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by hux_ 8y ago
I just moved all my email accounts to China.
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by hux_ 8y ago
Politics. People use whatever they can to take each other down at that level. Which is why they get paid so much. For their mindless ambition and to put up with each others mindless ambition.
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by hux_ 8y ago
Ya right. I have wasted many years of my life dealing with Debian/Ubuntu audio packaging. Here's the 20 step process for the layman if audio doesn't work - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubles
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by hux_ 8y ago
I guess Bourdain didn't have anyone around him who could say 'how are you' right?
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by hux_ 8y ago
So you think the like counts don't have negative effects on people's beliefs and behaviours? Please read Nudge by Richard Thaler to understand how easily misguided the herd is when following the wrong signals.
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by hux_ 8y ago
Adults in my book are those you automatically/instinctively turn to when life throws you in the deep sea. It's not really about age but what they have gone through in life. They are the folk who have not just survived the deep sea
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by hux_ 8y ago
You haven't heard of the game called religion?
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by hux_ 8y ago
Once upon a time the network, storage and data center guys thought Facebook/YouTubes one to many broadcasting of content would never scale too. Now they fall over themselves to work there.
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by hux_ 8y ago
His point is we know how to keep a large part of the global population constantly touching their devices like well programmed guinea pigs the whole day, negatively effecting themselves and society in uncountable ways yet postively effecting
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by hux_ 8y ago
There the govt builds the controls. Here Twitter, YouTube and Facebook do. No big difference in my book. In terms of outcomes, only clowns get propped up either way.
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by hux_ 8y ago
> don't make any sense unless they're decentralized Things that make sense decentralised to service freedom have a track record of becoming centralised to service convenience. Source: The Master Switch by Tim Wu.
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by hux_ 8y ago
You are talking about people with mental illness. I think the platforms produce mental illness. If you influence and produce a certain kind of behaviour through appropriate reward mechanisms and then after a few years of conditioning reduce
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by hux_ 8y ago
Well ever since social media converted the US into the United States of Meme Generators & Consumers, it is not really possible to go back without mass lobotomies.
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by hux_ 8y ago
Yup. Everything has been reduced to generating memes/outrage and reacting to them. Only exit from the trap is turn off the internet.
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by hux_ 8y ago
He should resign. Or this bullshit will keep repeating. As it already has too many times. Tech/Engineering folk are totally unfit to run social companies of the scale of YouTube/twitter/facebook etc. They don't have the
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by hux_ 9y ago
The amount of global bullshit they have enabled in so many spheres of social life is going to take generations to repair. Can't wait for heads to roll at Facebook/Twitter/YouTube. And they will. It's high time.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Can't wait for Sheryl Sandberg to write a new book now on garden soil or something.
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by hux_ 9y ago
HN used to be a daily source of nourishment. But today it is a source of "informed bewilderment" like everything else on the web. Google the term. Understand it's consequences on you and the people around you.
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by hux_ 9y ago
A sociologist would point you at social stratification theory.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Hardly matters what groundbreaking research the US does if it's happening neck deep in a celeb worshiping, engagement metric obsessed culture. Unless you are an Elon Musk type P.T. Barnum character good luck getting any attention. All
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by hux_ 9y ago
There are no good outcomes in the current noise. People on both extremes will misread and misuse it. Silicon Valley's achievement in the last 10 years is to make sure ambiguity is profitable. Resolution of anything or even a path to re
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by hux_ 9y ago
I don't think there is any asymmetry unless you are American. Where are the Chinese branded products on American shelves? This story plays both ways.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Thanks for the link. Interesting read. Had no idea about the gear and work involved.
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by hux_ 9y ago
You are not trying hard enough. I was at Trinity College Library, Dublin a few months back. There are few spaces that are more peaceful and inspiring to work in than that one. You have to understand that cafés like churches or pubs or the t
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by hux_ 9y ago
That and find a good library. Libraries are designed for people to focus. Cafes are not.
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by hux_ 9y ago
Having lived through those days it's hard to believe this new avatar.
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by hux_ 9y ago
I wouldn't blame the people. I would blame what passes for a modern "educator". Putting a student in 'contact with beauty' of a subject is easy. Getting them on a disciplined track to mastery is another matter enti
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by hux_ 9y ago
KhanAcademy?
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by hux_ 9y ago
People fall into two broad traps. Either they are loosing money for no good reason (a consumption culture with ever escalating healthcare/edu/housing prices makes this simple), or they are accumulating money for no good reason, t
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by hux_ 9y ago
I am going to bet IBM, SAP and Oracle are going to disappear from that list over the next 10 years. Their numbers just represent Enterprise IT that is getting unnecessarily milked.

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