nologic01

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by nologic01 3y ago
The irony is that they are defending the right of a manufacturing cartel to limit the options of what these valiant freedom fighters can do with stuff they own (with the "hard-won" money they managed to rescue from the evil "
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by nologic01 3y ago
A repairability index is about as objective as can get: a list a components and their modes of failure along with a checklist of: * what can be repaired by the owner using spare parts, instructions and common tools * what can be repaired by
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by nologic01 3y ago
Very interesting find, even though not their target: "Interestingly, there is in fact a noticeable downward slope in average sentiment over time for those topics as well" I would speculate total sentiment on HN is trending down. I
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by nologic01 3y ago
"right to Repair is incredibly popular because it’s common sense—at least to those who aren’t manufacturers. Society works best when we are empowered to fix our stuff" here is the next win for common sense: a repairability index.
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by nologic01 3y ago
Python is now bigger than what even its most keen friends ever imagined might happen. This is not automatically solving the issues, nor make it more likeable to those who dislike it, but it does incentivise serious plumbing work.
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by nologic01 3y ago
Something I noticed about all these projects (and they are quite a few) is that they are quite old (some going back ~2 decades or so). I wonder what is the dynamic behind that longevity. Music hasn't changed ofcourse but on tech side I
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by nologic01 3y ago
I think what you are asking for is for an abstraction layer that is on top of what the current systems do. LaTeX is a very good analogy, as it is a set of macros that hide away the numericity of the underlying TeX typesetting system. Once u
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by nologic01 3y ago
Excellent storytelling, fluidly integrating geospatial data and other visual elements and statistics in a smooth flow. Who knows, maybe one day such a "visual space" inside a browser would be interactive, a Google Earth type of th
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by nologic01 3y ago
One day humanity will recognize that people have divergent tastes in programming languages syntax that have no obvious rational basis. Me curly brackets, you no curly brackets. Etc. Today is not that day.
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by nologic01 3y ago
Thats a rather incomplete business model description of banking. There are at least three distinct elements and largely unrelated to core banking: payments infrastructure / gatekeeping the private/public monetary system, managing
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by nologic01 3y ago
Any references to narrow banking been tried and "not working"? Separating the issue of private money from providing commercial credit risk insurance (ala CDS) should be possible.
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by nologic01 3y ago
There should be more of this. Much more. From different angles and view points but with the same clarity and directness. Banking is in a deep, existential crisis for decades now and the march of digitization only increases the pressure to f
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by nologic01 3y ago
Is there some sort of citizen science we could engage-in with these datasets? When zooming in on Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies I see some very strange stuff :-)
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by nologic01 3y ago
Landed gentry owning the political process reminds of feudalism, not democracy.
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by nologic01 3y ago
The city's residents don't live in autarky in an island or some remote planet, they benefit greatly and in countless ways from being part of a nation state (and even more abstractly, the human collective comprising other nations e
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by nologic01 3y ago
Sorry to bring you the bad news, but your lifetime is (likely) finite and each brush stroke takes away a bit of that precious finite time. In contrast, while digitally reproduced crap is also fundamentally finite, it can be replicated gazil
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by nologic01 3y ago
The GIS in Godot vision talk a bit unlucky, but amazing food for thought nevertheless. The combinatorial repurposing of open source platforms, apps, libraries etc for use cases beyond what they designed for is one of the most fascinating po
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by nologic01 3y ago
There seems to be currency with debunking tulipmania but reading this [1] it seems people play more with the semantics, i.e., what kind of market behavior do you admit into the "manic class" as opposed to the "rational calcul
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by nologic01 3y ago
> almost completely strange but true, scarcity comes in different sizes. Is the infinity of NFT's the same as that of paintings? How many types of infinite junk are there? Or is this infinite itself?
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by nologic01 3y ago
Would be cool to have some sort of well defined "bubble-mania-meter" but it is unfortunately quite subjective. The role of scarcity is something interesting to consider as input. Scarcity (perceived or actual) is more natural with
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by nologic01 3y ago
More economic title: "Holy wars are coordination problems". As an uncanny cosmic coincidence would have it, today is an anniversary of the Third Council of Constantinople , counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council [1] by the Easte
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by nologic01 3y ago
Pretty much the blueprint for any and all bubbles. There might be a sense in which bubbles are getting more ridiculous over time (e.g., NFT) but it would be hard to prove it in any objective sense.
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by nologic01 3y ago
There are so many moving parts, indices and measurements in economics, anybody sufficiently familiar with the data landscape can "prove" any (typically political) point they want by selectively focusing on some timeseries or anoth
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by nologic01 3y ago
We have so thoroughly lost the art of oral information transmission it is hard to even have a gut feeling as to how it may have worked over generations. For example did people distinguish "fact from fiction" as they were passing a
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by nologic01 3y ago
An immutable blockchain record would seem to be appropriate? I will let you come up with a suitable name for such a chain (and the corresponding coin).
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by nologic01 3y ago
There is tiny problem with this theory. Namely Santorini is (and by all accounts always was) a tiny island. Contrast with: > "for in front of the mouth which you Greeks call, as you say, 'the pillars of Heracles,' there
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by nologic01 3y ago
SV ideals? Besides the fake techo-optimism peddled to provide techies an excuse to join the party, there is but one "ideal".
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It would be a rouse for all the rice and we dont want that
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by nologic01 3y ago
Oversized SUV's littering urban landscapes (taking effectively twice the space of a small electric car) are the tangible evidence of how society grows not just unsustainable and unequal, but aggressive and in-your-face. I don't th
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by nologic01 3y ago
Nope. Its the other way around. A human could not do it, but a machine can. Or at least it can fake that it can. And the trend seems to be to put the burden on the victim to prove the wrongdoing. The AI bros who celebrate this development p

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