hacknat

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by hacknat 8mo ago
Syncing on Apple devices across the board is pretty bad. A great example is the Notes app. It took me a year to convince my wife to migrate our grocery list away from the Notes app. So many arguments about missed grocery items that never sy
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by hacknat 2y ago
Wealth inequality is not an important thing to worry about by itself. The Gini coefficient undergoes a U-shape growth curve in economies as they move from under-developed, to developing, to developed. A better thing to worry about is wage g
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by hacknat 3y ago
Yes.
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by hacknat 3y ago
Daniel Borkmann is at Isovalent, he is definitely co-creator of eBPF.
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by hacknat 4y ago
"nature.com" made me look because I assumed there was a paper behind this. There isn't. This is an editorial. No thanks. Would the submitter care to put "Editorial:" as a prefix on this submission?
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by hacknat 4y ago
Germany screwed itself by ending natural gas exploration and shutting down its nuclear plants. They’re about to burn more coal and wood this year than they have in years.
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by hacknat 4y ago
Iraq made some sense if you see it as a war to make sure no major energy-capital flows went through the Euro (Iraq started selling their oil in Euros in the late 90s). The US war machine wants to go to war with everyone, from time to time A
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by hacknat 4y ago
It locks Germany into its geopolitical position.
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by hacknat 4y ago
I meant users/customers, not employees.
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by hacknat 4y ago
I'm not saying that there aren't dystopian problems in our future, but my bias is that we're actually probably not doing enough, not that we're doing too much. Measuring technology progress is actually very difficult to
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by hacknat 4y ago
I get that Tolkien was a staunch Catholic, but he was also a preeminent philologist trained in a way that few people today are. He was deeply familiar with all forms of human myth. To blindly assume that all characters in LotR must have a B
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by hacknat 4y ago
This has always been my understanding of Bombadil as well. The most popular/accepted view of who he is among Tolkien-dom that I've heard is that he represents the lands of the West themselves (or perhaps all of Middle-Earth?). In
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by hacknat 4y ago
My favorite Chen article: Why do Windows functions all begin with a pointless MOV EDI, EDI instruction? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110921-00/?p=95...
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by hacknat 4y ago
That is not the only thing that has backed the value of money in the history of humanity. It (violence) is arguably the most inferior social mechanism for enforcing value that has been tried.
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by hacknat 4y ago
So gold’s day in the sun from the 15th century to the 1970s was what?
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by hacknat 4y ago
You've just described money. Is BTC good at being money? No. But your argument isn't the reason.
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by hacknat 4y ago
This was pretty much settled long ago according to pot sherd, architectural, and textual analysis. DNA is just the final nail in the coffin.
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by hacknat 4y ago
Not if you're able to influence the market in a meaningful way from your Twitter handle. How is anyone underestimating Twitter's power at this point?
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by hacknat 4y ago
I believe AGI is possible, but the more I study ML the more convinced I am that we don’t know what it (AGI) is. I also, don’t know if I agree that humans have GI (humanity as a whole does). I think we’re actually copycats more than anything
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by hacknat 5y ago
Are you reading the deeper lesson though? The individual examples aren't meant to be authoritative. He was trying to illustrate the very thing you are bringing up. Namely that lazy heuristics create information cascades. The informatio
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by hacknat 5y ago
Ditto. I'm a heavy(ish) user and I've never tested positive, despite being exposed more than once. Though admittedly I'm very cautious (always wear an N95, et al) and vaccinated.
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by hacknat 5y ago
It sounds like it was motivated by laziness.
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by hacknat 5y ago
In your world Einstein doesn't exist.
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by hacknat 5y ago
I don't know. Ostensibly it looks like pathos is easy right now. Politics seems super intense right now, but it also seems super fake. Mostly I think shows of pathos are fake right now. Getting people to actually do things and act se
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by hacknat 5y ago
Ethos is very hard, but pathos is harder, especially in secular society. Let me be clear, I think arguments about ethos generate the most argumentation and heat right now, but the silent killer is really pathos. People feel comfortable argu
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by hacknat 5y ago
Devil's advocate, is democracy in America working anymore?
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by hacknat 5y ago
You need to read Girard more closely (I recommend reading Things Hidden... ) Girard does not embrace a Hobbesian view of the world, he is trying to explain the origin of human cooperation and society. The scapegoat narrative is not a nihil
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by hacknat 5y ago
If true that distinguishes him from nobody, including people without power. However, a serious investigation of Thiel's work dismisses any serious accusation of "Intellectualism" it is well thought out and philosophically rig
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by hacknat 5y ago
I don't disagree, but I think there is a lot of nuance to it. Thiel is an ardent disciple of Rene Girard. If people want insight into how Thiel sees the world, I would strongly recommend reading The Straussian Moment . There is a Pete
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by hacknat 5y ago
Great example of an article which, I hope, invokes the Gell-Mann amnesia effect for most of its tech-educated readers. Its fascinating to read such articles being written with so little irony. Journalism really is dead now.

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