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by panta 4y ago
In an unregulated system there are strong "sin incentives" created by (some) market forces. In a way people are manipulated to become passive couch potatoes craving trash food and sugary drinks, staying awake to binge watch some n
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by panta 4y ago
Some people act according to internal core values, even when the outcome of the act doesn't bring visible rewards or good feelings.
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by panta 4y ago
We live in a closed system with limited resources. More power means more quick resource consumption and faster pollution. In other words the quality of our environment will degrade faster. During the last few hundred years humanity has reap
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by panta 4y ago
> The annual deaths from mass shootings per capita in Canada is 0.032, which is about one third that of the U.S. (0.089) [2]. Nitpick to avoid confusion: these numbers are per million (not per capita).
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by panta 4y ago
Yes, but these stats obviously take into account only paid taxes and wealth that remains visible. If you have 50 bn$, of which 1 is kept and taxed locally, and 49 moved through shell companies to offshore tax heavens, you'll still end
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by panta 4y ago
It's more probable that they'll let you boot iPadOS on that MacBook, asking a premium for the luxury (removing macOS of course)
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by panta 4y ago
Yes, but that doesn't preclude the possibility of building a business around the production of free software and even around its distribution.
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by panta 5y ago
I don't think it's a stupid answer. Maybe too extreme, but I believe it contains some elements of truth. Trust has been largely eroded by greed, corruption and incompetence, and if one counts only on trust is probably going to get
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by panta 5y ago
> Transportation costs and breakage are perhaps higher, but maybe that’s a cost we should accept? I suspect that transportation and breakage costs are higher only because we don't account for externalities when considering plastic:
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by panta 5y ago
In a way these publishers are abusing a public service (search engines) to get a higher ranking, giving the illusion of publicly available content, but then breaking the promise. In practice for their personal private gain they are damaging
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by panta 5y ago
There are some important differences. Alcohol distilleries didn't label/market their products as beneficial ailments intended to cure diseases. Pharmaceutical companies should be bound, at least morally, by the same hippocratic oa
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by panta 5y ago
I agree, and imho firefox should even bet more on user privacy (for example adopting strong measures against fingerprinting, and migrating away from google as a default search engine).
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by panta 5y ago
It's not user-facing features that move users from one browser to another, it's the number of websites they use that don't break with one or the other.
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by panta 5y ago
As I see it, being kind means being empathetic, asking ourselves how the other person is going to feel when receiving our communication, and therefore adjusting in a way to avoid emotional damage. I believe this is especially important when
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by panta 5y ago
Maybe this is also related to the tendency to consider abandonware software which is not continuously updated. Imho sometime a piece of software should be simply considered completed, especially in the case of libraries and frameworks. For
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by panta 5y ago
A nitpick: correctness and type safety are very different concepts. Type-safe languages don't provide correctness (and vice versa).
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by panta 5y ago
Thanks for writing about these. That "Software ICs" article has been a strong source of inspiration. It's maybe worth noting that Brad Cox was the inventor of Objective-C (which was seen as a way to allow the creation of soft
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by panta 5y ago
Most of the docs mention Python and Node.js micro-frameworks, but the Deta Base SDK has example code also for Go. Is it possible to deploy (self-contained) binaries compiled from Go on Deta? On Deta Space?
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by panta 5y ago
Personally I agree over the timeline, and hence I find it more worrisome, as a more abrupt change would cause uproar and resistance, while a 20-year long rollout won't be noticed by most (boiled frog effect)
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by panta 5y ago
Couldn't that be a sign that the propaganda has been effective?
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by panta 5y ago
Calling it incomplete or unfinished may hide the fact that it is broken, maybe beyond repair.
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by panta 5y ago
> I get weird pains they call "cluster headaches" in my face if you have not already done this, you could consult an "migraine center". There is no cure but there are some effective (for some people at least) options
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by panta 5y ago
I wonder if a lock-in phenomenon could take place at some point in the future, where non-GM varieties become a no-go and the GM ones get very expensive?
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by panta 5y ago
> The only problem is Facebook is huge and is willing to drag out lawsuits they won't win just to destroy people's lives because they can afford to hold out much longer than everyone else. There is no certainty in the legal sys
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by panta 5y ago
In "Amusing Ourselves to Death" Neil Postman hypotesizes that people are increasingly anesthetized by their addiction to amusement, as pushed in increasing amounts, and duller form, by the media. Now there are only armchair riots,
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by panta 5y ago
A good photo does not need to be interesting, since it doesn't need to appeal to intellect to be good. A photo can be good just by provoking an emotional reaction in the viewer.
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by panta 5y ago
The point is that they aren't doing it for free. Users are not paying with money, but are paying nonetheless, with privacy and freedoms mainly.
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by panta 5y ago
Exactly. It's a Trojan Horse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse ) to make more pervasive individual control the new normality. The current motivations are just a pretext.
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by panta 5y ago
> We all want to be happy, if for some reason happiness for you is tied a lot more to eating than to being healthy and fit, you can try all you want it just wont make you happy if you do. The point is that overeating won’t make us happy
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by panta 5y ago
We had worse crises before that didn’t change societies so deeply. With 9/11 we started renouncing to the concept of freedom that we gained with illuminism and the French revolution. Then we started putting “safety” before everything e

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