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by naringas 7y ago
I think that in general surgery is often unwarranted. surgery should be the absolute last resort.
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by naringas 7y ago
indeed it is the same thing, I think it is looks like it's a joke in the vein of turing complete PowerPoint but way more hardcore
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by naringas 7y ago
> Technological goods, especially SaaS, I think it's more accurate to call them "digital goods", because IMO what enables the less than near-zero marginal cost (I consider them negligible costs) is the digital nature of th
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by naringas 7y ago
software is transforming humanity's culture and society on a scale comparable with the invention of written language. This has just begun. We ain't seen nothing yet.
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by naringas 7y ago
Do they produce/create anything? or do they simply trade finacial assets in a way such that they accumulate profit? and by "simply trade" I really mean "trade in an incredibly sophisticated and clever way"
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by naringas 7y ago
reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21278705
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by naringas 7y ago
>“We are going to be shocked by the speed, the chaos, the bloodiness, and the friction of a future fight in which this will be playing out, I think this article's focus is way off It's more plausible that algorithmic warfare is
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by naringas 7y ago
> websites will go back to serving opaque binary blobs instead of HTML+CSS+JS. they will just serve web assembly
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by naringas 7y ago
is this a pathology? the wikipedia article doesn't make it clear.
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by naringas 7y ago
looks like a form of Ascetism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism
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by naringas 7y ago
fair enough. I agree that my statement wasn't really related to what you said. I'm just nitpicky about the tacit implications of that common phrase "born into the world"
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by naringas 7y ago
I understand very little about this subject. So here are some questions... the fed issues treasury bonds (am I right?) then some bank buys them, i.e. the bank gives the fed money and the fed pays it back with interest until the bond's
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by naringas 7y ago
but you need a decent ax to use them. you cannot use wood with your bare hands
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by naringas 7y ago
do you disagree with the general statement "we are born out of this world"? does that mean you think that we "are born into this world" (nevermind if we are born with good or bad fortune)?
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by naringas 7y ago
people are not born into this world, we are born out of (or from) it
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by naringas 7y ago
except that you're nowhere near your car
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by naringas 7y ago
what if the summoned car gets hit by another car (in such a way the it is not the tesla's fault)? what if somebody throws themselves into the tesla?
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by naringas 7y ago
right now at 12p UTC there's a different set of top stories. I call these Euro top stories. Within the next 2-4 hours USA will wake up and the top stories will change.
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by naringas 7y ago
how would that make movies indistinguishable from each other?
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by naringas 7y ago
there is a group of conspiracy theories around the idea the all those "scientific occultism" and "psychological warfare" ventures continued in the USA among programs such as MKULTRA and others (say the theories) not yet
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by naringas 7y ago
also about Iger's Disney https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/its-time-to-break-up-disn...
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by naringas 7y ago
the issue with all these (mongodb, elasticsearch, sentry, redis, etc...) is that software doesn't work with zero marginal costs, software's creation and distribution costs are different, the same goes to anything digital. Selling
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by naringas 7y ago
reader mode! activate!!
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by naringas 7y ago
so: internet technology used to centralize (or concentrate) information is basically a gateway to tyranny in purely technical terms, internet technology doesn't necessitate that information be centralized, it works just fine when it&#x
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by naringas 7y ago
what if instead of actually "going back" (which we can't anyways) we just re-apply this notion going forward ?
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by naringas 7y ago
how was it solved in 18th century Paris? was it solved? I think that culture just sort of "evolves" out of the problem?
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by naringas 7y ago
that explanation is linked from this article.
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by naringas 7y ago
> Anyone can choose not to execute my code on their machine, that's their call. this is not even close to being true. Specially in the smartphone world.
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by naringas 7y ago
no one can tell where will end up. regardless, I don't think it's optimism because I don't think I will leave long enough to see such a world, at best we will leave through the roughest part of the shift. this level of cultur
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by naringas 7y ago
> Growth implies success there's a very famous counterexample, namely cancer. are there others?

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