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by polarix 11y ago
http://mindingourway.com/how-we-will-be-measured/ seems relevant
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by polarix 11y ago
Freedom is vague, here, but I think what you want will still be possible (at least theoretically) given causality and physical distance. Deeper freedom (that is, infinite potential) is inherent to being itself, but if what you're looki
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by polarix 11y ago
Isn't another huge thing that Slack solves the need to set up a local client? Why is that not addressed in this article, I wonder if the author really doesn't see it as a problem?
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by polarix 11y ago
That's really bad news if true. His perspective is crucial.
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by polarix 11y ago
Since the one in the article has been removed, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTjtXswrKso
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by polarix 11y ago
Also the site seems designed specifically to frustrate quickly running through the test.
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by polarix 11y ago
30 tweets makes 30 times the claim on attention of your followers, regardless of content. A single tweet is 30 times less likely to be read. This is a structural inefficiency of the twitter platform.
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by polarix 11y ago
And nothing done entirely in consensual privacy should be a crime.
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by polarix 11y ago
Well! > For most people (the asexual population and the abstaining Japanese youth notwithstanding), sex with another person, especially in the context of meaningful intimacy, is a source of joy. > Watching porn by yourself all the tim
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by polarix 11y ago
I presume you don't intend to suggest that the freedom is the problem? I would propose we attempt to fix the stifling antisexuality of everyday social life, rather than the newfound capacity to meet bodily desires individually.
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by polarix 11y ago
That is the right question.
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by polarix 11y ago
They might be given that kind of control without their will. Sorry to get all Jed-McKenna-Theory-Of-Everything here, but no being has proof that they are not in such a situation. In fact it is arguably the only consistent possibility. Expec
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by polarix 11y ago
That sounds insanely dystopian to me, for the fact that any member of that society is viscerally dependent on others -- anyone who claims to value freedom needs to think again. Being needed is crucially instrumental toward controlling one&#
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by polarix 11y ago
In the present and future, whenever there is a human need for an integration point between multiple services, those humans will need to invest in producing a human-level intelligence to integrate the information. We are compelled to build s
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by polarix 12y ago
Citation for Audible's business tactics? How could it be done better, given the labor outlay and legal coordination required to record an audiobook?
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by polarix 12y ago
Here's another possibility, the first one that occurred to me: the "no" is a rejection of the implicit alternative to what was stated. The author ends up at a fairly convincing alternative explanation, though.
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by polarix 12y ago
> unable to tell... Really? Might it be that we purify memetic procreation of its inefficient dependency on support systems engineered for DNA-genetic procreation?
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by polarix 12y ago
If this were actually doing as the title suggests, it would demolish the possibility for any personal DIY projects that require heavy equipment/materials. Indeed, bulk home goods and appliance sales companies should be up in arms. Luck
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by polarix 12y ago
This might have to do with the accelerating human perception of time. Can't 5 years really feel like eons? If the author were 25, that would be a significant chunk of life, and I'm hoping you're not intending to imply that al
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by polarix 12y ago
Oh, that depends on framing. In some situations employees are asked explicitly to approach HR at the emergence of a relationship in order to prevent conflict of interest.
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by polarix 12y ago
Something is twisted in all these discussions of gender in tech, it really seems like we're just going around in circles over and over again. I've never read anything that felt like a particularly insightful explication of the cau
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by polarix 12y ago
Perhaps people who are driving could consider not driving around the railroad gate (which was working when the idiot in that article decided to commit suicide). There are remarkably few good ways out for humans in our society, so this kind
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by polarix 12y ago
There is a reason to hate "trains" when it's fucking Caltrain with at-grade crossings and retarded federal rules about fucking horns all night long. Half the fucking Peninsula is unusable for sleeping as it is.
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by polarix 12y ago
Fascinating. Note to potential commenters: the same article just had a discussion thread which was flagkilled. Don't invest any energy or thought in your comment, as it's likely at risk of removal again.
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by polarix 12y ago
But this is just a property of acceleration. If languages had started to change at the same speed as file formats have, or we had started to miniaturize in other ways, those millenia old letters might no longer have been usable either. It&#
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by polarix 12y ago
It might be practically necessary, though, if they need to have a huge corpus of data in memory in order to perform their voice recognition.
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by polarix 12y ago
More that we've undergone a pretty significant state change in the past couple decades, and much of how we understand the world now has dependencies on full information access; inflicting variable negative reinforcement on those though
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by polarix 12y ago
I'm struggling to identify what it is about this nostalgia that infuriates me so deeply. Perhaps it's just fascinating to me that so many people find it fun to be in stupid situations. I find it barbaric and twisted. More producti
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by polarix 12y ago
This was perhaps too optimistic: time will tell.
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by polarix 12y ago
Sure. But no dozens of mathematicians are stepping up to take the roughly half a year (and novice-like zen) he anticipates it requiring to understand the proof. So if he wants it to happen: do a lecture series, or programmatize the proof, o

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