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by naringas 7y ago
so it sub-optimizes? capitalism is at its best when optimizing industrial production (manufacturing materials) knowledge creation is not quite an industrial process. I would highlight the importance of open source as a key component for bet
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by naringas 7y ago
sounds like it's well functioning capitalist market. lots of money is made by a small group of very smart people in an entrenched position.
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by naringas 7y ago
> I feel that this kind of comment is a pure misconception from software people I really hoped you were referring to the secrecy
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by naringas 7y ago
I firmly believe that in theory all computer systems can be understood. But I agree when he says, it has become impractical to do so. But I just don't like it personally, I got into computing because it was supposed to be the most ex
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by naringas 7y ago
so then, it's not "a man owns a private airforce" but "a man who owns a company and this company owns a private airforce"
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by naringas 7y ago
Seems to me like microsoft probably: underestimated their customer's potential demand and/or oversold their cloud capacity.
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by naringas 7y ago
I agree, I still cannot make up my mind about masks... It seems like "back in the day" people trusted the experts, becuase well, there weren't many alternatives (?); but now thanks to the internet everyone can google for a wh
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by naringas 7y ago
this whole covid19 debacle is exposing a very real change brought about by the internet. we are being forced to adapt and to develop new ways to relate to information, to asses it's trustworthiness, etc... it's an epistemic phenom
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by naringas 7y ago
> It’s much harder to ramp up production of medical professionals. and the fact that we think about "ramping up production" of "medical personel" leads the way to terrible industry-like education systems which emphasi
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by naringas 7y ago
I'll bet it was also humans who caused this outage in the first place.
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by naringas 7y ago
I hope for a "considered harmful considered harmful" article
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by naringas 7y ago
but isn't loans defaulting (risk) the original reason for having interest?
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by naringas 7y ago
it killed them dead by means of tracking and keeping them in an inventory...
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by naringas 7y ago
if this gets bad enough in the 'western' world maybe the Chinese could spin the narrative into "look how well we were able to control it in the place it started" time will tell...
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by naringas 7y ago
what about the underlying currency system which depends only on everone's trust in it? there's very little which keeps fiat money connected to reality...
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by naringas 7y ago
we even treat education like this. children are educated as mass produced laborers for the future
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by naringas 7y ago
isn't that what go does? after all there's no way to ignore unused variables with a compiler option
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by naringas 7y ago
> psychedelics didn't inevitably turn people in to saints or enlightened beings who love everyone and who's feathers couldn't be ruffled by anything. similarly, having a really good gun doesn't turn anyone into a warr
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by naringas 7y ago
isn't this the marketplace of ideas?? /s
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by naringas 7y ago
> Also the IRS would definitely go after Amazon instead if it were politically motivated. amazon is running computing services for the government, which makes me doubt it. And what about Google?
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by naringas 7y ago
I disagree but also think you're correct. if one rich actor can gobble up the small decentralized pieces then they have become a single centralized piece.
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by naringas 7y ago
do you really think that this isn't a case of selective law enforcement? the IRS is famously understaffed, why Facebook? why not Apple? or Amazon? or will they go after them next?? edit: and google?
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by naringas 7y ago
I would argue that centralized control lends itself to corruption more easily and distributed control. After all, if there exist a central authority, only that one authority being corrupt messes up everything. On the other hand, a distribut
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by naringas 7y ago
rule #1 implies that your customers must depend on you, it encourages the service providers to make it difficult (or at least inconvenient) for their customers to replace (or abandon ) them... I don't like it. it reminds me of drugs. b
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by naringas 7y ago
are there any modern (fiat) currencies still backed by gold?
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by naringas 7y ago
> looking at the ledger used by governments to keep score amongst themselves is quite telling. how does one do this? do you mean looking at the currency exchnage market?
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by naringas 7y ago
all these kind of weird comments I make as an attempt of being critical ofthen get downvoted. I don't understand why but the outcome is I make less of them and think twice before posting (I probably shouldn't post this, but meh, t
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by naringas 7y ago
the law as a system of rule to organize society is failing (another example is those kids prosecuted for child porn because they took pictures of themselves before being over the age of consent). money rules society, and legality works for
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by naringas 7y ago
well, we better figure out how to do it or will kill the planet and then die along with it. it's not an easy challenge; over 6000 years of western cultural evolution are built, hinged and based on growth and expansion by exploitation.
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by naringas 7y ago
we will have to understand how culture (i.e. original definition of memes: cultural attitudes, bits of knowledge, generalized narratives) is a collective action in which we all participate. In essence it works by mimicry. we mimic our peers

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