nathias

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by nathias 4y ago
I just want to add that 100% of all species will eventually die out. Cosmic death, baby.
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by nathias 4y ago
not at all, google dispositional knowledge
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by nathias 4y ago
I still like last.fm for listening history. I have it connected to CMUS, I tried to also make it work with youtube with an extensions but it didn't work very well.
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by nathias 4y ago
oh-my-zsh is too slow, too bloated, just install the plugins you need with antibody that 'compiles' them
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by nathias 4y ago
Diehl is a well known anti-crypto scammer
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by nathias 4y ago
I recommend Mumford's Technics and Civilization.
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by nathias 4y ago
this is a great strategy if you already have near infinite resources
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by nathias 4y ago
I think it does, because of its complexity, it's more of a set of technologies than just a software solution. Preventing double-spend is just the main use, however in order to do this a whole game-theoretical economic/technologica
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by nathias 4y ago
sure, but the problem contraints arent reducible to engineering, so in the example you're giving an established centralized authority can profit from selling credentials using only a key signature, but a new decentralized bottom-up cre
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by nathias 4y ago
'right tools for the right job' seems like just re-stating the original point in different terms, how right a tool is depends on the actual context a big part of that context is culture, preferences, politics etc. not just enginee
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by nathias 4y ago
the original purpose of an invention does not limit the scope of its application
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by nathias 4y ago
how is he most reputable? because he paid a lot for ads?
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by nathias 4y ago
the CEO of FTX stole his customers funds, nothing to do with crypto, nothing to do with reporters
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by nathias 4y ago
Complexity, life, spirit ... Absence of pain is never a sufficent base, otherwise killing as much people as you can (painlessly) would be the highest good.
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by nathias 4y ago
we don't all base ethics on the capacity to suffer
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by nathias 4y ago
it isn't, it's destruction of property or just preventing something to be published by royal decree (or nowadays by advertisers)
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by nathias 4y ago
I'm here, I care about free speech in general, mine included. It seems pretty bad faith to consider people who just want to spread their specific message and would be glad to censor their opponents as free speech absolutists.
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by nathias 4y ago
or, conversely, to judge ideas based on their merit and not based on who says them, maybe in some deep wonderfull future ...
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by nathias 4y ago
No, free speech isn't just about keeping violence from search of truth it's about tolerating what you consider untruth. Rationalist philosophers that invented the concept were censored, excommunicated and their works were burned,
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by nathias 4y ago
Billionires preaching to me about morality, because I'm supporting decentralized solutions? Who could take this seriously?
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by nathias 4y ago
> FTX has dealt a catastrophic blow to crypto’s reputation I've been in crypto since 2013 and people have been insulting crypto and everyone in it as scammers, I'm not sure how another centralized exchange stealing user funds i
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by nathias 4y ago
your reflexes stay mostly the same for your whole life
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by nathias 4y ago
your problem with terminal is that you don't grok vi
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by nathias 4y ago
effective altruism is really effective until you get caught
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by nathias 4y ago
none, I just use it for other stuff too
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by nathias 4y ago
evernote was one of the programs that trapped me, it took some effort to finally migrate my data (I'm now using md files/ obsidian for mobile frontend synced with syncthing)
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by nathias 4y ago
We live in a cyberpunk dystopia without cool gadgets. Corporations have hijacked most of the institutions and are selling populations of people as 'userbases' to each other in order to harvest for data and attention. Web3 is a lin
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by nathias 4y ago
Sure, one could and does say that, I'm just making a claim that we have to differentiate this better, not for being terminological pedants but because all the crashes of centralized exchanges will be used to regulate decentralized cryp
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by nathias 4y ago
are they really bitcoin investors if they don't have bitcoins? they gave money to an exchange for a promise, and those promises get broken a lot ...
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by nathias 4y ago
These ideas are philosophically void, but really thrive in practice. I think it has to do with encoding population into discrete identities, this is why buraucracies love it, it's like building an API between populations and institutio

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