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by patcon 7y ago
This article makes a ton of sense to me. Also, it aligns with my guilty belief/fear that this paper is onto something: Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.
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by patcon 7y ago
I feel for you in empathizing for people's ability to just have what they want, but... I worry about it too. (I say all this with compassion and a non-confrontational tone.) > The issue is that most people aren't looking for [a
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by patcon 7y ago
Very much in agreement
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by patcon 7y ago
EDIT: also a biochemist in a previous life. If viruses are on the edge of alive, then books and posters might be too, in some sense. Virus's are "life" without replication machinery. And what is a book but a similar sort of d
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by patcon 7y ago
I personally think of version control history as like a sedimentation layering of documentation that "updates" itself in the process of doing the work -- like the desk that looks messy, but by picking up and using papers, the most
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by patcon 7y ago
fwiw only paywalled if you're not willing to turn off adblocker for Forbes
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by patcon 7y ago
Hm. Interesting. I mean, I'm biased, but I believe it could. An analogy I'm trying with friends is that a worker co-op is less like a company that does a specific thing, and more like a ship that sails where it's members wish
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by patcon 7y ago
There's a really inspiring federation of 40-ish tech worker co-ops in Argentina called FACTTIC[1], who have been developing a neat process called FIT[2] by which they share work amongst themselves via regular check-in calls. It's
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by patcon 7y ago
I get what you're saying, but with both these scenarios -- (1) "going out when you don't feel like it because a friend needs your support" or (2) "telling a friend you don't feel like going out because you&#x27
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by patcon 7y ago
> We don't know enough about the brain/mind to give anything like a measurable answer to this. It's all speculation. You might be interested in the Leiden Theory of linguistics. It basically posits that language is an evol
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by patcon 7y ago
> is it really true that collecting only anonymous, stateless data has the same value as stateful, identifiable data If you place more value on knowledge of the collective rather than the specifics of the individual (which is arguably a
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by patcon 7y ago
fwiw I find myself very torn to be rationalizing death when my mom just went into paliative care last week. I'm literally typing this as I should be walking out the door to the hospital. I suppose I'd like to push the button that
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by patcon 7y ago
I truly love the optimism, but even our experiences in democracy don't seem to support this. [1] Plus, does what you're saying even feel true in your own life now? Does knowing something in your youth make you a louder or better o
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by patcon 7y ago
Thanks. Sorry, realizing I avoid clicking into these most times, so just finally did now and saw nothing but boosting (and I unfairly generalized). If i understand, you feel that death is a curable condition, and not an evolved adaptation o
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by patcon 7y ago
Surprise, a counter-argument on hacker news! :) Why does it seem no one worries about what we might break in humanity by disrupting the evolved pattern of death. It's a network characteristic selected for in living system, and very f
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by patcon 7y ago
> The reason we rest decision-making power in the individual is that it's democratizing. I've studied in democratic reform, and work in civic tech space. There's a book called _Democracy for Realists_ which I highly recomm
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by patcon 7y ago
This. imho transit ridership bears more of the burden of the "fuck poor people" undercurrent of America. It's maybe the snowy after image of the American Dream: Anyone can make [if they work hard] / It must be their faul
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by patcon 7y ago
Thanks for helping me think on this. Background: I personally feel that dealing with our collective failings is a collective burden. Your shitty situation is you getting the short straw in the lottery of who feels that collective failing mo
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by patcon 7y ago
This comment makes me feel sad. No judgement of the speaker intended in that, just saying so.
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by patcon 7y ago
I feel like you're referring to the seam of high individualism in American culture. imho, that's the lie. And if we don't come to see that, it might be our collective undoing. There's a reason our highest form of punis
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by patcon 7y ago
Maybe it was just chance, or maybe it was intentional. I'm ok with it regardless. It's called oversteering . You sometimes do it when you've been on a crash course you're trying to get out of :)
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by patcon 7y ago
> It will be interesting to see where the breaking point actually is; I've always felt that platform users deserve a little more respect than that. I read your comment as a really strong case for platform co-operativism -- multi-sta
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by patcon 7y ago
I am sad for us all that they're not around. I can't even imagine the impact they would have had on the evolution of our culture and religions if they'd stuck around. The "winning" religions hinge on humans having d
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by patcon 7y ago
Don't suppose you're in Toronto? :)
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by patcon 7y ago
Your words bring to mind my experience with gentrification in a few cities: one person's order is another person's chaos. If you ask a longterm resident in a gentrifying neighborhood how they feel about what the new developments a
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by patcon 7y ago
Oy. If we're going to deploy scary tech against criminal behavior, let's pls not rally for it to be used for petty crime committed by desperate ppl. If our liberties are getting flayed, let's at least see it used against ppl
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by patcon 7y ago
> And if they want to attract the masses (maybe they don't) It's not super widely known, but Extinction Rebellion NYC relies highly on the whole keybase suite of tools, and I've heard they mostly like it (and they're
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by patcon 7y ago
Yay! Social physics :) There's a great Authors at Google talk by Sandy Pentland, about his book of the same name. Gives a good overview of the book, but 100% still worth a read after watching, esp if you are someone who works with (or
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by patcon 7y ago
EDIT2: acknowledging my shitty tone and that I deserve downvotes. I'll try harder next time not to fall into the trap of shallowly divisive statements
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by patcon 7y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to imply one side as mentally ill. I'll walk it back a bit: If there's an illness, both poles have responsibility. And maybe only ill in the sense that they will break the whole together. Due to historic di

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