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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I consider political thoughts and communicating them very much my more human experiences. Though FB etc. seems to be more used for people to agree with each other, not really discuss. However, I remember the wild west days of forums made by
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I miss bytesizematters.com ( http://lea.verou.me/2009/07/bytesize-matters/ ), made by a true dude bro in more innocent times.
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I wanted to reply to the original response which is now dead so I can't respond to it, but I think it fits here as well: The point would be the same if he had taken those photos/videos without her knowledge. What'd be the sug
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Exactly because I like tech I don't like how the persons it's shaped by and the reasons they shape it for. (particular things I dislike are symptoms of that). Consider the thoughts of Konrad Zuse or Joseph Weizenbaum with just ab
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
And then there's people who do understand but have friends who don't. As everybody should. I can self-host my email all I want, if I communicate with anyone in a corporate silo, the silo records it.
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I'm still asking what style it's supposed to be. If it doesn't have a name, it could use one. > If it was, people would read the first paragraph, move on, and then complain that they wasted their money in buying whatever n
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> From reading other comments in this thread, the story appealed to them. The story, or the writing style? I also upvoted the story, because I'm not going to punish it for the shit writing. And I actually dislike that the topmost co
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I'm glad they took the time to write down what I was thinking while reading the article. > You probably spent those two minutes writing your post. Let's spent two years linking to that comment under every article it applies to.
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> I'm not sure why America is singled out when war just happens to be brutal. Though I agree with the US hardly being "the" aggressor in the world, the second part, that "war happens to be brutal", is precisely
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I'm happy for you that you don't just see the dark underbelly of it. But the ruins and the mass graves and the devious sadism of the last tribe "my people" was immersed in last are kind of the worst humanity has to offer
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> How could you know why your parents behaved the way they did if you don't know about their parents? I only need to know their experiences with them and other people. Anything before stuff that shaped them is a bonus. Otherwise: ho
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> forgetting who you are You mean, like overwriting my actual life experiences with some sort of "narrative" that becomes more synthetic the more it becomes generalized and massaged? That's exactly what tribalism and group
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> In this case if there was a magical device [..] the regulation would be easy. You'd also need magical devices that force the people who do the readouts and judge cases based on those readouts act honestly, and so on. Why are we ta
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
For me it's this specific piece, I just hear two kind of separate and bland melodies. It wouldn't feel out of place in a B movie scene that goes on for way too long, where people shuffle around with no real motivation or aim. I do
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
What argument did I make though? I just found it interesting that this genuinely curious story -- why did one of those 700 barrels react that way -- had literally zero comments after 5 hours on the front page, and was being snarky. I mean,
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> He never said anybody believed in unlimited government. That's kind of implied in expressing joy that there are "still" Americans who believe in limited government. There is no in-between, anything that's not limite
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> I'm glad so many Americans still believe in limited government Who believes in unlimited government? Can you name a person or group that does? I'd like to ask them what that even means.
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Supposed people who otherwise seem very interested in nuclear energy discussed this as the interesting puzzle it is. How many would die? Apparently, all of them. Hence my comment, though its point seems to have escaped you. My concern isn&#
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> until capital entirely replaced labour in production Automation + Robots = capital and means of production become one and the same. For one in a direct way (you own robots and those do the work, which includes maintaining and building
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> “What fits with the behaviors I’m seeing?” Eventually she found one condition that did seem to fit—but it was a diagnosis that all the mental-health professionals had dismissed, because it’s considered both rare and untreatable. They d
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> We need to tell the story so that hopefully it won’t happen again. And I'll need to bookmark this just for the lack of points and the deafening silence, for the next time I see some grandstanding on HN about luddites being paranoi
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> dysfunctional but happy That is an oxymoron. When someone is "happy" to live in the rain and snow on concrete without a roof, because some abuser told them if they move from there, the world will eat them and torture them in
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Same answer, speak for yourself and the people you see in your daily life, because this does not match my experience. Where I live, if you find a scarf on the ground, you put it in a clean, well visible spot nearby, so the person who lost i
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
We don't know how much worse it might be without any attempts, and how much worse it can get when they cease. > We've been trying to do that for 2500 years. Who is "we" though? It's never everybody, right? So all
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
That makes it even more important to point it out. Most people would otherwise have no clue there's anything to miss out on. As some people above said, making their own apple sauce made "store bought inedible". The flip side
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
And if someone buys a child prostitute, is that the market saying that's the most efficient allocation of resources and the best way for the predator to outlive their dysfunctions? Insert a less polemic example if you want, same point;
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> Is music as a kind of social glue and lubricant also being eliminated? That's also up to those who compose who compose the music and write the lyrics, isn't it? For me, listening to some music has always been a deeply social
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
So "the internet" keeps saying for over a decade, yet the collar keeps shrinking. I think it's kool-aid.
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Unless the whole point of the exercise is to beat cheating, as it were. Burning the village to "save the village" comes to mind. And seeing how muddying the waters, blurring the lines, seems to be tool numero uno, why help with th
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
The easiest thing is to say something is too hard to even try that you don't even want to try for other reasons, such as green paper. And changing the images to evade the algorithm would also directly affect how likely they are to tr

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