because they enjoy the feeling of being tribal leaders, and people like to participate in firms because of ordinary tribal hierarchical belonging... And the subtle near-mystical benefits to be
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by mbrock 9y ago
Why did a red and blue colored canvas by Mark Rothko sell for 75 million dollars? Memes are weird and money is even weirder.
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by mbrock 9y ago
Seems to me that this has a pretty intimate relation to the question of the "nature of the firm." Why do we work in firms rather than as independent contractors making contracts with each other? Why do we gather in rooms every day
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by mbrock 9y ago
Seems like "How I threw away something that's currently trading for a lot of money" would be a more relevant title. That reminds me to bring up art more in the conversation about the "underlying value" of cryptocurr
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by mbrock 9y ago
One really weird thing about video conferencing is that you're constantly exposed to a slightly delayed, pixelated, and poorly lit picture of your own face. That's a deeply abnormal situation. It's like talking to someone whi
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by mbrock 9y ago
Campbell is the guy who said "follow your bliss."
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by mbrock 9y ago
As for me, I often find iPhone writing productive because it's hard to edit on an iPhone, whereas on a computer I'm encouraged to tweak, move sentences, reorganize, etc. The distinction between writing and editing phases is profou
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by mbrock 9y ago
When I was new to C, I looked at the different code formatting styles, and I found the GNU style to be ugly and horrible on a visceral level. Then I learned about the GNU project and Emacs and stuff, and I noticed the peculiar sense of my a
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by mbrock 9y ago
Are you talking about any specific "anarchists"?
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by mbrock 9y ago
It seems likely that they wouldn't be able to guarantee that, but we need to be more clear. The fundamental limitations of computer science, as expressed by Rice's theorem, says that the CIA cannot make a program that given any
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by mbrock 9y ago
This is not a true implication. If all the executables in the archive were, say, loop-free trivial programs, then of course you could instantly confirm an absence of malware. If there are some loops and complications in there, you would do
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by mbrock 9y ago
Node is the runtime for ClojureScript. The whole shell runs in Node.
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by mbrock 9y ago
Yeah, agreed. JavaScript doesn't really have any impressive redeeming features. I like it because it's kind of minimally viable and accidentally really useful for dealing with APIs full of duck typed nested records. It's real
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by mbrock 9y ago
The overlap between people who love Haskell and people who love Nix is huge, yet Nix has no static typing! Sure, people recognize that a good static type system could improve Nix, but they also recognize that making such a thing isn't
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by mbrock 9y ago
The reasons why people accuse JavaScript of being a terrible hack just never really resonated with me. The "wat" video is funny, but that stuff just isn't a problem in my experience. Sure, I've been confused by "arr
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by mbrock 9y ago
Well, it's kind of like "if you're interested in type theory then bash will not arouse your intellectual curiosity." Sure, but it's still a practical and kind of necessary part of the world, and if you take it for w
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by mbrock 9y ago
raises hand There are dozens of us!
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by mbrock 9y ago
I scream them into the endless void.
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by mbrock 9y ago
Ask your local baker for a deal. It won't just happen automatically.
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by mbrock 9y ago
I guess you would also haggle continuously over your per-second wage?

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