crispinb

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by crispinb 4mo ago
"People" and their "wants" or "enjoyments" are manufactured by culture (which is in turn now dominated by corporate propaganda). They are not fixed by nature. Any examination of the range of 'wants' i
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by crispinb 5mo ago
> maybe they don't make great decorations Some of ours are decorative enough, eg this orb weaver I exchange greetings with most mornings: https://www.pasteboard.co/07o5TWpFLUY8.png
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by crispinb 6mo ago
> They're saying all the right things here .. No. "Commitment" in corporate speak is a synonym for "absolute lack of intention". That's why corps 'commit' to reducing emissions, treating employees
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by crispinb 9mo ago
Kobo + Koreader ( https://koreader.rocks/ ) works pretty sweetly with Calibre.
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by crispinb 1y ago
> What change was the person who shot him hoping to elicit? This would be a relevant question in many nations, but it's a bit beside the point in the US. Violence is a deeply respected and loved core of the culture for its own sake.
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by crispinb 1y ago
Or to put it another way: a Pebble would cover more uses with a GPS. They're clearly not expensive nor necessarily profligate with battery. My now 5 year old Amazfit bip, which was cheap as chips, still gets 3 weeks of battery life wit
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by crispinb 1y ago
Quite. Phones & watches are mutually exclusive from my pov. The whole point of the watch (especially when running) is not to have to carry a phone.
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by crispinb 1y ago
We agree on the empirical fact that many people generate suffering for themselves by encouraging an inner narrative of complaint about others' behavour. If there's disagreement, it seems to be about whether or not this is necessar
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by crispinb 1y ago
> What purpose is served by being judgemental .. It reinforces ego. It's a common malady. An optional one (which isn't to say it's always easy to ditch given constant and insistent if irrational social reinforcement).
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by crispinb 1y ago
Do you think those who optionally exercise the mental activity of making judgements of those behaviours are likely to suffer more or less burnout than those who choose not to? How useful an activity do you think making judgements of people
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by crispinb 1y ago
> But a lot of it is showing up to help yet another person .. It must be an distressing burden to carry that weight of judgement, regardless of what job you do.
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by crispinb 1y ago
Ycombinator has one legitimate function: dissipating excess looted wealth.
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by crispinb 1y ago
It's the barstool economist argument style, on long-expired loan from medieval theology. Responding to clear empirical evidence that X occurs: "X can't happen because [insert 'rational' theory recapitulation]"
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by crispinb 2y ago
You're quite capable of seeing that a serious of ludicrously generalised ideological statements, entirely abstracted from reality, are as close to meaningless as human statements get (which is exactly why social media affords them). Yo
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by crispinb 2y ago
Someone once said something to the effect: "I'm not concerned that computers will become more like people, I am that people will learn to 'think' like computers". A fortiori humans vs social media. You are faux-thin
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by crispinb 2y ago
Your malevolent childs-ego-inflated-to-national 'winners vs losers' notion will inevitably, if not expunged, make losers of us all. My 'us' is of course unimaginable to your minuscule 'me'.
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Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds(theguardian.com)
2 points by crispinb 3y ago|0 comments
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by crispinb 3y ago
> Turns out that the person who originally created the language doesn't like them either. But it also turns out the very same isn't as neurotically attached to his 'likes' as most of us are: > The Rust I Wanted pro
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by crispinb 3y ago
I think what you have to bear in mind is, with all sorts of caveats and exceptions, the HN crowd is at the centre of the current ecocidal empire, with most participants personally gaining from biosphere destruction. Participating here is mu
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by crispinb 3y ago
Unmet needs are legion.
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by crispinb 3y ago
Does anyone other than Fastmail use it?
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by crispinb 3y ago
> how techbros ruin the perception of legitimately useful technology Well said - that really is key. Fortunately or not (depending on your values), it's just a given that if there's a means out of the crisis (who knows?), tech
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by crispinb 3y ago
Unfortunately your satire is mainstream thinking amongst much of the SV/HN set. Business/economic/tech "hardheadedness" is just millennial Protestantism in another guise. So many of our secular disguises are religio
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by crispinb 3y ago
"But Malthus!" might be persuasive to people unfamiliar with science and/or history, but (being neither), it just makes me sigh. Another pointless repeated diversionary trope. And as for Gore - your weird obsession with celeb
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by crispinb 3y ago
I've followed the literature on this at a layperson's level (science feeds, etc). I haven't been seeing any work that disputes the fact that limits are being breached right now. Ecosystems all over the planet are dying, and m
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by crispinb 3y ago
Economic growth is a euphemism for biosphere destruction. Borrowing your phrase. More truthfully 'economic growth' and biosphere destruction are literally two terms for the exact same physical process. Circular economy stories exc
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by crispinb 3y ago
Nice (not to mention surprising) to see a mention of them here (of all places). Both channels are great sources of distraction. Flying foxes are splendid little creatures, and the carers are admirable. I'm blessed to live somewhere wit
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by crispinb 3y ago
Not at all. I phrased the comment clumsily in a quick fly-by way, so it was very easily misunderstood ;)
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by crispinb 3y ago
How will you get access to a real night sky, if there's no democratic control over billionaire's actions? You just assume (without argument) that the internet has to be absolutely everywhere (and all high-bandwidth). You can argue
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by crispinb 3y ago
I've played guitar for many years, but for the last couple of decades it's only been casual noodling, often improvising with music I have on in the background. I read music, but slowly and reluctantly so have only a weak associati

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