sydbarrett74

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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
The real issue is that Visa and MC have too large a share of the payments pie. Their greed, especially Visa's, is boundless.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
As with most crimes, the vast majority of victims know the perp.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Musk is not a techie. He's a tech-adjacent huckster.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Do you mean Zorin ?
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Same. The only thing I can find is the Zoltan load-balancer at Sandia Labs.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Thank you! Is it OK for me to share this beyond HN? I don't want you to get slashdotted.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Agreed. It's the corporate equivalent of sinning left and right 6 days a week, then going into the confession booth on Sunday and getting asked to recite a couple of Hail Mary's.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Witty! But no... Repetitive (Stress/Strain) Injury.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
One doesn't have to come at the expense of another. Cf. 'Steady State Economy'.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
When there's an epidemic of attempted/successful suicides amongst teenagers, much of it driven by social media, we are absolutely sicker mentally than in times past.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
What distro? Have you spun up a SteamOS VM?
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
We may be wealthier materially overall , but we're poorer mentally and socially. TANSTAAFL. And as others have pointed out, a higher aggregate level of wealth hides immense disparities.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Maybe we could get off the hedonic treadmill and be content with a certain level of material affluence.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
And since the Industrial Revolution, any labour is highly repetitive and therefore leads to RSI.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Ireland is within the EU and uses the Euro as its currency (unlike when the UK was in the EU and stuck to the Pound Sterling), so you were never wrong.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Awesome! I don't live in LA, but I applaud your efforts.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Autism and hypermobility (e.g., Ehlers-Danlos) are highly correlated. I have both, with ADHD thrown in.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Agreed. Nihilism and fatalism are both cowardly.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
GenZers are indulging in drugs at much lower rates than previous generations. That includes alcohol.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Did you post to OSDev?
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
I can no longer edit my comment. Strike that second instance of 'erasure' and substitute 'red line'.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
I don't know the hows or whys. It's just a general feeling of unease that I have. I'm waiting for additional shoes to drop.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
There was a universal, naïve air of optimism on the eve of 9/11. To wit Francis Fukayama's blithe sentiment that history was over with the fall of the USSR and that a capitalist, secular paradise would be ushered in with the Mille
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
I don't have any evidence for this assertion, but my intuition tells me a huge downturn ('correction' in economists' parlance) is about to hit us like a tsunami and get rid of much of this extractive, parasitic, unsustai
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Agreed on the mixing of worlds being detrimental to society. Boundaries exist for a reason.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
I don't think Zuck's motives were ever pure or noble. We must remember that Facebook (original name: Mashbook) was originally created to rate the fuckability of the females residing in Harvard's co-ed dorms. Basically, it was
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
Put another way, an anti-hero is tantalising in a work of fiction, but not necessarily the type of bloke with whom you'd want to grab a beer IRL.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
And this is precisely Doctorow's definition of 'enshittification'.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
I guess the blurring and eventual erasure of the online/offline erasure is where Zuck succeeded and Friendster, MySpace, et al. , failed.
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by sydbarrett74 2y ago
You nailed it: success is a winner-take-all (or maybe most?) proposition. At least in a narrow domain, the dominant solution crowds out all other contenders.

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