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I don't often read anything from anarchists. Whenever I do, it always comes off as sophomoric. Pretentious sophistry.

When you boil down his questions, they're not serious questions about anarchy, they're lame excuses for him to keep talking.

- Do you wait for your turn on a crowded bus?

- Are you a member of a sports team or small group without a leader?

- Do you think politicians suck, and people are selfish?

- Do you really believe the things you were told as a child?

Good grief. These talking points are so generic, any political ideology could use these.

"Are you a communist? The answer may surprise you! Do you like eating toast for breakfast? Many communists also like to eat toast!"
Absolutely. The system is pervasive and we have to live within it.

But should you embrace it? While Yale and LSE are no doubt great institutions, to my mind they are also up there as educators of those who go on to become the system's top managers.
Hi Steve. I took your original course 8 years ago. I wasn't aiming for a sys admin career - just wanted to be comfortable maintaining a server for my site. It worked well for that.

I emailed you a few times, and you seemed like a genuinely nice guy. I just wanted to chime in and say thanks and wish you the best of luck for both your health and the legacy of this project.
Yes, the lines starting with > are my input, except I would write something like "browse Reddit" and it transformed it into a second-person description: "You browse Reddit"
> do anarchists really work as professors at the London School of Economics? And Yale?

I know a banker who is communist. It does not mean that he behaves like a communist in his actions, but he does in his words. From my perspective, he takes the best (or the worst) of both worlds: the quality of life of a very rich man who can afford living in the most expensive places and whatever leisure he wants, and the ability to punch down on the "lesser" people around him from his morally higher stand-point. Never under-estimate people's hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance, especially when what is at stake is exerting power over other people's lives. One can always find a way to rationalize one's crappy behaviour to try to lower the cognitive dissonance after the fact.
A variable "contains" only its (current) value. That's the only use of "contains" that makes sense to me.

You can "get" the address of a variable (or more generally, of any l-value) with the & operator. That operator is nothing else but an "escape" character that says "Dear C, I don't want you to load the current value of that variable. Give me just the address where it lives so I can load it later".

(Same applies to storing instead of loading)
What OS did you use it with? What didn’t work for you?
I understand why the memory and USB controller is closed source, but why do the slow IOs such as I2C and SPI is also closed source?
> we were taught about the idea of overpopulation in school

That's a problem with school education. They give the wrong models. Exponential growth is impossible in nature because at some point it runs out of steam and fizzles out. Logistic curve or probit is a much better abstraction.
Parents got more time off, then the backlash started
And not encrypting iCloud backups
> It is painfully obvious that we would act much worse under anarchy.

The article makes many points against this. It would be better to take those and refute them rather than simply saying "it's painfully obvious".
Anarchists obviously don’t think this will come about by itself, they simply believe that it is possible to organize society in such a way that the statement above holds true. Anarchists will generally argue that todays society prevents that from being the case (at least to a large enough degree).

The details of all this (strategies, how to make it work, etc) is at the core of a lot of anarchist theory.
To improve the discovery of better alternatives to popular products and services, some of us are building a browser extension. It uses an in-page pop-up based on URL patterns to make community-curated suggestions: https://github.com/nileshtrivedi/better

Another great source for discovering FOSS projects is https://opensource.builders
His obituary. An excellent read, even if you don’t agree with his world view.

https://novaramedia.com/2020/09/04/the-opposite-of-a-cynic-d...

Here is his series on debt on the BBC. Fascinating stuff if you are or have an interest in economics.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b054zdp6
Every customer I worked with stores their code either on github or bitbucket. The only one who doesn't let me use my self hosted git repository (I mean the copy on a server of mine.) They also have a copy they can pull from there.

All of them are medium / small sized.
First, for all the lawyers who are eager to see the Settlement Agreement, here it is. The reason I can do this is that I’ve released software under an OSI approved licence, so I’m covered by the Releases and thus entitled to a copy of the agreement under section 10, but I’m not a party to any of the Covenants so I’m not forbidden from disclosing it.

Oh this is great and kind of funny.

The Rothschild settlement included a NDA, but somehow it didn't extend to others it covered, but those people were entitled to get a copy.

I wonder if Rothschild realized this?
> In the preface of the second edition it says that the first edition was reviewed “by a professional C programmer hired by the publisher.” That programmer said it should not be published. That programmer was right, but the publisher went ahead and published it anyway.

Reminds me of https://m.xkcd.com/1096/
People that don't understand the financial system are just normies, people that don't understand Bitcoin are just idiots.
I suspect that if an anarchistan would be created within a lifetime it would 'revert' to some other well known political framework, either a democracy or a dictatorship.

