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by v77 7y ago
Not enough uses of the word capitalism for my taste.
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by v77 7y ago
This article wasn't much more than what you'd see in daily discussion over at /r/cyberpunk.
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by v77 7y ago
This was not a great article.
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by v77 7y ago
Maybe we should wait a bit until figuring out what works and what doesn't in this case.
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by v77 7y ago
Transparent Society is still the best book on the subject and I agree with you whole-heartedly about the societal ground shifting.
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by v77 7y ago
Dwarfed by China, which has no need for outside finance of any power infrastructure. In North America and Europe I would rather see these billionaires donate to land conservation which is as big a direct environmental issue as climate chang
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by v77 7y ago
Most people in North America are not from northern latitudes genetically unless we are talking about the UK and Germany and even then..
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by v77 7y ago
I thought that was hilarious.
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by v77 7y ago
I would say this is considered an open question.
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by v77 7y ago
This is fairly well-known stance and the intersection of consciousness and quantum decoherence is something people talk about quite a bit. Check out Sean Carroll's stuff for a lot of good discussion on this.
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by v77 7y ago
I just bought a Pixel 2 from Amazon.ca and it seems fine.
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by v77 7y ago
Like a lot of us here I grew up in the 80's/90's when television was going to destroy civilization and global nulear war meant we were all doomed. Now social media and climate change are the next horsemen of the apocalypse.
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by v77 7y ago
Hacker News spends half its time making fun of moral panics and half its time participating in them. Who cares if people want to have plastic surgery or injectable treatments?
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by v77 7y ago
I think this is a great achievement by Scotland but I agree with your general point. I was disappointed to see that the NY Times great series on EU farm subsidies and their massive environmental cost got no traction here but negative news a
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by v77 7y ago
Drove into NYC last year and could not believe people were allowed to live in those buildings.
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by v77 7y ago
Paul Krugman often rails against German industrial policy vis-a-vis the EU and hits a lot of the same notes in this article. On the other hand, most of the EU countries seem to accept this status quo and many of their citizens end up immigr
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by v77 7y ago
The Times article was the last straw, you know the board members all read that. Plus the space launch failure.
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by v77 7y ago
You are one of many. He also heavily influenced my employment career aim in what I call 'para-academia', similar to Stoll's niche of being a quasi-academic/quasi-technologist. There are many satisfying jobs in that space
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by v77 7y ago
Get frustrated with the Times a lot with their tech bashing and political homomgeneity but pieces like this are worth the price of a year's subscription alone. Wonderfully written and a clear subtle mirroring of Apsted's biography
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by v77 7y ago
Wow, what a story, well told.
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by v77 7y ago
What risks are these? When was the last serious food shortage in North America?
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Academic Code Ten Year Reproducability Challenge(rescience.github.io)
1 points by v77 7y ago|0 comments
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by v77 7y ago
I'd go even farther: a lot of people should not be living where they are living. If insurers won't cover you you should not be living in an area with {fire, flood, hurrican} risk as you have transferred the cost of your lifestyle
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by v77 7y ago
This is the meta story. The campus is my city is the same way, bordered by a six-lane arterial with poor pedestrian connectivity so cars can speed as fast as possible through the high-pedestrian area. As long as North American cities put th
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Baltimore Neighbourhood Builds Own Surveilance Network to Fight Crime(baltimoresun.com)
1 points by v77 7y ago|0 comments
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by v77 7y ago
Yes, I certainly wouldn't call Office enterprise software.
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by v77 7y ago
Wirecutter and Consumer Reports for most purchases, Yelp and TripAdvisor for reccomendations while traveling. Works pretty well.
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by v77 7y ago
This is a very common problem for elderly people and many products exist to fill the gap already.
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by v77 7y ago
Since this was an op-ed with a half-assed mix of anecdote and cherry-picked stats, I'll add my own from one of the more rural Canadian provinces. The small towns and smaller farms that are doing well are those that are within reasonabl
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by v77 7y ago
I was just about to post the same thing. Clearly a lot of companies do negative-EV blanket podcast advertising to juice their customer numbers before an IPO. Sonos was another famous example (although I like Sonos a lot). There's no wa

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