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by oska 8mo ago
Yes, Cisco & Sun Microsystems are the better comparisons
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by oska 8mo ago
Every organism must have an immune system which is essential to (but does not guarantee) their survival. Just the same, a society has xenophonia as its immune system. That does not make it 'bad', even though it can produce very ug
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by oska 8mo ago
I am very aware of the history of the Japanese with the Ainu, the native Okinawans , and in Korea and Taiwan (and in other countries, as I have said). The broader point that I am making, outside the specific instance of the Japanese which y
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by oska 8mo ago
I'm very aware, of course, of the horrific crimes that Japan carried out in China and other countries in the 1930s but that is not xenophobia. People going outside their country (to do whatever) are not affected by xenophobia. Xenoph
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by oska 8mo ago
When xenophobia is a useful social defence : > They were most successful in Japan, creating about 300,000 converts until their activities induced a wave of xenophobia and they were either expelled or killed. I am immensely glad that Japa
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by oska 8mo ago
Of course there is. The whole thing is a cult, designed to pull in suckers.
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by oska 8mo ago
Do you see Sam Bankman-Fried getting reinstated? I don't and I see Sam Altman as a greater fraud than that (loathsome) individual. And I don't think Sam gets through the coming bubble pop without being widely exposed (and likely p
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by oska 8mo ago
Justice should be blind
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by oska 9mo ago
Australians might like to know he worked on rsync and Samba while a PhD student at the ANU
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by oska 9mo ago
Yes, the GPL (by design) is what kept Linux from being embraced, extended and then extinguished
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by oska 10mo ago
Yeah, that's cool. I loathe almost all of them too (e.g. Zuckerberg, Altman, Hoffman, Ellison, etc) I guess what I'm saying is that when people only fixate on one oligarch, which one they mostly focus on can be quite telling.
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by oska 10mo ago
The appropriate place to link to your website, newsletter, whatever is on your bio page (which people have to actively click into, specifically because they want to know more about you and potentially find such links). I agree that linking
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by oska 10mo ago
Not wanting to particularly defend Reddit but a controversies section on a wikipedia page is hardly a good metric, in my opinion. Wikipedia is often used to malign various entities (and protect others).
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by oska 10mo ago
In my opinion, one of the things that most reveals a person's biases and worldview is which tech oligarchs they revere and which they loathe To reveal my own bias / worldview, I loathe and detest Bill Gates in nearly every way and
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by oska 10mo ago
Let's just ignore Tesla's enormous positive health impact of replacing millions of polluting vehicles with zero emission ones
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by oska 10mo ago
The GP comment was excellent and exactly the sort of unconventional but informed thinking (about tech) that I like to see on HN
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by oska 1y ago
I very much agree with your comment on an individual level (that of the individual judging the merit of information and opinion they are being presented with). I certainly take provenance into account. However, I was talking about HN the si
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by oska 1y ago
> There are plenty of equally uninformed youtubers with glowing praise for SpaceX Definitely true > Just like the real news, people divide themselves into bubbles of whatever reinforces their beliefs Hopefully HN can be better than th
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by oska 1y ago
Mildly interesting to be exposed to the world of 'YouTube engineers' who are derisory of the real-world engineering success of SpaceX. Informed criticism is fine but when you're just openly calling a world class engineering c
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by oska 1y ago
Please read / reread the site guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (There's one in the In Comments section that you're in clear breach of)
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by oska 1y ago
What's the need for tile waterproofing ?
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by oska 1y ago
I had never heard of 'shopkeeper's privilege' but looked it up [1] and yes, seems to be a real thing in the United States and nowhere else, according to a quick scan of that wiki article. More evidence to me that the US was
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by oska 2y ago
Agree with you about him being a great lyricist (I find 'the loom of the land', to give one very brief example, a masterful configuration) but I also have mixed feelings about the man. I find him intellectually pretentious, politi
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by oska 2y ago
> I like to think art is anything that speaks directly to us, moves us or inspires us. Then that would include anything in the natural world that evokes such feelings and this clearly goes against the meaning that 'art' has had
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by oska 2y ago
I'm amazed at all this discussion upon a misinterpretation when, exactly as you say, he clarified what he meant by struggle in the same sentence and it is not life struggle, it is creative struggle (to create music, poetry, etc). (
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by oska 2y ago
> A pedantic conversation about what is and isn't true AI is not productive. It's not at all 'pedantic' and while it's not productive to be having to rail against this stupid term, that is not the fault of the
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by oska 2y ago
Very obvious objective being served by this "think of the children" propaganda piece https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by oska 2y ago
I appreciate that I was a bit too confrontational in my first reply and should have just added that WeChat, Line and Telegram are also used (plus many others), not just WhatsApp. Why I think I (over) reacted is that it was, to me, an exampl
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by oska 2y ago
I understand that. My point was that the original comment was grossly overstating the supposed 'dominance' of WhatsApp.
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by oska 2y ago
> Unless you live outside of the US [...] and they all use WhatsApp This is such a ridiculously incorrect over-generalisation. China, Japan & Russia are obvious counter-examples, plus many others.

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