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by woodman 12y ago
So I might be alone in this... but I can't see "Vulnia" without thinking about vulvia, a vulva metropolis where Zaha Hadid has a major architectural influence. Again, that might be a personal problem - but in the interest of
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by woodman 12y ago
> I would certainly rather work and have my dignity... I've never felt any pride in busy work, I've always found it to be insulting. I would have thought everybody felt the same way, but I guess I would have been wrong.
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by woodman 12y ago
Wait, do you seriously think that Sun, Bell, Ericsson (java, c, erlang) set out to maximize social good? Of course everybody knows that the internet is powered by well wishes and puppy dreams, not costly telecommunication hardware.
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by woodman 12y ago
Turtles all the way down is one answer - but if that doesn't satisfy you... a human who then accepts an offer for his controlling interest by the AI?
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by woodman 12y ago
A loan from the autonomous self owning bank?
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by woodman 12y ago
I think it can be convincingly argued that profit maximizing is social good maximizing, especially in technology. See: every technology ever :)
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by woodman 12y ago
> How about an ownerless ... Are you intentionally changing the subject, or do you equate self ownership to "ownerless"? Or is it that you are skipping ahead logically because you don't recognize a non-human entity as bei
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by woodman 12y ago
This is a tough lesson and for many the only teacher is experience. For the longest time I avoided what I considered abstract math, despite the general wisdom of its importance to computer science. I spent weeks writing software that coul
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by woodman 12y ago
No. Your statements appear to advocate the position that "tin foil hatters" are marginalized by themselves. My position is that appealing to ad hominem attacks makes you vulnerable to agent provocateurs, beyond the original prob
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by woodman 12y ago
> Do you think it sounds like tin foil hat crazyness to people for a different reason? Yes, for the same reason that you replied to. Here, let me distill it for you: >> (forgottenpass) This generally sounds like tin foil hat crazy
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by woodman 12y ago
> Calling upon government services and voting isn't a show of faith in the government, it's just a matter of practicality. Intelligent people can disagree on the ideal way to transition from our present system to a more prefera
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by woodman 12y ago
I won't try and speak for all anarcho-capitalists, but I've experienced both extremes of the spectrum - and my political position is not a result of some kind of preferred violence. It is a moral issue, as I don't believe th
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by woodman 12y ago
> The standard line of thinking is that government is dysfunctional and politicians are corrupt. That may be the standard response you get, but doesn't mean that is what they think. I'm sure that if you asked them how their da
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by woodman 12y ago
The same people that warned everybody that the state had the technical ability and disposition to monitor all communication? Can you see how your weakness for ad hominem might play right into a disinformation tactic as old as the state, th
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by woodman 12y ago
Ah, well that is a consequence of poor planning by the well-intentioned. Here, I'll show you: People are bad, therefor we need a government made of people are bad, therefor we need a government made of people are bad...
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by woodman 12y ago
> Where did you get "smoke and fire detector" from "rolling my own automation"? Most likely from the fact that you made that comment in a thread about a smoke detector...
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by woodman 12y ago
> Lots of seemingly stupid decisions are completely reasonable from the person who made them. Lol, good intentions are worth absolutely nothing. Your misallocation of resources story isn't really helpful either, if you think the SE
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by woodman 12y ago
> But, without the proper incentives simply privatizing or reducing regulations are going to do little but line someone’s pockets. Well, that is true every system - including functions of government. It has nothing to do with privatizat
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by woodman 12y ago
Setup by the SEC. The incentives are structured, by the government, in the most ridiculous way possible. Pointing at the failure of government mandated and monitored rating agencies as a failure in private enterprise is just stupid.
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by woodman 12y ago
> ... attempt to shift public perception of environmentalists ... That might be a little tough, because eco-terrorism is already a thing - I remember the word being used as far back as the early 90s. So they would have to equate partici
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by woodman 12y ago
> ... would the algorithm itself be a director? Yes, a self owning autonomous agent: http://youtu.be/Pu4PAMFPo5Y
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by woodman 12y ago
Contract work on modular functions, not a monolithic code base. Spawn a child, apply contractor's code, watch what happens. It would be a mixture of Genetic programming (fitness tests) and intelligent design :)
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by woodman 12y ago
> Would it be crazy to say ... Yes, it would be crazy - because "spoofing" on an exchange is absolutely nothing like piracy or retail knockoffs. The only overlap is the reuse of the word.
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by woodman 12y ago
In that case it is even worse, reusing words from the same domain... Everybody check out my new linux distro, Microkernel, it is the ironic OS! Google needs to start running this stuff by me.
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by woodman 12y ago
The word "chrome" had been used to describe window components long before Chrome the browser showed up. So it isn't an accidental collision, it is a shortened name of the upstream Chromium project (named after the element).
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by woodman 12y ago
> ... so much FOSS stuff looks like shit and has poor documentation. Compared to what? By volume? Go read the documentation for openbsd, freebsd or vim. I've never seen more thoughtfully structured documentation. > Oh god, hea
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by woodman 12y ago
> How is Uber crony capitalism? Because that is the phrase for extra bad capitalism, right? The regulatory capture of the rent seeking income inequality causing corporatism, occupy HN! I'm seeing a lot of posts lately that remind m
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by woodman 12y ago
Well thanks for not doubling down. FYI, "Ayn Rand" and "neo-liberal" doesn't really belong in the same breath either - I'm guessing you've never actually read anything she has written. This might be a mom
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by woodman 12y ago
I don't think it is worth noting, I doubt it would be productive to go into John Birch Society / Oath Keeper territory :)
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by woodman 12y ago
It isn't really an issue of privacy, it is an issue of consolidated power through a monopoly on certain types of information.

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