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by sighsigh 12y ago
Upboating to save you from the humorless neo-Victorian nationalists that have dominated HackerNews.
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by sighsigh 12y ago
There was this one time I was watched a whole bunch of old media agitprop reciting various tropes on how things should be and when I did what TV told me to do, people responded negatively! It doesn't matter if those people were also e
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Competition heats up as programming languages get easier... and people obsess over being accepted by their peers? We learned from punch cards, through flame wars, and when being a nerd was actually a bad thing to your social status. Sigh.
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Failing to see why pop morality is on HackerNews?
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by sighsigh 12y ago
I never said negotiations SHOULD be between two people. I said that they are. Tell me, when is the last time you engaged in a negotiation with more than one person at the same time? And if you did, why are you intentionally crushing your
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by sighsigh 12y ago
So you believe that corporations are people and that individuals with low skill sets and spare time even know how to represent, let alone index, what their best interests actually area? And if you think mythical unicorn unison is the anti-c
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by sighsigh 12y ago
It's low enough that robots will do it in 5 years. No amount of down votes is going to stop that. Lol @ hacker news burying this obvious technical advancement in the name of mythical unicorn unionism.
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by sighsigh 12y ago
> If all of Uber's drivers banded together and simply decided not to drive until their terms were met, they'd likely have a good deal of leverage over Uber without any government intervention required I have experience with uni
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by sighsigh 12y ago
So taxi drivers are going back to their native countries at the end of every shift? Unions, especially service unions revolving around local physical transportation, depend entirely on nationalism. Without a sympathetic federal entity that
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Can HackerNews please stop sympathizing with nationalist unions? The perpetual civil war that was the 20th century ended quite some time ago. You can stop fighting those battles now. The losers of that fight have been preordained and now
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by sighsigh 12y ago
It means the internet allows people to communicate, share ideas, and form cultural bonds and identities outside of the highly-restricted context of national frameworks.
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by sighsigh 12y ago
This is technically correct in concept, but not in practice, as organized religion existed long before the formalization of the nation-state. In fact, one can even argue that nationalism is an agnostic subdivision of organized theology sin
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by sighsigh 12y ago
What's even more problematic is that you have been downvoted on a community that was founded by people who participated in building the tech responsible for forging history's first self-sustaining post-nationalist identity (the in
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Half-hearted attempt by the collapsing mass media machine to conflate shitty attempts at DNS filtering as the next SOPA in the hopes the "angry poli-tech" types will run with it to drown out the fact that a darling entertainment e
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by sighsigh 12y ago
"until every person gets an adequate basic income so people don't need to be employed." Hand-waving pleb magnets like this (the statement, not the person stating) show a painfully inept understanding of how autonomous labor i
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Notice a pro-union/pro-mercantilist/pro-nationalist comment is at the top, while this comment was flagkilled. It is very possible some entity outside of the community hivemind is intentionally crafting a narrative... and this isn
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Because that would make you... a believer of an out-of-touch white middle class moral framework that has failed to predict anything.
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Are you going to factor in China and India from the same time period?
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Globalism works due to inequality. Nationalism works due to inequality. Tribalism works due to inequality. The dirty secret of civilization is that someone has to dig the graves. Why pretend it's an evil from your middle class mora
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Bombastic click bait morality. IPhones are affordable because of wealth inequality. Oil is cheap because of wealth inequality. Organic food is purchasable because of wealth inequality. Hipster clothes can be owned because of wealth inequa
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by sighsigh 12y ago
If JavaScript was so simple that we could force it into a singular model of ontology and be done with it once and for all, we would be so simple we could not. Simply put, prototypical methodology reflects the mutability of reality. Object-
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Faith in an AI clasification that is invented from a human mind bound by the biases Derrida described long before people could put faith in strong AI? Sorry, I don't do faith. I do correlation. You just hate Derrida and can't ap
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by sighsigh 12y ago
That's not what is done in NLP because that cannot be done by NLP... for the reasons that Derrida pointed out decades ago.
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by sighsigh 12y ago
... until a later bystander asks you, "What is a dog?" and you now have to define it without the associated dog present. Or someone looks at another breed of dog and asks "What is that?" because he isn't aware of ca
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Derrida spoke of the absurdity of deriving meaning from an infinitely recursive and self referent system of language. Pureness of axiom isn't detectable in a mergable feedback loop. However, his critique doesn't show the shortco
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by sighsigh 12y ago
Red herring. Price points on techniques that actually reduce your attack surface do not make techniques that don't magically gain abilities. Go ahead. Disable SSH, firewalls, and VPNs and just run loggers all day. I'm sure you&
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by sighsigh 12y ago
These comments disturb me more than the article. Saying more cameras prevent crime is like saying more logging reduces your attack surface. Let's just ditch firewalls and add kernel dumps everywhere instead. My rate is $150 an hour.