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by zwkrt 5y ago
I think you’re way off base. For whatever you think of tech, programming and automation are the harbingers of control and consolidation.
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As I get older, the less I identify as my current state and the more I identify with the person who transitions through states. My change in perspective has reduced my anxieties and anger significantly. "This too shall pass" and a
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What populist leaders have done since time immemorial is to rally large crowds by tapping into their desires. Trump does this handedly, as you can see from his rallies. In Roman times such a person was called a tyrant, i.e. someone who gain
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What about it is propaganda? From who and for what purpose? Certainly not any large corporation or government, all of whom benefit from a populace that is always online.
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Asking if reality creates emotion or vice versa is like asking if the front of the horse pulls the back or if the back of the horse pushes the front.
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In my experience at three large companies, any project where one part of the organization wants “the data” from another is actually just a power grab at the mid-manager level. To me when I hear “accounting wants direct access to the invento
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A fun thought experiment is to realize that if the earths atmosphere were totally removed except for a cylinder that encircled your house and went into space, you would feel physically the same. Just like in the water, in some sense the onl
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by zwkrt 5y ago
> how do we get neighborhoods to “evolve” in this direction naturally? Get rid of cars and people will quickly find they like walkable neighborhoods.
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I guess I didn’t expect my comment to be so popular, and I was kind of tired when I wrote it, it was 2 in the morning. I guess my point was not anything really about complexity (or the evolution of giraffes as HN seems to be very excited to
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To paraphrase Ummon in the Hyperion book series, “science tells us that giraffes evolved long necks to eat leaves at the top of trees. What it doesn’t tell us is why no other animals evolved long necks” Whenever we try to simplify AI decisi
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Hyperemesis is definitely real, and eventually affects 1/3 of heavy weed smokers. A lover of mine had to self-diagnose because their doctor wasn’t aware. The crazy part is as that smoking weed ameliorated the symptoms in the short term
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Yeah if you’re writing a standard library or a parser or maybe a database query optimizer, but if you aren’t writing code about code, then it’s probably not the way to go.
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This post shows MD but it misses the forest for the trees. To riff on the blog post linked below, “what if you have an Onyx holding a hard stone executing Earthquake in a Sandstorm against a Flygon with the ability Hover?” The answer is tha
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That’s fine and dandy if the “crazy” things they say aren’t directly attacking ones way of life or values. My parents seem to have viscerally negative physical reactions to even the sight of black people and gay men (lesbians seem to be fin
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That's not the dichotomy though. Most businesses start with one or a few people making someting useful and building a larger business around it. Like a plumber who learns to specialize in new urban construction and makes enough connect
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Just shitposting: How about “the number of bits a subsection of a system is able to encode about the rest of the system surrounding it”
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Facebook et al want the privacy discussion to revolve around “keeping your personal data safe” but that is just bald-faced propaganda that covers up the fundamental issue. It’s not like Facebook’s digital model of my behavior is really “min
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When is the last time you knew of someone becoming blind from a poorly made moonshine? Legalization works for one of our most widely available and life-ruining drugs, why wouldn’t it work for the others?
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I work at a shelter, let me give my on-the-ground opinion. People who get hooked on drugs normally do so because their life is awful. Opioids, amphetamines, and barbiturates (not common b/c of cost) are all different ways to escape rea
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Classist against who? Land owners? Color me unmoved.
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What’s the point of the money if it isn’t doing anything for you?
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Those things you mention aren’t really the chains you make them out to be. You can sell your house and move somewhere affordable. Poor people have kids all the time, a lot of times they are even smart! What you feel chained to is your ritzy
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“ Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
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It’s rare a piece of tech has a more fitting name! “Is your orgs politics so complicated that direct team-to-team communication has broken down? Is your business process subject to unannounced violent change? Bogged down by consistent DB sc
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Especially considering the recent post on HN showing that higher quality audio makes you more influential
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Your kids will run wherever there is space to run. A lawn is the most useless and least functional way that a property can be maintained. It is a parking lot that no one can even park on. It is a desert enforced not by weather but by an aut
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Right and we created god too! I think that atheistic people get too bent up when someone thanks god for something. You could equally say “thanks for all that exists and the way that things turned out” but it’s a mouthful!
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Well who made the world logical?
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A tree adapts to its environment and I would bet money that trees in their phenomenology can’t count.
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The problem with YouTube isn’t the specific way it is moderated it is the entire ecosystem it creates. It is addictive for end users. It devalues “content” (an advertising term for the things on the page that aren’t ads) that doesn’t hook u

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