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901.
by zby 11y ago
OK OK - I did not mean to stress you or anything :)
902.
by zby 11y ago
By the way I recommend the essays by Szabo: http://szabo.best.vwh.net/ ! Also his blog: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
903.
by zby 11y ago
That was sarcasm or not?
904.
by zby 11y ago
Anything new in this one?
905.
by zby 11y ago
The problem is amplification of negative emotions. People are mimetic animals and when negative emotions are displayed publicly they are copied and they spread. People intuitively adopt to that and are very careful when in public (especiall
906.
by zby 11y ago
Care to link to sources on that? From what I read on hunter-gatherers they were very egalitarian - and there was no need for strict rules controlling every aspect of the life of the members. Unlike in pastoral and settled cultures they did
907.
by zby 12y ago
I wish someone translated http://www.kulturalna.warszawa.pl/kapuscinski,6,4351.html?lo... into English - it was one of the most mindtwisting books I've read for a long time.
908.
by zby 12y ago
More severe penalties are more effective than less severe penalties. The other dimension of certainty of detection gives better opportunities for improvement and using it was a great step for civilization - but it does not negate the my the
909.
by zby 12y ago
The detection was very law so for the penalties to be effective they would have to be severe.
910.
by zby 12y ago
For me the moral from that story is that in a mature market there is a lot of accreted wisdom and best practices - but in the early stages you don't have that and you need to trudge along with whatever you have. And judging those early
911.
by zby 12y ago
Really spot on. Just one thing - according to Rene Girard religion is a way to control and confine aggression. It controls aggression by aggression in a very dangerous way - but at the core it is a 'social technology' with the goa
912.
by zby 12y ago
The USA subsidies high-tech via military spending. This is not just a Chomsky theory - it has been on Hacker News a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8980498 (direct: http://steveblank.com/
913.
by zby 12y ago
When doing DI extensively one needs to add some defaults for the components injected through the constructor.
914.
by zby 12y ago
It is useful to know the current rules before you transcend them. And maybe I used the wrong word - rules suggest something positive - maybe I should say 'mechanics' or something. Take Machiavelli - did he make politics worse by d
915.
by zby 12y ago
He is explaining the rules of the game. Shunning him for that is like killing the messenger.
916.
by zby 12y ago
RMS now prefixes all his public emails with: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowd
917.
by zby 12y ago
On April 18 there are planned to be protests in many places across the globe in a Global Call to Action to Defeat Free Trade and Investment Treaties: https://www.globaltradeday.org/
918.
by zby 12y ago
It was not in that article - but I wander how do the guys using it feel about the security implications of it.
919.
by zby 12y ago
Number one problem is attribution. Restricting the agencies will never be effective if you cannot know which one did something.
920.
by zby 12y ago
Agreed - this will not be that easy to fix, but still if we want to fix it than we need to think about reducing the complexity. I have also a very tentative idea that this might actually lead for more democratic organizations - because remo
921.
by zby 12y ago
The real problem here is complexity - people don't understand what is the goal of what they do, and often there really is no goal because their bosses do not understand the system too. Maybe we should start treating law and bylaws as c
922.
by zby 12y ago
Yes. It haunts me how relevant it is.
923.
by zby 12y ago
"It might be argued that the human race would never be foolish enough to hand over all the power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor that the machines
924.
by zby 12y ago
Voting via internet is very dangerous - fortunately we can use the internet to for things better than just voting - like consensus building etc. It is much more difficult to disrupt broad channel communication that the extremely narrow chan
925.
by zby 12y ago
By the way - here are links to programs/statutes/manifests of many other Pirate Parties: http://wiki.pirateint.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_Statutes_and_Pol...
926.
by zby 12y ago
Well - there was another game described in that book (but not in that linked article) where it was better to act quickly upon any tentative hypothesis instead of gathering data first and doing much testing.
927.
by zby 12y ago
It is fascinating to read about all these thinking failure modes - but my own (very tentative) takeaway from that book was that there is no one way of thinking that is appropriate everywhere, that if many people are failing in a particular
928.
by zby 12y ago
This conspiracy between all company owners - this is in the article: """ "The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to
929.
by zby 12y ago
I have been thinking about that Graeber's essay intensively - because on one hand he is strikingly right about that many people now feel that they do a bullshit job, and on the other hand his explanation to why this happens is laughabl
930.
by zby 12y ago
Mocking is global - when you need two objects that need to have two different DateTime.Now - then you are out of lack if you mock it. DI is just a bit more universal than mocking. On they other hand mocking is simpler - agreed. Thanks for c

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