sporkydistance

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by sporkydistance 2y ago
For the past 30 years, cars have been "good enough". This idea that one manufacturer is "vastly" better than another is nonsense. All care manufacturers are vastly better today than they were in the 1980's. This is
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
So weird. RFK is now in charge of this stuff for humans, and is anti-vax, but apparently our gov't thinks vaccines are fine for chickens.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
On the one hand, I disagree with her, because I believe that 99.99% of people with purse string control are dumb a/f, and that "real work" will happen in the cloud of VC/Politician-stroking. That's the way it works.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Probably Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, or some other new fascist militia.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
I would make fun of this as a PE event, but when I graduated high-school (US) we were still wearing parachute pants and break dancing to the Fat Boys. So I'll refrain from throwing stones. Each generation has their own precious cringe.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
When I was at Intel in the late 90's, early 2000's, one CPU project decided it was going to use it exclusively. It was agonizing: slow, terrible UI, buggy, missing a lot of features. I never tried it again, did it get better? It&#
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
I tried blogging in the mid-2000's about drones. I was documenting my experience building drone flight controllers (mind you I was using Cortex-M3 cores and early 3-axis IMUs) and had published schematics and source code. About 5 years
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Sorry, I was refering to Hacker News, not all social media. My question was unclear. 1. HN is centralized, but not for-profit. 2. HN does not drive engagement, AFAIK 3. HN is not surveillance capitalism. You haven't demonstrated how Us
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Ah, thanks. That's a good answer. I was coming at it from the discussion angle only. However, both Usenet and HN don't allow you to friend people, like other social media. I see I accidentally dropped the term HN, which makes my q
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
I really would like to know what exactly you consider a "clear difference" between how Usenet and differ conceptually (e.g., ignoring the GUI, the # of users, and mechanics, [e.g., usenet updates diffused around the globe because
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
We're literally socializing right now. We're a special interest group meeting to communicate about special interests. The opposite of socialization is isolation. If you hadn't posted, you wouldn't be socializing, but her
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Isn't this something that marginalized groups have had to deal with since their existence? I mean, there's a reason why in the US black men die at higher rates from heart disease and stress-related illnesses. Is this getting atten
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Why do you exclude HN from your list? It is literally social media, but with the dial turned down a little. Yet, you don't have to dig to deeply to see flamewars, outrage, and trolling. I mean, look at many of the garbage comments in t
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Comparing dragons to 3d internet chat rooms is kinda funny. Arthurian dragons have largely been the same beasts for, oh, 1000 years. 3d internet chat rooms in Snow Crash have been tried and are ... lame. I appreciate you thinking critically
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
the "weirdos" had no problem humiliating anyone who tried to skate with them that they deemed a "poser". please actually read my comment next time.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
"Skaters skate not gatekeep people" That's the overstatement of the century. In group / out group always has gatekeepers by definition. Not sure where you grew up, but I sold skateboards at a bike & ski store for a w
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Hanes 3 packs at Target. $17.99.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Let's look at the reply: "It's not just commodification. If you were a punk in the 80s with a green mohawk, you might find it cute to put one on your kid in the 2000s. I have long hair, my son has long hair. This isn't a
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Yes! That's my one good use! :) Seriously, that's all I got.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Here's one good use: I looked into leaving the US to become a citizen elsewhere. I have about $15MM in my retirement. I would have to pay a penalty on my taxes for early withdrawal, and be taxed when I renounce my citizenship. In theor
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Selling a speculative investment for a necessity screams: "I don't understand personal finance."
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
If legal tender #2 went up 115% in 4 years I would feel like a jackass for spending it in 2021 because I would have doubled my money if I saved it. Do you see the absurdity?
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Why would anyone spend a single BTC/sat. if they know it could be worth 10x more in a few weeks/years?
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Nothing says stability like a "currency" that swings +/-1000% in value.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
GDPR is one of the best pieces of legislation to come out of the EU this century. It is the utter bane if "move fast and break things", and I'm so glad to have it. I will never understand the submissive disposition of America
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
If you were punk you wouldn't give a fuck what I think and wouldn't have wasted your breath on me getting defensive. Just sayin'.
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Yo rocky, watch me pull a massacre outta my pants... aaaaa-gaaaain????
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
Steve Albini captured this perfectly in an essay to The Baffler called "Commodify your Dissent". I highly recommend it, as it described the commodification of subculture that started in the 80's and really swallowed everythin
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by sporkydistance 2y ago
I think with books like Neuromancer it is a matter of "when" you read it. If you read it today, it seems trite, like Snow Crash. If you read Neuromancer in 1984, it was mind-blowing. Same thing with Snow Crash in 1992. These books