methehack

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by methehack 7y ago
I've scaled back my expectations. By now, I'm shooting for laws and books. I think the question is not so much about whether the human race will survive (though surely it will be smaller in number) but whether it will be recogni
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by methehack 7y ago
Markets are a brilliant tool. We have to decide on the society we want, and use markets to shape it. Very few scenarios that make any sense would allow markets to function w/o purposeful shape. I think managing a queue might be a bet
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by methehack 7y ago
It might help short term, but I don't think its obvious it would work long term. The idea is that it wouldn't solve the structural problem. The structural problem is that nothing prevents landowners from charging whatever the mar
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by methehack 7y ago
Perhaps the only sentence in which 'Twitter' and 'unopinionated' make sense together.
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by methehack 7y ago
Question for Eva and Datomic users: How often does your org miss having a separate relational database around for data folks and product folks capable of (read only) SQL? Do you find yourself making a separate store/s to support them
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by methehack 7y ago
Ah -- makes sense -- same idea though s/Englightenment/Renaissance/g
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by methehack 7y ago
My guess is the older brother was named by the younger brother, the Enlightenment. They were "dark" because they were fundamentally anti-enlightenment; further it was hard to see through them to the classical period as they tried
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by methehack 8y ago
https://www.notion.so/pricing Basically it's free to start with limited data/upload and then a small ($4) monthly for a personal subscription that is unlimited. Team and Enterprise subscriptions from there.
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by methehack 8y ago
A question for the folks who would like to do more than just communicate in a way that welcomed all demographics -- how would so-called "demographic quotas" work in practice? It may well be my lack of imagination, but I'm hav
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by methehack 8y ago
Not sure if it'll help but you might try the emacs package "Deft" w/org mode. I use Deft as a table of contents over a searchable directory of .org files and it works well for my purposes.
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by methehack 8y ago
While I'm not sure of the mechanics of a lot of what's outlined here, and I'm especially not sure about the board of directors part, I think the idea of the "benefit corporation" could be a real game changer. Curren
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by methehack 8y ago
I looked at your other replies. You consistently reassert your initial claim without evidence. When presented with evidence, you re-assert your claims, again without evidence. You even go so far as blaming others as being intolerant when
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by methehack 8y ago
If you're going to express an opinion, particularly one contrary to widely held beliefs/truths, you need to provide evidence/reasons. That's called "discourse."
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by methehack 8y ago
So how is this going to work? Imagine you're a small online retailer and people from every state buy your stuff. Does that mean each state can send you a tax bill? Without knowing what you owe? And what if you ignore it? What recou
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by methehack 9y ago
This story is wrong and misleading. It claims that the new york times and guardian have reported CA's behavior as "hacking". Here's a thorough depiction of what CA did by the times and it does not use that term and basi
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by methehack 9y ago
Pat Pattison, Songwriting, Coursera! I took this too! Fantastic! Delightful to learn something (anything!) from someone who so thoroughly and completely knows just what he has to say to teach a topic he's expert at.
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by methehack 9y ago
Here's a times article you reminded me of that mentions Saab engineers putting on crash helmets and running the 9-5 into a concrete moose. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/05/automobiles/behind-the-whe
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by methehack 9y ago
It works a lot better than the comments section. You include this comment and yours in that.
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by methehack 9y ago
Why?
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by methehack 9y ago
Because a corrupt government can be purchased as an ally but a farmer defending his family and way of life cannot?
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by methehack 9y ago
w/r/t the tragedy of the commons... The thing that I'm a little afraid to say out loud is that I don't see how any of this is solved with our current political structures. Sovereign nations? Democracies? At some poin
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by methehack 9y ago
Sorry, dude, but I think you fell for it. These entities try to make you think they're open, but really they are keeping entrants at bay. Here's an interesting episode of the weeds podcast that gives some context by exploring why
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by methehack 9y ago
I love GTD...in theory. It is rational, and it should work. In practice, it ended up being demoralizing to realize how little of what I should do and would like to do I actually have time for. It was "stress free" in the sense
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by methehack 9y ago
It can read files and talk to databases and make network connections etc... Are you just talking about using an editor on Unix files? iirc, the in IDE editor takes advantage of the meta-data in the compiled classes in order to provide a b
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by methehack 9y ago
Also... http://pharo.org/documentation Too much to click on the "documentation" link in the header?
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by methehack 9y ago
iirc correctly once you launch it after download there is a wealth of help w/in the (vastly superior to anything still even though it's literally 40 years old) IDE/workspace. It makes sense I think to do it there because the
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by methehack 9y ago
Let's just say if the terminator had the brain of a self-driving car, I could kill it with my Prius. Lots of "progress" is being made but you could still fairly call it "stuck".
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by methehack 9y ago
except it's like riding a mastadon into the jungle
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by methehack 9y ago
Anonymity balances power. Think not about this government, but the next, and the next after that. How much more thorough, brutal, and administratively easier would China's "cultural revolution" been if this technology had b
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by methehack 9y ago
Perhaps less controversially, the whole non-editorial editorial policy is super-vulnerable to manipulation. The source can stick anything they want into the stream since WikiLeaks' stated editorial policy is "that's not our

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