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by trgn 4y ago
Man is measure of all things. That americans need to drive more to get their daily needs met, is not a mitigating factor. In fact, maybe it points at the root of the problem.
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by trgn 4y ago
> there probably isn't a desperate need for stricter vehicle inspections in the US. American drivers take awful care of their cars. bald tyres, ripped off bumpers, worn brakes, ... It's shocking coming back from (western) europ
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by trgn 4y ago
At the same time, USA has the oldest constitution, and east coast cities for all intents and purposes are 250 years old. If Europe's imperial capitals are essentially 19th century inventions, so are America's (Paris, NYC, Barcelon
724.
by trgn 4y ago
Extending forgiveness is ruthless indeed. Thomas Hobbes makes the following observation in leviathan, that is thoroughly depressing and at first perhaps paradoxical. A person who wronged you will only ever be able to hate you afterwards: ei
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by trgn 4y ago
> "Fuck off. Don't talk to my son." That's the worst response. It puts them in the defensive. If there is any "good" way, it is to be incredibly obsequious and deferential. Most of all, these kind of people
726.
by trgn 4y ago
but serious question, how does this violate criminal law?
727.
by trgn 4y ago
derp yes. thanks
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by trgn 4y ago
Lol yeah. The apple cart has already flipped. The "rich" are seeing their balance sheet completely melt down right now, and may even get worse still. People get what they want, and it's still not good. In this case, triumph o
729.
by trgn 4y ago
> the database that holds them? But that's completely useless if there's not the software and hardware infrastructure to make the contents of that database readable and searchable. That will be really tough to do. > and the
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by trgn 4y ago
> Not if they are stored in the cloud myspace was a cloud and lost all music. I get your point, but books have proven to stand the test of time. We just don't know yet for digital media. I mean, very concretely, are amazon's eb
731.
by trgn 4y ago
Why is this downvoted? This desire to be in control of a car, or the belief one should be in control of a car, is a true curse on the public realm. People who actively think of themselves of good drivers, are invariable the ones who drive a
732.
by trgn 4y ago
There's a somewhat tangentially related heuristic to your points imho. When writing code, when in doubt, task CPU over memory, it will generally yield leaner, better software. Easier to profile, debug, and optimize. Much easier to scal
733.
by trgn 4y ago
The aesthetic has a name, "resimercial". Agreed that "fun" doesn't quite capture it, even though often times the arcade machine and corn hole boards give that inmpression. I think tbh wework's vibe works quite
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by trgn 4y ago
Because java.com looks like a scam website doesn't actually let you download latest java.
735.
by trgn 4y ago
Commoditization is the right word to use imho. I think OP is using it here in more broadly philosophical (marxist) sense; a reductive process which makes mass manufactured products essentially interchangeable in the market. The only differe
736.
by trgn 4y ago
Sad to see this downvoted. There's a real core of truth there. The fact that millions are salivating over cybertruck, which design is a celebration of dystopian sci fi warfare aesthetics, proves your point. Technology creates the condi
737.
by trgn 4y ago
The total revenue of some of these companies is absolutely just mindblowing, normalized by number of employees even more so.
738.
by trgn 4y ago
These are the words from the artist himself: > At this point, it is just a piece of office art, a thought-provoking reminder of unexplored avenues in game design. It is also, as far as I know, the first non-fiction example of a VR devic
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by trgn 4y ago
Technopoly too, for an easy to digest mash-up of McLuhan and Ellul.
740.
by trgn 4y ago
Functional programming, and it's degenerate cousin, cramming random functional constructs (array comprehension methods, willy-nilly currying, ...) in Javascript has been the worst thing to happen to web programming. What that has done
741.
by trgn 4y ago
Damn, I wish I could upvote twice.
742.
by trgn 4y ago
Money well spent. We put excrement underground, might as well do the same for cars. On a side-note, I was in Boston this summer and it's so much more of an airy and accommodating place than I remember from 10-15 years ago. Lot's o
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by trgn 4y ago
The people that use them ride on the sidewalk because they will get maimed or killed by distracted or belligerent drivers if they scoot on the street. It's not the scooters that are the problem, it's a city environment that encour
744.
by trgn 4y ago
Space is an unfathomably unpleasant place to move to. Maybe advanced extra terrestrials understand that better than we do.
745.
by trgn 4y ago
Thank you for sharing. I suppose you're right, maybe it's the nature of internet discourse that just pushes everybody, no matter how measured or nuanced, into a box.
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by trgn 4y ago
Agreed, really compelling, great writer.
747.
by trgn 4y ago
Neil Postman is the sort of public intellectual that no longer exists. Classically educated and proud of it, conservative in spirit, tolerant in disposition. The closest we have now is obnoxious dark web trolls whose attachment to liberalit
748.
by trgn 4y ago
For sure, it fits into it, apologies if I gave the impression it didn't.
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by trgn 4y ago
Very little. This has been an ongoing process, it's called modernity. It's the evaporation of reality due to mass media and commoditization. It's a reductive process that turns actual people into widgets, the adaptation of ma
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by trgn 4y ago
Thank you, that's a relief indeed :)

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