bbctol

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by bbctol 8y ago
I've always read Hamlet as very much about the gap between internal activities and the way they are recorded or remembered. The big joke of Hamlet is that from the outside, his story would have looked like a young prince going insane a
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by bbctol 8y ago
Fun fact: Dick, for his part, thought Lem was the alias for a committee of Communists dedicated to destroying science fiction. https://culture.pl/en/article/philip-k-dick-stanislaw-lem-is...
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by bbctol 8y ago
I see. Did you read the article?
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by bbctol 8y ago
Of course there's a need to make that calculation. The military's calculation is based on people's willingness and reluctance to work for them, and they offer to pay because they have to. The military would be happy to have y
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by bbctol 8y ago
How much collaboration from private tech does the US military need to maintain global dominance? Where does this line of reasoning end? How much of your day, specifically, should you instead be spending supporting the armed forces?
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by bbctol 8y ago
It blew my mind when I first realized why pigments were so valuable in the ancient world: before modern mass-production of countless different mixable pigments (and now, digital displays that can render almost any color the eye can see) a p
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by bbctol 8y ago
de Grey seems like a great guy; he's a fantastic speaker, I generally agree with his vision of humanity, and this proof is impressive. I haven't attacked his character, nor do I plan to. With respect to his work on resisting human
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by bbctol 8y ago
There's also the tiny issue that he hasn't produced anything of value.
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by bbctol 8y ago
No large cities?
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by bbctol 8y ago
Unrelated, but it's fascinating to see an article from 2013 reference Andrew Auernheimer as a benign hacker. That's turned into a hell of a story on its own, huh.
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by bbctol 8y ago
He is neither.
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by bbctol 8y ago
Should be noted, on the subject of easily verifiable facts, that DeLong is not a leftist.
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by bbctol 8y ago
Sure, but you don't have to design your platform to incentivize making people angrier.
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by bbctol 8y ago
...unless it violates someone else's property rights. The point of capitalism is that people can own things, and you can do what you want as long as you don't violate that system of ownership. The point of anarchism is that you ca
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by bbctol 8y ago
Bitcoin's caused some hilarious lessons in what "decentralized" actually means. Bitcoin isn't controlled by some nasty evil central bank; it gets to be controlled by a mostly random collection of maybe intelligent and de
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by bbctol 8y ago
This attitude was applied to the space race. What's funny is that it's being applied to getting people to click on memes.
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by bbctol 8y ago
It doesn't matter that it's nonsensical in providing actual security; it's here to provide security theater and justify arbitrary punishments.
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by bbctol 8y ago
But is this really a tradeoff we're making, or just two trends? It's pretty glib to say "well, inequality is worse, but that's the price of better technology"; inequality is worse and we have better technology. Fr
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by bbctol 8y ago
This has been posted around, and I always feel I should point out: this is a ludicrous headline and generally misleading framing of an idea that's actually pretty interesting and plausible. (It doesn't have much to do with quantum
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by bbctol 8y ago
I've found this is usually more the paper-thin justification /b/ users employ to avoid noticing that a culture based entirely around judging others for being too hysterical quickly drives them hysterical.
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by bbctol 8y ago
The font doesn't really look anything like the wordmark (unless there's a condensed version?) so I'd assume they're separate.
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by bbctol 9y ago
That's a... nonstandard use of the word collusion.
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by bbctol 9y ago
People don't want to go to prison the first time, either.
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by bbctol 9y ago
What postmodernist books have you read?
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by bbctol 9y ago
It's so remarkable I'd almost think it's some kind of long performance art piece. There's a very surreal moment when you've read a bunch of Taleb's writing on the importance of honor and craft and the problems
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by bbctol 9y ago
Considering how many Icelanders speak English at quite a high level, they seem perfectly capable of contributing to large scale projects around the world. Conversely, diversifying languages, cultures, and geographic locations seems like a m
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by bbctol 9y ago
There's a difference between what people want and the whole of "reality"; in a real universe, growth will never be limitless, no matter how much people want it to be.
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by bbctol 9y ago
http://www.osn.global/ sounds up your alley.
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by bbctol 9y ago
I really want to see an analysis of how they went from obscurity (no pun intended) to ubiquitous a few months ago. The site's been around for years, but it seems to have taken over my news feeds on multiple platforms overnight. I don&#
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by bbctol 9y ago
Don't Know What to Do with Your Life? Go to One of the World's Most Prestigious Universities, things will probably work out

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