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by somatic 6y ago
An economy is driven by free money.
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by somatic 6y ago
The standard defenses of the ability to be rich are persuasive arguments promulgated by those who are rich. If we assume that the rich are, as other advertisers, rational and self-interested, the we should expect their messaging (i.e., the
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by somatic 6y ago
You say that capitalism is broken, but the capitalists are all doing very well, even as everyone else feels the pain. If the capitalists are doing very well, then how can you say that capitalism is not doing very well? To answer this questi
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by somatic 6y ago
The term “modern JS” should be used only as a pejorative.
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by somatic 6y ago
I mean... is there really ? How much do these people get paid?
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by somatic 7y ago
Dude, nobody cares. What ridiculous moralizing. "Fiddling with stuff on a computer?" Crabs-in-a-bucket comparisons to doctors? Whatevah. Get outta town. No one pays you because they like your face. They pay you because you make th
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by somatic 7y ago
Scheme is properly tail-recursive and has been around since 1975. Most (all?) Common Lisp implementations have proper tail recursion. Clojure has tail call optimization for simple cases and only if you explicitly ask for it, but it gets you
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by somatic 7y ago
Yes, you're absolutely right: React itself is great. But React is part of the NPM ecosystem; try using one without the other. And then if you're still feeling cocky try finding someone else who uses one without the other.
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by somatic 7y ago
Free markets hate good software. "Good" meaning secure, stable, and boring. On both ends. Software developers hate boring software for pragmatic HR-driven career reasons and because devs are apes and apes are faddish and like the
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by somatic 7y ago
jQuery: 88KB, standard everywhere, one entity responsible for all of it, people know what it is and what it does, if it breaks you know what went wrong and who to blame. Literally anything built with NPM: megabytes? tens of megabytes? in si
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by somatic 7y ago
LOL at the GPG swarm down below. I hate the Internet, I regret posting my own GPG message, and I'd delete it if I could.
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by somatic 7y ago
Valid point. To clarify, it was hyperbole, as I got (rightly or wrongly) a more "military" vibe. And in my highly uninformed opinion, I'd feel much less comfortable in close quarters with actual spook-dom than I would around
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by somatic 7y ago
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by somatic 7y ago
I'll be on the lookout, but quite frankly I despair. I've always wanted to be in a spooky line of work. Oh well.
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by somatic 7y ago
>The good companies for 9 to 5 casual evil are small >50 man shops which require security clearance to work at. Where do I sign up? (Edit: this is a serious question.) (Second edit: Mencius.)
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by somatic 7y ago
It wasn't so much "gave up on" as it was "deliberately destroyed". Since the late 1800's, the banks and the governments have pursued a continuous policy of economic centralization and integration, and key to th
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by somatic 7y ago
You have erected a hilarious false choice. The supermarket is recording your image as you browse through the store, and within five years will assuredly be plugging you into facial recognition software. It is not necessary for you to have a
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by somatic 7y ago
In calling these people entrepreneurs you are really contorting the language. The entrepreneurs in this system are the creators and owners of the system. The other people are something else entirely.
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by somatic 7y ago
I recommend Hegel with Neuralink: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppGlEiQXrRI Unless the computer is itself capable of anticipating and satisfying your desires — which, I grant, is possible, but, I would argue, incredibly, incr
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by somatic 7y ago
Adtech. Hence Facebook/Oculus.
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by somatic 7y ago
Does your website have a public repo?
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by somatic 7y ago
There’s no question that Rogan’s style is to make every interview as “warm” as possible, rarely challenging any guest on any extraordinary claim. There’s also an argument to be made about his “platforming” of arguable kooks and so on, thoug
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by somatic 7y ago
There are studies showing that e-texts are significantly less “assimilable” than paper texts. I think the consensus speculation is that the physicality of the paper gives the brain a better understanding of the text, where you are in the te
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by somatic 7y ago
If you model the capabilities of a software/hardware package as intelligence, then it's easy to see that a handheld device is a "node" of intelligence. And then, between (non-airgapped) nodes, there are "pipes"
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by somatic 7y ago
If the fake is "pixel-perfect", then how would there be any way to tell? Your fundamental assumption is that the resolution inherent to the transmitted medium is greater than the "resolution" of the faker.
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by somatic 7y ago
lol! please go on I want to hear more please
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by somatic 7y ago
Who cares what Enron was in the business of? Who cares what Musk is in the business of? I admire Musk’s obvious engineering prowess (chiefly his ability to find and motivate top talent), and his showmanship, but let’s not pretend that by vi
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by somatic 7y ago
A truly brilliant insight, this. I’m glad I clicked this link and read this article. My life is immeasurably improved for having done so. Thank you, Andrenth, for bringing this to my attention. For not hiding your lamp under a bushel. For b
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by somatic 7y ago
Want to hire me? I’m a reasonably competent programmer already, pretty good designer. Most recently I wanted to familiarize myself with the basics of C++ so I wrote my own big integer library.
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by somatic 7y ago
The average person does not understand the implications of their actions vis-à-vis IT companies and their personal information. Moreover, their actions do not affect only themselves, but also all of the people with whom they regularly inter

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