Phileosopher

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Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal (2020) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by Phileosopher 6d ago|1 comments
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by Phileosopher 5mo ago
Most amazing art isn't really a product of inspiration, but from severe editing (or severe practice, if it's live). Good writing needs a lot of "post-production" to get the ideas hammered out. Most of it is removing co
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Capitalism 2 – Business Simulator Game(enlight.com)
1 points by Phileosopher 2y ago|0 comments
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XCell Stealth Phones(x-cellular.com)
1 points by Phileosopher 2y ago|0 comments
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All That You Need to Know about Personal ESG Score(diginex.com)
3 points by Phileosopher 2y ago|1 comments
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
I'd say it's a social mechanism more than anything else. While I haven't used the service myself, I expect the UX steers people to generate video-based content themselves, which is an evolution from the Twitter-era "spon
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Unicomp's "New" Model M Keyboard(pckeyboard.com)
134 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|185 comments
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
A huge part about whether honesty hurts or helps is the framing that revolves around it. In this case, it's a matter of social expectations driven by the timing of that honesty: * If someone is a completely unfiltered person and says t
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
NOTE: I'm in the USA, so it may only apply here. It all depends on the framing of the situation. For myself, I frame it as a few of the following, context-depending on how it's asked: * (on a webform) "not applicable" in
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
Genetics play a huge part as well. From birth, we're given a death clock, which goes downward as stressors hit us, then further as we relive that stress. In other words, everyone would probably live to ~110 in a perfect, stressor-free
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
This may be taboo to discuss here, but the wording could phenomenologically transfer to "the love of commoditization and scalability of meaningful things that give power is the root of all evil". Enjoying a beautiful sunset is an
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
You're forgetting that there's a secondary market for these things, similar to how subsistence farming is largely gone in lieu of the supermarket. Just purchase a share of camel slurry, and you're solid. Actually, now that I
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
This is a natural product of how power works on the internet. Barring an algo that downgrades time spent, the people with the most power are proportionally the people who do the least things elsewhere. I was clued into this when the BLM pro
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
The trouble goes back to a 1910's telegraph bill. The US created a de facto monopoly on each carrier for each zone of land. On a particular parcel of land, there is only 1 carrier for any telecom tech, with those parcels as tradable on
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
The US has something like this already with cellular with MVNOs, driven by the free market. The TL;DR is that the cost of cell towers is mostly the same irrespective of bandwidth (e.g., hiring a technician to break-fix as parts fail from we
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
It's a natural trend cycle: things grow beautifully, they stagnate, their corruption load exceeds their productivity and they start declining, then they collapse in lieu of something new. There's hope for revitalization, but only
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
Well, not necessarily everywhere . In the lens of history, new countries with a new constitution don't have that problem. Over time, they create layers of new laws, then cruft when those laws make little sense to enforce, then they ca
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
I love the OG callback. Before I clicked the link, I was scared this was contextually something far scarier: "After centuries of intellectual property legal disputes with the Catholic church and the Chaucer family estate, the British L
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Nightshade: University of Chicago's attempt at poisoning AI art generators(arstechnica.com)
3 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|2 comments
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
A huge part of this is tied to the "conscientiousness" aspect of the Big 5 personality. For myself, I need 1.5-2 days of off-time, depending what I'm working on. I consider myself a constant grindstone-lover, and most of the
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
I'm not entirely sure if this corresponds, but I've been getting a 404 message these days. I've deduced that it only happens when I use a VPN. My OSINT skills suck, but it's reasonably possible that VPN IPs are now getti
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Proposed new law of physics implies we may all live in a computer simulation(phys.org)
6 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|0 comments
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
I've had a hard time penetrating philosophy myself, and found out from PG's essays that he saw much of the same problems as me. So, I wanted to summarize a little of everything that makes up reality, with the hope that people can
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Show HN: My Attempt to Simplify Philosophy(gainedin.site)
15 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|4 comments
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
If you wish to comment to the FCC about it, you can do so here: https://www.fcc.gov/document/proposing-reestablished-open-in...
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US FCC proposes reinstating net neutrality(fcc.gov)
2 points by Phileosopher 3y ago|0 comments
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
To start with, I don't think anyone sincerely wants WWIII right now. In the lens of history, wars were quite popular in Europe in the 19th century because it was the best way for the floundering aristocracy to maintain their wealth (i.
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
I have a simple flow of though, how I see it: 1. ALL information is biased: there's no way to remove that part entirely because human beings make everything news-related. 2. The motivations of the journalists determine what the news re
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
https://trendless.tech feat. https://notageni.us It's an attempt to give a 12-year-old-friendly TL;DR set of essays for computers and technology, with some other domains mixed into it.
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by Phileosopher 3y ago
I've been seeing WP's failings more and more, especially as Gutenberg keeps adding kitchen sink features to stay cool and trendy. The static site builder is on my todo list. The email list was a plugin on WordPress. I had to griev

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