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by secstate 3y ago
I think the awkward part of your first post is that you appear to start with a value judgement that tinkering is for poor people who's time is worthless. That's not remotely fair to either poor people, or rich people who like to t
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An Unfamiliar World, 21st Century's problem with population decline(ecosophia.net)
5 points by secstate 3y ago|4 comments
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by secstate 3y ago
Having been a public official your adjectives for the public official in this case made my hackles go up for a moment, but you're also absolutely right. The hidden assumption in those sorts of statements is that it's all good for
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by secstate 3y ago
The last line in the article jumped out at me: “A lot of folks … they’re kind of DIY-ing it until we can get the level of public service that we really need.” I am through "A Paradise Built in Hell" right now, and that, combined w
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by secstate 3y ago
I wonder how many people in 2024 don't know what a spark plug is, or how their car works at all. I don't mean that in a snarky way, it just seems like increasingly people treat modern technology like magic rather than something th
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by secstate 3y ago
Yes. In the sense that Mastodon is decentralized because there is no one Mastodon server. One may accumulate more users or be the "default" for the community of users, but there is no Mastodon server (much to the chagrin of many n
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by secstate 3y ago
But that's sort of why Bluesky is not really decentralized, just federated. It's a pretty significant difference. Mastodon is federated and decentralized. Twitter is non-federated and centralized. Bluesky is trying to be the feder
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by secstate 3y ago
I've found most Amazon downloads to be 320k and, while the audiophile will argue, hard to distinguish from FLAC. Most importantly, it's higher quality than the EP I have on magnetic tape that was a recording of a recording I boug
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by secstate 3y ago
Realize that AND acknowledge that it's been three years, and the tech has failed to take off, especially the way phones have. This could still be a V1 iPod or V1 iPhone thing, but between these initial responses, the history of the mar
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by secstate 3y ago
I wish I could double your karma. This comment represents the pinnacle of thought around vehicle styles and how unsound logic and manipulative sociology can create net harm in capitalist economies. Everything about modern American trucks an
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by secstate 3y ago
A minivan allows much easier ingress, egress with large doors. Also, there are no SUVs with 8 seats that I know of. There are minivans with AWD or even limited 4WD. But they definitely carry social stigma and don't look sporty. That&#x
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by secstate 3y ago
See Hickey's talk on simplicity: https://thestrangeloop.com/2011/simple-made-easy.html
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by secstate 3y ago
Largely because most modern capitalist societies have at least half-implemented many of things Marx proposed. We don't live in a world where we can know whether Western European capitalism of the industrial revolution proceeded monoton
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by secstate 3y ago
How does this pattern of thought not lead to eugenics?
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by secstate 3y ago
I found out recently Switzerland doesn't use European SIM cards. Had WiFi in the rental, but as soon as we started walking around Luzern we were text message only. The experience was kind of like turning off the TV that's on all t
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by secstate 3y ago
It's totally okay to read a full plot synopsis of any fiction worth reading. Honestly, if a story is ruined by knowing whats going to happen (baring murder mysteries, which are their own animal), it's probably not worth reading. R
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by secstate 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius_Gothicus who's reign was pretty late in the Empire phase, though good news for the U.S. it took another 150 years once they started crowning barbarians emperors before it all
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by secstate 3y ago
Old story retold. The Claudian Roman government doubled down on the distinction between barbarian and Roman civilian and used shitty rhetorical tools to denigrate the barbarians. This all despite the fact that most Romans farms and undesira
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by secstate 3y ago
Same here. I adopted this behavior after reflecting on how I experienced music in high school with my sister. We'd have the CD or two in the car for trips to school and then maybe a dozen at home that we'd cycle through. I'm
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by secstate 3y ago
Not totally sure, but the bit about the water makes it sound like a storm shelter, which is a totally valid thing to build under your house in certain places.
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by secstate 3y ago
I mean, the startup world is not literally a lottery. But any post by sama about what it takes to succeed most definitely should start with a disclaimer about survivorship bias.
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by secstate 3y ago
Disappointed this was downvoted initially, you got my +1. Corporate reality in 2023 is creeping ever closer to a Weyland-Yutani plutocratic government where "market forces" are unable to put a dent in shitty corporate behavior. I
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by secstate 3y ago
I appreciate it's not for everyone, but the mailinabox.email script collections makes it surprisingly painless. The world needs more people to put some effort into things, otherwise we'll get the future we tried for, and that&#x27
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by secstate 3y ago
Corporate history of the 20th and 21st centuries would strongly suggest that the power of corporations actively does NOT stem from the consent of the employees. There are no governed here, especially in a right-to-work culture. Saying peopl
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by secstate 3y ago
Oh wow, the Lamp on HN? And Peter Hitchens no less. I don't even know how I found myself reading this the other day, but my take away then was it felt like ramblings of an old man wishing the world had technologized "better."
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by secstate 3y ago
I'm not totally sure Space X cares what the rest of the industry thinks. This is next-level space engineering compared to what's come before. Who's opinions are we concerned about? ULA? Arianespace? Those companies can't
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by secstate 3y ago
Just tossing ideas out, but is it possible that structured mornings as a result of modern education might be part of why melatonin is used so often? Being generally a night owl, I slept like shit all through high school and parts of college
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by secstate 3y ago
Two hotels rooms often runs way more than renting an entire house on AirBNB. Hotels vs Rentals by owner seems like a hot take designed to show what sort of traveller you are. When.it was just me and my partner hotels were great. Drop your b
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by secstate 3y ago
Emacs?
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by secstate 3y ago
I mean, they did say "everyone" so I suppose the science drop was not unexpected :)

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