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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> How much of the previous disruptions came with actual improvements to the user experience? Or at least something novel? There was a major "conscious shift" of society to get everyone on the social media boat with a lot of pro
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> had Kaczynski chosen peaceful decades-later contemporary Internet discourse as his means of promoting his ideas, he'd simply be tarred and feathered as an "alt-right" nutjob, just like everyone else with views that contr
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> As a social conservative, I disagree with this. Opportunity and will to make use of opportunity are two separate things and usually originate separately. But this will is NOT innate. I'd go further and say that the reason any aris
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Disagree. "Throw-away" culture has been a historic norm and can actually become a moral "should" > However, cultures that produce "beneficial" waste have a moral imperative to produce more To me "t
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> It also shocks me that so many people don't know how to repair anything -- though the rational part of my mind wonders if they might be making the right call. It's a hard line to draw. Consumerism/throw-away culture isn&
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
This post gets off on the wrong foot by limiting it's understanding of a servant's object to the whims of an individual. The Christian understanding (which is a deep part of the ideal of the traditional institutions), is that the
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
The way we're going (and as related to the article) feels a lot more like Minority Report [1]. [1] https://archive.is/CC2t8
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
I liked most of this article and found it interesting. Maybe a bit long-winded, but like many people I've been thinking a lot about the same topic in recent years, struggling to break free of a certain mindset. Hearing the images and l
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> In the nineteen-twenties, dowry payments occurred in about a third of marriages. By 2008, they were near-universal in rural areas, and many regions had seen alarming rates of dowry inflation. > The expansion of dowry coincides with
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
Exactly. People can argue all day about how silly normalized middle-class tipping is (very silly, IMO), but the thing is that clicking a "20%" button isn't even tipping . The implementation of the buttons on the bottom of th
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
Yeah, well put. There are a lot of difficult to quantify cost for new features: * monetary for the consumer (new features give manufactures an excuse to keep the price high) * environmental (because increased failure surface area causes con
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Idols say what the priests want. That's only partially true, and only at first. "Those that make them are like them, so are all who trust in them" (Ps 115). To promulgate idols is necessarily destroy one's own agenc
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
To me, he definitely does symbolize the same, though I don't think it's fair to pin all the blame on him. People make mistakes and there are a lot of factors in play. Also, to Doctorow's credit I do think releasing through cr
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
This article points out what is probably a real trend, but is hilariously blind to the fact there may be legitimate reasons WHY this is happening. 1. Perhaps the "regressive attitudes and censorship of sexual minorities and sex-positiv
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
Yes, exactly. The "greedflation" label definitely has an element of truth to it, but it strikes me as misleading. Why is everything so expensive? Oh, it's greed. Guess we'll just have to either shrug and live with it or
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> And, what about people forwarding from accounts they never log into directly? I'm basically in this situation, which is why I have been paying for the annual plan. Despite the fact I passionately hate Google. Not sure when if ever
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Yeah this is just a transition to a new form of neo-mysticism that they hope will be more satisfying than the last one—i.e. the idle speculation that a science-fictional transhumanist future will arrive any day now. I think just as sig
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
I was considering the same question this year. I've been doing mine with freefilefillableforms (basically just an online version of paper) for several years and have gradually been getting better at it. Here's my breakdown of what
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
> Inflation is a solution to these problems ... inflation in combination with hegemony. My understanding is that if the US wasn't calling so many shots on the world stage, other countries would be less willing to tolerate us inflati
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by rcktmrtn 3y ago
I think it comes down to the definition of "love". There are limits to how far you can redefine what it means to "love" a particular person in your life because we all have a natural intuition of what it is like to live
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> How are those member stations funded? A case quick case study on this for Wisconsin I did recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35294972&p=2#35295817 ... in summary, our station seems to be about 1/3
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> all students will see the teacher as a creator of universes that can be wiped away from existence as easily as they were spawned. And you better write down what these symbols and drawings mean while you can Even v.s. a whiteboard, ther
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
I've heard this "debunked" many times before, but I looked it up this time for our local public radio [0]. Looking at this report for my state it looks like it's coming up on 29% government funds (state funds and CPB)! L
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
I've had some eye-opening moments where I went back to music I listened to growing up and was revolted with myself when I actually read through the lyrics and thought about what they meant. It really is like there is something like a s
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> I've noticed that it makes it difficult to switch back to information-dense reading, and to actually read all of it instead of reflexively skimming it to try and glean out the seed. Keeping on the religious theme I've noticed
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
A family member who is somewhat of a fanatical cycling commuter was telling me recently that in the area he lives they deliberately ignore data from males in their 20s/30s (his demographic) when making decisions about bike infrastructu
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> Imputing AI's with human like goals, emotions, motivations, etc doesn't seem reasonable to me. Then again... to play Devil's Advocate against my own position here, I suppose somebody might consciously choose to purposely
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> So even if you don't have a Spot with a mg on its shoulder patrolling your neighborhood, you could be put in jail if you're caught removing the robot's battery on the 360 cam. Would likely lead to robot laws. There are &
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> What if people are the real “Artificial” intelligence? Yes, or rather: what people consider "intelligence" is becoming more and more artificial. I really believe that any sort of "singularity" involved with "AI
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> It's always, "If someone else sees nipples, it will harm them." ... I find it more compelling to put it this way: "If we make [something currently seen as sexual] normal in public, it will harm society". There

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