If there was an anarchistan in recent history it was a probably Somalia and even there you now find a regular government.
The Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), "At the core of the NCRI’s Contextus platform is its ability to embed itself into both fringe and mainstream social media communities and become experts in their language, images, and hashtags while working to decode this information. We use tools to categorize images as well as to chart their flow within and between social platforms." https://ncri.io/technology/
We used EventStore [0] as an Event Store in a previous project (yes, this does get tedious to explain).

I'm quite curious who this is aimed at. .NET shops are often so deeply invested in the Microsoft ecosystem. In that previous project, needing to run/administer PostgreSQL instead of SQL Server would have been a significant administrative detriment to getting the project greenlit.

(The fact that EventStore doesn't use any RDBMS as a store at all paradoxically helped. At least that meant we weren't getting DBA split-brain problems between SQL dialects.)

[0] https://eventstore.com/
Funny how any ideology can take our common beliefs and say: "See? You are one of us".

I didn't know who this guy was until he died last week and was celebrated as a great thinker. I am not familiar with his body of work. But if it's along the lines of "all good is on my side and all bad is on the enemy's side" he was not a thinker. He was just an ideologue.
I think it is written that way just to provoke you, and it seems to have worked.
> A mathematical construct (the wavefunction) is taken as more real than basic empirical experiences like "measurements" and "we."

In chemistry, atoms are also taken as more real than "measurements" and "we". Some chemists would probably insist that "we" are actually composed of atoms.
If you just use your fingers, have you ever considered a trackball? I’ve used them since I started experiencing a little wrist pain 12 years ago, and I thankfully haven’t experienced it since.

My favorites include Logitech’s series (MX Ergo wireless trackball, the version available only at Best Buy), and some new ones out of Japan by Elecom. Elecom’s are available on Amazon in a few different sizes - I bought two and returned one that didn’t feel good.

And the beat one I ever used is Microsoft’s Trackball Explorer, but that’s been discontinued for years, and fetched quite a price even used. Some of Elecom’s seem to emulate the ergonomics of that to a degree though, which is why I recommend them.
Well, what you say is true to some extent, but there are some privacy extensions... And I don't think you should rely on having an obfuscated/shared IP for anonymity. There are better tools for this, like Tor, I2P, Freenet, etc.

IPv6 was designed back in the 90s, where we had much less concerns about tracking, privacy and anonymity. But IPv4 is even more ancient, and, make no mistake, CGNAT is not designed to make you more anonymous, so you could be fooled by a false sense of security.

Maybe we need to sell IPv6 as a way to track users to boost its adoption? And develop those privacy-conscious networks on top of it? Regardless, IPv4 and NAT are not consumer-friendly when it comes to self-hosting and p2p, so as long as these are the norm, software silos will be at an advantage.
Deep learning frameworks: Keras, Pytorch, Tensorflow, Core ML, etc.
> this is a demonstrably false fairy tale

Demonstrably how?

> Why would you assume that we would act righteously in the absence of law?

What is a demonstrably false fairy tale is that we don't act righteously when law enforcement is present. So asking what would happen in its absence seems irrelevant.

> It is painfully obvious that we would act much worse under anarchy.

Above you said it was "demonstrable" but now seem to be settling for saying it's somehow self-evident.

...

Fwiw I don't personally agree with the quoted statement, or rather I agree with only a narrow interpretation of it.

I don't think individuals are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion in all situations without having to be forced to. I do think groups are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without external force, given certain conditions: anarchism in my mind is about local* law enforcement rather than external.

Self-regulating organisations are possible, the only real condition is the removal of external incentives for those organisations to misbehave.

*By "local" I just mean internal/within proximity to the individual
Same thinking, tks. IMO, this should have been the default behavior for any OS, with another dedicated hotkey to paste with formatting.

I'm going to implement this for Windows at least, as a part of the tool I maintain (https://github.com/postprintum/devcomrade). I plan to use Windows Clipboard API to strip the rich formatting in-place, as it gets copied into the clipboard. Then it can be pasted using whatever the default hotkey or UI is.

Does it sound reasonable?
That assumes that the presence of lawful order makes things better, which is sort of the whole question this article is about.

You can construct a pretty good argument that, say, absent the structures of "lawful order" around which large corporations grow, fewer people would be driving hours to work each day, drinking water out of plastic bottles, flying across the country on business trips, producing pesticides in Bhopal, piling up ammonium nitrate in Beirut, etc. I think most of us as individuals could lead happy and fulfilling lives and contributing to the advancement of humanity without any of that.
> Just to remind that a open wheel car or a single seat f1 style doesn't have the a rear engine like the 911, but is a middle engine car.

yeah, but then with that pedantry applied the Honda S2000, BMW 3 Series, Mazda Miata, and various other cars are technically mid-engine.

