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by _tulpa 5y ago
Having been there personally and spent time with others in by same place: it probably can't be anything but "impulsive" for most people. It really is a "hang on til it hurts too much", reasons for/against tend
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by _tulpa 5y ago
I don't really see what Elon actually does beyond cultivating public image and having money.
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by _tulpa 5y ago
> Ultimately the choice is the user's That's really not how choice seems to work in real life. Anecdotes about recovered junkies are meaningless until you talk to those, which in my experience are the majority, who a) haven&#x2
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by _tulpa 5y ago
Still doesn't seem like you've given it any thought... If I go round giving people the 'choice' of free samples of heroin, with full knowledge that they're highly likely to become addicted and will no longer be able
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by _tulpa 5y ago
What are you talking about? Did you read any of what I wrote?
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by _tulpa 5y ago
A much less dishonest (or maybe just less naive) way to frame it is to ask whether we're okay with someone exploit systemic weaknesses in human nature en masse for personal gain and to the long-term detriment of those exploited. This w
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by _tulpa 5y ago
The ‘docs’ subdomain should make authorship pretty clear…
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by _tulpa 5y ago
Given a quick read of both articles, maybe that author should have said that computational technology maybe reduces cognitive load so we can focus on other stuff. No shit… The implication of all this (partly from the shitty phrasing on the
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by _tulpa 5y ago
I mean the title of the nature article is pretty much a summary of a null result, but it’s phrased in a way that is very easy to interpret as positive (or at least non-negative) wrt the effect of technology on cognition. Where I really doub
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by _tulpa 5y ago
“We didn’t find anything significant, here’s tasty phrasing that you can misinterpret and make sensational headline” If you write a scientific publication you should really really aim to avoid stuff which can easily be misinterpreted by l
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by _tulpa 5y ago
Same in pretty much every sane country
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by _tulpa 6y ago
> ... easier to regulate one giant company than a myriad of smaller ones This sounds... incorrect. Small players are much more vulnerable to fines and other penalties which range from 'cost of doing business' to 'slap on t
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by _tulpa 6y ago
Outside of scifi plot devices I don't see how that would be feasible.
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by _tulpa 6y ago
The word 'shill' was a poor choice, my bad. > It seems like everyone wants to believe that the people they disagree with are being paid. It's a form of conspiratorial thinking. Getting your product to the front page of HN
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by _tulpa 6y ago
So far most of the the sibling comments miss the goddamn point: Lululemon reps, salesmen on quora, and in generall situations where you know the person is selling you something are not a problem . The real thing is shills posing as indepen
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by _tulpa 6y ago
No. You just missed the entire point... I do have strong opinions about exploitation of other humans though, and probably stronger ones about modern mental gymnastics apparatus which lets people justify the whole thing.
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by _tulpa 6y ago
Ignorant of the existence of some inane bullshit that they don’t actually need, because they haven’t been motivated to look for a solution to a real problem? Sure! This is exactly where ignorance is bliss. Modern marketing is just spreadi
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by _tulpa 6y ago
I really don't think you can solve technology with more technology...
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by _tulpa 6y ago
> simple is not better than possible. Dang, that's just the most perfectly succinct phrasing of (an answer to) my pet hate in software/developer attitude/life in general. But it also seems that the 'possible' fac
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by _tulpa 6y ago
Honest question: Which bits don't make sense? For me it's the other way round, git clicked way faster than other systems.
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by _tulpa 6y ago
> 3. Because of 1, 2, and 4. Use ^L, when you need it. > 4. Same as 1. > ... saves tons of time No. It really fucking doesn't. How is it ever supposed to be faster to try and figure out which search result for 'index.html
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by _tulpa 6y ago
I think quality is almost the only thing that matters. Personal anecdotes aside, we're mostly terrible at dealing with new ideas when they conflict with stuff we already know or is close to our identity. Remove the human element of the
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by _tulpa 6y ago
This connection doesn't mean shit compared to someone you see face to face and share experiences with. Yet this watered down form of connection seems to have replaced the latter, which I think is the fundamental social problem of the i
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by _tulpa 7y ago
An avoidable tragedy. The main tangible thing that gave the label it's public power. And at the same time, did everyone expect an entire geopolitical region to just sit there and let themselves be curb-stomped by various international
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by _tulpa 7y ago
9/11 was a terrible thing for sure. Think a little bit about why it might have happened. How many thousands of people have died as a direct result of American intervention in the middle east, or do lives not matter unless they're
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by _tulpa 7y ago
Because it's not called terrorism when very similar incidents are perpetrated by citizens or residents, despite having very similar motivations, and especially not when it's the government telling us to call it terrorism going ove
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by _tulpa 7y ago
> 'proper capitalism' Price-gouging is absolutely acceptable capitalism, we only call it 'gouging' because being a greedy asshole doesn't align too well with the moral compasses of most of society. Which is why g
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by _tulpa 7y ago
> The Alaska Highway, mentioned above, constructed across remote tundra, cost $793 per meter in 2019 dollars. 'the "highway" was not usable by general vehicles until 1943. Even then there were many steep grades, a poor sur
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by _tulpa 7y ago
My point is 'out of range' is different when you use steel. The subtext of the OP is that you'd totally use lead if it wasn't illegal. Which exactly the same backwards 'hurr durr desk-sitting city environmentalist r
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by _tulpa 7y ago
This whole argument is pretty weaksauce. Learn to use the non-toxic stuff or stop doing it and just buy your meat. Either way don't go spraying a bunch of toxic heavy metal all over the show just because it's "humane" -

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