aerodeck

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by aerodeck 9y ago
What makes you say that China's closed/censored society is directly at odds with Google's products?
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by aerodeck 9y ago
You'd probably do a cheaper and better job just spending 15 minutes browsing youtube, then calling your buddy in Macedonia.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
Watching that was worse than August Underground's Mordum.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
I'm surprised no-one in this entire thread has even mentioned the possibility that autism, OCD, ADHD, etc. might be, in part, caused by such streams of nonsense. Human sociality needs to be boostrapped. Kids watching this all-day-every
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by aerodeck 9y ago
The article mixes its message a bit between automation/disruption/capital. One couldn't really say that Uber is in the business of automation. The capital/labor distinction is more productive, but since it is derived fro
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by aerodeck 9y ago
One extra consideration here is that as power centralizes, the costs of individual mistakes increases.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
You can put all your energy into paddling a canoe, but if it's still tied to the dock you're going nowhere.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
> working more hours gives you more experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns
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by aerodeck 9y ago
This is what is called the ideology of no ideology. A small cadre of elite economists that convened as the Mont Pelerin Society (led by Hayek) called themselves neoliberals for a bit but stopped using the term.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
So you believe that there is such thing as a news report without commentary?
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by aerodeck 9y ago
Perhaps doing something to control an overheated housing market would help more than tearing up new land 100 miles away from cities whose prosperity derives from the 'network effects' of geographical proximity.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
> not intentional > cost effective optimizing for cost is an intention.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
ordering someone around != meaningful interaction.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
If humans are just inefficient then we should just get rid of all of them no? Or perhaps just keep the smart, efficient ones with good credit scores.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
> lens of blind progression The problem is that there is no such thing as 'blind progression'. It will always be defined by someone or something, boxing all future progress into that person's biases. This is the same well-
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by aerodeck 9y ago
Anti-humanism is a very interesting strain of thought these days. Homo-Deus by Harari is my favorite example. The problem, of course, is that if we got where we are now by being humans, then how do we know we're far enough along to &#x
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by aerodeck 9y ago
I think this is more or less correct, but I think the more important take-away from the article is how this kind of thinking ends up getting wrapped up in NRx and inevitably, the alt-right. Viewed from 1,000 ft, it is very easy to coldly c
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by aerodeck 9y ago
It's very easy to live an long, comfortable and unhappy life.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
> entertaining to watch that's the kind attitude that got us to where we are now.
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by aerodeck 9y ago
I see a couple of interviews here: http://hayek.ufm.edu/index.php/Main_Page Do you have a suggestion of which one is good to start? I really want to dive deep into this guy. Also, to be fair, theory travels. A lot of t
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by aerodeck 9y ago
Funny to see this on HN. I am currently reading a book that details the recent history of economic theory and how it has been in bed with neoliberalism. It has much to say about Hayek and the Mont Pelerin Society, a think-tank that he found