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by r14c 1y ago
Is internet access really the main determining factor for where people want to live? I know some people really dislike cities, but there are plenty of reasons to live in one if noise and crowds aren't dealbreakers.
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by r14c 1y ago
I haven't heard about gun in a long time. Did they ever figure out their conflict resolution algorithm? I recall their hypothetical amnesia machine or whatever didn't have well defined behavior.
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by r14c 1y ago
Race is a word we use to divide society into castes. The genetic component is practically tangential to the concept of race. A much more useful concept is ethnicity
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by r14c 1y ago
i'm not saying that there are no biological differences between different groups of people. you're missing the key point here: race doesn't classify people into genetic groups, it classifies people based on phenotypes that ap
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by r14c 1y ago
race is a category assigned based on crudely determined heritable traits, but looking at the genetics you don't get the same categories. dark skin is a convergent evolutionary trait that comes from living near the equator, you don&#x27
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by r14c 1y ago
Only in the sense that race is a type of caste system. There's really no biological reality to it.
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by r14c 1y ago
That's a specific cultural definition of gender. Taking a wider view of human history and behavior tells a more complicated story. The common thread is that Gender is something that people do which is only loosely correlated to human s
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by r14c 1y ago
We already have a planned economy in a lot of ways anyway. We just don't have much collective control over who governs those levers. Particularly when it comes to resource allocation. VC might look like a free market approach on the su
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by r14c 1y ago
controversial, sure, but its mostly people being upset that their cultural norms don't match the traits we observe in humans. we have already established that chromosomes do not determine gender, whether people accept it is a different
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by r14c 1y ago
you'd probably want a different protocol than IPFS for that application. managing a DHT with extremely high latency isn't going to work very well. something like named-data networking would probably work better since the transmitt
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by r14c 1y ago
Generally that's because they're in the group (or have some sympathy for the group) that still isn't being accepted and may otherwise face obstacles that make it difficult to live a fulfilling life. tolerance is a peace treat
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by r14c 1y ago
we know genetic diversity is beneficial from observing nature (sexual reproduction has clear evolutionary advantages that you can look into yourself if you like). yours is an interesting hypothesis, but "developing a defense" is s
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by r14c 1y ago
A teacher is helpful, but they will make you do scales too. Honestly though learning the tradition from someone directly is the best way to learn an art style. Plus a person can explain better to you why scales matter and push you to get th
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by r14c 1y ago
harsh but true take. building the foundation for playing guitar requires a lot of repetition. especially for flamenco and related styles. you have to be able to do different complex movements with both hands at the same time without thinkin
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by r14c 1y ago
I really don't understand why the US didn't continue their talks with Iran. They were clearly open to joining a non-proliferation treaty at the time. They also have a religious law against developing nukes in addition to their oth
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by r14c 1y ago
Communes of that sort don't really have anything to do with Communism. At least not the political traditions that the word is typically associated with originating with thinkers like Marx, Bakunin, Lenin, Mao, Kropotkin, &c. Which
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by r14c 1y ago
That's Uber's Gambit. Nothing is illegal for large enough corporations with strong network effects and deep pockets.
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by r14c 1y ago
I'm not as bearish on AI, but its hard to tell if you can really extrapolate future performance based on past improvements. Personally, I'm more interested in the political angle. I can see that AI will be disruptive because there
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by r14c 1y ago
Antitrust doesn't change the basic structure of capital markets, which will still demand infinite growth even if there's a government around capable of breaking up monopolies.
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by r14c 1y ago
I like the idea, but that kind of setup doesn't provide an infinitely growing revenue stream. Incidentally infinite growth targets are essentially why the internet looks the way it does today. That's the thing that needs fixing, p
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by r14c 1y ago
I think forth is fun, but I can't really take the collapse narrative of this project seriously. IG it's disrespectful, but I kinda view it as a performance art piece with fallout vibes.
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by r14c 1y ago
Norte America es un territorio enorme. Lo que yo quería decir es que la frontera política entre EEUU y Canadá no es el borde de la cultura que comparten.
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by r14c 1y ago
Not really, at best its linear if your job is like an assembly line. Office work rarely benefits from longer hours. 8h days already have diminishing returns after 4-6h on average. Many pilot programs have found that 4 day weeks are at leas
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by r14c 1y ago
"market radicalism" as in, the notion that ~all aspects of life should be subject to market forces. I think markets are good for a lot of things, but competing for basic necessities like food and shelter puts people in a really un
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by r14c 1y ago
Having some kind of default steward for market developments that get so competitive and fundamental that they reach full market saturation is helpful. Under a market system, at that scale, the need for growth starts to motivate companies to
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by r14c 1y ago
I know this is going to be an unpopular take, but isn't the idea of socialism that you make a unitary democratic government fill the role of Huge Monopoly Foundation so you can do stuff like fund research labs and be accountable to t
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by r14c 1y ago
Canada and the US are both part of North America. Maybe Americana transcends borders and political divisions.
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by r14c 2y ago
I'm with you on a lot of this, but you might want to think about how circular this statement is: "until American's realize we aren't exceptional because we are American, but because our forefathers lived out American val
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by r14c 2y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I dropped out of uni for reasons (a bit of a story, I can tell it if you buy me a beer) and ended up making a career out of software engineering. The main thing to do IMO is spend time building a network. A recom
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by r14c 2y ago
I think latency has to be taken into account too. Human reaction times are already on the order of 200ms, so any network latency would be additive. Anywhere close to 1000ms is too much, so you'd probably need to be less than 100ms or s

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