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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
There's a counter-argument to be heard that grand "Longtermism" is actually part of the problem. Maybe modern society does understand all too well that decisions affect the entire future of humanity, and is both completely ha
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Why do you think it's terrible? FWIW, so do I. But much like we say of capitalism and democracy, it's the worst apart from all the others. I have yet to find a better one that captures the attendant issues.
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> power ... exerting force over a minority ... free software movements were never about the openness nor the accessibility of the source code. But about issues such as this. Yes, Free Software culture has always been more about justi
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
As the author of "Digital Vegan" [1] and "Ethics For Hackers" there's much about this thread that pleases me. Some very intelligent discussion is emerging. I feel both that the time has come for fundamental cultural
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Fair play. Eyes on the road keep driving isn't a bad way. At least in your mind you're thinking about what next and where to turn the wheel.
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happ
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I think what the author says is true. The mass of digital workers use older, established and unfashionable technology, and are neither vocal nor particularly curious about the work. But there's an implication of moral purity at play. A
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
There's some tidbits good psychology in this guide. I don't know of this writer or their subject, but the piece touches on a hard part of sustainable, professional writing, which is "where do authentic ideas come from?".
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I take it that folk here believe advertisers are parasites and that I am defending them by suggesting mindlessness rather than malice is at work.
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Nuclear plants are struggling to cool their reactors. Here's a piece of system fragility I think we pay too little attention to: the role of water in generative infrastructure.
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu... Checking if the site connection is secure. Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding. That's
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> It is a society that is more brittle This is one of the very serious issues that isn't really on our radar, and is not well addressed in the documentary. Disclaimer: I am interviewed in this short film, which is why I submitted
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What Is a Cashless Society?(youtube.com)
2 points by nonrandomstring 4y ago|2 comments
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
You and I probably follow this stuff more than the average person. These days it's pretty much my job to. And yet I missed Carrier-IQ, the Android vendor malware. Eventually read about it a year after the first investigations. Also I a
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> It would be a huge scandal if any of those cloud providers were caught peering inside their customer's VMs. No it wouldn't. At this point it could be revealed tomorrow by mountain of incontrovertible evidence and most peopl
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Trying to improve the lives for those around me Time very well spent. A certain component of wisdom is the mix of pride and regret that gives you carefully considered perspectives to pass on. It's not fashionable to "respect
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I would like to add anything by Alan Macfarlane, particularly his Huxley lecture, and the core books recommended in the Cambridge University course on Social and Cultural Anthropology. I'd then suggest taking the knife of a kind of pos
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Absolute parasites. Might I disagree. They are vandals. A parasite is an organism that survives by extracting from others. These are bots or bots designed by mindless individuals and set loose to do harm. They deserve even less respect
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Art is Fundamentally Social ... I suspect that this view could be useful for understanding other new phenomena as well. And old ones. There's a reason Donald Knuth titled his lifelong works "The Art of Computer Programming&
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
The important difference is that an author is just one person with a busy life who for a few hours a week writes to manipulate your emotional state. Facebook is a machine. It's a gargantuan, for-profit, always-on swarm of bots spread g
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Loss of the eePC 900/1000 series is another exhibit in the case that "Markets are a Myth". How could such a self evidently near perfect form factor be deemed "niche"?
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I like your use of the word "evacuate". Recently I came upon the the phrase "cloud repatriation", which seemed a fresh angle on a word that's fallen on hard times. Evacuate! Yes we need a Dunkirk for those helpless
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
LISPs all seem tremendously resilient. I wonder what intrinsic quality makes a language long lived, rather than blame communities and whatnot. Another stalwart is Pure Data, the DSP language I am very fond of. It's based on atomic prin
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Plenty of places with high ethnic/religious diversity have thrived: What you say is true but besides the point. There's no argument to be made against ethnic/religious diversity. But there is a problem with foreign inter
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Not the best or deepest account, but for the modern reader who can't spare time on Aristotle and a gamut of old beards [1] Acemoglu and Robinson's account is clear and interesting reading [2]. In the case of Lebanon, the story is
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Edit: I just remembered something more HN relevant. At one of the London hackspaces there was a machine, maybe a Roland IIRC, that you could program to do really intricate embroidery. TBH it looked like a real hassle to set the thing up wit
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I picked out your comment and didn't mean that to reflect personally on you or assume your deeper intentions, sorry. Yours and few other comments seemed to really jar against what felt like a very sincere and open post by the OP. I&#x
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Read together, some comments seem to reveal the poles of a moral landscape in the hacker community: > Guix saved my life... finally feeling some stability in life; and a desire to explore other creative outlets such as blogging (hi!),
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> countermeasures that could fool the first team's gizmo And on paper, what an economy! Where else would you find engineers with the expert knowledge better placed to defeat your own toys :) fubar, what a show :)
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
A most interesting read. Never heard of this effect. It makes sense. Maybe caught a whiff of it in some organisations. In highly compartmentalised setups you sometimes feel that another team is working directly against you. There's als

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