nologic01

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by nologic01 3y ago
the sustainability of open source projects that are not corporate-backed is, famously, a major issue. In analogy, if creative production was to be paid by a benevolent patron that doesn't care if the work is then released in the publ
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by nologic01 3y ago
I hope people get to read your comment to understand indeed what kind of world you are advocating.
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by nologic01 3y ago
I am not trying to defend copyright. I am trying to defend the incentives and ability of humans to dedicate their lives to something that might be innate to all to some degree but only comes to fruition after long years of dedication. Older
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by nologic01 3y ago
You are going on an irrelevant tangent (whether people enjoying being creative - which is obviously true at least for some) instead of answering a very clear and simple question: how, in your evolved and less broken universe, will talented
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by nologic01 3y ago
In your infinite sanity you have not answered my question of how a creative person will dedicate their life (starting from long studies) producing something that society will not reward in any way.
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In your universe apparently "creative people" don't need to spend a lifetime of study to hone their art, don't need food and shelter every single day etc. Its amazing how callous tech people have become as they salivate
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by nologic01 3y ago
Excuse me? What moral and economic planet are you living on? Enjoyment is an important drive behind any creative person, so much is true. But at least part of the enjoyment comes from other people appreciating, acknowledging and, yes, remun
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by nologic01 3y ago
Really? can you point to some example? People have been putting up with some theft because they could still eke a living. This attitude has all the coherency of "some people are thieves, we cannot catch them all, so lets make theft leg
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by nologic01 3y ago
Can somebody explain how this will not kill any incentive to publish anything? Why would any human spend their limited lifespan to create a piece of work that will be grabbed without permission, approximated algorithmically (at least on the
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by nologic01 3y ago
Put your self in a climate scientist's shoes. What would you do? Society clearly doesn't want to hear the news. "We have other fish to fry" (Like get even with other humans etc.) You can raise the alarm and be accused ab
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by nologic01 3y ago
Would be interesting to see a "price" for users actually being shown generic ads but with absolutely no profiling or other "personalized" experience. I would never trust that entity anyway, even if they offered it, but
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by nologic01 3y ago
Maybe worth pointing out that there are countless other weird Universes where "Pi" retains its standard value. This is the domain of differential geometry where the relation of circumference and radius holds only in the limit of i
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by nologic01 3y ago
> It has a huge cognitive load This. Its like trying to keep three distinct languages (C, old C++, new C++) in one's head at the same time. It is much better use of one's mental energy to spend that effort on three actually d
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by nologic01 3y ago
Everything we do online is soul-altering. The online world is a different place. Vastly bigger in some ways and ridiculously narrower in others. We are the guinea-pig generations. We rushed into it without much preparation and simply figure
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by nologic01 3y ago
Honest question, if its so great an ecosystem why is it not adopted more? I can cite some easily available public stats: Scholar, which is compared to numpy, has like 0.001% of its popularity. (While there are rumors people buy likes on git
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by nologic01 3y ago
Its harsh to say it, but Wolfram tried his best at a computational theory of everything and failed. We didn't know this is in the eighties, when the first cellular automata ideas were conceived. So it was a worthy thing to explore in e
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by nologic01 3y ago
Does X have a subscription for chronological order of the timeline? Could be another pile of gold just lying there, ready for the taking.
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by nologic01 3y ago
Authenticity and commerce are awkward bedfellows. Just take a look at corporate communications where complete vacuity and obfuscation is the status-quo, way before social media. The main new thing is virality and actors trying to ride pla
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by nologic01 3y ago
"Strange" is not the same as monstrous though. People will spend enormous resources (off my head its like 10% of global GDP) seeking to experience "strangeness". We call this phenomenon tourism :-) The benefit of tempora
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by nologic01 3y ago
Its a fascinating but painful read. It points to the elaborate and arbitrary cultural constructs we invent to interpret and regulate responses to the physical and behavioral diversity of humanity. Ten centuries later we like to think that w
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by nologic01 3y ago
> Regulations intended to help smaller companies enter the marketplace “very frequently can also be used by incumbents to gain advantage over their rivals” But how much do we care if %x of users switch from coke to pepsi? If regulations
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by nologic01 3y ago
Something that will complicate technological solutions going forward is the need to have no negative environmental impacts across the entire lifecycle of any new contraptions, under a scenario where they are produced, used and recycled at p
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by nologic01 3y ago
This is definitely not a web-only issue. I have seen the same issue with convergent KDE apps (Qt UI based). Not an expert in this space but intuitively it feels that what is missing in a widely adopted heuristic of how to "best",
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by nologic01 3y ago
When living within any era, it is really hard to appreciate how much of the stuff we value (and what we don't) is just a cultural convention specific to that era (and with a high degree of arbitrariness). People historically would ro
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by nologic01 3y ago
the causes might be viciously debatable and challenged but the lost opportunity (versus a counterfactual universe where there is less strife and destruction and more coherence and construction) is quite tangible. one can only hope that the
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by nologic01 3y ago
the barycenter of human civilization has lingered over this broader area for millennia. It is sad that in modern times it never managed to gain at least some basic stability, if not a revival and renewed contributions to the human storybook
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If you (like me) wondered why go back decades to what is pressumably lower quality imagery than what is available today, here is the spoiler: > They (cold war era) “preserve a high-resolution, stereo perspective on a landscape that has b
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by nologic01 3y ago
I am sure if the human soul has any other button in the "Inane but Addictive" collection, Meta will find it, push it and capitalize on it. There is no other entity that has collected so much information on the weaknesses of human
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by nologic01 3y ago
"Lost" is a strange word to use in this context. Its an investment. An investment is only a loss if its written off because the company decided that the whole project and direction is a dead end. That does not seem to be the case
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by nologic01 3y ago
would GCP (or AWS for that matter) survive on their own? What does the relation with the parent company provide and what does it demand in return? From a business model perspective both these two entities are an aberration in how far they a

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