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somrand0

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About somrand0

some rando... who is shadowbanned (or should?). I am reasonably certain. yes... I'm shadow banned; reddit does it. hacker news too? noooo!

I guess nobody has any special right to be heard (yet, shadow-banning is a toxic practice).

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    indeed, the first step (IMO) towards revising the notion is to recognize that physical (material, tangible) assets inherently work differently than digital assets. As I understand …

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    Comment #34187219

    but what about people getting paid for the invested money of movies made by their ancestors, dead over 50 years ago (and up to more than 100 years ago, whatever is the current copy…

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    Comment #34187167

    considering that information is something static (which doesn't change) that describes (is about) how something else is changing I think that indeed, it is the inherent nature of i…

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    Comment #34187153

    but what does it mean to destroy the concept of ownership (i.e. the notion of property) if we take that > The only way to truly own something, is to either share it or destroy it. …

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    Comment #34186292

    ownership is a concept in dire need of revision

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    Comment #34178151

    well yea, because your parents were essentially slaves, the property of higher elite classes. I'm pointing to the class relationship, nothing specific to your parents. I wonder if …

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    Comment #34175173

    depends on how close you wanna get to the servers, and then the hardware? I suppose it's a super rare occurrence now, but back when I was starting on this, I would mess up my X ser…

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    Comment #34172075

    could you post some hyper-links to said offerings?

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    Comment #34167889

    I see nothing in that article that says anything about a world view. not in a deep actually useful way. i see shallow fluff.

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    Comment #34165595

    disagree, the url contextualizes what one's looking at in that other URL.

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    Comment #34165528

    I wish I could study (and explain) those 19KB of javascript (and including the rest of the locked down software stack taken for granted) as the sheet music that I take them to be f…

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    Comment #34162604

    IMO, tacit collusion is the underlying scheme by which we communicate (transfer meaning between people)

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    Comment #34044995

    > I was not really conscious throughout most of it. I disagree. hear me out. I think you were just using a non-linguistic mode of consciousness. We are far too accustomed to thinki…

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    Comment #33992855

    because this is not an analysis of computing in general. but an analysis about a specific use-case of computers in general: video games; written in response to microsoft's gobbling…

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    Comment #33992664

    but they're both computation, why wouldn't they compatibly compute? (I just wanted to say "compatibly computing")

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    Comment #33991745

    > [...]that'd be rapid progress towards modernizing it. I misread this as "monetizing". almost snorted. What's so bad about the UI? is it dated because of it's structure? or does i…

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    Comment #33986503

    clearly I need to learn more about stock ownership; but that would require the opportunity to own stock. And I'm from a secondary/lower socioeconomic-tier from a 3rd tier (third wo…

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    Comment #33986382

    counterpoint: open source is fine. what needs to change is economics themselves