yogthos

yogthos , 19 days ago

The biggest ignorance of most socialists and indeed communists is the idea that capitalism is a political system. It is not. That is basically part of the brain rot in the liberals mind as well. “oh, don’t go left, because then you’ll destroy capitalism”.

Thanks for writing that right at the top, discrediting the rest of your uninformed rant. Politics and the economy are fundamentally inseparable because at its core the economy is about allocation of labor and resources. Capitalism is inherently political because it states that the means of production are privately owned, and it’s the people who own them who get to decide towards what purposes labor and resources are allocated.

The fact that you don’t even understand the fundamentals of politics and economy perfectly highlights who has a simple mind creating a simple world.

yogthos OP , 19 days ago

:)

yogthos OP , 19 days ago

🤣

yogthos OP , 20 days ago

“I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition that this margin is too narrow to contain.” www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/…/fermat.htm#:~:text=Wh…

yogthos OP , 20 days ago

you curse the past you for being so selfish

yogthos OP , 19 days ago

looks AI generated to me

yogthos OP , 20 days ago

The crux of his argument was that scarcity serves as a catalyst for the perception of value. Constrained access to music prompted people to appreciate and savor it more intensely, leading them to invest greater time in its enjoyment, analysis, and sharing. This phenomenon also resulted in people incorporating their musical preferences into their self-identity, as their selection of albums conveyed significant information about their character.

yogthos OP , 20 days ago

I don’t think the article argues against physical access though.

yogthos OP , 19 days ago

Weird how long it took for countries to start getting wise to this.

yogthos , 21 days ago

The sheer panic at the top levels of EU and NATO must be incredible right now. Their whole political strategy hinged on Biden staying in power, and now it’s becoming increasingly clear that Biden is a walking corpse.

yogthos , 22 days ago

The root problem is capitalism though, if it wasn’t AI it would be some other idiotic scheme like cryptocurrency that would be wasting energy instead. The problem is with the system as opposed to technology.

yogthos , 22 days ago

Nah, human ideology is much broader than a single economic system. The fact that people who live under capitalism can’t understand this just shows the power of indoctrination.

yogthos , 21 days ago

What you’re saying is that you’re not self aware enough to realize that you have an ideology. Everyone has a world view that they develop to understand how the world works, and every world view necessarily represents a simplification of reality. Forming abstractions is how our minds deal with complexity.

yogthos , 21 days ago

Observations may be objective, but the values are always subjective. Two different people can look at the same set of facts and come to entirely different conclusions of what constitutes desirable actions based on their world view.

yogthos , 21 days ago

You entirely missed the point of what I said. Two different people can agree on an objective fact that a table is a table, but disagree on whether it’s a good looking table.

yogthos , 21 days ago

Sure, technology is a product of the culture and it in turn influences how the culture develops, there’s a dialectical relationship there.

yogthos , 21 days ago

Because as I explained in my original comment, if it’s not AI it’s going to be some other bullshit.

yogthos , 20 days ago

The reality is that real world is far too complex to be understood with perfect accuracy. Therefore, everyone necessarily makes assumptions and simplifications leading them to see different options as being more harmful. What you’re describing is frankly an infantile understanding of how empirical observation works.

yogthos , 20 days ago

You’ve just explained your simplistic ideology in this thread, and you’re not even capable of understanding why its simplistic when it’s explained to you.

yogthos , 20 days ago

I’ve explained to you what an ideology is repeatedly, you seem incapable of understanding what you’re being told. The human brain is not capable of holding the entire complexity of the material reality, and therefore it must rely on abstractions and simplifications to do reasoning. You, just like everyone else, have biases and make simplifications leading you to understand things in the specific way that you do. This signifies your particular ideology.

There are plenty of cases where people try to use empirical evidence with best intentions resulting in great harm being done as a result. Having good intentions is not an ideology, it’s an aspiration. The world view that guides your actions that you put into practice to try to achieve the goals that you believe to be desirable are what your actual ideology is.

yogthos , 20 days ago

that’s an ideology of itself

yogthos , 22 days ago

I really like this approach for doing non trivial regex github.com/VerbalExpressions

<span style="color:#323232;">const tester = VerEx()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .startOfLine()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .then('http')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .maybe('s')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .then('://')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .maybe('www.')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .anythingBut(' ')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .endOfLine();
</span>

yogthos , 21 days ago

Exactly, at the end of the day it’s about using the right tool for the job. Code that’s clear and declarative is easier to maintain, so it makes sense to default to it, but nothing stops you from using low level constructs if you really need to.

yogthos , 22 days ago

As Lenin wrote, “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”

yogthos OP , 22 days ago

this is a great read on the subject queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

yogthos OP , 22 days ago

Right, what we call low level is really just an emulation layer that’s actually at odds with how the actual hardware works. Interestingly enough, it seems like functional style provides a programming model that can be optimized better because it doesn’t rely on global shared state.

yogthos OP , 23 days ago

There are always ways to try and get money out of a country, but the west made it as difficult as possible to do so. And the result has been that money is indeed staying in Russia which resulted in a big increase in business activity as IMF now openly admits.

yogthos , 22 days ago

This is very cool. If we actually find life on another planet in our own system that would strongly imply that life is common in the universe. To find definitive proof that life here is not unique would one of the biggest discoveries I think of.