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by pesmhey 8y ago
You’re right. Gotta have ideals at least.
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by pesmhey 8y ago
There is something about hacking that makes it a sort of anti-authority, counter-culture activity. In the event of a fascist coup, in whatever country, or even the entire western neoliberal order, I feel this deeply, that hackers would be a
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by pesmhey 8y ago
>it felt exclusive You can definitely recreate the feeling of exclusivity today on the internet.
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by pesmhey 8y ago
To be fair, people in these positions do get sent to ridiculous bullshit.
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Hey friend, let me in on some of that get-younger juice! Just poking fun.
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by pesmhey 8y ago
It looks like what this guy was saying was that people would be fucking a lot and ethnic groups would mix as time moves on. I mean, this is literally the story of homo sapiens. Mass migrations and ethnic mixing - been happening for hundreds
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by pesmhey 8y ago
I’ve always thought the best argument against nuclear is a political one. It takes a well-coordinated state to maintain and regulate nuclear power. You need regulators completely divorced from the profit side. I mean, we assume that we’ll b
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by pesmhey 8y ago
To add to your devil’s advocate arguement: Educated and physically capable men with some wealth typically became warriors in the past. They certainly didn’t become blacksmiths/builders/engineers/whatever. Maybe there’s someth
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by pesmhey 8y ago
The ability to actually reprogram cancer cells relates to... >our fundamental constitution as multicellular organisms, our limited lifespan, the epidemiology of the aging population, socioeconomics and the future of society. Like, hey ma
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by pesmhey 8y ago
Could you give an example of looking for knowledge that isn’t in the concensual standard places online, where that search ends up finding nothing?
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You end up getting a class of people who's social value is inheritable. They typically serve ceremonial and liturgical roles. This is all generalization, of course, but I would consider this to be the rule, not the exception. Cultures
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by pesmhey 8y ago
Burning hydrogen today deprives the market of 5 billion years from now. I'm not trying to be pedantic. Nothing throws off good things for free. I think what we're both touching on here, and what the article touches on as well, is
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Between person A and B, the 'better' person to have would be the one who produces more valuable stuff. Better is a tricky way to talk about this though, because these two people might have different inherent capabilities. The most
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by pesmhey 8y ago
To follow the food analogy, I'm saying that you've gotta eat to have energy to be productive to make food to eat. In other words, you have to produce in order to consume in order to produce in order to consume, and so on. The wors
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by pesmhey 8y ago
>Definition of toxic (Entry 1 of 3) 1 : containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation toxic waste a toxic radioactive gas an insecticide highly toxic to birds 2 : exhibiting sympt
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by pesmhey 8y ago
I think the author falls into the 'it's better to have cake than to eat it' camp. Of course wealth in this case is toxic - you miss the point of it.
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by pesmhey 8y ago
>The point is, money doesn't have intrinsic value. You can't eat money or use it to plow a field, nor can money babysit your children. It's just a token we've all agreed to accept in exchange for giving up things that
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by pesmhey 8y ago
Money is a measure of social value. Your status in the tribe is highly dependent on your utility to the tribe, and that utility is highly-dependent on how well you work with other members of the tribe to achieve common goals. If you are mor
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by pesmhey 8y ago
Debt is a way to invest in the future. If the world is taking out debt and the investment is in enhanced productivity, better health outcomes, etc. then the debt is good because it more or less pays for itself. If the debt is used to make b
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by pesmhey 8y ago
It literally means what the words say. What stops Goldman Sachs from replacing whatever mechanism they use to process payments with some coin. I would gladly accept the answer ‘because it doesn’t make sense’. Didn’t realize I’d get so much
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by pesmhey 8y ago
I’m literally not sure, hence the question. I don’t know much about blockchain other than its sort of an answer to the Byzantine generals problem? It was a legit question.
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What stops GS from replacing their fee-based offerings with a blockchain solution? Could this really be as obvious in hindsight as looking at Sears in the 90s not developing an online catalog?
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Postmodernists had it right. It’s all socially constructed. Where the modern left gets it wrong is that they’ve destroyed the foundations of the house that we lived in without building a new one. Truly, black and white (and yellow, ugh) don
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by pesmhey 8y ago
What would be an example of in-depth content that is missing from the web?
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I don’t even think you need a wild conspiracy theory. It seems like this is an east vs. west coast power struggle. Old money vs. new.
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I remember listening to an interview with the bylines. Everyone in that interview sounded so sure it would dent Trump’s reputation. Man, I’m really not a fan of the guy, but his opponents have absolutely no idea what they’re up against, an
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Salesforce - CRM Long position. I think we’re officially in bear market territory, but they’ll be alright. Lots of companies will be fine. We’re going to see a correction next year, and the beginning of a shift from growth stocks to value s
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by pesmhey 8y ago
With the rise of ‘cyberwarfare’ as a legitimate concern, how much of this divide do you think could fall into the realm of the 2nd amendment?
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Microserfs
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Not everyone wants to be ‘richer’. That economists push that idea begs the question. I’m not placing a value judgement on either worldview, just pointing out that in one worldview, there’s an assumption of constant growth. I happen to fall

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