pdfernhout

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   by pdfernhout 2y ago

   Thanks for your insightful comment: "If you have market concentration and regulatory capture, they must be annihilated regardless of any robots or people will end up screwed and poor."
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   by pdfernhout 2y ago

   This is insightful; thanks for pointing it out: "the robots in question aren't really even taking jobs that existed prior to the ecommerce model, and the work the robots are doing used to be handled by the consumer."
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   by pdfernhout 3y ago

   You probably know this, but Dr. Terry Wahls, MD, and Nicole Apelian, PhD herbalist are two professionals with MS who have used diet and such to manage their MS. See also Dr. Joel Fuhrman: https://www.drfuhrman.com/health-con
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   by pdfernhout 3y ago

   If you had two successful startups, maybe chances are that you don't put much time into other activities which includes dating and the relationships that can come from dating? If I said I was going to try to have a successful startup p
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   by pdfernhout 3y ago

   The same goes for most schooling. If you succeed, the school takes the credit for "educating" you. If you fail, you just did not try hard enough.
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   by pdfernhout 4y ago

   Thanks for this recommendation. I just ordered a copy.
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   by pdfernhout 4y ago

   That's a great question. I don't know the exact answer, but as one possibility here is a PCI (I know, probably not right bus) PC card that supports 16 serial ports: https://www.startech.com/en-us/cards-adapter
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   by pdfernhout 4y ago

   Also related on problems with the current model, a 2015 book: "Deadly Psychiatry and Organised Denial" https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Psychiatry-Organised-Denial-Go... "Deadly Psychiatry and Organized Denial e
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   by pdfernhout 4y ago

   To build on your second-order point, under Obamacare, health insurers get to keep a certain percentage of premiums based on what treatments costs but would have to refund the rest. So, it is in the financial interest of insurance companies
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    by pdfernhout 4y ago

    Coincidentally someone mentioned this video to me the other day (this clip is eight seconds, but maybe you don't want to watch it): "Tiger attacks mahout on elephant!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n-3cFIuQ
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    by pdfernhout 4y ago

    Thanks for posting this question. I've been through that sort of thing a few times myself over the past 40+ years of programming in a variety of social contexts. There's a lot of good advice here on a personal level both on dealin
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    by pdfernhout 4y ago

    Developer here who has been programming over 40 years (since I was a teenager in the late 1970s). I know I am stretching things a bit here, but IBM mainframes, multi-user Forth systems, and distributed QNX systems ranging from the 1970s to
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    by pdfernhout 4y ago

    I love so much about Smalltalk but also felt many frustrations with implementations and community issues. A couple of me own rants on that include from 2007: "[Edu-sig] Comments on Kay's Reinvention of Programming proposal (was Re
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Typo: "achieving abundance from all" should have been "achieving abundance for all".
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Related to your point on public research, here is something I wrote in 2001 originally to the Markle Foundation on public funding of digital public works: https://pdfernhout.net/on-funding-digital-public-works.html A shorte
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Thanks for the interesting reply. Related to the Swiss model, how society controls levels of automation, and also resilience, you might like the sci-fi novel "Retrotopia" by John Michael Greer. It explores those issues from one pe
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    The "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" website has not seen fit to post yet a comment I made there a few days ago on "Russia may have used a killer robot in Ukraine. Now what?": https://thebulletin.org/2
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Sadly your point may be correct about automation being used right now more to control people more free them (even as technologists including me had higher hopes decades ago, e.g. Ted Nelson's "Computer Lib / Dream Machines&qu
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Thanks for these insights and listing these alternatives in one place and showing their commonalities (like tagging, hierarchies, and parsing/subdividing). One book I have found interesting along those lines is "The Discipline of
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Below is part of a longer essay I wrote in 2000 (to Doug Engelbart's "UnRevII" "Bootstrapping" list): "[unrev-II] Singularity in twenty to forty years?" https://dougengelbart.org/colloquium
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Thinking through those interrelations for manufacturing processes was my hope for this: https://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/ https://www.oscomak.net/ https://openvirgle.net/ And ear
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Another complicating factor of all this is "The Pleasure Trap" of "Supernormal Stimuli" and "The Acceleration of Addictiveness" in a society far from what humans are adapted for. Related: "How to escape Th
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Thanks. The license is "AGPL-3.0-or-later": https://github.com/pdfernhout/storyharp-js/blob/master/packa...
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Not exactly the same, but I wrote StoryHarp (FOSS) which involved defining rules to create text adventures. It includes some different ways of looking at rules as a table, a browser, and a map. Maybe there might be some way for you to come
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Or you can be a Boglehead and in general not try to pick individual stocks and not try to time the market: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started "Bogleheads® emphasize regular saving, broad diversificati
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    "Schooling" is what is really meant in the article -- not true "education" of which there is little of in most compulsory schools. According to two-times NY Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto, Prussian-derived compuls
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Like the article says: "“It’s too soon to make any firm conclusions about a lot of this stuff, but it sure looks like the mitochondria are disrupted in many kids with autism,” Frye says. “And environmental exposures, especially early o
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    Joe Cross' "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead 2" movie has some good points about how much a supportive community can make a difference in healthy eating. "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2 - Official Trailer" https:/&#x2F
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    It is indeed possible there is no complex life elsewhere. Although, I tend to think there is, because single-celled life and also tardigrades are hardy and could potentially travel encased in rocks ejected from planets during impact events.
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    by pdfernhout 5y ago

    https://tlc.ku.edu/ "We were never designed for the sedentary, indoor, sleep-deprived, socially-isolated, fast-food-laden, frenetic pace of modern life. (Stephen Ilardi, PhD)" From that link: "Across the indu