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by sgu999 2y ago
> (Moleskine and Leuchtturm both use mainly Taiwanese paper) I guess us Europeans can't even make paper anymore... I hope one day it'll be widely obvious to everyone that the true architects of our impoverishment are these CEOs
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by sgu999 2y ago
Part of the problem is what is available. If you're a Japanese or a Taiwanese, that detached single family home with a massive garden around it is simply not an option, so you don't feel worst off than anyone else by living in a s
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by sgu999 2y ago
> the founder loses their investment So does the bank, and the state that (more often than not) subsidised said investment through diverse vehicles. If the bank goes belly up, we've seen what happens, we collectively contribute to s
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by sgu999 2y ago
> In some sense, corporate employees that get some form of equity as part of their compensation are more literally worker-owners. As soon as a worker leaves or sells their shares, these shares aren't worker-owned anymore and the int
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by sgu999 2y ago
Shifting the blame wasn't my intention, my comment intended to be fair. > We could stop importing from them Not without causing millions of deaths in the west as well. We've learned the hard way how much of our medical supplies
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by sgu999 2y ago
> China is the largest carbon emitter in the world In part because they are also the largest producer of all the shit we buy but don't account for in our carbon footprints because it's imported
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by sgu999 2y ago
Read somewhere that it's more for being able to participate decently in ultra-weatlhy events, mostly on the Mediterranean coast. In the case of Zuckerberg that may also be for fishing once the world has collapsed and he lives permanent
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by sgu999 2y ago
> We're nowhere near a single worldwide religion, for example, which is odd because it's the most existential of cultural beliefs. We have neoliberalism, at least
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by sgu999 2y ago
Likely referring to urbanism, public transports, collective mindset of the average Japanese, cleanliness, safety, maybe some of their spirituality. As a tourist, everything seems at its place in Japan. Yes, you come across a lot of CRT moni
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by sgu999 2y ago
> We don't know what generates human consciousness. But we know the brain is a key part of it. At what point does a bunch of lab grown human neurons become conscious? Why just human neurons for a human consciousness? We know very li
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by sgu999 2y ago
Rerun is a fantastic tool. I've made my team adopt it to visualise all of our (Rust) inference pipeline, it's been instrumental to improve our system. I'm very impressed that not only they develop rerun, but they are mostly b
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by sgu999 2y ago
> he calls what he does "engineering" which he deems equivalent to what rocket engineers do when they "engineer" a rocket that flies into space, but instead of a rocket it's some website What if it's embedde
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by sgu999 2y ago
Super cool! Any plan on making different form factors? For electrified cargo bikes, the battery is better placed bellow the cargo [0] so a squarish and flatter pack would be nicer. [0] This build for example: https://danielbuettn
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by sgu999 2y ago
> anything spacious is Ha, so it's spacious, not tiny and very little anymore... Here's what seems to be the biggest one of that random brand well ranked on Google, 1330kg: https://www.caravelair-caravans.com/mo
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by sgu999 2y ago
> Well depends what you need to do with, of course. given your example it's "want", not "need" > 3300lb is very little, even our tiny (19ft) and light travel trailer is over 4000lb Quick googling tells me that
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by sgu999 2y ago
Doesn't seem that final in that extract. > <graydon> > A little. Also big metallic things. And rusts and smuts, fungi. And it's a > <graydon> > nice substring of "robust". > <graydon> IOW
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by sgu999 2y ago
Out of curiosity, what are you doing with these?
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by sgu999 2y ago
> But certainly I’ve posted some stuff online I wish I could take back He really doesn't look like someone who wants to take anything back. In the past couple years he basically doubled down on everything unpleasant about him, sadly
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by sgu999 2y ago
> in other words if we think freedom is better we make it so fucking obvious we live in utopia it’s painful That's not what these people care about. Someone like Schmidt or Musk would be perfectly happy in a CCP-like regime, as long
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by sgu999 2y ago
> Such a society must inevitably collapse. What are the examples of that? It's closer to a phase transition than an actual collapse at the kind of scale we're talking about here. I'm not disagreeing with your sentiment, th
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by sgu999 2y ago
> The problem is that the Venn diagram of a) people who say things like "Financists" unironically and speak of a cabal of people with "usurary (sic) schemes" designed to bankrupt entire civilizations and b) actual, le
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by sgu999 2y ago
> This is one of the key dangers of majoritarian government. The moment that people can vote for representatives the representatives will be purchased What better alternatives are you thinking of? An intelligent, compassionate, eco-frien
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by sgu999 2y ago
> for our farm robot That peaked my interest, here's the video for those who want to save a few clicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFhTPHlPAAk I absolutely love that they use bike parts for the feet and wheels.
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by sgu999 2y ago
> then the person writing the spec is the actual software engineer Sounds like this work would involve asking questions to collaborators, guess some missing answers, write specs and repeat. Not that far ahead of the current sota of AI...
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A sewing machine that connects to your IBM or Macintosh computer (1991) [video](youtube.com)
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by sgu999 2y ago
I suspect they are referring to the whole "we can't even produce face masks" kind of fiascos. Yes we got out of it alright, but in good portion out of pure luck that covid-19 isn't as deadly as ebola...
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by sgu999 2y ago
> Single society? ... where that came from and who brought it here, apart from you of course? The sentence I quoted from you implied that there is some universal form of society that retained the same traits throughout history, which see
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by sgu999 2y ago
> financial selection is the way how society work on top of finite resources since ancient times I don't know where you get that from, but if anything it looks like there has never been a single society but many forms of organisatio
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by sgu999 2y ago
Ha, thanks for sharing! I quickly looked for something like that on their site but didn't find it. Love their editing style. Very inspiring indeed.
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by sgu999 2y ago
It's apparently called "pay as you go" in the english jargon. Here we call it "répartition" in opposition to "capitalisation" [0]: active workforce directly pays for the inactive population, in exchange fo

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