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by trgn 4y ago
This is really it. I'd go a step further, which technologists will fail to accept, since it's essentially an animistic argument. Cars, very specifically, the actual physical _thing_ are evil technology. In absolute terms, in absen
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by trgn 4y ago
> we don't have a 21st century hippy equivalent Today's counter-culture won't be identified somewhere on the left-right spectrum, or be found in the struggle for mass media attention. Which was basically the hippies. The t
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by trgn 4y ago
Huizinga argues that debating is essentially a human expression of our animal play instinct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Ludens This would also be the reason in settings where debate is formalized, e.g. a courtr
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by trgn 4y ago
It's unnecessary in this article agreed. The author has an obvious preference, just own it already. Being tolerant is a virtue, but practice this by action, in life. When writing a polemic, say what you mean! If anything, amp it up a l
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by trgn 4y ago
Is that increased exposure making us healthier (ie. mindful, tolerant, understanding, patient, ...) or more neurotic (ie. ruminative, paranoid, self-absorbed, defensive, ...)?
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by trgn 4y ago
> I used to love cars and driving, now they disgust me, ++ I live in fly-over country, and cars, pretty much all of them, are monstrously large now. I notice the change, even to 15-20 years ago. Just as a small example; the physical expe
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by trgn 4y ago
There's no way to determine that in an interview, which was the author's example. Interviewers who ask these type of questions are low key manipulative, that prying attitude is incredibly off putting, so presumptuous. If I were ge
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by trgn 4y ago
imho, a few suggestions: wrt numerical data See if domain allows for more constraint typing (e.g. ints as actual ints). Will push devs naturally to binary formats. Consider column orientation layout. This will also help with more advanced c
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by trgn 4y ago
It's called noblesse oblige. People with means in their daily lives constantly make financially unsound decisions out of a sense of duty and responsibility. That microsoft is cutthroat here, sure, it is the nature of transactional corp
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by trgn 4y ago
They (and similar technologies) are used where it matters. Games, data visualization, ... numerically heavy applications mainly. On a side-note; JSON has been somewhat of a curse. The developer ergonomics of it are so good, that web devs co
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by trgn 4y ago
Actually really true. They do seem to have a ton of momentum. Can really capture the imagination if well done.
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by trgn 4y ago
He's great. Sidetracking a little, I wish someone(s) could develop a complementary vision for the urban context. This escape to the woods ethos does not scale. Yet, it's the only one that - at least in my impression - has crystali
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by trgn 4y ago
Small but bespoke. It's the only way. Stuff, the actual materials things, they have their own designs. Better to shape them in your image, than have them shape you in theirs.
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by trgn 4y ago
> the outliers will always be able to argue that their system Isn't that exactly the point. Why must people to adapt to the system, rather than have the system adapt to the people? Metric system is a technocratic system. It has tec
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by trgn 4y ago
6ft 2inch. So easy. So clean. 1234cm is the dumbest measurement ever. Once you find yourself working with those, you are either a scientist or you have adapted to the machine rather than have the machine adapt to you.
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by trgn 4y ago
My point exactly. You constantly have to deal with those stupid fractions and decimals in metric system all the time. Also - weight and volume relations have mostly scientific relevance. Not joe schmoe putting up out some drywall, or propor
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by trgn 4y ago
Metric system sucks for day2day measuring.
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by trgn 4y ago
How's the metric system superior? For science, sure. But I find day2day use of measurements in inch/ft, e.g. in home renovation and architecture, way way easier than metric system. I think it's the other way around. The adopt
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by trgn 4y ago
That's not responding at all to the argument in the article. The argument is that civilization and property rights robbed individuals of a natural inheritance; a claim to richness of the natural world, an ability to sustain oneself wit
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by trgn 4y ago
> The act of purchasing something creates a very small signal, but a signal all the same. I agree with that certainly. Change starts individually. It really does, I mean that genuinely. As persons, as actual men and women in this world,
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by trgn 4y ago
> just trying to offer the best practical advice I have It's good advice. But imho it doesn't scale in the way it should, in the way the "invisible hand" should work. The main thing is that imho consumers have too lit
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by trgn 4y ago
> Vote with your feet, and your wallet. Companies build what sells. This is the defeatist attitude that largely explains why we're stuck in this race to the bottom. A lot of the mass produced stuff we surround and find ourselves su
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by trgn 4y ago
Same here. Thanks OP for bringing this up, I wondered about this too. I lost attention span for online content, and reading a lot more books (fiction and non-fiction) than I used to instead. Change was fairly abrupt.
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by trgn 4y ago
This is the aspirational vision of the future. Tech to facilitate a more luxurious, healthier life. As opposed to us adapting our aspirations to the parameters of the technology. Right now, we act like battered housewives, apologizing for t
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by trgn 4y ago
Yikes. These numbers are mindblowing ... I forget where I read this: "Exponentials often end up being sigmoids in disguise."
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by trgn 4y ago
Malthus didn't account for technology. We'll see how far that stretches. Malthus reasoning is rock solid. Exponential population growth puts strain on finite resources. Malthus was a huge influence on Darwin. That premise - the te
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by trgn 4y ago
It's something I find very commendable of americans actually. Americans generally take unsolicited criticism and brash antagonizing language from foreigners quite well. Every american traveling abroad can attest (remember the post 9&#x
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by trgn 4y ago
Midwest, mid-size city. Lived eastcoast too, was the same.
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by trgn 4y ago
Thank you, I'll check those out on future trips!
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by trgn 4y ago
Thank you, ordered!

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