carapace

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by carapace 2y ago
This. It feels like USA just lost the Cold War. > Tens of millions of people are going to wake up [this morning] to find that they don’t live in the country they thought they did. Liberals, classical and otherwise, will discover overnig
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by carapace 2y ago
Yes, that's my point. I'm complaining about the one idiot pointing to the other idiot crapping on science and boasting about eating toxins being top comment on this fractally appalling story. Happy Halloween
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by carapace 2y ago
> If the technology really advances to that point it will be very cheap to live. Yes. But the flipside of that is that it's hard to earn money. The cheaper it is to live, the harder it is to make money. The problem UBI solves is w
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by carapace 2y ago
Stupidity has always bothered me. Strident pseudo-intellectual stupidity bothers me almost more than cruel ignorant stupidity. At least now I'm angry in a constructive way.
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by carapace 2y ago
On movie sets the candles and whatnot are props not lighting, there are other lights in use to illuminate the set and actors.
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by carapace 2y ago
(SF is 150 years old and 7x7 miles in size, we do not compare to London on any dimension. My whole city could be a borough of London!) (This one time I was at a party (it was a long time ago) and these Italian dudes were there, and when I
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by carapace 2y ago
> In Gavin Newsom’s book Citizenville he talked about how, after becoming [San Francisco] mayor, he discovered that fare collection cost as much as the revenue generated from fares. He started the process of making the bus free but was t
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by carapace 2y ago
Just a head's up for those of us on the West Coast of N. America, every so often it rains for forty days and forty nights and the whole place floods. > The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Califor
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by carapace 2y ago
USA is an early adopter?
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by carapace 2y ago
> Untouched and eighty years old, it was supposed to have been built by men with carts and horses during the Roosevelt years in the 1930s. > The soil was springy and spongy when you walked on it. Like an uncompacted garden bed it was
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by carapace 2y ago
I thought this was a good idea too but then a scientist pointed out that those areas radiate heat into space at night and the last thing we want right now is less of that. It's a little like a bald person putting on a wool hat: great
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by carapace 2y ago
The primary "pressure" at the moment is to develop species-level self awareness to stabilize the planetary life support system before we crash civilization.
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by carapace 2y ago
Cf. https://dynamicland.org/ > Dynamicland is a nonprofit research lab creating a humane dynamic medium. > What that means is a way for real people in the real world to explore ideas together, not just with words and
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by carapace 2y ago
The latter. ;) Sounds good.
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by carapace 2y ago
Breath of sanity here. I wish I could upvote you twice.
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by carapace 2y ago
Cheating at getting educated is a symptom of deep dysfunction in the system itself. Clearly, something other than education is going on. AI isn't going to help if you ask it the wrong questions.
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by carapace 2y ago
Are you talking to me or OP?
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by carapace 2y ago
I sure am glad that, when I was twelve and learning Pascal at middle school, my teacher took pains to point out that OOP is just a way of arranging code, it doesn't change the code semantically, it's just topological. You avoid a
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by carapace 2y ago
> the greater good (Hot Fuzz reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQzrR6nOkYg )
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by carapace 2y ago
In re: your point #1, I wonder how much might Shinto figures into this?
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by carapace 2y ago
Thoughts are idols (except for math, those thoughts are themselves.)
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by carapace 2y ago
A narrative about the inadequacy of narratives. Choice!
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by carapace 2y ago
Um... user: jerf created: October 13, 2008 karma: 85530
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by carapace 2y ago
I think you're on to something. My only advice would be something like, don't neglect the debugging, uh, "stories".
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by carapace 2y ago
Yes, that's the obvious argument against this being a false flag operation: why would they bother, they already won. Is Bill Gates that petty? So that means that it's more likely that this is just backbiting on an old, sick man.
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by carapace 2y ago
I am being charitable. The uncharitable take is that the people who wrote this incredibly uncharitable and obsessive character assassination of an old dying guy are working for Microsoft et. al.
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by carapace 2y ago
Character assassination by anonymous cowards. The Free Software movement has been completely routed. MS owns GitHub. The farmers fighting for the "right to repair" their tractors are the "front" of the "battle&quo
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by carapace 2y ago
Are you at all familiar with the work of Michael Levin et. al.? E.g. "What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
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by carapace 2y ago
Multicellular lifeforms are the machinery that microbes build to improve homeostasis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah, this. Perfect example, our crazy car-based transportation network was popularized by a deliberate domestic propaganda campaign, we went from vilifying "speed demons" to vilifying "jaywalkers" because "they&qu

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