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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Ppl work hard to make sure they remain different for 99.9% of non-technical people (eg. banning anonimous cryptocurrency)... once this is done, you become and outlier by using different tools than average people, and special means of survei
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> then the development doesn't seem to be finished It's never finished, that's the point, if you want to keep growing the a part of you must separate a bit and drag itself towards the better possible future, then later d
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
meh, strive for CLARITY instead: figure out what really needs most to be done, understand more about what you're doing, do less but have a larger impact!
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
I only care about makind sure that all essential and valuable human characteristics, perspective, thought patterns and values get carried on to whatever the next thing is :) Extinction of bio-humans can be perfectly fine if it happens wit
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
"Handling contraception" is almost zero cost (so can even be done in bad economie where stuff like child support can't work) and is about choice , not forcing anyone to do anything! If you want to play the "contraceptio
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
It's eugenics when you force it. It's social engineering when you alter the incentives/rewards landscape to get better outcomes. And it's... evolution when nature does it anyway. Just labeling it as generically &qu
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...bc (1) educated != intelligent, and (2) intelligence is highly multidimensional, maybe the "dumb" people are the ones more intelligent in the dimension of intelligence requiring to "figure out they should opt out". Al
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> populations in actual hypercompetitive hellholes, where they're not just competing for a job/status/basic financial solvency, but literally for their food security, physical safety, etc., are those which are having more
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> can we ask how we got here? - most people have a stupid bias towards "doing something, anything, doesn't matter if it doens't work" - politicians and "thought leaders" and "experts" amplify this
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...maybe if didn't work so hard to make our socity into a hypercompetitive hellhole intelligent and educated people would also start having more children! Give people guranteed free life-time education from daycare to university
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
It's... unpredictably far away! We suck so bad at estimating these kinds of things, that whether it's tomorrow or 500 years from now, I'm convinced we'll be totally surprised, unprepared, and our nor even sincere effor
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
There's no reason to require polyticians to be technicians, and no reason to expect less formally-educated people to be more anti nuclear (except in the presence of massive disinformation campaigns). Requirements for formal education j
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
He's a would-be / soon-to-be immigrant. After settling in the destination country he should ofc get his affairs 100% legal, and maybe change work fields (inside software it's easy). And if he wants good life in a bad cou
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...we've just hit a DRY SPOT </inevitable_joke>
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
TL/DR: It's a naive "sour grapes" type argument that doesn't take any kind of costs/tradeoffs into consideration... Proper DRY at scale requires types that make sense and are easy to think about (you have to
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...learn about crypto and try to work remotely getting paid in it - unfortunately you'll likely have to work on cryptocurrencies and smart-contracts, but it beats COBOL ;) After you've saved enough, gtfo your country and get asylu
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Tor + (~secure) VPN, but most things like pirating and pr0n DON'T require 'real' security! You want privacy mainly and that's orthogonal to security. If privacy is not enough and you need secrecy ... well, just us
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...most IPS in most contries are just OK with piracy ...use proper VPNs for stuff that needs real security, enjoy your entertainment in peace (sure, if you're into weird kinds of pr0n). Most ppl who occasionally pirate also pay for con
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
The solution is simple: ONLY private persons should own patents, and it should be illegal even for employers or institutions (academic, research) to own patents of people employed to do research. At most companies and istitutions should
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
this looks too good to be true! ...what gives? what compromises have you made to achieve so much so fast? (or who's throwing $$$ at you?)
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
gulping sounds & chokers... boy that would make for some fun team calls...
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Compared to C, sure it is. Probably compared to C++ to since it's less opportunity for obsfucation. Compared to anything else probably not.
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
There's many open-source alternatives to Excel. Rarely used, but it settles any fear of lock in. This also made the area palatable for other commercial competitors to enter the space - Google-sheets drive A TON of enterprise org work
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> It probably would be even more niche today - and worse. Maybe, but a better successor would've evolved out of it. Matlab had Octave as an open source alternative. Not used much, but it inspired the creation of Julia. Based on how
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Programming languages are not heroin... people want a tools offering some features and they use whatever has them and is not too hard to learn a new one. Matlab-class languages are <1 week for anyone smart to learn and usably prodactive
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...symbolic computation is a niche ...but Wolfram/Mathematics is also a very good general purpose language/tool. It would be insane value for everyone if the symbolic niche could also be covered by a general purpose language...
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
> yet it remains unrivalled in control engineering No, its usage is just declining slower in those areas because ppl don't want unnecessary change introducing unnecessary defects, esp since safety and reliability matters a lot for
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
...open-source when? There's basically zero widely used programming languages that are not open-source, get to grips with this ffs. Esp. since Wolfram strives to be somewhat-general-purpose in a way (it's not smth like eg. K who
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
Not sure if this is better, but SQL is HORRIBLE... we probably put up with it bc it's based on sane math & theory, and we almost never write it by hand. There's zero thought to any kind of ergonomics, there's no way to
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by catchclose8919 4y ago
This is one of the least helpful advice one can give... We all know that "if you can't find time to exercise, you'll have to find time to be sick", but in practice we're either wired to overfocus on short term rewar

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