- ternjustification for/of what?
- > That's because it's inevitable and at that point they've been sick or infirm for years to decades.
Maybe, maybe not. Either way, the experiment would be interesting indeed.
- For me, the biggest tell was how frequently older people report feeling completely at peace and ready to die.
As my own life progressed, the feeling of novelty became harder to find, and then less important. Grief became easier, death became lighter.
As I deepened my investigation into the nature of my own experience, I started to realize that "I" do not exist in the way that I originally assumed, and I started to wonder what we're even talking about when we talk about death. Who or what is dying?
The self, time, and consciousness are not well-understood in philosophy, science, or the experience of most people, and as such, most conversations about immortality are really about something else.
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- I'm quite disappointed by the discourse in this thread.
We can build privacy-preserving identity. It's a huge opportunity. Go work on it!
If you're in the Bay, there's a conference on it every year where the people building the tech and setting the standards are hashing out the ideas!
When the government comes knocking, they're not coming up with stuff from scratch—they're picking up the tools we left around ready to use.
- This is the most maddening topic I've experienced in recent times. My guess is it's the ghost of ww2. Anything that looks or smells like a definitive reduction of a human being to numbers is to be opposed, regardless of utility.
What you are choosing, instead, is the management of the phenomenon you're trying to avoid by corporations—more or less emergent feudalism.
Consider the options: a corporation knows everything about you vs. no entity knows any information about you except for whether you're eligible for the service being provided, and that you exist. The former is the current state of affairs. The latter, I think, is a better state of affairs.
- Big difference between a hash for use as an attestation (proof of humanity) and a digital ID associated with your name
- The most important party hack in my opinion is to ban alcohol and provide something else
- The people I had in mind were the ones who are just friendly, kind, loving people (think: Miyazaki film character or something), but there are certainly self-centered people who would be embarrassed to be seen on a dating app too.
I think the core difference is whether you're connected into a healthy community or not, or whether you're outgoing enough to find yourself making friends in circles outside your own regularly.
- A major factor in my world: the coolest people don't use dating apps because they find the experience awful and they have no problem meeting people in real life
The spicier version: dating apps select for personality disorders, and as such, being on a dating app in the first place is a negative signal
For what it's worth, I think this has always been true of the web in general (forums, chat, social media, comments sections, etc.)
- I don't know your relationship with the former person, but as for drawing general conclusions, I—as a reader of your comment—can't assume that you have assessed accurately whether their case is better. You might not be aware of subtle abuse in the home, masked depression, overt narcissism, suicidality, etc.
Years in the trenches have taught me that many people who seem successful, put-together, and happy are deeply struggling or causing harm to the people closest to them.
- I think what people miss about bloat, and about what's changed with software over the years, is that a vast variety of niche use-cases are now supported. Software runs on dozens of different systems, every aspect is customizable and programmable, and thousands of different programming languages and approaches are supported.
To give a random example, I use Neovim with SuperCollider, and music programming language. This involves launching a runtime, sending text to the runtime, which in turn sends commands to a server. The server generates a log, which is piped back into a Neovim buffer. There are all sorts of quirks to getting this functional, and it's a somewhat different workflow from any traditional programming model.
I'm not sure there's an easy solution to keeping things simple while also supporting the unimaginable variety of personalities, skill-levels, environments, and tasks people get up to. I do, however, think it's worth continued imagination and effort.
- I found it interesting, and I'm surprised it got flagged
- Don't want to crash my friend's server, but he made a Mac app with this: https://www.viawormhole.xyz/
- Neuroticism is a property of an exchange, not an isolated phenomenon. If you're honest with yourself, you might start to see that we're all partners in a great dance.
- Ah, I was imagining a Chrome extension would be the easy way
- I wonder if it could be done with torrents ... or user-supplied API key. Still some legal attack surface area, but perhaps no worse than yt-dlp.
- As far as I know, this isn't true. Many members of the CCP have engineering degrees. A relevant podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1TeeIG6Uaw
- Post if you do—would be game-changing
- It's also by now subjectively very "historical." It's possible that if you continued the chart until 2025, the task of documenting all of the sub-genres would be infeasible. Electronic music has exploded in variety since 2010.
A random walk through something like this can be more helpful these days: https://www.music-map.com/ (found on HN last year)