This is how companies compete for space they sometimes disable functionality on the user side to like push people over to their devices.
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(I'm not really derrida this is a bit of a joke)
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Apologies, I meant historically China, not china of the last 50 years. Just for context "the west" has sort of existed since renaissance only a few hundred years. Before that it had more common with some religions theologies and warring states. Meanwhile in arabia, china, persia and india there were huge cultures and civilizations far more advanced. They all had markets. Land rights however have always been a social question. For instance in britain it was all owned by the crown - a shepard for instance was naturally limited by how many sheep they could look after, a trade person limited by how many people they could see with their craft. Enter the corporation and enclosure and you can have flocks of 10,000 sheep etc. It doesn't necessarily mean there's more sheep it means "possession" now has some formalism governed by paper and the state, rather than some direct proximity and socially designated responsibility or custodian ship for a flock or area. etc. The later is how a great deal of cultures functioned and they had markets (what was the silk road?) Capitalism has always claimed "it's the market" ideology, but what actually distinguishes capitalism from all other societies is the creation of capital and the creation of false commodities in law (land, patents, etc)
The market for land is created in law, it can be changed in law. This is different to cars or corn or bricks, - if you invest of those the world is richer one brick, car or bit of corn. IF you invest in land the money just sits there and that piece of paper means you can call the police if challenged. The question of land distribution is a social and legal question independent of the real economy. The beginning of land rights is only about 400-600 years old and began with enclosure in the UK. Meanwhile there's other parts of the world that sustained a larger population that didn't have them yet. e.g China. I'm not saying to get rid of land rights but perhaps the worst excesses of people subsidizing the rights of a 1% to own like 30% of land is a bit radical. Less radical would be "people can invest to 3 houses max" For instance Germany caps the size of corporations with inventives for smaller and medium size corporatinso - this makes a large ecosystem of mutually independent compannies that also reduce existential risk in supply chains - also allow for the highest productivity per hour in the world. Also the cost of housing is relatively lower so it has quite a high proportion of part time workers.
Imagine if we had some "instrument" such as a "repossession lottery" where 1/100 land assets of individuals who own more than 3 properties were siezed at random each year. Have the rate controlled by the federal reserve or reserve bank of respective countries. Change the charter to ensure the goals of each is 100% housing. We can still have the free market and competition in the world of commodities.
Unfortunately to the american imagination to make some crique of capitalism the way the education system works is they assume you are advocating the soviet union. There's many situations where the state can make laws that are on the socialist end of the spectrum and it contributes to economic growth so businesses and investors are happier too. The US already does this with the military, military assets are publicly owned "socially owned" if you want to put it that way, there's no reason education or health or housing couldn't also be the cash cow.
What is your responsibility is if you chose to listen or not - you don't have to be involved or give someone else your attention if you don't want.
"What is the cause of people forgetting texts they had learned before?" I can't remember the precise answer but that was one such line in the texts.
Today if you say that you sound kinda crazy.`
but like socrates there's still a few orders of wandering mendicant homeless-like orders out there (the theravada forest tradition being an example)
Oh not from where I see the world! hehe - infact I see most stem educated people of reasonably good IQ by and large living a mythology they do not even know they are living in because they've never really understood the difference between knowledge and understanding and the whole purpose of the humanities.
Mythology is the stories we tell about how we as individuals relate to society and the cosmos.
Elon Musk functions as a sort of deva or heroic god myth that many people do not even realise they are buying into.
Mythology even includes how we structure science - the "genius", the archetypes and roles and stories we tell about heros and how scientific activity takes place - these are myths that have causal effects in producing actual science. Mythology is meta to everything. Its literally the meaning about who we are and our place in the world. There's many cases. Pick your mythology wisely because if you don't you'll get a poor version of one by cultural default.
I can tell you a lot on Hacker News does not look too much different from the audiophile community from this perspective hehe
PHP reminds me of my socially awkward uncle who is endearing and means well and caused many cringes & me and my sister to laugh with his faux pas.
I love reading articles about its bugs. The Mr Bean of programming languages.
We need PHP just as the film industry needs its gaffer tape. It's just that we have a very good standard of Gaffer tape (357 or "perl" in programming). It is kinda expensive though in dollars or cognitive cycles. So sometimes we use the inferior stuff that is not the standard 357. But then, we find, after the film bumps out - it caused you to rip the paint off the floor in the venue the film hired and not get your $10,000k deposit back.
We need to have our humour.
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To those that haven't worked it out yet: Stories about UFOs act as a cover for what is a very sensible, ordinary and legitimate activity: maintaining secrecy around capabilities of spy craft. It provides cover by making in-credible any revelation by local residents and so on of actual probably very ordinary and boring aircraft capabilities. It lets their actual capabilities "fly under the radar" so to speak when you play up whimsical capabilities.
𝄞 "you will not be able to stay home, brother... you will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out"
as u/neonnoodle said " At this point in history, what will qualify a true counterculture is NOT BEING ONLINE. "
I've been lucky enough to spend long periods in such hehe (forest monasteries)
If it's the case there was no control, why would peer review allow it and why would that not be mentioned in the article about it?
Show me 1 conventionally conceived of "endurance athlete" amateur mid of the pack or professional who has adapted this? Marathon, Iron man etc. Just 1. I'd love to see if anyone got a result in a marathon etc that was like a pb or close to a pb this way. I highly doubt.
I've had MDMA like this. No regrets.
Years later I found better - a 1 hr long full body orgasms - thank god it was alone in kutis seperated by forest - i sounded like meg ryan in "Sleepless in Seattle" for about an hr or two each day - but where did I find this? In myself doing nothing other than scanning my body in meditation and letting the breath calm me.
