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by pjlegato 10y ago
It's not entirely off base. A few Buddhist monks have indeed taken their practice to exactly that extreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
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by pjlegato 10y ago
How do we recreate or find a society of people who have technology, but are not obsessed with pre-remembering things? People who still enjoy where they actually are, rather than trying to edit and document everything for posterity as it hap
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Yes, exactly! The solution is simple (but not necessarily easy): turn off ALL notifications and badges and vibrations, except for the actual telephone function (i.e. when people call you synchronously, a traditional phone call.) Disable a
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The question is what is valuable about having experiences: is it having experience X in itself, or is it showing off to other people that you have had experience X? Apparently for many people -- perhaps even most -- showing off that they&
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Why stop at desktop OSes? Why can't my phone batch up my texts, and just ping me 2 or 3 times a day?
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Yes. People. This. And it applies even more to texts. It prevents you from fully interacting with the people who are actually around you when you pull out your phone every 30 seconds to fire off a quick text reply. There is absolutely no r
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Existing free speech rights restrict only the government itself from preventing free speech. They do not apply to private parties. For example, you have no obligation to permit religious or political proselytizing within your home or busine
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by pjlegato 10y ago
You are proposing the creation of a new right entirely, not merely stronger enforcement of existing rights. Note that I am not taking any position on whether such a new right would be a good or bad idea. I am merely pointing out that what y
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by pjlegato 10y ago
You can absolutely opt out of capitalism, and many have: you can get some likeminded people together and start a commune, or you can go sleep on a park bench and panhandle, or you can just leave and move to Cuba or North Korea. Nobody wil
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by pjlegato 10y ago
No, legal derivative works can only be made with the authorization of the copyright holder[1]. The question was specifically about an unauthorized derivation. Creating any unauthorized derivative work is illegal and thus ineligible for co
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by pjlegato 10y ago
In general, no, such an unauthorized copy is not legally a derivative work, and therefore the pirate cannot claim any rights over it -- according to 17 U.S.C. § 106[1], derivative works can only be made by or with the authorization of the
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by pjlegato 10y ago
I think OP's point was that it's not a question of intentions or will to build a better system -- it's categorically impossible to secure a computing device from someone who has physical access to it, a priori.
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by pjlegato 10y ago
You do have some say in that as a shareholder -- most companies are goverend by shareholder vote. However, as a startup employee, your total number of shares is insignificant compared to the number of shares held by the founders and the inv
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Yes. That's the point. The one standard way to open a TCP socket is with java.net.Socket. Common Lisp, on the other hand, has no such standard way, as TCP was not common when it was designed. It relies on a hodgepodge of poorly documen
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by pjlegato 10y ago
All of these are rather minor secondary issues not related to the core Lispiness of the language (with the possible exception of cons, which is in any case still not terribly important in a practical sense as there are mostly equivalent alt
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by pjlegato 10y ago
You missed the point. Clojure's way of opneing TCP connections is standardized within Clojure -- all Clojure programs use a standard API call to do that. Common Lisp, on the other hand, has no standard way of opening a TCP socket at
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by pjlegato 10y ago
iOS and Mac OS X were built and scaled on Objective C, which is highly niche in that it has almost never been used for anything else besides these projects, and it was even less popular before those projects existed. Objective C would never
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by pjlegato 10y ago
ANSI Common Lisp is rather a design-by-committee monstrosity which was forced on the unwilling Lisp vendors by the Defense Department. Most of the feature set was designed via backroom political horse trading ("We'll let you inclu
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Quite right. That's why Clojure was invented. Clojure is a modern Lisp with the explicit goal of being a practical and pragmatic Lisp intended for getting real-world software engineering tasks done, not just a grand walled garden wit
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It's very disturbing how often we're seeing stories of someone's whole life being ruined due to some trivial error followed by poor / nonexistent customer service at Amazon or Google, and only getting their life back aft
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It'd be fine if it were simply transparency, if the companies that get kicked off had all done something legitimately "bad" in some sense. The problem is that Amazon often doesn't seem to really investigate issues in any
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Why Google isn't for me(medium.com)
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by pjlegato 10y ago
There's little to no fluff in that article. ("Long" is not the same thing as "full of fluff".) He's simply analyzing a somewhat complex and very abstract topic -- how to run meetings in general. There are a lot
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by pjlegato 10y ago
Those who favor prohibiting political discourse are only mildly in favor -- even if it's allowed on the site, they can simply ignore any threads with political content and approximate the same effect in terms of user experience. They a
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Evidently a large subset of the user base disagrees.
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This supposes that legimitately intellectual and civil political discourse is simply not possible, that some sort of "primitive brain" must always take over in any political discussion. This is empirically false. Hacker News gener
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by pjlegato 10y ago
This is likely to work about as well as when a large number of tech people went around telling all their friends that Microsoft was evil in the 90s and early 2000s -- which is to say, not at all. Empirically, very few people care much about
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by pjlegato 10y ago
> The risk of abuse is exceptionally low. But there's no oversight whatsoever. We should just take Uber's word for that -- despite the company's public track record of repeated privacy violations in the past? And even if
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by pjlegato 10y ago
The guidelines do not ban politically charged content; they only ban political content that is not "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Flagging all political content is not consistent with that. https://news
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by pjlegato 10y ago
It would be great if the mod team expressed such a commitment by manually reviewing flagged articles to remove the flag and prevent any further flagging in cases such as this, where it seems that the article was flagged for no other reason

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