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2701.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
That sounds a little rude as a bare question. But it's a good one. Because friends (real ones that would drive to to the hospital) are where we start to rebuild this mess.
2702.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> You ask this rhetorically, as if it's some sort of intractable question Sorry if it came over that way. I certainly didn't mean it to sound rhetorical. I'm all about actually changing things. > 20th century is full
2703.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Optimising for desperation is great if you're building a criminal gang in which most of the day-to-day activities go against a normal person's good moral judgement.
2704.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
A poetic summary. Toxic work culture is a very serious thing. It's both a cause and symptom of a dysfunctional economy and we need to fix it with the same urgency as problems of transport, environment and health (and it relates to all)
2705.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
No. It's that Basement Bob's Raspberry Pi doesn't need to.
2706.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> But that's not necessarily good enough to home in a SAM, they don't have enough TX power Fair enough. I guess if you need to hit back you got to give yourself (or your trackers) away. Scary what your saying about anti-sat t
2707.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> operating a big site/service This sounds like a very plausible argument. I've heard many of the arguments and don't dispute the threat model to something like Cloudflare. And yet something about it still doesn't add
2708.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Lovely response, much more than I'd hoped for. Thank you sir. I suppose another issue that then arises, even if we did have decent prediction, is how to present and use predictive info. A "traffic light" system leading up to
2709.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> for example by using reflected DVB-T transmissions Now imagine if you had a constellation of thousands of orbital satellites with precisely known positions...say Starlink. Will ground stations even be a thing as passive anslysis mature
2710.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
How far are we from decent prediction? Many years ago ago I looked quite deeply at stick-slip friction models, the mathematics, dynamics and signals. I'd wager, in the time since 2005, there's a lot we could do with machine learni
2711.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
But I don't invite people to my house and then slam the door in their face.
2712.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I would have liked to read that. Instead here's what I see: > Checking if the site connection is secure > Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue > blog.cloudflare.com needs to review the security of your connection before
2713.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Encrypted email and search. It's no easier to send a confidential message using the most widespread communications protocol than in 1980. Searching for anything serious/interesting I pause and think: Do I have it locally? Else, wh
2714.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Good question. Had exactly this conversation yesterday. There were two groups of opinions. Positive feedback usually does one of these two things: 1 - It will deflate 2 - It will explode Deflation is where the output of system tends toward
2715.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I like Cathy O'Neil's work. I wish I'd read more of her before finishing some of the chapters in Digital Vegan because she sees clearly and uses good examples. Maybe The Invisible Committee hit the mark a little ahead of her
2716.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> The topic of bullshit jobs has been overhyped. I think that's true and it's a shame Graeber's choice of language basically offends. Who wants to hear that their job is "bullshit"? And let's face it, someti
2717.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Text did't feel like them, though I don't know them that well. This is key. Recon for this requires finding the edges of your social graph. Too close and you'd twig instantly. Too far and you wouldn't care enough
2718.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Boss: "Hicks, how come you're not working." Bill: "There's nothing to do." Boss: "Well, you pretend like you're working." Perhaps the biggest sink on the economy and environment is perfomative w
2719.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
"Photoshop for text" was the title of a HN post here just a few days ago. Many commenters delighted at the idea of being able to highlight a passage, pull down a menu and "Rewrite Style -> Ernest Hemingway". Nice peop
2720.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Someone you don't like read a book. Therefore the book is rubbish. I suppose this is the logic we get from kids raised by algorithms.
2721.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
That's indeed post-modernism for you. Didn't Jean Baudrillard say something similar about communication (the ecstasy of communication?) in which the wanton act itself substitutes for the meaning of the act. We've grown to pre
2722.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I'd recommend The Origins of War in Child Abuse by Lloyd DeMause [1] if you aren't already aware of it. The actual child abuse part is not apropos the technological aspects, but there's a deep (one of the most direct and powe
2723.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Peak tech. This feels rather behind the curve, like the author is just figuring out what we've been saying here for many years now. But the difference is that it's now okay for an MIT professor of AI Ethics to say it. That'
2724.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> post Brexit vote polling indicated that a great many people had no idea that this was a binding referendum rather than some "national poll of the feels" It's remarkable isn't it, just how fragmented non-broadcas
2725.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
It's the quality of people. Our institutions are reliable. Our parliament, judiciary, civil services, while weakened by decades of under-funding, remain essentially sound and held together by great hard working people with a deep ethic
2726.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> This conversation is over as far as I’m concerned. Well thank goodness for that. You've offered nothing of any value except reiterating your own disagreement and sidestepped everything I've offered you with wilful ignorance.
2727.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Yes I think that's right. It's a general pattern, Outsourcing disempowers in unexpected ways. The "finding", as it were, is that for some reason people in tech are surprised by this. They don't readily see that movi
2728.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Your original statement was that we, the collective west, are confortable buying the product of child labour as long as it happens abroad. This is clearly false. I don't think it is "clearly false". And you've o
2729.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> complex and complicated Complexity is not a virtue. It is a dangerous resilience anti-pattern and should not be lionised. Unless you're insinuating that things in fact remain simple but the complaints of complexity are down to the
2730.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> and for good reason. Good reasons for some people. But it turned out that those reasons (which you avoid explicating) were not so good for some people after all. Methods upon which you now "look back with nostalgia" had value

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