somrand0

6 ms·

1.
by somrand0 4y ago
indeed, the first step (IMO) towards revising the notion is to recognize that physical (material, tangible) assets inherently work differently than digital assets. As I understand so far the main reason to seek a revision of the concept o
2.
by somrand0 4y ago
but what about people getting paid for the invested money of movies made by their ancestors, dead over 50 years ago (and up to more than 100 years ago, whatever is the current copyright term for movies) do they have a right to enjoy being r
3.
by somrand0 4y ago
considering that information is something static (which doesn't change) that describes (is about) how something else is changing I think that indeed, it is the inherent nature of information to radiate itself, i.e. to share (to shin
4.
by somrand0 4y ago
but what does it mean to destroy the concept of ownership (i.e. the notion of property) if we take that > The only way to truly own something, is to either share it or destroy it. could I argue that then, we would be taking ownership
5.
by somrand0 4y ago
ownership is a concept in dire need of revision
6.
by somrand0 4y ago
well yea, because your parents were essentially slaves, the property of higher elite classes. I'm pointing to the class relationship, nothing specific to your parents. I wonder if such practices were used in schools reserved for royalt
7.
by somrand0 4y ago
depends on how close you wanna get to the servers, and then the hardware? I suppose it's a super rare occurrence now, but back when I was starting on this, I would mess up my X server and was forced to fix it from the command line.
8.
by somrand0 4y ago
could you post some hyper-links to said offerings?
9.
by somrand0 4y ago
I see nothing in that article that says anything about a world view. not in a deep actually useful way. i see shallow fluff.
10.
by somrand0 4y ago
disagree, the url contextualizes what one's looking at in that other URL.
11.
by somrand0 4y ago
I wish I could study (and explain) those 19KB of javascript (and including the rest of the locked down software stack taken for granted) as the sheet music that I take them to be from a fully academic music-technological standpoint. but I d
12.
by somrand0 4y ago
IMO, tacit collusion is the underlying scheme by which we communicate (transfer meaning between people)
13.
by somrand0 4y ago
> I was not really conscious throughout most of it. I disagree. hear me out. I think you were just using a non-linguistic mode of consciousness. We are far too accustomed to thinking and being (and imagining that we are) made out of wo
14.
by somrand0 4y ago
because this is not an analysis of computing in general. but an analysis about a specific use-case of computers in general: video games; written in response to microsoft's gobbling up of activision
15.
by somrand0 4y ago
but they're both computation, why wouldn't they compatibly compute? (I just wanted to say "compatibly computing")
16.
by somrand0 4y ago
> [...]that'd be rapid progress towards modernizing it. I misread this as "monetizing". almost snorted. What's so bad about the UI? is it dated because of it's structure? or does it seem dated because of widg
17.
by somrand0 4y ago
clearly I need to learn more about stock ownership; but that would require the opportunity to own stock. And I'm from a secondary/lower socioeconomic-tier from a 3rd tier (third world country). So those opportunities aren't
18.
by somrand0 4y ago
counterpoint: open source is fine. what needs to change is economics themselves
19.
by somrand0 4y ago
because digital assets have a fundamental difference with material ones. I'm referring to how digital assets can be owned non-exclusively, i.e. we can both have the same data. In contrast material (or physical) assets are exclusive. Ei
20.
by somrand0 4y ago
what!? do you expect they should walk!? tyrant!!! lol (sorry for not being funny to you)
21.
by somrand0 4y ago
you need to pay whomever owns pantone a bunch of money to know that kind of thing this is now easier than ever through adobe cloud offerings! only 12 usd a month!
22.
by somrand0 4y ago
[flagged]
23.
by somrand0 4y ago
"sufficiently advanced compression/encoding is indistinguishable from encryption" like QR codes.. they're encrypted, but the secret key is widely available: it's the source code that decodes the graphic
24.
by somrand0 4y ago
unsung? not anymore. this article is singing for him
25.
by somrand0 4y ago
that makes no sense to me. clearly something's missing here. could you elaborate? I understand a plateau to mean that there's no more upwards
26.
by somrand0 4y ago
nah, I disagree. I've been trying to express complex ideas at the limits of my own grasp of language (including my native one) since always. And so long as I've kept trying I have kept improving. Surely diction is difficult, but y
27.
by somrand0 4y ago
you're omitting "the" when using capitalized nouns. except when prepending "new" in a way, I understand that the function of "the" is some kind of emphasis (or something). The answer you seek is not syntac
28.
by somrand0 4y ago
ah, so the open code would (will?) vanish the instant it's not cheaper (and-or better) to develop the core engine in this way.
29.
by somrand0 4y ago
consider people working at an amazon warehouse .. those companies rely on there existing an entire class of people unable to refuse to get into a job where they may get in trouble for taking too long of a bathroom break; those people are cl
30.
by somrand0 4y ago
thanks for the succinct definition. essentially, more status game plays

More ›