Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
Essentially I see two competing processes here. Google still has powerful boolean operators. If you use those with intentionality, and pick the hidden 'verbatim' option, you'll have a decent chance of finding what you need. H
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by Bakary 4y ago
Google is an ad company that produces a search engine, rather than a search engine that features ads. Although it may have been the latter in the olden days
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by Bakary 4y ago
Time is the greatest resource, but energy management is your greatest goal. You will always run out of energy before you run out of time. If you have a life where you pursue autonomy, the development of your capacities, and a sense of meani
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by Bakary 4y ago
The point is more that it doesn't matter in the way the person wanting to be remembered would want it to be, or in the way the person wanting to be forgotten fears it to be.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Look up the fundamental attribution error
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by Bakary 4y ago
Reference books are the one thing it's a good idea to spend money on, because flipping back and forth through a digital copy is still a miserable experience
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by Bakary 4y ago
If you already know the product you are buying down to the model, Google isn't tailored for you. It's meant for people who have a vague idea and then pick what's at the top of the search results. This is why SEO has grown to
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by Bakary 4y ago
If you provide infrastructure or support for something, and that something is almost exclusively surveillance and data-gathering based, that's not so great either.
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by Bakary 4y ago
If I lay out the reasoning more precisely and in the simplest terms, maybe it would then be easier to identify which part might be the stumbling block here. 1. An employee of Google makes propellers for Google. 2. The sum of their work bene
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by Bakary 4y ago
This is a similar reasoning to claiming that college is not useful because people such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or the Zucc did not need it to do well. It's a form of cargo culting.
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by Bakary 4y ago
The end result of their work is to increase the power and success of a surveillance company, one of the most successful and powerful surveillance companies in the world if not the most, so how could they possibly not be involved or morally
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by Bakary 4y ago
The software just isn't there yet, but we have some inkling of what might be possible in just a few years. Perhaps a closer analogy would be human computers. You would have meetings with them back in the day to set out calculation task
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by Bakary 4y ago
What if you no longer need meetings? Take accounting software for instance. This function will probably go from an entire team of accountants to one of the C-levels just triggering the right software at the right time as part of their norma
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by Bakary 4y ago
If software engineers end up automated away before truck drivers are, (not a completely harebrained concept given that one type of AI is doing better than expected and the other worse), it will put a hilarious spin on the "truckers sho
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by Bakary 4y ago
One thing I notice from the community is that for previous generations (let's say pre-2005) it was significantly easier to make a great living as a programmer without engaging in shady nonsense. My post was very critical, but to some e
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by Bakary 4y ago
By news, I didn't mean it had to be political. Much of news is political of course, but far from all. What I'm saying is that looking on the platform and seeing how Zoomers consume news, it has that fireside chat quality where new
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by Bakary 4y ago
If someone works for a surveillance company in a non-trivial role, they are furthering the progress of surveillance. They can't wash their hands of it.
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by Bakary 4y ago
There are a ton of profiles I've seen over the years. A few seemed to have lifestyles so independent and idiosyncratic that they'd put the Unabomber to shame. Many were involved in fascinating and helpful projects. But I find the
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't have actual stats of course but intuitively if you tally: - All the FAANG/FAANG suppliers - All startups or established projects that involve data gathering, advertising, SEO, skinner boxes, dopamine response, parasocial r
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by Bakary 4y ago
One aspect I find interesting about HN is that most of the posters there are involved in adtech, data-gathering, FAANGs, or adjacent businesses, whilst reaping very high rewards for their troubles. At the same time, they have an enduring in
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by Bakary 4y ago
By news they mean users who film themselves talking about news topics in a particular way that is adapted to the platform There is a particular "informational" style that these users adopt for these videos that is increasingly pop
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by Bakary 4y ago
What I mean is that from a hiring company's POV an in-demand candidate who won't submit to nonsense because they can afford to will usually be a liability due to the power imbalance. They will either not need the company and bypas
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by Bakary 4y ago
I don't recall where but Adorno specifically wrote about how the concept of a hobby is in itself toxic and enabling the very logic you are criticizing
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by Bakary 4y ago
What I enjoyed about the Long Ships is how the author avoided moral handholding and let the reader make their own appreciation of it. Interestingly, the contrast highlights the concept of master vs. slave morality pretty well. The Vikings s
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by Bakary 4y ago
On one hand, values could stand to change to great effect. On the other, these characteristics didn't pop out of nowhere. It's a bit like cryptocurrency today: as some have put it, a 19th century speedrun towards rediscovering the
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by Bakary 4y ago
We can't see the alternative world where another company or entity ended up being at the helm of the personal computer revolution. Since you mentioned the winner take all aspect that should orient the way we think about these companies
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's a bit of both. We discriminate with regards to groups, but the measure of crime shifts quickly. Drugs or sexual orientations become legal or illegal. Killing is legal or illegal depending on whether it is performed in an approved
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by Bakary 4y ago
To some extent a State is a gang, but at a larger and more sophisticated scale. So is any sufficiently large company. The 'criminal' aspect is always a relative measure.
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by Bakary 4y ago
David Graeber wrote a great book about this phenomenon
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by Bakary 4y ago
By definition if you are not captive they won't have much use for you since you'll end up wasting their time

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