And I have yet to hear from pmarca or anyone else an answer to this puzzle that is even slightly convincing.
Which gives me pause.
The "publication of record" ship has sailed and we're left with competing agendas and increased need for personal vetting, which many have done on this leak--a fact which is easily searchable.
This is strawman thinking and to use your phrase, "I'm surprised it showed up on HN."
It's a fascinating line of thought--though I obviously don't support the actions taken by its author.
To clarify a little further, Bill Joy in this essay refers to Kurzweil who refers to Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind." I became a technological utopian until reading Naomi Klein's "No Logo" later that year, as well as the book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman.
This ultimately led me on a sort of existential quest that led to the book "Waking Up in Time" by Peter Russell and then I began to have a much more spiritual orientation towards life and reality and now try to be as practical as possible while working towards a positive technological future.
The rest of my life quite literally flows from reading this essay over and over when it came out. Genuinely happy to see it here.
i was once where you are now. i am no longer there. it took time and a lot of work. it was worth it. you can do it too.
"there is literally nothing better to do with your life than try. so just try."
I would love an alternate view of HN where my favorite users' most recent comments appear. I'm often more interested in the perspective of a few commenters than all of the links or comment threads.I also think this would be an alternate and cool way to surface links--follow commenters you like.Any thoughts?
-Appreciates design.
-Makes choices.
-Supports the most powerful and popular hardware.
-Yes, focused first and foremost on tinkerers and geeks, who are the main people losing out in the current environment. It's all a group that's increasing in size and will likely continue to for the foreseeable future.
How's that plan sound?
We all used to love Mac, we all see that Apple has lost its way and seems to be heading more and more confidently in the wrong direction, and that may be just the push the community needs to actually build something.
And what an amazing achievement it would be--an actually open alternative that runs on lots of (powerful) hardware with the beauty of Mac OS (before Lion lol).
I really think it's going to happen because I think a very large percentage of the community now realizes that there is no existing private company heading in the right direction. So we now have to take the steering of the ship into our own hands.
Abracadabra.
Half the time periscope videos won't even load for me over the web. No matter how long I wait.
Twitter Co.'s infrastructure seems to have only ever gotten marginally better since the fail whale days!
And VR hasn't even gone mainstream yet. What a wild ride we're on indeed
LA is one of the (imo the) great cities of the future and will be the biggest benefactor of the transition to self-driving cars and multi-modal transport, when it's collection-of-villages-like-nature will flourish.
The city will be like living in many cities all at the same time that you can easily shuttle between (Long Beach, Pasadena, Venice, Santa Monica, Malibu, Downtown, Burbank, Noho, Manhattan Beach, Topanga, mid-Wilshire, Koreatown, Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Thaitown, Hollywood, etc.) The list goes on and on.
I know of no other place where each "neighborhood" feels as though it is its own city. Right now, due to the nature of transportation, this has MAJOR downsides. In the future, these will be massively mitigated and LA will become perhaps the most desirable place in the world to live.
To add one more example, LA has the best weather of any of the world's major cities. As the global population becomes increasingly mobile, weather will play a larger and larger factor of where people choose to settle.
On top of this, there is major investment in making sure LA sustains its role as the world entertainment capital as entertainment shifts to VR and is increasingly tech-based.
LA is also at the very forefront of the global shift toward increasingly healthy living. It's a city that may as well run on green juice. While at the moment this is trendy and cliche, soon it will be just how more and more people around the world eat. And much of this is invented and perfected in LA and SoCal in general.
LA is amazing. QED.
I know this because I downloaded it because it was free and then bought the tools. I wouldn't have tried it if they wanted the (I think) $4.99 up-front.
It's especially strange considering that Bezos has such an almost pathological (not necessarily in the bad sense) focus on the customer.
One would think Amazon would have some of the best, most laser-focused search of any site on the Internet, but I can't even reliably use 4-stars-and-up as a search filter, or even "Prime only." No matter what I do, I get shown things outside of the filter I set up. It's downright bizarre.
Again, my apologies for the little thread hijacking. I guess one could at least argue it's "search-related" lol....
I super, duper, ooper, do NOT recommend Homejoy. It is WELL worth your time--at least at this point--to find a cleaning person on Craigslist or something like that and have a short talk with them to determine competence.
Homejoy is sending out anyone with two legs to "clean" your place.
In the same way that many people experience a "white light" during near-death experiences, why do so many people:
-think they're jesus
-think aliens communicate through radio stations
-think everyone around them are "agents"
It's a very SPECIFIC checklist. To me at this point, this is the most interesting part of this phenomenon.
If I am crazy now, I am quite happy about it. Quite relaxed, if you will.
My favorite lecturer on said ideas, Terence McKenna, quoted Jacque Vallée, who said that these experiences are almost always non-evangelizable.
It's as though they are almost custom made for the person having the experience. Explaining them at face value to another person either gets a "you had to be there" or just sounds like the rantings of a crazy person.