beaconstudios

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by beaconstudios 4y ago
they're fairly unique in their free DDoS protection. They provide a LOT of security and uptime services for free that you just don't really find elsewhere (at least, the last time I checked; I'm sure they have reasonable comp
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
It's called a developmental state: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_state
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
It's written in arc, a custom dialect of lisp that Paul Graham made.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
you can't go wrong with ARGs. Like Pokemon Go but encouraging more in-person collaboration.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
if you don't mind missing out on the parkour, and it being a VR game - I'd recommend Pistol Whip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9LxuTZBY8Y
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
giving people needles and drugs is called harm reduction for a reason - it's to reduce the risk of dirty needles and street drugs, these policies don't solve drug addiction, they just keep drug addicts safe(r). Solving drug addict
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
therein lies the rub.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I was thinking the infrastructure and amenities state of US suburbs, where they're basically stamped down in blocks off a highway. I live in a single family home and drive a car in the UK, but there are tons of amenities within walking
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
the American style of suburb is quite unusual compared to e.g. Europe though, and AFAIK is driven by zoning laws and car-centric infrastructure more so than by consumer choice. Markets don't necessarily offer people what they want, peo
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Also, presumably the issue of needles and human waste can be resolved with further prosocial investments in harm reduction facilities for drug users and housing for the homeless. These problems aren't intractable. The UK's hardly
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
the myth is explained in the book. the only difference between 'philosopher's stone' and 'sorcerer's stone' is that the former provides a connection to a real myth.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
The philosopher's stone was a specific historical idea, the catalyst that would allow alchemists to create the elixir of life.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
indeed, this is broadly acknowledged and studied in macroeconomics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_cycle
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Computers are already exponentially more intelligent than humans in constrained domains, like executing mathematics. Presumably we'll just keep expanding this category until they're better at everything than us, all the while reap
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
They're both calls to action: avoid cyberpunk, seek solarpunk. We've gotten so much "avoid this" fiction in the past decades that people are just burnt out and actual visions of a positive future have been largely absent
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Solarpunk isn't about believing that social development will keep pace with technological development, it's about imagining what would happen if it did. Its politics are not a fairytale but a call to action to divert course. Cyber
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
This is just my headcanon but I think of the punk in solarpunk as being metatextual: it's not rebelling against its own world, it's rebelling against ours, and against the pervasive pessimism of capitalist realism. I think we need
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Solarpunk has pretty strong anti-capitalist leanings. It doesn't have the punk element of being "low-life" like cyberpunk is, but the commonality between the two genres is that cyberpunk imagines the world that unlimited cor
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
it's also indicative of company culture if people with this type of disrespectful approach to interviews are allowed to continue without reproach. Remember that this person wouldn't just be joining a company where there's an
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I do try to remain more tone-neutral on the political threads, but it seems like no matter the degree to which you try to be well reasoned or diplomatic it just draws angry responses. But at the same time, the status quo of startup politics
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
> We can't easily pack humans more densely into trucks We basically can, with decent urban transit and rail services.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I'm anti-capitalist too, but I think the capitalist argument is that wealth is the incentive to innovate in the marketplace - it doesn't matter whether it's actually useful, but that it motivates hard work. I think this argum
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
true, but you were talking about investing in the financial sense before. Having good money sense should definitely be taught in school, but few will benefit from an education in investing.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
I get it, you're a fascist. But no, it isn't. edit: so people told you you were a fascist and, to own the libs, you decided to abandon what you believed in? must've been a pretty tenuous belief for you to switch from pro-libe
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
most people don't have enough savings for investing advice to matter. An understanding of the job market would be pretty universally useful though.
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
Depends on what you think is normal I guess. I'm not going to repeat the whole comment I posted elsewhere in this thread, but his allegiance with Trump, his association with Yarvin, and his protégé Blake Masters are pretty informative
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by beaconstudios 4y ago
What about this paragraph, then? > But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible

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