Externally: it was in a monastery meditating with a group of celibate monks in the middle of the forest - and that is the foot hills - not yet "jhana".
This is properly why people are celibate - they are not idiots. I found the cause for that. It wasn't in self denial or asceticism but actually - to reach something deeper.
There are of course people celibate for the wrong reasons. BUt I got an idea of why. Also in finding this pleasure its based directly on the lack of interest one finds in sensory pleasure which ironically frees energy that produces pleasure in ones senses and body - I see also how the ability to sort of "feel out" or feel oneself into this is a great service to society as the act of practicing this is finding the internal harmony in oneself and that manifests as external harmony.
This is why people were properly monks and nuns - but also the source of the institutions wisdom and power and later domination by the types that just want power and so on.
There might be other questions worth asking.
Code is a means of communication and the sort of thoughts represented in code are representative of pressured time and control that is exerted at corporations
If it was designed based on good design principles, useability, liberation and so on - we'd have S-expressions in the browser and Javascript wouldn't have been a sort of attempt to make a lisp deal with xml and look like the language de jour - Java - but would be an actual lisp. The browser would not be a proliferation of 6 kinds of syntax that looks like a bathroom wall graffitti but rather each site would look like a single specimen of some species of plant (s-expressions of course being a great representation either of structured data or an abstract syntax tree)
* The cause of conceptual proliferation which makes so many systems incompatable and sort of semi-broken *is greed*
* The cause of simplicity and beauty (think a good physics theory) is in an attempt to communicate understanding and give that understanding to others, in essence thoughts based by intentions of parsimony, renunciation, generosity, understanding. In short the cause of simplicity *is kindness*
So when people talk of "mindful use of technology" they mean this latter part - mindfulness works with contentment, generosity, understanding - if we keep grabbing at the next idea "oooh" "ah" constantly searching for the next hit (products) or even conceptual "hit" like suddenly the clouds will part and this thought will solve all our problems - that leads to conceptual proliferation. We allways are looking onwards to find the code that can solve this problem and if we find it it usually introduces its own new problems. Everything is trying to sell us on that what we have is deficient and we need more. Why not - learn and trust our tools? Here's a knife, some fruit and vegetables and a source of heat: go and cook! Corporations do they want to be ahead of the curve and siphon value into their "ecosystem" - we get 6 protocols and non-transparent interactions between things - like cooking with some demented expensive $600 multi appliance that sits there like a white elephant.
That generosity and kindness is so central to simplicity is why I think the best kind of code has been written by people who are almost like monks, or they are like the old "ivory tower" sort - hermits with a stipend free to consider how to contribute to the world. In a word, the "Contemplatives". I think of Larry Wall and his interest in understanding the biblical texts giving us Perl and the Perl communities adaptation of the use of zen koans and "monk" type language. Or recently someone like David Botton who is also a rabbi who has gone a long way in Common Lisp to making a healthy community and empowering of people to make UIs like it's Borland Pascal days. OR the almost religious nature of "Freesoftware" RMS is another example - a hermit in the MIT office essentially with a mission of generosity of "people have a freedom to understand their own software".
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One time I was in Yunnan province in China and it was an americans birthday in the local cafe that served coffee and was frequented by expats and english teachers and so on - he told me this absolutely amazing story about some of his travels and it was so great and such an impressive story, and I felt close to him so I said ...
"You're full of it right?"
"Excuse me?"
"Oh that story is totally full of shit!"
He stares at me a bit. I'm smiling and looking at him.
He begins crying, turns around and begins walking out the door and up the street at a fast pace. I chase behind him. He's saying "go away go away", I say "I'm not sure what's happened are you ok?" "You said Iwas full of shit" "Oh that's an expression I meant I loved your story so much it couldn't be real". Needless to say that relationship did not go anywhere unfortunately. He was a good guy who had some awesome experiences. AND IT WAS HIS BIRTHDAY.
He was from California if that means anything.
Moral of the story: I think it's ok for an australian to be australian in Australia or the US but on neutral terrirtory could lead to misunderstandings wuickly. By the way, I was a grade below in high school with "Nat" from "Nats what I reckon" it was a relatively privileged school in Sydney known for its alternative student lead projects and lack of marks - Nat is a classic at swearing - he grew up in Surry Hills a trendy part of the inner city fringe my dad ran a Graphic Design business there. HE is a an unique character who me and my best male friend looked up to - we caught the same bus home every day - we'd practice guitar and drums and then listen to him drumming on the bus with pencils and it was better than what we could do with drumsticks and a proper kit! my other friend had some success in music too, so its' an alternative kind of school (Steiner/Waldorf) in the sense that if parents could send their kids there they were ok with them getting into arts and so on - and if you are curious - this is what cultured (in the sense of artisanal and developed) swearing is like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WrvFvzdhCo
(he was known already around the warehouse and music scene here as a bit of a character but didn't hit big fame until the pandemic)
From what I understand the misunderstanding I had with "The American" in Yunnan might be ok in like New York or Jersey or something where they have what's called "busting your balls" ... e.g. Elaine in Seinfeld saying "GET OUT" and pushing a guy. I dunno.
I also seem to with some frequency have some big cultural misunderstandings with americans of about the same age, gender and cultural class on neutral territory - to the point I now avoid talking to Americans of the same age and gender! "I'm afraid of americans" by David Bowie, highly relateable hehe I thin of it like siblings - we are actually quite close but those little differences can lead to huge misunderstandings.
asdf for common lisp been around for years and used by the clergy of programming basically and still widely used today