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by streamofdigits 5y ago
There are so many lessons to learn here, but I don't think we are in the lesson-learning era.
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
How about people revising their views on the Economist (and its real job)
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
There is no much point in arguing with a cult. This phenomenon will have to work its way through the susceptible demographic, meaning that the large majority of "speculators" will have transferred their disposable wealth to a mino
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Open sourcing models that are used for significant policy decisions (affecting others) is somehow required to protect and maybe enhance democracy in the digital age. Applies obviously to the public sector but also to private sector when it
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
the real advantage of php seems to me is not in "generic" web projects that start from scratch but the very popular domain specific frameworks that have been build on php (blogs, wikis, etc) while python is gaining ground on such
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Signal has already changed history in a way. The past few years, as trust in a certain type of ethically challenged tech company has come crashing down it was vitally important to have a tangible example of a working, usable alternative. Im
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Public entities goading their (captive) audiences into private social media for "updates" is an abomination that has been inexplicably normalized. Activating RSS feeds for direct interaction with their constituencies is the least
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
by all accounts those "other" advanced countries offer a better socioeconomy model for how to organize things. The (recent) US is really an outlier that makes no sense whatsoever. But there is a weakness in this view, namely the e
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
fediverse > mastodon. granted the other platforms not yet well populated but if you look e.g. at bookwyrm, its got nothing to do with twitter https://bookwyrm.social/
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
imho the fediverse will have to come to be much more than social media type exchange of messages via activitypub. federated search is a major additional pillar that is currently largely absent (and is technically very different)
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
its a maximalist position that is hard to parse. you can run your own instance, keep it very local to a group of friends and family etc. what is feudal about that?
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
history will be written by the winners web 3 will come to mean whatever the next phase of the connected digital computing experience comes to be defined by the money seems to be overwhelmingly on the "web3" cryptopia money buys yo
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Can a single centralized engine / business model ever balance all those conflicts? It feels that the time for decentralized search where entities are both contributing and benefiting from shared search indexes and have the ability to t
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Please stick to intelligent discussion. I didn't specify an alternative model for a good reason, it doesn't exist yet. But your attempt to pre-empt that the only possible alternative is Chinese style state-sponsered capitalism ill
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
There may be a case for tactical use of whatever tools are available to achieve a positive result. Who am I to condemn people to sub-par living conditions on the basis of conceptual arguments... But please take at heart my previous comment.
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
people who defend capitalism on the face of the last century's (and ongoing) environmental disaster should just be considered negationist at this point. Sure is not all wrong but it's infinitely worse than any economic model that
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I am convinced that the way to change the world (not necessarily towards some altruistic nirvana but at least to avoid a dysfunctional, environmentally and socially disastrous dystopia) is by raising our education / communication game
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I feel the despair in your comment but you can not fix a broken thing with another, even more broken thing (which is this greedy cryptomania) it is broken government that is the problem and it causes far more ills than monetary inflation wh
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
what level of awareness do you think the "majority of people" have about the implications of online tracking, of detailed behavioral profiling, of biased algorithmic influences on all online information experience etc. somehow thi
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
> If you also advocate for the shuttering of high frequency trading firms... yes, that is what I mean by "metastasis of the old system" but there is much more nuance: the overfinancialization of the economy is a recent phenomen
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
> Now anyone can play, at the same time that traditional paths to wealth... the association of wealth with "playing" is very much a metastasis of the old system masqeurading as some sort of innovation. this is not wealth creati
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
looks like cash has solved (most) of this some time ago: - V. costs nothing to exchange a bill - V. link to a real economy so little volatility (except when the real economy implodes) - V. accepted everywhere within a currency zone - V. mos
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
the "market" seems to be betting that these monopolies will persist more or less exactly as they are (see eg the 3 trillion apple valuation that is really an unfathomable number unless you condition that basically the entire US ec
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
there is also xapian/recoll https://xapian.org/ which works great for "desktop" search
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
There are ofcourse both filmmakers and films in the West that explore similar domains. And I generally love them (for the same reason I love Tarkovsky's work). But when I check what audiences say about said work (and even well known
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Thats true, but probably something that can be tackled later and in any case it would not be a show-stopper for creating a valuable alternative (There are similar thorny related issues around IP e.g. for news sites)
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Eventually search will become a decentralized activity (No, not a web3/crypto/coin type decentralization, I am talking about the useful type). Is there any particular reason why internet search has to have a distorting gatekeeper
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I don't think his work travels particularly well in the West. It is steeped in symbolism, deep metaphysics and calm, meditative, photography. All attributes that have been essentially banned from the fast food production/consumpti
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Any argument starting with "you are free not to..." invariably misses the point. Yes, freedom and individual responsibility are important. No, you cannot build a sane society exclusively on those. People don't have infinite
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Somebody call the IT department

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