walleeee

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by walleeee 6y ago
If this existed I would drive it daily
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by walleeee 6y ago
I think this is basically the norm now, not the exception. Very much share your alarm. > The only thing you can do is be mindful of how much data you give out. This is important, but I don't think it's all we can do.
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by walleeee 6y ago
Somebody fork it and make the cube rotate only when flipping between buffers
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by walleeee 6y ago
Agreed, although it will be an uphill battle. We are rapidly outsourcing governance to data brokers who will vigorously defend their core business model. Boycotts are likely a good place to start, at least until public institutions can be r
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by walleeee 6y ago
I swear half of the Twitter posts I see are just people disparaging Twitter... I hope your downvotes are just for tone, not content.
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by walleeee 6y ago
> I think it is easier to apply these rules to people you know than strangers. This, and they're also easier to apply in person. It's a lot harder to be casually vicious to someone you're face to face with, for most people
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by walleeee 6y ago
I'm not sure American cultural messaging is so monolithic. Some is like that, but plenty of people argue something like the reverse (e.g., parents infantilizing their children, participation awards).
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by walleeee 6y ago
I don't think the claim in 2) is that they'd necessarily be in politics. It's that they might be way more productive than incentive structures currently permit. The academy can encourage social climbing, pointless competition
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by walleeee 6y ago
That helps a lot. So would it just require an open standard for microkernel implementations, then, or would hardware need to change?
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by walleeee 6y ago
Would you mind helping me understand your idea better, then? I gleaned my (mistaken) assumption from your Capabilities Digest: > The principle of least privilege is the solution to this whole mess, but it has to be applied from the kerne
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by walleeee 6y ago
I dunno, do you have any friends with deep pockets and chaotic energy? In seriousness, no clue. Forking the financial system, which crypto is arguably intended to do, seems hard enough. Forking the kernel (as I understand you propose) seems
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by walleeee 6y ago
> The market is a discovery mechanism. If you are serious about achieving something, you should seek useful feedback. Willingness to pay is one powerful feedback mechanism. True, but many of the markets we have are neither free nor fair.
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by walleeee 6y ago
> An intellectually honest approach would be to look at the net effect instead, which has been overwhelmingly positive. Care to elaborate your analysis?
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by walleeee 6y ago
I'm inclined to agree, but that is not the direction things seem to be headed. Dorsey called for increasingly personalized algorithms before congress a few weeks ago, while Zuckerberg basically implied FB would continue to acquiesce
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by walleeee 6y ago
Christopher Lasch argues for the existence of something like this (somewhere between TIV and narcissism) not merely as a stable personality type, but a trend affecting a growing number of Americans. Would be interesting to see longitudinal
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by walleeee 6y ago
> That's not how it works. Worst-case scenario that winds up in landfills instead of being recycled. It's a problem even if it ends up in landfills. Plastics can leach chemicals into groundwater. My point is that the "Asia
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by walleeee 6y ago
> Currently, afaik, this problem is primarily driven by Asia, so I think the effort that would have the most impact is figuring out how to convince Asian countries to stop throwing plastic in to rivers. The west could start by not export
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by walleeee 6y ago
Sure thing! Seems almost nobody is (I wasn't until a year ago)
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by walleeee 6y ago
> Obviously, the main alternative is having someone slice it at the deli counter for you, but that means you could only ever buy prosciutto at places with a staffed deli counter, including the 15-minute wait for the deli counter if you&#
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by walleeee 6y ago
Seriously! My lab does plant root growth modeling, which (like protein folding) is a 3D morphology prediction problem. Tweaking crops for even a small increase in carbon uptake and sequestration in soil (e.g., via deeper or longer roots) ma
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by walleeee 6y ago
wish I'd thought of that...
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by walleeee 6y ago
Yes. And a lot of that software collects dust after the paper it produced is published :/ Academia needs to recognize and incentivize software (including maintenance) as a research output, and make funding available for more research s
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by walleeee 6y ago
Philip McShane expressed this nicely: "...a thing is defined by... systematizations of coincidental aggregates of the properties of lower things". Probability theory "allows for the emergence of the systematic from the non-sy
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by walleeee 6y ago
That's the thing. Why is he trying to generate content constantly if he has little to say? I have my own theories (elaborated elsewhere in this thread), but it's a question that needs asking.
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by walleeee 6y ago
Likewise! No problem, friend
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by walleeee 6y ago
Where have I implied I hate the players? I certainly don't, nor do I think everything is terrible. I'm sorry it came off as such. > I choose to believe that human progress will continue to solve the problems we face, in time. B
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by walleeee 6y ago
> I find it disingenuous to claim, as the OP did (perhaps unintentionally), that innovators are bad faith actors playing a zero sum game. Surely that's the exception, not the norm. Just as there are bad actors in academia and any ot
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by walleeee 6y ago
I don't think building a business is zero-sum in principle. Your point about a farmer creating value is well taken. Our present measures of economic value are notoriously short-sighted though (i.e., willing to ignore hard-to-quantify e
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by walleeee 6y ago
Good point. I meant it in the sense that anyone marketing a product is competing for a finite pool of consumer dollars.
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by walleeee 6y ago
I think this may attest to the value of (apparent) novelty/innovation in PG's sphere. Seeming unconventional and disruptive has better ROI than spending years mining the history of human thought. He doesn't do science, he fun

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