stuff HN says 5 years ago in Everything
not learning a huge amount of useless facts, but being able to look them up like the rest of society does
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There is nothing wrong with a company seeking to enter new markets especially that their absence from these countries doesn't change a thing.
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The developed world already slowed its contribution to climate change massively and is getting better all the time.
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What are 'negative social consequences' ? That seems like a value-judgement to me and potentially highly political.
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User-facing software is about politics the same way architecture (like for buildings) is political: sure there is a lot that software and buildings can do to make people do one thing instead of another, but they don't change the fundamental things that drive us.
Not even a political party changes "the fundamental things that drive us". What drivel. Anyway, here is the article that naturally got flagged off the HN frontpage real quick: https://032c.com/fred-turner-silicon-valley-thinks-politics-doesnt-exist
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I am not a fan of the mass farming, but there are thousands of variables that lead to our current treatment of cattle and so on.
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Here's my take on the future: We'll upload ourselves and use much less energy.
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How do you compare which experience is better given they are both personal?
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Hopefully they’ll have gone through a similar ethical development that we have and they’re not still going around conquering other civilizations like we were back in the day.
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The military has been behind most of the technological advances in society
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What's the difference between this and hiring a team of autistic savants who can remember a ton of faces?
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You're literally hosting your life on it.
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I think it's more dystopian for all governments to have the same ideals and policies than for different governments to have different ideals and policies. It's okay that China is different.
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Today with SpaceX pushing us towards Mars it feels like we're living in pre-history of Expanse which is based on the most realistic SciFi I've seen yet.
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I never thought that voice control would be that useful until I had my daughter... being able to turn on the white noise, turn off the tv, play her music, etc while having my hands full of toddler is very useful.
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unless you think it's a bad thing for them to have an API then they don't distribute data either
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Shun him you say? Shun Gates for what he did to Apple, Netscape etc etc. Shun Googlers for what they're doing to competitors, shun Larry for suing about Java....and so on. Will anyone knowledgeable be left?
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I bet someone on the board reached for some connections and it just happened to be the military.
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Coca Cola's interpretation of the tradition is as valid as anyone else's.
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I have begun wondering aloud about whether the social media era is our closest approach as a species to telepathy.