betterThanTexas

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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I think you mean "invention". Innovation describes how products change over time and doesn't necessarily imply insight or value-adds. Sometimes it just means the packaging gets updated.
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I suppose. It's difficult to view capital as "doing" anything but entrenching itself. We're still stuck with the same power structures as we had before; none of neuralink or starlink or tesla or spacex will fundamentally
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
Making coffee is an agricultural ceremony!
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I'm struggling to figure out why you'd pick Musk as an example of a doer when you also can't distinguish coalescing money and talent from the thing money and talent does. What distinguishes doers from capital being capital?
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
"Fiction" doesn't seem to be the right word for open speculation positioned as open speculation, which is how I immediately evaluation observation. think this is just an observational essay. The confident tone makes for bette
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
Well then Asia is de-facto doing the hardware. Apple is just paying for it. Apple is famously sitting on a mountain of cash. How easily do you think they could replicate the supply chain of even one of their products without outsourcing it?
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> There is no single company from Asia that deals in mass produced consumer goods that's capable of doing decent hardware and decent software at the same time. Doesn't apple do most of their manufacturing in asia? I don't
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
ah, if only the rest of us had the willpower to simply choose to not suffer and to enjoy life instead. Seriously, who do you talk to that enables such viewpoints? I suspect not many people want to talk to you after their shift. Work isn&#x2
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> why is it directed at making money rather serving society i think this particular phenomenon is rooted in calvinism, particularly in North America, and calvinists hated humanity. It also wouldn't surprise me if the protestants com
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> and it makes you wonder how much of it is actual science I don't wonder. You can look up egyptian texts with translations and pronunciation guides. We have literally hundreds of thousands of discarded papyri and plenty of papers d
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
From the way they describe how the message is read, it doesn't seem written very plainly at all. It would be odd to assume that this knowledge was accessible to many people if the manner in which it's written is only found in cert
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I believe you're still expected to be celibate once taking your vows.
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> By the fourth century it became standard to forbid marriage because was believed that previously permitted marriage was only for individuals who remained celibate within the marriage. On the other hand, de-facto marriages (say, a live-
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I don't think I learned basically anything about "fancy architecture" from my undergraduate courses except, ironically, reasoning about coupling and overhead.
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I don't see how the us is supposed to be any better. Why can't we use this energy to fight the rich people making this country a shithole rather than starting a beef we can only lose.
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
What would an american upper hand look like?
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
Hope ain't the same thing as trust, though. A small player would need to make a pretty significant effort to suggest they wouldn't abuse your usage-patterns.
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I don't see why interactive UI is any less content than anything else delivered over the wire. How would you express a website without it? it almost seems like the word "content" is intended to connote "profitable and dy
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> "Astro is the web framework for building content-driven websites like blogs, marketing, and e-commerce" [0] Ok, but opposed to what? What does a non-content oriented website look like? Is a website itself not simply content?
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> Nothing's stopping us from creating an alternative desktop environment for the Mac, such as XQuartz. Yea but why use a mac at that point? I don't see anyone on the linux side of things making anything that acknowledges why pe
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> I don't have a lot of confidence that I could make a difference though. My recent conclusion is that efforts are worth it even if we're pessimistic about outcome. Often times it is hard to get positive feedback from people yo
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I have no clue how you discerned this from the description, but I'd like to understand more. What can you point to on your computer that isn't "content"?
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> actual Analytics I've never used google analytics before. What's the marginal value over statsd?
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> Or you must share your data with a big corporation to use them? I'm choking on the irony
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> The web framework for content-driven websites. As opposed to those driven by, what, random-number generators?
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> So, what's your solution to "lack of self discipline"? IDK, wanting to be alive and happy? > What is the physical basis for lack of self discipline? That's just a category error. I just don't see obesity as
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> Throw a pill at it and we can forget about it. I don't really see myself ever forgiving the west for prioritizing medication over holistic treatment. I've been through way too many mental health institutions to ever trust med
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
Absolutely! But this was surprising to me—my intuition says if I can firmly visualize something, I should be able to describe it. I think many people have this assumption and it's responsible for a lot of projection in our social lives
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
I didn't have root access to my family computer during this era, and I will forever be angry at apple for not allowing us to continue this fun until today. EDIT: actually it looks like this is significantly older than that. I definitel
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by betterThanTexas 1y ago
> I'm sure part of this is a lack of imagination on my part about how to describe the vague image in my own head. This is more related to our ability to articulate than is easy to demonstrate, in my experience. I can certainly produ

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