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by netcan 5y ago
It's definitely an enterprise of some sort, and hence probably qualifies for many kinds of checks and laws. For good or ill, a common pattern is (1) someone just does it. (2) it attracts regulatory oversight/action/whatnot (3
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by netcan 5y ago
The story is complex. There aren't really no "gimme evidence" answers to these kinds of issues. A lot of people over centuries in many countries give you a lot if stories. One major factor was population growth. This was due
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by netcan 5y ago
There are two ways to approach such findings. One is to think of birds/lobsters/octopuses as more cognitively complex, intelligent and such. The other is to think of ourselves as less so. Sometimes the latter probably is more true
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by netcan 5y ago
confusion, frustration, anxiety
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by netcan 5y ago
Doubtful. The temperature-age is such that none (afaik) has been recovered from any of the other bones found in that cave.
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by netcan 5y ago
Space requirements are very different to stairs or other lifts.
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by netcan 5y ago
>Every religion teaches the same basic social principles in some way or another. This is often repeated, seldom examined up close. It's true only in the vaguest sense, that "be good" is a common theme and that there are so
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by netcan 5y ago
I don't think left and right are meaningful outside of their political career texts. Catholicism has, at various times in modern history, represented both the far left and far right, or places in between.
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by netcan 5y ago
The terms lazy, stupid, etc. are relative terms, relative to expectations. "Everyone sucks" is, generally, disillusionment talking. Rational embellishments like this author is indulging in often follow. People are people. Both irr
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by netcan 5y ago
I'll definitely check it out. True, verifiable or not... even the most speculative theories are interesting to me. I'm even (especially) a fan of Julian Jaynes, and his strongest claims are flat wrong. Music is certainly a wild ca
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by netcan 5y ago
Hmmm. I think there's been a lot of speculation about human musical tendencies and the relationship to speech and intelligence. Idk if it's wise to hypothesise that "intelligence" arises at any point. We don't have
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by netcan 5y ago
People (almost) always underestimate legibility problems. The terms used (eg knowledge problems, documentation, etc) betray this. Where and when we can "solve" knowledge problems via codification, that work is now a commodity. It
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by netcan 5y ago
One of the most fascinating points, to me, in "Sapiens," is that we have no evidence suggesting homo sapiens were culturally or behaviourally more sophisticated than other species prior to this period. We inhabited a different geo
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by netcan 5y ago
Quite, but I don't think GP is jumping to a conclusion. More like proposing an interesting hypothesis.
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historically revisionist? I don't see how we can get anywhere discussing like this. Instead of discussing the topic, it's all meta. Ad hominems, characterizations of the argument and accusations of bad faith. As I said, disagree a
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by netcan 5y ago
Hoo... Ho. That's a bit much. "half PR" & " politically inconvenient " are an unnecessary assumption of bad faith. Patio11's not doing PR or propoganda. Disagree and/or add to the discussion as you s
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by netcan 5y ago
What apparent innocence? No one has argued anything like this. Not the author. Not me. The thing you are objecting to isn't apparent innocence of western imperialism. The thing you are objecting to is the existence of a story that is a
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by netcan 5y ago
I wonder how much pollution tolerance and even preferences play a role here. The Thames has been heavily polluted for hundreds of years, at this point.
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by netcan 5y ago
It's pretty common in social science/philosophy that a paradigm gets popular, overly drawn upon and that then pisses off the next commentators. Graener & Wengrove are as susceptible to this as others. I mean... the origins of
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I think those fights/takes are Wengrow's.
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I know, and that is precisely the problem. The zealot perspective is that every story is the same story. It's always a story about capitalist greed or always story about moral impurity or always a story about market interventions going
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by netcan 5y ago
This is a first person recollection of a nine year old girl's experience surviving two revolutionary civil wars and a genocide. Not incidentally, the sentiments you express were the precise sentiments weaponised to fuel and justify thi
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by netcan 5y ago
If you'd read it, you'd have found that the blindness is not there. But I don't think it's the piece you would have wanted either way. Willful zealotry is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. I see it in your comment
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by netcan 5y ago
Too soon to say. Policy plays a big roles here and chinese policy debates are mysterious. It's possible they want to crash the real estate market, and reverse out of the appreciating real estate setup. Trade off between middle class
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by netcan 5y ago
The trend continues... Tiktok pushed the passive user experience further, and youtube is following. The ideal is user launches app, the app takes care of everything else. Looking at the downvote count is just an extra thing the user can, mi
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by netcan 5y ago
Unfortunately, at least unfortunately for your preferences, YouTube (and the modern web broadly, perhaps) does not really prioritize ways for users to find content. They're committed to recommendation and such.
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Yeah. Reddit's structure gives us a lot of insight.
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Exactly. You can't, imo, usefully abstract login/anonymity from the context of what the site is. Is it a chatty forum, like hn? A wiki has somewhat objective or predefined goals. That legibility helps frame things and flame wars n
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by netcan 5y ago
Maybe, but " a community that really valued anonymous posting " is likely to be defined by this value. The first "problem" is that likely use cases are users/comments/topics that aren't allowed elsewhere.
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by netcan 5y ago
I disagree. First, Google (and FB/amzn, which also have dogs in this) are extremely powerful within the media industry. So, their shadow looms very long here. Second, thinking of these issues as running via media through to an informed

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