itairal

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by itairal 3y ago
The privacy war is already over and everybody knows the good guys lost. If you google that line, that is the best you can do in a sense. It is a message encoded in a sea of absolute noise. Fool the sky to cross the sea.
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by itairal 3y ago
The network of belief people have in this is quite impressive even if I think they are fools. Still though, in the grand scheme of things crypto just hasn't been around that long. MSFT is so close to taking out its old high while crypt
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by itairal 3y ago
That sounds amazing. I am going to try this today. I have been irrational to the point of not trying this because I just love the notebook so much even though I love VS Code too. I imagine you just would never go back to notebooks. That is
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by itairal 3y ago
FTP servers at that time for MP3s were ratio servers. You had to upload something in order to download and at a specific ratio of kb. Most wouldn't give you credit for uploading something they already had as well. Finding the songs was
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by itairal 3y ago
The worst part to me is the binary nature of internet points. Up or down. No difference between something one simply doesn't agree with vs utter and complete bullshit. On the other hand I am not sure what the old internet forums I love
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by itairal 3y ago
The whole idea is absurd as if we are operating at the optimal peak level of software and the optimal peak level of knowledge work. I would imagine there are far more people that work with databases today than there ever were people working
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by itairal 3y ago
To me, to not make up your own rituals is to not really understand any of this. A good modern Crowley ritual based on the Absinthe book is to get some wine and other substances of choice, get quite inebriated over many hours and listen to C
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by itairal 3y ago
It seems to me gamification is a feature in some situations, a bug in other situations and with no uniformity between two people. I despise the upvote/karma bullshit when it comes to discussions. It completely changes how people think
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by itairal 3y ago
This is the problem. How is your life better with having Standard Oil broke up in 1911? We didn't get to see the counterfactual of Rockefeller strangling the oil industry by 1920. Big tech though has gone beyond the definition of a mon
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by itairal 3y ago
It is systemic but it isn't really a flaw. It is the higher order effects of flooding the system with liquidity. If you look at the richest people in America in 1985 and adjust their wealth for inflation no one even makes the top 100 i
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by itairal 3y ago
Totally agree. There is also a problem to me that "stochastic parrot" is too clever. It is too good of a name and evokes such a strong mental image. It is a great name for branding purposes but because of that it is a terrible nam
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by itairal 3y ago
Totally agree. Hunter S. Thompson would just be a substack writer with a small following. Conversely, I am sure there are many substack writers with a small following who would be just as big as Thompson if they were born at a different tim
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by itairal 3y ago
Hopefully the whole thing implodes and we go back to specific message boards. HN would hardly be better if random people mostly interested in cooking or martial arts were putting in their two cents here. I really can't think of any sub
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by itairal 3y ago
It is interesting as the later I get into my 50s, I start thinking more and more how I should never listen to what people over 50 say. Life is non-ergodic and the older you get the more you are over fit to a time that no longer exists. At l
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by itairal 3y ago
I have literally never watched a Mr Beast video but if I go to youtube under a new username or stealth mode then the probability of Mr Beast being on the front page I would put at about 95% and it has been that way for a long time. We have