AmIFirstToThink

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by AmIFirstToThink 8y ago
Google in China would have been a way for Google (and Western Democracies) to get the most current listing of what China is asking companies to filter. Whatever China was not comfortable asking international companies to filter (it shows to
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by AmIFirstToThink 8y ago
The cost of creating artificial exclusivity, enforced by the state against natural human learning/discovering capabilities, is even higher.
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by AmIFirstToThink 8y ago
File a defect log to the book of Genesis, assign it to original developer, the God himself. Why are you surprised that humans are being humans? Why can't you put trust into the fact that there are more people being good most of the tim
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by AmIFirstToThink 8y ago
I don't like Facebook either, but I actually very much like the part where they want to let people talk knowing fully well that what gets said would range from Nobel Peace prize worthy, to undesired, to wanting to burn the whole univ
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by AmIFirstToThink 8y ago
YouTube and Reddit should be like paper and pencil. If I used paper and pencil to break the law, then it's between law enforcement and me, I would be super annoyed if the pencil refused to write what I want to write because the pencil
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
Rampant shadow-banning on HN if you comment on immigration or terrorism or Net-Neutrality that the PC crowd doesn't agree to. I am sure this comment will only be seen by me, only through this browser. Peter Thiel or Sam Altman speak fo
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
Why should the society pay for your dream to have a chance to be reality? Startups with few heads have taken down companies that had employed hundreds gainfully for life, only to be folded into another behemoth with all the evil intentions.
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
Occam's razor: Viking raided silk traders travelling far, or raided people who had access to those traders, traders who were either wearing or selling the silk cloth with pattern.
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
>People generally do love Silicon Valley and what it creates. It’s the media that doesn’t. The problem is Google/YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter are behaving like media companies of past century. They wasted no time in doing t
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
>while failing miserably to focus the election of issues that actually matter They failed? They decide what they should focus on, or should you decide for them? Who gave you the judge position? Care to take any efforts into claiming that
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
Just like it failed to deliver so far for humans, it would fail for the AI world. All three approaches only work if one accepts them, and then goes on to implement them all the time, for all the decisions made. Not possible, hence evil in t
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
I think we as society have lost the ability to give the kids a creative space, that used to be a mile away from homes where they can play in the sand and bushes and water, and just be kids, without adult supervision. Video games let kids ex
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
It gives you a chance to put yourself on the shrink couch in the privacy of your room. You get to know yourself little bit more. You know how flimsy the safeguards are for you to not do the wrong thing. Laws, religious ethics are flimsy to
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
>We are missing something essential to the DNA of a functioning democracy, and it’s not obvious there’s any way to fix it. Chasing Utopia, while not having answers how to get there, and for that matter even not knowing what this utopia l
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
It's guaranteed that you would be tracked.
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
GoFundMe? Patreon? Those who could find people to buy what they are producing, are already doing it on social funding platforms. The models that are struggling are those who are not able to sell what they have to sell... a product that not
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
Caddy HTTP server is a history repeating itself like Ext-Js. It is quite sad. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15237923
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
It would be foolish to think humans would be different because they happen to be in space. Yeah, the first ones to look at earth from outer space had an mind altering experience. I am sure the few who flew in first airplanes had similar sto
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
And you just hope that they AI that's sustaining the human life on Mars, doesn't like the AI taking over the earth. I think having a backup of humanity would make world leaders to be more dangerous with their decision making, dest
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
I think humanity is not ready to be multi-planetary. Time or distances or conditions are not on humanity's side. Even humanity is not on humanity's side. I think the dreams of being multi-planetary are similar to buying doomsday b
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
Yeah, try convincing 8 billion people that we should all hunt for rabbits. Case against Civilization is case for extinction of all animals 6000 years ago. I would rather be living now and enjoying this earth, than be someone who thinks that
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
WeChat employs people in China.
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
We do? What kind of racist thing is that?
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
>And, of course, it's not E2E encrypted; just the opposite, you can assume that it's being wiretapped/monitored. Whatsapp is not? Are you sure? I would assume NSA doing all it wants as well. Whatsapp is out not because it
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
This is for people with no dating prospects. At no point the person wearing this jacket would ever be going hand in hand with a date, because her hands would then trigger the tech in the jacket. a tap .google.com? There will be no tapping g
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
The best they do is manufacture. The kids growing now in West have lost ability to tinker. If you are into electronics and manufacturing, China is like playground to experiment. In the west, we are losing rights to fix the gadgets we own.
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
Whatapp employed 55 employees when it was sold for 19 billion. Banning whatsapp to get local competitor which employs local talent, is actually better for China from poverty point of view, isn't it?
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
They can still watch youtube videos about molecular biology all they want. The numbers don't really matter in that regard. And why would Google care if whatsapp is banned? Facebook didn't care that google search was banned. Bannin
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
And that's supposed to offend them? how? What makes you think Chinese are after making others follow them? I think they are pretty happy with the way things are now. Do you think that's what we are after? Making others emulate us?
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by AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
No innovation in entertainment means culture safety means prolonged rule of the party. You are just confirming their logic.

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