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by naringas 6y ago
I think about the "war on drugs" with that same pattern. what if the point was never public health but increasing overall corruption? they knew prohibitions increase corruption after the alcohol prohibition... so why not?
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by naringas 6y ago
how's is Snowden any different? he had to go live in exile and nothing changed
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by naringas 6y ago
reminiscent of sillicon valley and free and open source software. when it was starting out it was great that it was free and open. now that their economies depend on it, the freedom and the openess are not so important.
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by naringas 6y ago
This characteristic of Chinese culture, IMO, serves to understand why the whole Intellectual Property debacle has been so contentious. As I see it this is the main point behind the USA-China "trade war" I think the USA only defend
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by naringas 6y ago
money is (in an indicrect and rough sense) a form of energy energy is all about the capacity to do work. how do you make humans do work? you give them money so money is all about the capacity to make humans do work.
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by naringas 6y ago
numberphile did a video of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9_l8QASobI with Jayadev Athreya one of the main people involved
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by naringas 6y ago
In Europe 100 km is far away. In America 100 years is a long time ago.
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by naringas 6y ago
I bet it's also not necessary to drive in Siena, Italy
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by naringas 6y ago
> A virtuous cycle indeed. I think that "vicious" is more appropriate here
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by naringas 6y ago
seems like the internet in 2020 has a diminished ability to route around damage
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by naringas 6y ago
reminds me of https://meaningness.com/eggplant/definition
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by naringas 6y ago
aka the toil vs the hustle
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by naringas 6y ago
I imagine a couple ways this would play out in china 1. nobody ever hears nor finds out anything because it's all kept within the party. 2. they are publically shamed and they are sent to a re-education camp never to be seen or heard a
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by naringas 6y ago
indeed not. There's a youtube video with Steven Pinker explaining how passive verbs often improve the flow of writing thus increasing legibility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5J6BfToSw
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by naringas 6y ago
there's something illogical about "disruptive innovation methodology" how can something disruptive and innovative -- which I take to imply unpredictable novelty -- be methodological? I take methodology to imply that something
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by naringas 6y ago
what about disabling the short advertisement preview played before what I actually want to watch? sure I can skip it, but why should I have to?
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by naringas 6y ago
don't forget all the people who cannot afford to care.
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by naringas 6y ago
tiktok is better for memes anyways
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by naringas 6y ago
intellectual property is conceptually corrupt. at the very least we should be honest and admit that it's all about being continuously paid for things we already finished doing (sometimes even generations ago). but I am pretty sure that
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by naringas 6y ago
It's far worse, USA needs their entire economy to stop relying on IP
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by naringas 6y ago
soon there will no longer be the one internet. There will internet one for the USA and the "west", internet two for China and the "east" internet. and maybe a third type of internet for some countries which connects two
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by naringas 6y ago
here's a parragraph in which I replaced "brain" with "scientist" and mouth with "experimental data" > The point of this is to form a hypothesis. If the scientist and the experimental data say the same t
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by naringas 6y ago
> So what does it mean to be intelligent? It means to be able to do nothing. I think this AI is onto something
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by naringas 6y ago
that mission is as old as their former unofficial motto. I think it's an outdated statement.
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by naringas 6y ago
discipline is like keeping promises you make to yourself and habits are just things you do cyclically and sometimes even without thinking but which you had to learn to do at some point (washing hands after using the toilet, brushing your te
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by naringas 6y ago
maybe people shouldn't be able to make a living out awating rent? this is pure 'rent-seeking', I understand the appeal tho... wouldn't it be nice if I didn't have to do anything at all for a living but wait for my t
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by naringas 6y ago
if so, could this end up as good for RISC-V in the long run?
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by naringas 6y ago
nobody is openly opressing anybody the keyword is "openly"...
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by naringas 6y ago
I suspect that some of the language of credit and debit is so old that it was created before postive and negative integers were widely accepted
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by naringas 6y ago
I think it more accurate to say they make people question things

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