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by mypastself 3y ago
Based on your quote, seems like there’s an expectation from the author that Western governments will become increasingly authoritarian. Doesn’t seem like an uncritical embrace of the tech, even if it is a clichéd formulation. How many South
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by mypastself 3y ago
Seems like the one book addresses responsibilities of Big Tech for risks of AI misuse and surveillance. But even without that one, my point still stands. Do you think the China-related topics should not be addressed and, say, the ones on th
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by mypastself 3y ago
A pro-free market book but also a few critical of climate change and Big Tech; an anti-Evangelical but also an anti-woke one. Some critical of China but others critical of Japan and South Korea, etc. I’d argue that there’s at least an attem
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by mypastself 3y ago
There are also books critical of the U.S. right-wing, evangelists, left-wing identity politics, and Big Tech. So do you think the three specific topics you’re referring to are unworthy of discussion? Or should China be off the table entirel
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by mypastself 3y ago
So how would we distinguish a paid-for article about best books of 2023 from a non-paid one? Would we conclude everything is above board only if there’s no such article at all? Seems like a claim that’s bordering on unfalsifiable…
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by mypastself 3y ago
Are you suggesting all these books’ publishers or authors might have paid to be on the list? It’s such a vast and varied list that it seems like a bizarre conclusion. Or do you think they’re paid to raise awareness of books in general? Is T
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by mypastself 3y ago
> researchers found no evidence that any of the payments discouraged work or increased purchases of alcohol — two common criticisms of direct cash giving. In fact, so many people who used to work for wages instead started businesses that
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by mypastself 3y ago
I used to think you could be a 9/11 truther and still hold reasonable beliefs otherwise. I thought a lot of these people genuinely looked at the official story and related evidence with an open mind, and came to a different conclusion
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by mypastself 3y ago
For whom would this type of work become more enticing? I don’t follow.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Not sure how that was your takeaway from my comment. I was challenging the parent comment’s assertion that CEOs continuing to work after gaining riches implies that poor people would still seek out employment if they were given basic income
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by mypastself 3y ago
Couldn’t it be the case that it’s much harder for poor people to find employment they enjoy as much as CEOs enjoy theirs? Or that ultra-rich CEOs are able to reach that status in part because their work ethics is an extreme outlier?
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by mypastself 3y ago
> The global economy is a dark forest. What do you mean by this?
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by mypastself 3y ago
> traditional musicians… will not be able to compete and therefore will not be able to do what they love to survive. Why would anyone owe the musicians a job just because they enjoy doing it? I don’t expect anyone to defend my love of co
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by mypastself 3y ago
Was he talking about culture? Because I’m not familiar with any movement attempting to get people of lower intellect included in creative processes. Modern inclusivity in the arts instead tends to involve gender, skin color, and sexual orie
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by mypastself 3y ago
I had a similar reaction when I read Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe . It’s a very well written book that champions the cause and explains it in some detail for a layman - and I still came out of it very suspicious about the theory’s
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by mypastself 3y ago
The bullet points in the article are reasonable enough, but almost every explanation is questionable. I’ll just address one. Soft skills are indeed very important, and sometimes more so than technical skills. However: > Technical skills
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by mypastself 3y ago
Jeez, you have to use your hand for signaling in the Dacia?
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by mypastself 3y ago
Same here, but they’ve been up for a while. Does anyone know if rebooting the machine will kill them?
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by mypastself 3y ago
While I don’t use social media, nor am I prone to personality obsession like the author, there’s definitely something to be said about following an “authority” on Twitter and the like. Whether they’re an artist whose work you enjoy, a top e
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by mypastself 3y ago
There is little difference between “no citations” of the original text, and the assortment of links to Guardian, Jacobin, and a purchase page for a Neo-Marxist economics book (referred to as “empirical evidence”) that this rebuttal article
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by mypastself 3y ago
I’ve actually had food of questionable provenance myself, including oysters bought from a sketchy street vendor in an Asian country - and I’m not even a particularly risk-taking type. I accepted some degree of health hazard for a pleasant m
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by mypastself 3y ago
People tend to perform risk-benefit analyses of their actions, even if unconsciously. They also engage in all sorts of risky behavior. If they determine the benefit of eating something outweighs the risks, they might do it. Reducing the fin
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by mypastself 3y ago
This does not necessarily apply to you, but that system could also encourage making reckless dietary choices with the knowledge others would pay the potential bill.
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by mypastself 3y ago
How does everyone here handle the patches and updates on their network? Do you perform updates when you remember to, or do you have regularly scheduled sessions, or did you (heaven forbid) automate it? The more home servers and services I h
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by mypastself 3y ago
Hence the “one of” part of my comment. But the cooling and noise are definitely relevant.
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by mypastself 3y ago
For sure, it’s one of the characteristics that distinguishes a Pi as a server from a regular old, much cheaper, laptop.
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by mypastself 3y ago
It seems to mean I can rent a gas-guzzling car and drive it everywhere, while resting easy knowing all the emissions and pollution are actually the capitalists’ fault.
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by mypastself 3y ago
I miss this brand of kooky theories. It’s sad how the conspiracy space has been monopolized by partisan politics in the past decade. I’d welcome the return of Area 51 and Bigfoot theories into the “mainstream” conspiracy theory arena…
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by mypastself 3y ago
Seems like some kind of SEO scheme to me. I’ve come across these “articles” by chance a few times. It’s a shame how far the site’s fallen, but that’s been obvious since 2016.
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by mypastself 3y ago
Had no idea there was a hardware watchdog built into Pi 4s. It’s only a shame there isn’t an updog as well…

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