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Your refrigerator refuses to work because of a comment overheard by your thermostat that was construed by AI as being insufficiently supportive of your countries corporate foreign policy objectives.
If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
"Before you rush to embrace the microservices paradigm, I offer you the following rule of thumb: if two pieces of information are dependent on each other, they should belong to a single server. In other words, the natural boundaries for a service should be the natural boundaries of its data."
By asking this question, you deny yourself access to its answer.
It's a plenty popular idea, but people won't say so publicly because of social pressure: The Greatest Generation, The Good War, etc.
My obsession over the past three years has been trying to figure out how our national immune system works, where it draws its strength from, and how we can get it working again.
There is no national immune system because there is no nation. The US has never been a nation. It was a loose amalgamation of many nations on a huge continent under a commercial republic, then a warring set of nations, then an oligarchic industrial powerhouse that finally matured into a financial/military empire. All of the internal conflict we see benefits the ruling class and, therefore, will continue and, in all likelihood, get worse.
Amen.
It is true that there is always someone saying "Things were better back then."
But that doesn't always mean that they are wrong.
I'd like to see a georgist tax regime[1] and monetary expansion managed via a citizens dividend. But the current monetary system will only be pried from the cold-dead hands of our elites, so I'm not optimistic.
I prefer great authors who were serialized, e.g. dostoevsky. The works are brilliant, but the individual chapters read well, so you rarely feel like you have to just slog through the damned thing.
We should structure society so people can have kids. With stay at home moms.
Not just impossibly rich older guys.
Everyone.
They just disagree with the author on ends.
All of these epiphenomena will get worse until we take social trust seriously.
[1] - https://www.bi.team/blogs/social-trust-is-one-of-the-most-im...
Funny that it never came up in any of my civics classes.
I suppose my point here is mainly one of degree: sure, be somewhat informed as to what the current disinformation campaigns are, but don't take it too seriously or think you are getting any "truth" out if it. And read old books, especially by people who were popular in their time but are now ignored, such as Henry George.
Voting, of course, is pointless.
Irish Democracy[1] is more effective and more moral than any sort of political activism.
[1] "Quiet, anonymous, and often complicitous, lawbreaking and disobedience may well be the historically preferred mode of political action for peasant and subaltern classes, for whom open defiance is too dangerous….One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish Democracy”—the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people—than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs." James Scott - Two Cheers for Anarchism
Despite the social shame associated with it, I no longer even believe main stream history around things like the kennedy assassination. I don't know what happened, but I'm skeptical that what they say happened actually happened.
We live in an epistemological radical age, with mass psychological operations being carried out by multiple state and non-state actors.
The good news is that the only sane response is to step back and focus on the ones we love around us, which is what we should be doing anyway.
Careful with that axe, Eugene.
It only became problematic when we tried to shoe-horn it into traditional data APIs.
It's only toilsome when you try to shoe-horn it into a traditional data API, rather than accept it as a unique descriptive aspect of the early web architecture.
http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/01/18/rescuing-rest.html
http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
He also noted that the various lingua francas since Latin was lost have tended to suffer from becoming the world language. Looking at English today one is hard pressed to disagree.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
What you will notice if you play around with it is that the decision is most sensitive to "What Does the Future Hold", in particular to the home price growth rate. If you expect that to even stabilize (let alone decline) then renting is almost always a better deal.
Now, that being said, I expected home prices to stabilize back in the early 2000's and didn't buy in SF, so I have been fooled before.
At least it gives the public some vague sense of what it was like when architecture wasn't adversarial.
Given the authors biography, frequent relocation amongst expensive, elite international cities, this is not surprising. The fact that the author ended up settling in Paris, however, is very funny.