trevyn

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by trevyn 5y ago
Can you share a couple of the better links?
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by trevyn 5y ago
1) “Those in power” does not mean only the government. 2) Mediating access to information in Western societies is now in a much more advanced state than brute censorship.
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> what am I supposed to do Not have any more kids, and discourage others from having kids as well, because you know that they will come to harm.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Keep in mind that you also may have just come across as very arrogant and apparently unaware of how modern society functions.
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by trevyn 5y ago
That looks very cool. It says preorders are open to “developers”, but the preorder button goes to an empty preorder store. Has anyone been able to preorder? https://www.pine64.org/pinenote/
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by trevyn 5y ago
You can train yourself to see things in the dark.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Why should we be careful? Aren’t our desires just a reflection of evolutionarily advantageous behavior?
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by trevyn 5y ago
Just when I thought Twitter threads couldn’t get any less readable…
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by trevyn 5y ago
It sounds like you’re trying to fit new pegs into old holes?
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The image with text in the article seems to imply that each initial buyer will choose whether to upload the backing information “for all to see” or not.
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by trevyn 5y ago
>There is absolutely nothing of any value whatsoever on Mars that can't be found much, much more easily on Earth. Ungoverned land.
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by trevyn 5y ago
>It is possible that there is a cap in how much stuff people want to put into space. I’m still trying to figure out if Earth is the slave planet or Mars is the slave planet, and how that’s gonna play out. Either way, lots of stuff to mov
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by trevyn 5y ago
Disappointing that there is not a single mention of e-scooters.
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by trevyn 5y ago
I’m a big fan of Error Lens.
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The traditional footholds are no longer relevant. Millennials and onward live on their phones, not in a house or at a workplace. From the traditional perspective, this seems like a loss. From another perspective, it's not.
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It's completely orthogonal to whatever you believe about crypto.
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Because there exist people who will donate crypto but not "normal money". Same reason why there are charities that accept cars, canned food, christmas trees, etc.
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by trevyn 5y ago
This is exactly the key insight in a post-scarcity environment, though: Beyond food and basic shelter, everything is lulz. A lot of people didn't grow up in that environment of abundance, so they still think that "profit" i
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by trevyn 5y ago
I think he missed the part where the crypto infrastructure is aggressively based on open-source, abundance, post-scarcity, universal access, and equality. The current "assets" that are traded are indeed meaningless, as is most o
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by trevyn 5y ago
> When you see something that does not seem belong where it is, you cannot pretend that did not see it. 1) How do you decide if something “belongs where it is”? 2) If a large proportion of a society agreed on a decision function and beha
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by trevyn 5y ago
I’m curious, did they give a reason for leaving?
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by trevyn 5y ago
I’m curious, do you see the fundamental vulnerability in this state of affairs?
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by trevyn 5y ago
Have you offered a free apartment where they can live alone?
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Site that has the actual annotated source code: https://www.bbcelite.com/
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by trevyn 5y ago
For those who don’t know, much of Serde’s magic is powered by Rust procedural derive macros, which generate (i.e. “derive”) code from a Rust struct definition. You can, of course, write your own derive macros, and apply several derive macro
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by trevyn 5y ago
Neuroscience has pretty much sorted it all out already, it’s just gonna take some time for people to believe it.
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by trevyn 5y ago
> And of course, if you take it away there is nothing left. Exactly.
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by trevyn 5y ago
Apparently there is some work with transcranial ultrasound that can instantaneously turn hallucinations on and off…
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> some kind of external "science" validator I dunno, we have some pretty exquisite sensing machines today. Including machines that can sense the workings of the hardware running our first-person-experiential experiences. Just b
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It doesn’t need to be hard-coded, it’s in the early educational curriculum, and socially reinforced at every turn.

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