FR/MR/RR is basically useless to talk about with regards to performance dynamics; HPDEs and driver coaching has taught me that 9 times out of 10 when someone mentions where their engine is sitting in the car by using FR/MR/RR , what they're really trying to get across is where they felt their center-of-mass was during the drive.

And to that point, a Formula style car might be mid-engine, but most have a suspension and aero adjusted center-of-mass that is as aft, if not worse, than any Porsche out there.
Why do idiots hate Bitcoin?
> They just had to agree to stop trolling open source projects with patents they already own.

That's not what this analysis says.

To quote the linked article: The ultimate agreement reached, as you can read, does just that: gives a perpetual covenant not to sue any project under an OSI approved open source licence for any patent naming Leigh Rothschild as the inventor (i.e. the settlement terms go far beyond the initial patent claim and effectively free all of open source from any future litigation by Rothschild).

So it protects against any future patents from this "inventor" too.
> Most people do behave "decently" in this sense.

It’s even worse than that. Most people believe that they act decently. But to paraphrase Feynman, the easiest person to deceive is ourselves. No one (or at least vanishingly few) believe that they are the villain in their own narrative. And yet evil persists in the world.
It’s important to point out here that anarchists are not advocating for lack of organization; people are social animals and must work together to live. They are advocating for lack of power structures of domination and subordination.

Imagine there are two kingdoms on some continent. One is managed by some kind of democratic council, and resources are shared equitably; the other is ruled by a tyrant. Which one is more likely to make war on its neighbors? The tyrant, obviously- because the tyrant has something to gain by conquest (more subjects, wealth, and power) and the democratic society does not (assuming that the society stays democratic after the conquest, they now have to contend with the voices of a lot of angry new citizens). The same applies to any organization: an organization is aggressive and violent in direct proportion to how hierarchical it is.

There is a tragic principle of natural selection that plays out, however, if you imagine that continent and imagine a random arrangement of democracies and kingdoms, over time the kingdoms will make war and expand and the democracies will not. After a few hundred years, most of the citizens of the continent will be living under tyrants. And tyranny has to justify itself to its subjects, through religion or ideology; the subjects will be made to feel that obedience is virtue and that the king is a father figure and so forth. But popular freedom movements will constantly be popping up and have to be suppressed.

I give you: the modern world.
Stacked Area Charts: Just Don't
That is uniquely not the case for LVT, because the supply of land is fixed, whereas the demand for housing is variable.

EDIT: to be clear, I meant the "passing on to renters" part, not the "property may become more expensive" part.
> I see no reason that efficient software could get a smooth UI out of this processor paired to a 60fps-capable GPU

Depends on your expectations, technically NES had 60 FPS GPU.

If you want to drive a FullHD at that rate, and render GUI comparable to modern phones - you need 3D acceleration, ideally programmable shaders, and the fillrate.

GPU is unavailable at launch, they say it will appear in later versions, and it will be a PoverVR. Never said which PowerVR.
Well, I suspect that David Graeber, who quietly self-proclaimed himself as one of the leaders of Occupy Wall Street, was one of those people designed to make 'anarchistan' a distant reality. He would take the energy invested in him and then faceplant before the finish line. By say, proposing that the left wing should be voted for.

He was in support of Corbyn etc - this is to say he was happy to work within the system. You might say that this is a pragmatic view - but really he represented a hard left view.

Anarchism is, by definition, no-leaders. Self-determination. Neither communism nor a libertarian position. So I think in practise he was in contradiction of the beliefs he purported to hold.

BS jobs was good though!
Do you have any references for these letters ? It would be very interesting to read through them.
Anyone who has ever lived in a share house (or next to one) knows that without laws civilization will descend into absolute chaos and endless tit for tat revenge warfare.

Try parenting with anarchist principles.

At some point you run into limits. The point is, what imposes those limits? Physics, gravity, society or yourself?

Ideally the limits you put on yourself should mean you never encounter (negatively or destructively) any of the other systems of limits. But, not all people are capable of always limiting or controlling themselves, and no...that's not the fault of their being "arbitrary restrictions" or "ludicrous laws" and it's not a "reaction against meaningless oppressive authority", it's just people are not perfect and not always good at acting in a way that doesn't put them up against the other sources of limits.

Even if someone has perfect self-control. Who says they have perfect knowledge of the limits, which if they were to cross them would bring about their destruction or detriment, in any given situation?

You should be the source of truth and guide for your life, but I don't think you can expect to know everything and avoid all risks if you only pay attention to what you think is OK and ignore signals from elsewhere. I think you need to balance it with acknowledging that other people and society has some fucking clue about that stuff as well. It's not perfect either, but you shouldn't not factor it into your decisions.

