freemanon

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by freemanon 2y ago
Had they gone the route of open development, modder would have, and had been, developing a lot of functionality for the platform for free. Instead, they slapped Easy Anti-Cheat and killed the modding community. Close walled platforms will a
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by freemanon 2y ago
It's not whether it works, but whom it appeals. Trickle down economics is music to the ears of the rich. Despite people thinking that everyone's vote weigh the same, the rich has more influence than others, in the form of lobbying
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by freemanon 2y ago
I use Nix and NixOS and I didn't even know about this. Unless you want to become a maintainer I don't think it affects you.
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by freemanon 2y ago
Looking at the term "Ikigai" as if it's some sort of dogma or a way to improve one's life sorts of defeats the point. East Asian philosophies are not for achieving "meaning of life" and other mundane goals.
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by freemanon 3y ago
Go post this to https://discourse.nixos.org/ and see what sort of reaction you get. > nixpkgs - the software collection built by Nix is the largest software repository on the planet, containing around 80 000 packages. Yo
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by freemanon 3y ago
What is it exactly that you're trying to solve? Are you creating a UI for setting up nix flake configs? What does it do beyond that? And why is it coupled to geospatial tools?
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by freemanon 3y ago
It's maybe hard to fathom for individualists, but it's probably humans that are quite mediocre on average. These AI models simply represent that. And on the value of generative AI, the same argument against new trends has been mad
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by freemanon 3y ago
Well it was the same with the internet itself. It's prone to hacks, bugs, and outage, and yet today we all use it to manage our finances and make payments.
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by freemanon 3y ago
US companies have been doing the same thing all over the world. Outside the west, everyone can see the hypocrisy. Ban it by all means, but you will become just like China: a state that censors information and speech from its citizens becaus
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by freemanon 4y ago
I abhor capitalism as much as you do, but economic system and political system are separate although interlinked. Why shouldn't we count Singapore just because it's small? They have a parliament and all other branches of governmen
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by freemanon 4y ago
Yes but no. You can be capitalist without letting the rich 0.1% control the government. The US is a result of puritanism of the freedom of speech. Citizens United vs Federal Election commission case confirms that in the US, Money is Speech.
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by freemanon 4y ago
It's nothing to do with capitalism, it's all about installing regimes that are pro-US, and allow US enterprises to exploit these countries. Indonesia has a lot of resources, including the Grasberg mine in west Papua, that it lease
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by freemanon 4y ago
Czechoslovakia didn't have actual communism. It was oppressed by a stalinist Soviet Union. Lenin was nothing like Stalin. People mistake oppression and basically incompetence of the soviet union as proof that communism will never work,
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by freemanon 4y ago
These days most americans type like AI bots parroting the propaganda they absorbed from the media. It's the perfect system, populated by serfs toiling for their slavemasters, while blinded by ideologies, forgetting how miserable the ty
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by freemanon 4y ago
It would be useful to a Communist society, one that is able to re-distribute wealth amongst the population. Of course, americans find the very word revolting, but that's what countries like China have the possibility of achieving in th
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by freemanon 4y ago
I'm not interested to researching into the research of discussions. You're free to disagree if you think discussions aren't best done within a neutral forum, but I expect most people to have the common sense of seeing the ben
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by freemanon 4y ago
I guess my issue is that IMO these explorations of provocative issues are best done with the least amount of prejudice. When we're clouded by repulsion or other emotional states, we might fail to properly analyze the matter at hand. By
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by freemanon 4y ago
I'm not making a factual claim, what sources can I cite, Plato? It's up to us humans to decide whether discussions are better off taking place within a neutral/biased forum.
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by freemanon 4y ago
If you're into eastern philosophies/religions, there is an emphasis on understanding the Ego. Personally I would rather have less rights and be less rich than to see the less-fortunate continue to suffer. A bigger house or a fanci
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by freemanon 4y ago
Sums up my thoughts! Haven't met many people who can appreciate or at least listen to both point of views, unfortunately.
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by freemanon 4y ago
The participants of discussion may have biases, but the forum shouldn't. This project claims to be promoting a discussion, therefore being the forum rather than a participant. If it itself takes a clear position from the start, it has
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by freemanon 4y ago
Thanks for clarifying, you described this project well. In my view taking for granted that the role of AI would be bad/dystopian makes it unsuitable to be called a discussion. Imagine if we switch this topic to immigration in the 1900s
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by freemanon 4y ago
Your hyperbole doesn't mean anything
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by freemanon 4y ago
Neutrality is a prerequisite for discussions. This project is not a discussion.
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by freemanon 4y ago
I've actually discussed the same idea with friends. My western friends find the idea very repulsive, where for me with my mixed east-west background find it worthy of exploration. IMO the west's ideals reflects their history of lo
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by freemanon 4y ago
What's the point if the conclusion has already been made by the authors? Such "discussion" with a presumed bias becomes merely a statement or an echo chamber.
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by freemanon 4y ago
You know nothing about china. I suggest reading up on the different Chinese dynasties before making uneducated statements
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by freemanon 5y ago
That's true, but we can live with both buying one time experiences and also things that can give experiences multiple times.
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by freemanon 5y ago
I'm not trying to convince anyone that crypto is 100% the future. I'm trying to convince people that it's not a total scam. Between black and white there's gray. You keep digging into that false dichotomy
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by freemanon 5y ago
The author's conclusion comes full circle: buy things that enable experiences. Thus, buy experiences.

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