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Umn55··on Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
This could be used to make an art tool.
Umn55··on Is The Economist left- or right-wing?
Please gentleman try to read something. If you are playing at electoral politics, you understand very little.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spect...

http://www.amazon.com/Death-Liberal-Class-Chris-Hedges/dp/15...

Anyone in north america lives in a hard right fascist state. Both canada and the US are completely fascist, and the "liberal wing" isn't. The liberal wings of USA and canada are hard right conservative.

Umn55··on Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
The evidence says capitalism cannot be balanced:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#me...

The 9 trillion dollar bank bailout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVjz1OyBJCc

Libor scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal

Like I said... The rule of law is impossible under capitalism, since the kings of business (he who has the gold makes the rules) get to do whatever they want and the public gets fucked.

Umn55··on Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
>A truly independent mind can be a terrifying thing. It can make you feel disconnected, isolated, insane, or stupid.

You get used to it because you remember the science:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F17JGDZDVUs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURiWot_-ng&list=UUW1ELHQMq-...

Umn55··on Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
"Which kind of capitalism? Crony capitalism? What about Workers capitalism? A much different thing than the generic stereotypical capitalism you seem to be talking about."

I'm sorry but this reasoning is fallacious nonsense. No true Scotsman is an informal fallacy, an ad hoc attempt to retain an unreasoned assertion.

Umn55··on Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
"Wonder why the fourth estate, aka journalism is in such a sad state of affairs? It's because the state has reached (quietly) so far into it that even the handful of real journalist are having a hard time."

I'm sorry to tell you but it's the very nature of capitalism to consume everything in it's path. Corporations are authoritarian institutions. The idea that there ever existed some balanced press or balanced capitalism is a consistent fantasy among the vast majority of people including intelligent ones like yourself. The more history you know, the more those people around you look uneducated.

The "balance" in capitalist societies is a myth that needs to be broken.

http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExte...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#me...

Look at that chart, that means the powers that be have been crushing the public for 200+ years, every time getting there way and the "moderates" and "balancers" like yourself are totally clueless.

Also the bailout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVjz1OyBJCc

Overthrowing governments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg_-NjjnvP4

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/...

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." [p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

The 9 trillion dollar bank bailout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVjz1OyBJCc

Libor scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal

Rule of law is impossible under capitalism, since the kings of business (he who has the gold makes the rules) get to do whatever they want and the public gets fucked.

http://williamblum.org/

Regulating capitalism has totally failed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcA1v2n7WW4#t=2551

Umn55··on Censorship 2.0: Shadowy forces controlling online conversations
“What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.” ― Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West, Vol. 2: Perspectives of World History

“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.” ― Oswald Spengler

Umn55··on Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay, Site Offline
" is basically a magical fantasy of those who understand neither the technology nor its sociology."

Ever hear of steam, MMO's, F2P? They've started with backend chaining of software, they are going to try to turn everything into "cloud based" bullshit to as much as they can do it.

Umn55··on What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger
>it seems more interesting to me that we have consciousness to experience,

Everything that is alive has some level of "consciousness" aka some ability to sense, detect, and adapt to it's environment. The idea that consciousness is "special" and "unqiue" is the big lie. If knowledge is unified, then that means the same is true for the universe, since what we call "knowledge" is in fact the universes structure directly. Like your hand, your car, etc. What we call "knowledge" is our representations (symbolic languages like math, english, etc). We confuse our symbols with reality.

It's not that knowledge is "provisional" (aka the structure of the universe is the truth, hence not provisional), it's that our current abstract representations of it is.

Umn55··on The World Cracks Down on the Internet
The enlightenment was wrong about the mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Umn55··on The World Cracks Down on the Internet
It's entropy at work, most of the population is of average intelligence and many of us come from superstitious primates. It's about the scale of large societies, the advancement of technology and biological costs.
Umn55··on Why women are leaving the tech industry in droves
>Why is it then that over the entire industry, over the entire world, women are under-represented?

