mikrl

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by mikrl 2y ago
>it shouldn’t be surprising The current flavour of politics is not pragmatic. It’s a luxury belief system. The left wing excesses of the 2010s were luxury beliefs, the current thing is all just luxury beliefs too. Basically, when people
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by mikrl 2y ago
How does this relate to dox? Let’s say an individual posted identifying or incriminating information online, inadvertently or intentionally, in a public place. Then a third party decides to store it, and possibly make it accessible to other
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by mikrl 2y ago
Presto is Toronto’s equivalent to London’s oyster card. Actually there’s no tap off IIRC (unlike the Dutch chipkaarts) but still, I would assume the modern station where you enter is a veritable panopticon of CCTV, RF signal interception, e
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by mikrl 2y ago
> When the only viable option to get around is cars, there is no privacy. I don’t think there’s privacy in the tap on - tap off Oyster/Presto card world either.
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by mikrl 2y ago
Shhh you’ll let the cat out of the bag, me and a whole crap ton of people put food on the table doing just that
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by mikrl 2y ago
>not using GNoUse Why do you hate freedom? Wait brb, the ceiling fan I wrote in Lisp is spraying yogurt again
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by mikrl 2y ago
How did people compile emacs on 2 cores in the old days? :O
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by mikrl 2y ago
I have only ever used macports, but my first and only MacBook was salvaged from bigcorp IT, and is a 2009 model so homebrew is too new for it. I’ve dabbled in BSD before and I can definitely see the correspondence between Macports and freeB
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by mikrl 2y ago
Neither was Hobbes, but the ‘nasty, brutish and short’[1] state of nature is not something we should aspire to. Ironically, the chaos of liberal democracy might be the greatest stabilizing force our species has ever known. Even the Pax Roma
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by mikrl 2y ago
I deleted Xitter for this reason recently. Too much disinfo: community notes and grok are IMO just running cover for the disinfo firehose. Saw the highest profile figure on the platform (yes him) retweet the most knee jerk takes that could
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by mikrl 2y ago
Starship Troopers is the darling du jour online for this phenomenon. A movie lampooning militarism, xenophobia and… armoured supersoldiers grinding through bugs and taking their resources? Sounds cool. Compare to games like Factorio and Hel
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by mikrl 2y ago
Well there was that small matter of Nietzsche being taken out of context by his sister that directly contributed to the “world remaking” aspects of totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Even your viewpoint that a life should be spent cr
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by mikrl 2y ago
This conclusion reframed my views of certain politicians, popularly assumed to be blithering idiots. You don’t get there by being incompetent, you get there by being amazing at manipulation, cunning and whatever the positive coded synonyms
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by mikrl 2y ago
>If a person is pretending well enough, it appears genuine There are multiple readings to most statements. “I loved the restaurant we went to” Could be parsed in at least 3 ways without any additional context. Sincere, sarcastic implying
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by mikrl 2y ago
Where do most people get their alignments? Outside of the house: school, religion, the street. In those places, the written word is a means to an end and all the aligning happens during human behavioural conditioning. Text may drive it (lik
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by mikrl 2y ago
People do it all the time. People wrote the training material too. The problem of alignment, even semantic correctness, is hairy enough in the real world, and it’s unclear whether forcing it on an AI matrix multiplying system should be easi
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by mikrl 2y ago
I revisited Henry Hazlitt’s economics in one lesson and in the chapter on labour unions, he actually is fairly moderate provided that unions stick to non-price distorting policies. Making wage information more accessible to workers being a
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by mikrl 2y ago
How do you feel about the denialist argument that since people still buy expensive waterfront property, climate change is not a big deal? My interpretations would probably be some combination of - information asymmetry leading to demand dis
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by mikrl 2y ago
>People were not rewarded with more compensation for working harder. Nit: they had worker’s medals and similar non financial recognition. However yes, the price paid for labour was far below the point to ensure supply met the demands of
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by mikrl 2y ago
Yet the narrative is - the West has all of these much worse - Russia is upstanding and moral - if these exist in Russia, it’s because of western influence Which conveniently removes the responsibility from Russian authorities and emboldens
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by mikrl 2y ago
You need to leave off the currency sign too for that bougie dimensionless sovl
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by mikrl 2y ago
It’s internet youth culture bleeding into highbrow discourse. An suitably brain rotted riposte to your complaints would be something like ‘Wordcels be sneething at rotationmaxxing shapechads’ and an image of a badly drawn wojak figure.
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by mikrl 2y ago
In Canada we have two types of nonstandard tax accounts, an RRSP and a TFSA. The RRSP is what I think is called a 401K in the USA: you put money in pre-tax and pay income tax when you liquidate/withdraw in the future. The TFSA you put
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by mikrl 2y ago
I don’t support these kinds of taxes but I think that is also a little hyperbolic. Poll taxes, and even flat taxes can also be seen as unjust taxes on ‘money you do not have’ when you subtract the cost of life from someone’s income. This on
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by mikrl 2y ago
I think the rationale is that if you have unrealized gains, there is a high likelihood that you are well off, and can therefore be pressured into reifying your economic potential into a resource that the government can appropriate (ie money
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by mikrl 2y ago
Meanwhile I don’t listen to anyone on that list except for Charli XCX because I arrived at her music from a rave/hyperpop background and then became a stan with her last album Crash in 2022. I was tired of BRAT though about 2 weeks aft
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by mikrl 2y ago
>they attempt to overrule the math with authority It’s entirely possible to turn that to your advantage, but takes some luck/skill, not dissimilar to profiting off of stock market crashes. The asymmetry between mathematics and autho
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by mikrl 2y ago
As a semi regular tourist to the Netherlands from North America it took a bit to adjust to all the modes of traffic at once but now I can easily navigate and stay safe around bikes, mopeds, trams, skinny cars etc. But I’m also a seasoned tr
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by mikrl 2y ago
Loefah - Goat Stare even on my middling salvaged HiFi made me feel like I was experiencing a sonic weapon
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by mikrl 2y ago
Reminds me of listening to all the OG wave dubstep on YouTube in the late 00s and not getting it, until I plugged in a bass amp I was borrowing and vibrated my walls.

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