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by netcan 6y ago
what is fake psilocybin?
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by netcan 6y ago
Well... it's been 30+ years.
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by netcan 6y ago
Is it a race to the bottom though? I mean, a race to the bottom in the normal sense is cutting taxes or spending money on attracting these companies. We help these companies evade other countries' taxes, not our own. Also, officially,
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by netcan 6y ago
Some irish background: About 30% of Irish GDP is "leprechaun economics." Funds that transfer through ireland without touching anything, and "would disappear if you tried to touch it." If you look up financial statistics
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by netcan 6y ago
11 seconds of revenue, maybe 45 of profit.
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by netcan 6y ago
This is the sort of thing I meant in my original comment. " The chinese government use tiktok for propaganda " is an effective call to action. Once you form an opinion on tiktok, the FB equivalents will start to to stand out. The
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by netcan 6y ago
I agree with you. Besides " FB would have bought it ," social media doesn't generally do "replacement." Nuanced differences in product lead to different products, because the "social" aspect is made of cul
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by netcan 6y ago
I think you're missing my point. First, I think "benign commercial interests" are not. At least not at that scale. Lobbying proves the point. Tech/media is not even the big example. Military industry, banking, mining and
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by netcan 6y ago
Isn't the condor still much more efficient. How many calories does a cyclist need to travel 100 miles?
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by netcan 6y ago
This tiktok "war" is, ultimately, changing the way people politicians think about media tech. With Twitter or Facebook, it's a lot easier to dismiss the magnitude of their influence. After all, they're not in business to
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by netcan 6y ago
For anyone in the space, how substantial is the "research robot" market? What's realistic, hundreds of units, thousands?
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by netcan 6y ago
That isn't necessarily a bad frame for "what a cool robot should do" ideas.
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by netcan 6y ago
Does anyone know what's going on in florida with face recognition?
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by netcan 6y ago
" One of the strangest phenomena in academia is " is a good opening line. Deep well.
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by netcan 6y ago
Marketing isn't the only thing that sells chips. OP is talking about actual usefulness. It's not that useful to Linus and what he needs. OP is arguing that it is useful to others, doing different things, and that those use cases
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by netcan 6y ago
I agree with you, but I don't think the author made a "therefore, X will not happen" claim, at least not a strong one. The ham radio analogy is quite good, up to a point. Bitcoin as an alternative, backup technology kept aliv
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by netcan 6y ago
I think it's an inability, rather than refusal. It's not outright impossible to say "this is unknown," but it does conflict with the way our mind naturally works. We don't leave "i don't know" holes.
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by netcan 6y ago
There is science the method, epistemology, etc. There is science, the human institution. The epistemology of science is pretty solid, but in our interaction and understanding of science as people we tend to struggle keeping these separate.
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by netcan 6y ago
Reductio ad deus is a recurring pattern, or at least it was, when we look hopefully into a radical future. Radical political movements develop messianic themes, whether or not they rejected pre-existing ideas of god. Modern futurists are di
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by netcan 6y ago
There are plenty of cases where programmers only start programming for real at a post-college job. The majority case, even. That said, sure. There are differences in substance, history, everything. Those might be the reason for differences
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by netcan 6y ago
Often, these discussions go awry is when we overestimate and build upon solid seeming concepts that are actually squishy. Marriage and prison bitch have very different connotations to us. To an alien...these are all in the sphere of couplin
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by netcan 6y ago
I think we agree. I'm not even sure hobekki tepeh is evidence of sedentary society. It is evidence of what it is, primarily: the existence of a large monument/statuary site. I even think "sedentary" becomes an less int
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by netcan 6y ago
It does generally exclude pastoralists. In fact, it pretty much ignores and overlooks them. There was definitely a time when most humans were hunter-gatherers, including or excluding pastoralists. The earliest evidence fore very much of eit
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by netcan 6y ago
I was probably overcompensating, trying to be civil. Yes, imperialist/racist views of the 19th century used this narrative a lot. 20th century racism had a lot of pseudoarchaeology thrown into it too. The concept of "civilisation&
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by netcan 6y ago
I think it runs the other way. There is an orthodox view of the chain of events. We can call it a theory, but it is more suggestive than predictive. Still, its only the strongest theory as long as it is most parsimonious with existing evide
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by netcan 6y ago
To me, these are the big questions. It's also hard to avoid bias, since we have such strong and abstract feelings about " group technologies, such as rule of law and democracy ." Fragility is an interesting question. I think
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by netcan 6y ago
I think there is long term culture clash between old and new ways of learning, in the "over a career" sense. The old way is the formal, with external motivations and structures. Maybe there's a curriculum, like accountancy ha
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by netcan 6y ago
I like these sorts of analysis, whether I agree or not. I've come to believe though, that they need humour. There's always a tendency to over-extrapolate, get hung up on typologies which crack under weight and to assume the model
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by netcan 6y ago
Perhaps. I mean, it is certainly true that everyone needs to eat. OTOH, thinking of these as a chain of events is what I am calling the orthodox view. IE, new food sources (maybe because new food production/gathering methods) lead to l
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by netcan 6y ago
Really interesting find. An old theme in archeology has been the importance of invention, in a chain of events leading to modernity. A pretty orthodox interpretation of neolithic cultural changes was: (1) surpluses from agriculture (2) divi

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