Because women are smart and weak, and I don't mean that in a negative way. Women's evolutionary history over time was to find a strong man who has resources, hence women's evolutionary programming isn't geared for technological trenches of insane work hours and dedication of 20 something youths.

Women have an ovulatory cycle, and the enlightenment was wrong about human reasoning and human functioning. Most of our surface behaviour is controlled by unconscious processes.

See here about reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ

Umn55··on Ask HN: How can I remedy scatter brain and information overload?
The Decline of the West

OSWALD SPENGLER BELIEVED that he stood at the cusp of a new wave of historical thinking. Whereas in the past, historians had been content to gather facts, chart broad cultural movements, and take the flow of time as consisting of events that were causally related, Spengler had a vision that made these circumstances not merely existent, but necessary. The "morphology of culture" that Spengler conceived made history not merely a past, but a destiny, for each culture contained within it an essence that inevitably must reveal itself. As he states in his introduction,

Each Culture has its own possibilities of self-expression which arise, ripen, decay, and never return. There is not one sculpture, one painting, one mathematics, but many. Each is in its deepest essence different from the others, each limited in duration and self-contained....

Spengler felt that this insight must force historians to approach their work in an entirely different light. For he did not believe that a developing culture borrowed or integrated values or systems from past ones, at least not in their true nature. Each is working out its own unique being, and if, for example, the Greeks borrowed certain mathematical concepts from the Egyptians, it was with an entirely different understanding of what they meant and what they were for. To Spengler, each culture in the world's history had it's own unique "soil" in which to develop and grow. The physical terrain, proximity of neighbors, natural resources, and other factors influence the manner in which the "seed" of the inhabiting people unfolds not only geographically but also socially and economically. This, coupled with the unique temporal period and particular population of each great culture, serves to produce a social organism that is distinct from all others, just as one variety of plant is distinct from the rest.

However, Spengler maintained that the underlying pattern that each followed could be revealed through analysis, especially through studying the art, music, and architecture of each and discovering analogues.

I hope to show that without exception all great creations and forms in religion, art, politics, social life, economy and science appear, fulfill themselves, and die down contemporaneously in all the cultures; that the inner structure of one corresponds strictly with that of all others; that there is not a single phenomenon of deep physiognomic importance in the record of one for which we could not find a counterpart in the record of every other; and that this counterpart is to be found under a characteristic form and in a perfectly definite chronological position.

http://www.bayarea.net/~kins/AboutMe/Spengler/SpenglerDoc.ht...

Umn55··on Has Big Business “Captured” The Economists?
Not "captured", that's the way capitalism works when you don't limit the size of businesses and limit how much anyone person or group can make, they end up controlling everything. Monopoly is the name of the game.
Umn55··on Orwell and China: Nineteen Eighty-four in Chinese
>A prime example of Orwellian state in my opinion would be DPRK, or Cuba

Prime example would be all western states where the electorate votes against it's own interests.

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverte...

Umn55··on Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt on Journalists
"I opt out at airports, I donate to the EFF, I don't use Uber or any other app that targets people's privacy and actively threatens the freedom of the press"

Freedom of the press cannot exist under capitalism, who controls the hiring and firing and owns the organization controls the information.

Umn55··on Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
Check out bohm's idea on the issue:

Bohm’s basic assumption is that “elementary particles are actually systems of extremely complicated internal structure, acting essentially as amplifiers of information contained in a quantum wave.” As a consequence, he has evolved a new and controversial theory of the universe. A new model of reality that Bohm calls the “Implicate Order.”

The theory of the Implicate Order contains an ultra-holistic cosmic view; it connects everything with everything else. In principle, any individual element could reveal “detailed information about every other element in the universe.” The central underlying theme of Bohm’s theory is the “unbroken wholeness of the totality of existence as an undivided flowing movement without borders.”

http://www.scienceandnonduality.com/david-bohm-implicate-ord...

http://www.fromquarkstoquasars.com/david-bohm-and-the-hologr...

Umn55··on Nvidia launches a game streaming service
Man this is idiotic, anyone who would support this shit is ruining gaming, it's just DRM by another name.
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