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Ppl work hard to make sure they remain different for 99.9% of non-technical people (eg. banning anonimous cryptocurrency)... once this is done, you become and outlier by using diff…

> then the development doesn't seem to be finished It's never finished, that's the point, if you want to keep growing the a part of you must separate a bit and drag itself towards …

meh, strive for CLARITY instead: figure out what really needs most to be done, understand more about what you're doing, do less but have a larger impact!

I only care about makind sure that all essential and valuable human characteristics, perspective, thought patterns and values get carried on to whatever the next thing is :) Extinc…

"Handling contraception" is almost zero cost (so can even be done in bad economie where stuff like child support can't work) and is about choice , not forcing anyone to do anything…

It's eugenics when you force it. It's social engineering when you alter the incentives/rewards landscape to get better outcomes. And it's... evolution when nature does it anyway. J…

...bc (1) educated != intelligent, and (2) intelligence is highly multidimensional, maybe the "dumb" people are the ones more intelligent in the dimension of intelligence requiring…

> populations in actual hypercompetitive hellholes, where they're not just competing for a job/status/basic financial solvency, but literally for their food security, physical safe…

> can we ask how we got here? - most people have a stupid bias towards "doing something, anything, doesn't matter if it doens't work" - politicians and "thought leaders" and "exper…

...maybe if didn't work so hard to make our socity into a hypercompetitive hellhole intelligent and educated people would also start having more children! Give people guranteed fre…

It's... unpredictably far away! We suck so bad at estimating these kinds of things, that whether it's tomorrow or 500 years from now, I'm convinced we'll be totally surprised, unpr…

There's no reason to require polyticians to be technicians, and no reason to expect less formally-educated people to be more anti nuclear (except in the presence of massive disinfo…

He's a would-be / soon-to-be immigrant. After settling in the destination country he should ofc get his affairs 100% legal, and maybe change work fields (inside software it's easy)…

...we've just hit a DRY SPOT

TL/DR: It's a naive "sour grapes" type argument that doesn't take any kind of costs/tradeoffs into consideration... Proper DRY at scale requires types that make sense and are easy …

...learn about crypto and try to work remotely getting paid in it - unfortunately you'll likely have to work on cryptocurrencies and smart-contracts, but it beats COBOL ;) After yo…

Tor + (~secure) VPN, but most things like pirating and pr0n DON'T require 'real' security! You want privacy mainly and that's orthogonal to security. If privacy is not enough and y…

...most IPS in most contries are just OK with piracy ...use proper VPNs for stuff that needs real security, enjoy your entertainment in peace (sure, if you're into weird kinds of p…

The solution is simple: ONLY private persons should own patents, and it should be illegal even for employers or institutions (academic, research) to own patents of people employed …

this looks too good to be true! ...what gives? what compromises have you made to achieve so much so fast? (or who's throwing $$$ at you?)

gulping sounds & chokers... boy that would make for some fun team calls...

Compared to C, sure it is. Probably compared to C++ to since it's less opportunity for obsfucation. Compared to anything else probably not.

There's many open-source alternatives to Excel. Rarely used, but it settles any fear of lock in. This also made the area palatable for other commercial competitors to enter the spa…

> It probably would be even more niche today - and worse. Maybe, but a better successor would've evolved out of it. Matlab had Octave as an open source alternative. Not used much, …

Programming languages are not heroin... people want a tools offering some features and they use whatever has them and is not too hard to learn a new one. Matlab-class languages are…