echopurity

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by echopurity 5y ago
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by echopurity 5y ago
"Sanewashing" is a highly biased slur. It's usually called "reformism" by people who support actual change.
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by echopurity 5y ago
HN is a complete echo chamber that quickly bans viewpoints opposing the dominant techbro ideology which is hollow and induces existential crises upon the briefest reflection.
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by echopurity 5y ago
It's unfortunate that they omit Floer's suicide. Nobody wants to talk about the negative effects of a career in mathematics.
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by echopurity 5y ago
The fact that destroying the planet and ruining people's lives is "good business" is a major part of the problem.
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by echopurity 5y ago
All of math education is bad like this. We're taught the "ladder myth" that math is a linear subject leading to like multivariable calculus, not even real analysis. It's a terrible waste of people's time, interests,
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by echopurity 5y ago
People generally do not go from $0 to $50,000 playing roulette either.
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by echopurity 5y ago
>El Salvador’s new bitcoin wallets could save Salvadorians $400 million a year FTFY.
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by echopurity 5y ago
The whole movement to recycle plastic was an industry scam to knowingly profit from destroying the planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dk3NOEgX7o
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by echopurity 5y ago
Capitalism is anti-science and anti-progress. People are evolving around it.
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by echopurity 5y ago
>Kerenidis and Prakash proved that a quantum computer could solve the recommendation problem exponentially faster than any known algorithm That's not a proof. It's a few hopeful examples. The current proof only appears stunning
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by echopurity 5y ago
HN claims to be ideology free but every third article is this kinda nonsense from The Economist. And they shadow ban anybody who dissents. Tech bro culture is the worst.
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by echopurity 5y ago
Going out of business isn't the same as losing at working from home. Going out of business is usually not working. Otherwise this article would just be the fairly obvious statement that people who kept their jobs are "winners&quot
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by echopurity 5y ago
Have you ever seen a historical chart of bitcoin versus paper? I dunno which week you're talking about, but Bitcoin is generally not the one falling.
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by echopurity 5y ago
"Hold this paper from the your local politicians rather than using an open ledger based on international cooperation and modern technology."
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by echopurity 5y ago
>New research suggests that ... the drop in interest rates has been caused by changes in population structure and by shifts in the distribution of income.... In most economies, baseline interest rates are “set” by central banks. No need
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by echopurity 5y ago
It's got to be clickbait. If there are winners, then how many workers are losing by working remotely? It seems obvious that the vast majority of people win big by not being forced to commute into a full day at an office where they woul
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by echopurity 5y ago
It's a very hot area in crypto. - https://www.stellar.org/learn/stellar-for-remittances - https://tracxn.com/d/trending-themes/Startups-in-Cryptocurre...
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by echopurity 5y ago
>Africans can pay up to 30% more than the global average to move money abroad What gives Africans this amazing ability?
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by echopurity 5y ago
Stage 5 climate denialism: "It's too Late!" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97... Isn't HN an "ideology free" zone? Why do they allow nonstop ideology from The Ec
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by echopurity 5y ago
People say this stuff as if the fiat system isn't a corrupt bomb that's constantly blowing up.
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by echopurity 5y ago
FWIW supersymmetry and string theory were never convincing to people who value science, empiricism, epistemology, etc. This sort of pseudo-scientific hype is necessary to keep the money flowing under capitalism. See also "artificial in
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by echopurity 5y ago
Most of the "free and open" internet is centrally controlled. HN quickly shadow bans anybody who goes against the dominant ideology.
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by echopurity 5y ago
>employment in the rich world is 3% below its pre-pandemic high (see chart 1). That points to a deficit of about 18m people—a huge waste of talent, not to mention a hit to tax revenues. It's telling how The Economist views lost taxe
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by echopurity 5y ago
> privately owned business corporations (“capitalism”) have done a great job bringing down the cost of photovoltaic panels, developing electric vehicles that people want to drive, creating promising fake meat substitutes, and otherwise c
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by echopurity 5y ago
One class probably won't undo a lifetime of being taught to be obedient, uncritical, etc.
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by echopurity 5y ago
Maybe AI hype won't ever solve natural language understanding, but it'll keep some cash and careers going.
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by echopurity 5y ago
We're not taught mathematics because we're not meant to think, criticize, understand epistemology, etc. We're taught to compute to make us useful and compliant, even if the computations themselves are useless.
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by echopurity 5y ago
Many people start coding at a young age. Imagine your kid having to report their dapp to the IRS. It's not about the money. It's about the control. The situation is probably worse for adults. Why go through the hassle of developin
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by echopurity 5y ago
The great man theory almost always fails. The life of Pythagoras is largely myth. This theorem was most likely known and proven well before him. This is old news. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jt.2009.1

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