If anarchists were so clever at charting their own courses, how come they end up getting arrested for stupid shit? I suppose they're "not true anarchists".
The Bitcoin whitepaper directly cites Hashcash. [1]

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
To me the appeal is similar to, dunno, maybe a basketball trick? The technique is interesting, not the end result and not adherence to the official rules of the game.
C code alone considered insufficient for determining runtime behavior
> Just look at how we treat the planet and other living things in the presence of lawful order.

Law isn't a basis for morality, and there's a lot to be said for how present (capitalist, consumerist) systems promote un-sustainability, despite many on an individual level rejecting those systems.
Nobody aside from hardened sociopaths would do that.
Is it just me, or does this text seems to pretend as if anarcho-communists are the only kind of anarchists and anarcho-capitalist don't exist? It doesn't seem to talk a lot about property rights, but some phrases about "the way society is organized right now" and "useless professions" are not what all anarchists believe.
I'm a kind of color blind where I only see 150,000 colors. I have trouble distinguishing where purple ends and blue starts. Same goes for a bunch of other color pairs. I didn't figure it out for decades, and before I did I remember some heated arguments where it was me vs everyone else on "this shelf is purple" vs "that shelf is blue, not purple".

The day I figured it out those memories started coming back and it all clicked. I stopped trusting myself after that. I knew I didn't trust myself anymore when my 3 year old son would reference the bus I used to catch by it's color and I didn't know whether he was wrong or I was, so I just kept my mouth shut cos there was a better chance he was right.
I think it can be beneficial to offer your server, but maybe for onboarding it's a good middleground to point to matrix.org
It's especially entertaining when the surface meaning[1] of the conversation is only a cover for one's desire to bump uglies[2] with the conversee. The standard strategy is to make slips and see if, as for a TCP ACK, one's interlocutor slips[3] in return. This strategy, as attested from folk song[4] to Shakespeare, existed well before[5] the Viennese psychologist[6], but he provided intellectual deniability.

[1] TFA, for instance, is probably less well framed as a logical argument, and better as a poetic conceit, a shaggy dog story transmuting the apparent street rudeness of the title to intellectual respectability. (compare Ovid, Metamorphōseōn librī)

[2] In the sorts of bars which play both kinds of music, there is a convention that a lady only ever touches a gentleman's cowboy hat if she has (or hopes soon to have) touched his tie-substitute. Needless to say, in ambiguous situations this provides a sartorial haptic channel, in addition to the common verbal channel, for conversation (or territoriality).

Compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24339584

[3] https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71O-VXB7Q5L...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24130589

[5] https://books.google.ch/books?id=Q2gRtLLmZTAC&pg=PA178&lpg=P...

compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24373341

> "Nègue pòté maïs dans so lapoche pou volé poule;—milatt pòté cordon dans so lapoche pou volé choual;—nhomme blanc pòté larzan dans so lapoche pou trompé fille.

> (Le nègre porte du maïs dans sa poche pour voler des poules;—le mulâtre porte un cordon dans sa poche pour voler des chevaux;—l’homme blanc porte de l’argent dans sa poche pour tromper les filles.)

> The negro carries corn in his pocket to [help him to] steal chickens; the mulatto carries a rope in his pocket to steal horses; the white man carries money in his pocket to deceive girls."

[6] the opposite mating strategy is the Freudian Crash-and-Burn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSmkxy24iwc&t=180
(1975: might be NSFW for anglophones, for language?)

What do kids do these days? I guess phone intermediation would rule out much of the kinaesthetic?
Ssb itself does initial sync which requires a few GB of download to use (and will keep growing AFAIU). Does radicle-link have the same issue? Or is it relying on gossip and transient data?
> I am also personally offended that Baggott gives short shrift to superdeterminism. In this approach, quantum mechanics is emergent from a deterministic hidden-variables model which acknowledges that everything in the universe is connected with everything else. He either mistakenly or accidentally leaves the reader with the impression that these have been ruled out for good, which is most definitely not the case. I cannot really blame Baggott for this, though, because this omission is widespread in the scientific literature.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that hidden-variables theory was considered in scientific literature, and was experimentally disproved.
With the exception of anarchism being anti-capitalist.

Any ‘anarchist’ that is pro-capitalism is generally not regarded as anarchist by the wider anarchist movement.

Fun fact: befor the modern US meaning, libertarian used to mean anarchist-communist as a way around french authorities banning the word anarchist in the late 1800 if I remember correctly.
Sorry, I don't understand.

There's no rocket science here. Especially not today.

You could also 'just' move your company to using Google's corporate gmail offering, and let Google handle those problems for you.

(And if your company doesn't have the capacity to make such a change, they do only have themselves to blame.)