Vampire

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[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've had dinner with gangsters and murderers.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago (9 children)

There's better criticisms of Pinker.

I don't like guilt by association.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I've been avoiding most internet because I have no temptation to hear the opinions of idiots.

Two people who aren't Ukrainian, don't speak Ukrainian, have never read a book about Ukraine trying to make their opinion on Ukraine win an argument? No thanks, not my choice of pastime.

Maybe I'm part of a trend? People have seen through the slapfights and are ready for something else?

I want to learn from experts, not tabloid comment-sections. e.g. this is good content - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhn3ssSH4nY - look at her CV, she has a right to speak.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably Cybernetics by Wiener is the basic text?

 

What should I read to understand how to build and verify a cybernetically valid system? (e.g. cybernetically valid planned economy)

I understand that production needs to be controlled, and that the decision-making needs to be linked to the front-line workers (because they have eyeballs on the reality of the work). And it's a design-error if decisions are made removed from work, because the controller doesn't have first-hand knowledge.

But I don't understand how to describe that in formal terms. Is there a list of all possible system-design-errors? Is there a methodology/checklist for confirming if me mum is cybernetically valid?

Is there a textbook on all this?

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The hole in this theory is that the lyrics are very clearly about taking a flight back there.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know that it’s a myth that Chinese products are shit quality

There's lots of shit-quality Chinese products mate

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Your obsession with the USA is a bit embarrassing

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

Reddit is nothing without anonymity.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

Seems like a good time to short

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

'Better to ask for forgiveness than permission' attitude.

Shoshana Zuboff documents how Big Tech works this way. They do lots of illegal products like Google Streetview, then pay the fines and keept he product.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago

They've only arrested two of them; not sure they can find the other guy.

 

Isn't it supposed to limit trade barriers between member-countries?

 

and Aldous Huxley died while on LSD

Fun day.

Also, I learned that Doctor Who is considered a single TV series that has run for 60 years, not a bunch of remakes. (That might be common knowledge, I've never watched it.)

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