ahMath8

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by ahMath8 4y ago
These days that’s a Put tweet lambda and Get tweet lambda that autoscale with traffic, and copy pasting a copy cat UI from GitHub. The last decade has been spent making something like Twitter today a simple shell script. Companies would be
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by ahMath8 4y ago
Unless you’re in government where there are no laws against leveraging inside info.
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by ahMath8 4y ago
You mean “the US government since Reagan has been blowing it.” Oh look Reagan’s man abusing workers during Clinton’s time: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o... Let’s not preten
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by ahMath8 4y ago
Yeah I mean we’re all participating in dumping an industrial mess on the future. I’ll take the pearl clutching more sincerely when your calls to “human decency” target your own moral failures that matter. It’s not JUST you treating the plan
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by ahMath8 4y ago
I would also nominate financiers who enable him and the other mind games being played on society. Empowering people good with math is not much different than empowering people good with religious screed. They’re still fallible meat bags. We
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by ahMath8 4y ago
People with enough money sit and imagine all day tend to develop delusions of grandeur; see the various flavors of tribal wise men in history. Not so bad in and of itself, it’s when individual’s delusions of self worth infect others and dra
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by ahMath8 4y ago
That’s not an unreasonable take when it comes to companies. Missed calls, days to hear anything, weeks of back and forth, constant apologies, spaced out mgmt, PMs, euphemisms, platitudes, a whole bunch of typical humans nitpicking every sen
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by ahMath8 4y ago
“This guy is going to dupe so many people into believing in him.” is roughly how the thinking goes. A religious sect, a monorail, electron state in a machine; it’s all a path to a magical future.
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by ahMath8 4y ago
We’d be better utilized as CPU and memory storage. Maybe generate brain structure, biology state with (re)generative biology like Michael Levin is up to at Tufts[0]. There’s tons of alternative research paths going untouched that leverage i
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by ahMath8 4y ago
The real problem with Fediverse is we’ve already seen how people will use it ala Facebook and Twitter. I don’t get to goto work and engineer essentially the same product 2007 engineered. It’s a rehash of a rehash of an idea that will become
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by ahMath8 4y ago
Throwaway as I used to socialize with a number of names connected to all this. It did not “happen that fast”. It’s been forecasted and debated for weeks if not months. We were just not privy to those meetings, IMs, and calls. You’d have to