GhettoComputers

This reads like a reaction to the unibomber manifesto. It addresses the same issues but in a progressive way rather than a criticism that it should all be destroyed.

It’s utopian, but the tools exist today and can and are utilized. The problem is complexity, of computers can teach it won’t be as in depth as a tutor, but can be better than teachers.

You can also do this online. In chess you don’t have complexity so the best bots can beat the best experts. You can learn languages with tapes and digital materials.

In an increased complex environment, this is not realistic until/if they catch up which is possible.

What is artificial scarcity? I don’t disagree with funding arts, in fact I think that STEAM would be a superior system to STEM, but we don’t even fund STEM research enough today, even though many of the best scientists had artistic abilities: not full inference.

I am anti UBI (but not welfare) for these reasons: Can you calculate the cost of UBI, and how much it would take to live? What is it, and where does the money come from? The math never works, and we assume the government won’t steal it like they stole SS.

Do you expect the money to go to people that need it? I see administration costs taking most of it for themselves, the US department of education is spent mostly on administrative matters that do not go to teachers students or anything that helps education.

The two solutions are about accountability and prevent bloat. One idea is a cryptocurrency or other ledger that prevents skimming.

My favored solution is a negative income tax, making below a certain amount entitled you to recieve cash when you file taxes. It doesn’t go through the cycle of government workers slicing the pie before expecting them to give it back but with more money, it keeps it in your pockets, rewards tax filing and will help the neediest people, creative or not, and also anyone who is down on their luck.

No, they’d chose the easiest and cheapest standard. Volvo gave away their seat belt patent, there is no agreed standardization. Yet they all have it.

Stop signs are notorious hard to detect. They could make them easier to detect.

Artificial selection. Society probably won’t be improved by smart kids killing themselves.

I went to a good magnet school with no fans or AC on the highest floor. It made such little sense to have the brightest students pass out, nap, not be able to learn and only one teacher had an AC he personally brought in.

I do not think mental health education is the answer, in a highly populated country like India and the pressure to succeed, it will never go away unless culture changes. The pressures in India are extreme and the preferential treatment of “backwards castes” has costs. Unless they de emphasize the culture, you’ll see this pattern as is the case in China, Japan, South Korea, and MIT.

My cousin faced the same issues, he now has an outlet for his frustrations and cares less about success that is ingrained in academia.

The worst part about this is many people in this worldview expect it to be easy after. India has the lowest divorce rate so it’s possible it’s not a delusion to get a good wife with a good job, but society is changing, and with no social skills these people face more problems later.

Is this not the same argument with gun control? Remove the guns, solves gun violence?

On a similar note, I don’t think that teaching mental health is the solution. The pressures in India are terrible. MIT in the US has no legacy program, and has the highest suicide rates, and I know a few people that were committed rapidly and diagnosed haphazardly. This prevents suicide by imprisoning them in powerful psychoactive drugs (antipsychotics) and labeling them as schizophrenic, holding them against their free will to lower suicide stats.

The underlying issue is the pressure to succeed, and they will never remove that in India.

>apart from obfuscation, the most complex thing about it is that it’s Bash, a language with unreadability baked in.

Hehe take that posix nerds!

I remember 4chan did it by donate or die. They needed server money and they got it because it wasn’t working as long as they didn’t have a server. That was a much smaller scale though.

Can you talk about your work there? It’s cool if you don’t want to, how was it? You left obviously so I can guess.

Those guys are too good. Did you ever win? Know what I mean by you lost in the first few moves?

Thank you I’ll try it!

A few reflectors aren’t going to go over budget more than the crap they do. You can pork barrel it since it won’t be that much more. Roads are often updated if there’s any sort of traffic on it by design since construction is a racket.

The US sold itself to foreign interests and aside from the anti China sentiment removed from superhero movies, and Apple kowtowing to Chinese interests it’s still the same.

I agree with the roads. Why adapt computers to a legacy program when you can just add simple markers or computer read information to it instead?

Easily explained through hormones

I do, having an OS will have more errors so it won't be as reliable. Want to use a Rube Goldberg machine to turn on your lightbulb? Not me.

And allowing the rule breaking the donald for such a long time or banning it wasn't?

It started with removing visible downvotes.

How do you quantify that it’s more stable?

Mobile apps solved that problem. The redesign made desktop problems.

There is, Reddit gold. Not that I’d give them any money for the decisions they made, I don’t reward bad behavior and I paid with my data.

Small ones have problems too (like raids and low amount of mods). They don’t stop growing because they ate all the small forums.

They can still be crossed, I can link HN there or 4chan if I wanted.

My app does it for me. :) But yes old.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate posts can’t be blocked.

Amazon is the only one I know that didn’t.

Nice to see you on HN. ;)

It used to be written in lisp. It used to be good before eternal September. Being a redditor was a nerdy virtue signaler. Now? You can be seen as a white supremacist, a commie, a clout chasing loser trying to get upvotes, or an incel when you mention it.

All the reason to give the people who don’t want that another place instead of being a crappier version of that site.