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For the past 30 years, cars have been "good enough". This idea that one manufacturer is "vastly" better than another is nonsense. All care manufacturers are vastly better today than they were in the 1980's. This is…
So weird. RFK is now in charge of this stuff for humans, and is anti-vax, but apparently our gov't thinks vaccines are fine for chickens.
On the one hand, I disagree with her, because I believe that 99.99% of people with purse string control are dumb a/f, and that "real work" will happen in the cloud of VC/Politician-stroking. That's the way it works.…
Probably Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, or some other new fascist militia.
I would make fun of this as a PE event, but when I graduated high-school (US) we were still wearing parachute pants and break dancing to the Fat Boys. So I'll refrain from throwing stones. Each generation has their own…
When I was at Intel in the late 90's, early 2000's, one CPU project decided it was going to use it exclusively. It was agonizing: slow, terrible UI, buggy, missing a lot of features. I never tried it again, did it get…
I tried blogging in the mid-2000's about drones. I was documenting my experience building drone flight controllers (mind you I was using Cortex-M3 cores and early 3-axis IMUs) and had published schematics and source…
Sorry, I was refering to Hacker News, not all social media. My question was unclear. 1. HN is centralized, but not for-profit. 2. HN does not drive engagement, AFAIK 3. HN is not surveillance capitalism. You haven't…
Ah, thanks. That's a good answer. I was coming at it from the discussion angle only. However, both Usenet and HN don't allow you to friend people, like other social media. I see I accidentally dropped the term HN, which…
I really would like to know what exactly you consider a "clear difference" between how Usenet and differ conceptually (e.g., ignoring the GUI, the # of users, and mechanics, [e.g., usenet updates diffused around the…
We're literally socializing right now. We're a special interest group meeting to communicate about special interests. The opposite of socialization is isolation. If you hadn't posted, you wouldn't be socializing, but…
Why do you exclude HN from your list? It is literally social media, but with the dial turned down a little. Yet, you don't have to dig to deeply to see flamewars, outrage, and trolling. I mean, look at many of the…
Comparing dragons to 3d internet chat rooms is kinda funny. Arthurian dragons have largely been the same beasts for, oh, 1000 years. 3d internet chat rooms in Snow Crash have been tried and are ... lame. I appreciate…
the "weirdos" had no problem humiliating anyone who tried to skate with them that they deemed a "poser". please actually read my comment next time.
"Skaters skate not gatekeep people" That's the overstatement of the century. In group / out group always has gatekeepers by definition. Not sure where you grew up, but I sold skateboards at a bike & ski store for a…
Hanes 3 packs at Target. $17.99.
Let's look at the reply: "It's not just commodification. If you were a punk in the 80s with a green mohawk, you might find it cute to put one on your kid in the 2000s. I have long hair, my son has long hair. This isn't…
Yes! That's my one good use! :) Seriously, that's all I got.
Here's one good use: I looked into leaving the US to become a citizen elsewhere. I have about $15MM in my retirement. I would have to pay a penalty on my taxes for early withdrawal, and be taxed when I renounce my…
Selling a speculative investment for a necessity screams: "I don't understand personal finance."
If legal tender #2 went up 115% in 4 years I would feel like a jackass for spending it in 2021 because I would have doubled my money if I saved it. Do you see the absurdity?
Why would anyone spend a single BTC/sat. if they know it could be worth 10x more in a few weeks/years?
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For the past 30 years, cars have been "good enough". This idea that one manufacturer is "vastly" better than another is nonsense. All care manufacturers are vastly better today than they were in the 1980's. This is…
So weird. RFK is now in charge of this stuff for humans, and is anti-vax, but apparently our gov't thinks vaccines are fine for chickens.
On the one hand, I disagree with her, because I believe that 99.99% of people with purse string control are dumb a/f, and that "real work" will happen in the cloud of VC/Politician-stroking. That's the way it works.…
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Probably Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, or some other new fascist militia.
I would make fun of this as a PE event, but when I graduated high-school (US) we were still wearing parachute pants and break dancing to the Fat Boys. So I'll refrain from throwing stones. Each generation has their own…
When I was at Intel in the late 90's, early 2000's, one CPU project decided it was going to use it exclusively. It was agonizing: slow, terrible UI, buggy, missing a lot of features. I never tried it again, did it get…
I tried blogging in the mid-2000's about drones. I was documenting my experience building drone flight controllers (mind you I was using Cortex-M3 cores and early 3-axis IMUs) and had published schematics and source…
Sorry, I was refering to Hacker News, not all social media. My question was unclear. 1. HN is centralized, but not for-profit. 2. HN does not drive engagement, AFAIK 3. HN is not surveillance capitalism. You haven't…
Ah, thanks. That's a good answer. I was coming at it from the discussion angle only. However, both Usenet and HN don't allow you to friend people, like other social media. I see I accidentally dropped the term HN, which…
I really would like to know what exactly you consider a "clear difference" between how Usenet and differ conceptually (e.g., ignoring the GUI, the # of users, and mechanics, [e.g., usenet updates diffused around the…
We're literally socializing right now. We're a special interest group meeting to communicate about special interests. The opposite of socialization is isolation. If you hadn't posted, you wouldn't be socializing, but…
Why do you exclude HN from your list? It is literally social media, but with the dial turned down a little. Yet, you don't have to dig to deeply to see flamewars, outrage, and trolling. I mean, look at many of the…
Comparing dragons to 3d internet chat rooms is kinda funny. Arthurian dragons have largely been the same beasts for, oh, 1000 years. 3d internet chat rooms in Snow Crash have been tried and are ... lame. I appreciate…
the "weirdos" had no problem humiliating anyone who tried to skate with them that they deemed a "poser". please actually read my comment next time.
"Skaters skate not gatekeep people" That's the overstatement of the century. In group / out group always has gatekeepers by definition. Not sure where you grew up, but I sold skateboards at a bike & ski store for a…
Hanes 3 packs at Target. $17.99.
Let's look at the reply: "It's not just commodification. If you were a punk in the 80s with a green mohawk, you might find it cute to put one on your kid in the 2000s. I have long hair, my son has long hair. This isn't…
Yes! That's my one good use! :) Seriously, that's all I got.
Here's one good use: I looked into leaving the US to become a citizen elsewhere. I have about $15MM in my retirement. I would have to pay a penalty on my taxes for early withdrawal, and be taxed when I renounce my…
Selling a speculative investment for a necessity screams: "I don't understand personal finance."
If legal tender #2 went up 115% in 4 years I would feel like a jackass for spending it in 2021 because I would have doubled my money if I saved it. Do you see the absurdity?
Why would anyone spend a single BTC/sat. if they know it could be worth 10x more in a few weeks/years?