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by roughly 3mo ago
Worth noting that Cyberpunk as a genre was at least intended to be a dystopia.
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by roughly 3mo ago
Thank god the economy rewards everything we consider valuable with appropriate monetary compensation.
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by roughly 3mo ago
In the age of vibe-generated code, I promise you're gonna want the safety.
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by roughly 3mo ago
They don’t leave unless you force them to.
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by roughly 3mo ago
I’m just saying, it’d be nice to see some self-reflection once in a while.
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by roughly 3mo ago
My apologies, I've corrected my comment.
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by roughly 3mo ago
The Economist has been publishing since 1843. As such, one could be forgiven for expecting an article entitled "Is The Economist Always Wrong?" to engage meaningfully with the track record of either the publication or the field wi
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by roughly 3mo ago
To share with a community of like-minded individuals, many of whom found it interesting enough to both upvote and comment? You understand the rest of us do actually exist, right? That we’re, you know, real people with thoughts and opinions
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by roughly 3mo ago
There are two things you absolutely must understand if you're going into biology as an engineer: 1. Everything, and I mean everything, is stochastic. There is nothing in biology that is a guaranteed "if X then Y," there'
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by roughly 3mo ago
The trick to being a good hacker is acquiring a sufficient supply of useless information, such that when that information is suddenly not useless, you have it at hand. Which is to say, it's your job to figure out what the cool applicat
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by roughly 3mo ago
No, you’re right, we have not seen a case specifically of state surveillance specifically using a smart speaker yet. Re: phones - yes, they’re a strictly higher ROI target, which is why they’re regularly targeted by state-level adversaries,
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by roughly 3mo ago
> in many corners, "don't manually write code" is being joined by "don't manually read code" as an attractive principle. I'm pretty sure I know where the failure case on that one is. The reason we'
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by roughly 3mo ago
There are indeed a lot of choices for you. Others have fewer choices.
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by roughly 3mo ago
They are indeed free to go live under a bridge, until the police tell them to move on.
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by roughly 3mo ago
> I would say that cameras are protecting the honest worker as much as they help the homeowner. The cameras are a means of rigidly enforcing the rules, to a degree that traffic on the way back from lunch becomes something that threatens
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by roughly 3mo ago
I don’t quite understand how after twenty five years of the modern internet and every single consequent revelation about state surveillance you’re still at a point where you can look at a corporate-owned camera or microphone and say, “my pr
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by roughly 3mo ago
Trust involves risk - someone has to be willing to risk having their trust violated. The problem in modern western society is that we’ve decided we’re unwilling to take that risk, and therefore we’ve begun imposing what’s effectively a pano
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by roughly 3mo ago
Similar: https://www.imcdb.org/ IMCDB, the Internet Movie Car Database
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
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by roughly 3mo ago
Fixing the laws takes time.
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by roughly 3mo ago
Yeah, to shortcut the debate here, I think the crux of the argument is that, starting in the 80s, the capital & tech sets both started pointing to things like the smallpox vaccine and the green revolution and saying "See? This is w
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by roughly 3mo ago
What is your story for how smallpox was eliminated?
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> Pre-Green revolution humanity probably couldn’t make a utopia. Post-Green revolution humanity hasn’t pulled it off either.
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by roughly 3mo ago
None of the problems with building a utopia are technological, all of the problems are social and political. What the people arguing with you are telling you is that if you ignore the social and political problems, you're going to cont
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by roughly 3mo ago
A great many people were predicting this would be the case a year ago and being told they were wrong and to get on the boat.
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by roughly 3mo ago
If my income goes up by 1% and my expenses go up by 2%, has my financial situation improved?
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Data is also a really, really potent rhetorical tool, because it is definitionally never complete (a map that fully captures a territory is the territory), and by those omissions, the data can be made to say anything at all in a way that lo
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by roughly 3mo ago
You have the right to say or post whatever you want (within the rules of the forum). You will not get thrown out for doing so. You may have other people come along and tell you they didn’t get anything useful from your post, though, which i
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by roughly 3mo ago
An old line goes that the appropriate role of journalism is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Presuming it takes an equivalent amount of effort to empirically validated the opinion of someone who is comfortable and someo
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by roughly 3mo ago
It’s impossible for a lizard to convince a sheepdog to turn up the thermostat. It’s impossible for a sheepdog to convince a lizard to turn down the thermostat. Which one is right?

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