To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: "No."
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Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
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Re: Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
#32I feel like the framing in the article is wrong. Tech startups are desperately searching for solutions that will generate value. When a "new hammer" is developed or discovered (lets say, radiation) there's a natural inflection point. People will try marketing radioactive medicines, radioactive soft drinks, radioactive toys, radioactive jewelry.... etc etc. Everything will be thrown at the wall to see what sticks. The…
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#33I feel like the framing in the article is wrong. Tech startups are desperately searching for solutions that will generate value. When a "new hammer" is developed or discovered (lets say, radiation) there's a natural inflection point. People will try marketing radioactive medicines, radioactive soft drinks, radioactive toys, radioactive jewelry.... etc etc. Everything will be thrown at the wall to see what sticks. The…
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Tech startups are desperately searching for buzz words that will generate profit.
Re: Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
#34My gripe with titles like this is that problems as a class are much bigger than technical problems. For example: Many people on HN seems to have dating problems. Whenever an article on dating is in the front page, I see those issues in the comments. In most cases, that class of problem requires people to work on themselves. Online dating for sure as hell isn’t solving it. Some of my comments outlined how to solve dat…
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Re: Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
#35All problems except the problem of too much abstraction
Re: Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
#36I feel like the framing in the article is wrong. Tech startups are desperately searching for solutions that will generate value. When a "new hammer" is developed or discovered (lets say, radiation) there's a natural inflection point. People will try marketing radioactive medicines, radioactive soft drinks, radioactive toys, radioactive jewelry.... etc etc. Everything will be thrown at the wall to see what sticks. The…
You mean Tech startups are desperately searching for buzz words that will generate profit.
Tech startups are desperately searching for buzz words that will generate a VC payday. Actual profit is optional.
Re: Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
#37I feel like the framing in the article is wrong. Tech startups are desperately searching for solutions that will generate value. When a "new hammer" is developed or discovered (lets say, radiation) there's a natural inflection point. People will try marketing radioactive medicines, radioactive soft drinks, radioactive toys, radioactive jewelry.... etc etc. Everything will be thrown at the wall to see what sticks. The…
> When a "new hammer" is developed or discovered (lets say, radiation) there's a natural inflection point. People will try marketing radioactive medicines, radioactive soft drinks, radioactive toys, radioactive jewelry.... etc etc. Have you read anything from the early 20th century? This is a noticeable theme in e.g. stories set in the mythos of Conan the Barbarian or the Wizard of Oz. "Radium" is treated as essentia…
And before that, it was "magnetism".
Re: Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
#38A lot of problems do. But sometimes the problem is people related. You can work around those problems with technology but you can't fix them. In terms of real world problems: climate change, food scarcity, poverty, water quality and access, health care, etc. a lot of the solutions are technical. And a lot of those solutions are directly or indirectly about making energy cheaper and cleaner. With cheap clean energy, y…
I agree with you. Before we are so eager to solve the problems, we better pinpoint how the problems were introduced and exacerbated. In the US, there are conflicts between illegal immigration and local communities, or conflicts between BLM and ALM. Especially the latter one, which I as an ordinary non-American cannot understand why ALM was abandoned like SHIT in the end. I do not know that initially aimed to advocate…
The All Live Matter "movement" is constructed, engineered and financed by big money white supremacy as a mechanism to shut down all discussions other than theirs.
Re: Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with you. Before we are so eager to solve the problems, we better pinpoint how the problems were introduced and exacerbated. In the US, there are conflicts between illegal immigration and local communities, or conflicts between BLM and ALM. Especially the latter one, which I as an ordinary non-American cannot understand why ALM was abandoned like SHIT in the end. I do not know that initially aimed to advocate…
The phrase "all lives matter" was introduced specifically to counteract and silence "black lives matter". It does not literally mean that all lives matter - it means that black people need to shut up and take what they're given. Much like "one people, one nation, one leader" does not advocate for unity but is, in fact, something Adolf Hitler frequently said.
I understand that there were many cases where people said "all lives matter" with the purpose of trying to silence BLM voices, and I judge that as an evil will and condemn it. My point is that at least some people who say "all lives matter" don't have that kind of evil intent. To condemn all uses of "all lives matter" is also an evil here.
Reasoning symbolically, I do not see the conflicts here. All lives can't matter unless Black Lives Matter, can they? But We all should not focus on the symbols only; it's the will behind the symbol that matters most. We all should condemn the evil will behind all these symbols usage, not the original usage of these symbols.
The same applies to the advocacy AllLivesMatterWorld here, calling for peace, advocating kindness first, and fairness always and envisioned DUKI in action to build the world on blockchain, which should be totally decentralized, I only feel goodness and don’t see evil there. Enlighten me if you find there is evil in it.
Believe it or not, actually the AllLivesMatterWorld calling for peace was partly inspired by BLM and trying to join the voices there, and I have a thanks letter for that. But considering that harsh reality, I sincerely hope that we all should feel the will behind the advocacy to make a righteous judgment, not just associate it with some evil usages of symbols and believe we got it right. Because all symbols can be used by evil hidden in it, not just All Lives Matter but also Black Lives Matter.
Re: Do All Problems Have Technical Fixes?
#40One way or another, there must be solutions. I always think about companies sending rockets to Mars. So what's stopping us from fixing a few bugs