moldbug

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by moldbug 14y ago
Well! If you know SCC, you must love the Box Chevy Phantom! And Chalkie! And I'm sure you've seen the famous Cabrini-Green thread: http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/2010/10/end-of-cabrini-gre... And you must have loved this discussion of
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by moldbug 14y ago
One little bird (presumably a Chicago cop): By my totals 17 shot on Sunday, 7 of them in 011. With 11 more starting at midnight to 0800 monday morning. The blackberry was ringing all night. 2 of the "victims" dead so far. http://secondci
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by moldbug 14y ago
The program itself is more interesting than the gimmicky app: http://www.archive.org/stream/officialsouvenir00goldrich#pag... Imagine a San Francisco where you not only can't buy crack at UN Plaza, there is no UN Plaza . Scary!
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by moldbug 14y ago
Sure. I wasn't harshing on PT - I'm a huge fan like all decent and reasonable people :-) In fact I'd be careful about attributing any kind of controversial position to him, but I must say defining thorium fission as "cleantech" is pretty
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by moldbug 14y ago
The latter? "Moderate" is always relative to standard industry practice. If patent trolling isn't standard industry practice quite yet, it's fast getting there. "Don't be evil" is a lot harder when evil is the norm.
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by moldbug 14y ago
Don't miss Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke , far and away the best introduction to a cynical interpretation of WWII.
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Identity thieves steal $10 billion a year from IRS(nytimes.com)
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by moldbug 14y ago
When I first heard about the setuid patent, I thought it was pretty cool. That was, I don't know, 1989. I think it was 1992 or so before it was really clear that patents were the true and final nemesis of my chosen profession. By "clear,"
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by moldbug 14y ago
I find it distressing that even PT has succumbed to this Orwellian use of the word "clean." CO2 isn't dirt. The human instinct for hygiene is one of our most basic. When, as a calculated public-relations maneuver, you connect a scientific
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by moldbug 14y ago
If you can't accurately quantify all the concurrent things you're hypothesizing about (like: values as practiced from values as professed) then your "experiments" just show correlation and not causation. You can't "accurately quantify" an
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by moldbug 14y ago
So their arguments establishing a causal chain back to a certain system of values is too long to summarize here? Um, too obvious to summarize here? I really find it difficult to believe you're this obtuse. You seem quite adept with word
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by moldbug 14y ago
"Christianity" and "Islam" are historical clades of theological doctrine, not "value systems" in the same sense as "left" versus "right" or "revolutionary" and "conservative." For instance, Christianity contains both the Anabaptist republi
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by moldbug 14y ago
Really? I think results are always a good reason to question values. Note that libertarianism is an Enlightenment ideology too, just an older one (19th-century liberalism). We know these things, so what are we doing about them? Replacing
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by moldbug 14y ago
Concentration camps and gulags excluded, I don't think there has ever been a human society - anywhen, anywhere - as degraded as the 20th-century tower block/project, a pure product of Enlightenment thought. It's useful to go back and compar
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by moldbug 14y ago
Stross answers his own question - he just doesn't want to go there. Turn your back on the Enlightenment's ideological values. Until the 21st century can accomplish this, it'll stay a tired, stale clone of the 20th. SF and even fantasy a
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by moldbug 14y ago
The first half of your first sentence answers the second, doesn't it? You could ask exactly the same questions with regard to John Brown - another classic American figure. The supposed distinction between the "moderate" and "extremist" lef
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by moldbug 14y ago
It's pretty simple - Anglophone North America is a left-wing polity and always has been, its deviant and extinct Confederate branch aside. You won't find a single leftist trope that isn't repeated over and over again in the 17th, 18th, 19t
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by moldbug 14y ago
Pinkie Pie is a frickin' genius. But I'm curious about this equation, interesting == effective == intricate. Intricate == complex, right? So, the exploit certainly reveals that Chrome's security model is complex . And this is supposed t
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by moldbug 14y ago
You don't think you're proving the point of my Eric Rudolph analogy? Ie: you don't feel perfectly fair, rational, and justified in applying the "icky," simplistic, five-year-old algorithm to Eric Rudolph? If not: you don't agree that this r
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by moldbug 14y ago
What I'm saying is that it's immoral to play kissy-face, even intellectual kissy-face, with murderers. Somehow this is controversial. But you can see it easily if you flip the political polarities. Hence, Eric Rudolph. Something obvious y
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by moldbug 14y ago
Here's a catchy name for the ad bubble - we could call it "advertising-supported software." Or, for short, ASS. Google isn't ASS, because Google ads aren't really ads. They're more like the shelf slots that Safeway sells to food vendors.
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by moldbug 14y ago
Oh, that's lovely. I'm sure Professor Skrbina is also pen pals with Eric Rudolph, the abortion bomber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph Every other week, he teaches his adoring young undergrads to understand Rudolph's subtle, nu
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by moldbug 14y ago
Why should scientists have to plead with their yahoo enemies? This is organized political violence, and organized political violence only exists where it's passively tolerated by the government. Suppose the NAACP learned that a bunch of ya
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by moldbug 14y ago
You should go through the whole history and downvote, if you've got the time - it will reduce my overall karma.
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by moldbug 14y ago
Dr. Johnson defines bigot as: ... a man devoted unreafonably to a certain party; prejudiced in favour of certain opinions; a blind zealot. It is ufed often with to before the object of zeal; as, a bigot to the Cartefian tenets... I'm
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by moldbug 14y ago
The worst of everything tends to get my attention - doesn't it get yours? There are three kinds of blacks in America today - feral, traditional, assimilated. Traditional black people are the nicest people in the world and have the coolest
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by moldbug 14y ago
Trust me, I'm oddly familiar with the country this used to be. Go back and read some primary sources - there are a lot here: http://unz.org/ Crime statistics in the USA have actually fallen a lot recently. What's your explanation of t
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by moldbug 14y ago
Yes (I accept the correction). See below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3989048
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by moldbug 14y ago
You're claiming that integration ruined Brooklyn? Can you explain the mechanism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing If you ever actually talk to anyone who was personally involved i
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by moldbug 14y ago
You're right, of course - I'm glad to be corrected. What I really meant to say was that in 1962 there were no no-go zones anywhere in America, Crackerjack Peckerwood Creek in the deep back asshole of Alabama where no one without a mullet in

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