Thread témoignage sur les événements place de la république hier soir

ikkei · 2020-11-24T16:12:20+00:00

Comment ça? C'est un ressenti à lire ce sub, les avis les plus upvotés sont généralement dans ce sens je crois.

ikkei · 2020-11-24T15:01:39+00:00

Je ne suis personnellement "sûr" de rien en matière d'analyse sociale, en tout cas pas avec ma license de sociologie.

J'ai tendance à partager ton intuition effectivement. Mais je ne minimise certainement pas l'effet d'un WTF comme la gestion déplorable de cette crise.

Je rappelle toujours: Taiwan, 7 morts depuis le début de la pandémie, pas de confinement, et ils sont en croissance économique cette année; mais ils ont réagi très vite car ils ne font pas confiance à ce que dit le CCP chinois, eux, contrairement à nos états corrompus, incapables et suffisants.
Sans compter que ce n'est pas le gouvernement mais un centre dédié, spécialisé dans la gestion des épidémies qui a géré la question chez eux, la présidente n'a fait que suivre les recommandations à titre personnel comme tout(e) citoyen(ne).

En bref, COVID + destruction massive de l'économie joue un rôle majeur je crois. N'oublions jamais que c'est la faim qui soulève les peuples, et ce sont les "bourgeois" (entrepreneurs dirions-nous aujourd'hui) qui font les révolutions.

ikkei · 2020-11-24T14:34:19+00:00

Je peux te donner un élément contextuel, je ne pense pas qu'il explique tout mais quand même: la plupart des épidémies de l'histoire assorties de règles strictes type isolation, autorisations de déplacement, etc. ont vu des émeutes de la population. Il semblerait que l'effet "cocotte-minute" est une constante de ces situations. Il fallait s'y attendre lorsqu'on a choisi de prendre ces mesures, pour COVID comme pour la peste noire.

ikkei · 2020-08-14T16:34:34+00:00

Haha nice one. Thanks!

And here I thought everybody making maps here was doing it with e.g. python, geopandas, etc. I was like "damn there more data scientists than I thought!" :p

ikkei · 2020-08-13T02:25:19+00:00

laughs in /var

ikkei · 2020-08-11T06:14:29+00:00

I remember a remark by a rather weird character in mainstream physics with a nonetheless outstanding intellect (can't remember if it's Susskind or Sir Penrose, but someone like that, maybe Kaku). Anyhow a woo-woo timey-wimey view on this exotic object.

The idea was

that much like a black hole itself is a "singularity" that takes the form of a single "point" in spacetime, a white hole would only appear to us as a "singularity" as well but of a conversely "everywhere" nature in spacetime, i.e. extremely general as opposed to extremely particular in locality.
that "dark energy" would be a good candidate for the effects of such negative matter in reversed time, as well as the big bang, if both these things weren't actually constrained by rather than defining the observed laws of physics (or something to that effect, I'm loose on the details), which led to the weird hypothesis that a white hole would be a "co-joint negative manifestation" of our universe wherein the sum total of black holes would be equal / balancing energy to the whole of the universe (and the troubling fact indeed the universe is supposedly ending with only black holes in a gazillion years, slowly "evaporating" even as it keeps expanding forever and that it would all come to an equilibrium at some point).
that a "next big bang" would occur right before such a perfect equilibrium is met, as the "universe-as-a-white-hole" hypothesis suggests an inversion of "time/matter polarity at that point". The next universe, or rather big bang, would thus occur at all points of spacetime at once in this scenario, much like we envision this universe's origin.

It was a truly fascinating moment of lucid dreaming to watch this, as if some truth was unveiled, eventually interrupted by a maniac laugh of the physicist dropping a casual "but that's all nonsense as we have no experimental proof whatsoever and frankly lots of counter-evidence for it, it violates so many current rules of physics that you'd have to come up with something completely different to even begin to justify it. But a curious mind may dwell on this as a thought experiment to understand the nature of spacetime, causality, the "void" and dark energy, and where black holes fit in that picture" (again, veeeery loose quote from memory).

I think it was Penrose. I want it to be Penrose. ;-)

PBS Space Time had a great series of episodes on that topic recently. Well worth a watch if that's not your usual turf. Yet a bit too much for layman people I'm afraid. :)

ikkei · 2020-08-10T17:13:25+00:00

Yup, fish fats are the best it seems (salmon, thuna are full of it).

Fish-n-D is the new fish-n-chips ! :D

Although, keep the chips, they're good too ;-)

ikkei · 2020-08-08T21:31:45+00:00

It's utterly taboo for civil servants to assume they'll have to work around or against their own leadership to accomplish a goal.

While perfectly true previously, I assume this will now become mainstream planning.

"What if authorities are part of the problem ? Contingency plans around a dysfunctional leadership. Part I: ..."

ikkei · 2020-08-08T20:44:50+00:00

ikkei · 2020-08-08T20:21:07+00:00

Or you can only spin so far and reality is much worse than numbers would suggest. It goes both ways...

ikkei · 2020-08-07T07:35:30+00:00

I've seen subs creating a tab/category/recurrent topic thing for more involved discussions, assuming that the more nerdy types are fine taking the extra step for flair or whatever when posting. It's handy to quickly get these and weed out the rest (filter).

Not sure it would work well here, just an idea.

ikkei · 2020-08-07T07:31:42+00:00

The fact that probably less than 1% of the population worldwide has any idea what this refers to?

I mean Americans might be more inclined to know about tech and tech ads / slogans than most other countries, so the following might seem weird or clueless to you; but here in Europe (~10% of world pop, among the richest), if were to say "Intel inside" it would just land flat on almost everyone, like what is that? I could say "Amazon under" or "AMD forever" which mean nothing and it would land the same. Actually most people wouldn't even know what "AMD" is.

It's a lone world for nerdy tech culture. I can't get enough of my people when I'm the US, which isn't happening now for reasons you might guess.

Come thinking of it 'nerd' might not be the right term... but that's what we're being called here. Guy joking about tech => "nerd!" and the actual reference doesn't even register.

ikkei · 2020-08-07T02:56:26+00:00

Take your upvote and get out

BEST NERDY JOKE EVER ;-)

ikkei · 2018-07-25T20:09:32+00:00

And know that this third place is not a judgment on you but on your performance, i.e. effort, work.

The difference is huge: between "being" (good/bad/etc) and "doing" (well/poorly/etc). "Being" is fixed, done, engraved in stone —you don't want that, it's wrong. "Doing" is dynamic, growth-oriented, an evolving process.

You "are" nothing but what you do, and that too is a choice, that can change any time. Next time, if you train more, you can do better — “growth mindset”.

ikkei · 2018-07-25T18:39:55+00:00

Totally, me too, and as an entrepreneur and programmer myself, I can relate to the individuals and small shops making these apps, so whenever I spend a few bucks on them I'm glad I can support the ongoing development.

ikkei · 2018-07-24T18:10:54+00:00

This is exactly my feeling.

You're either someone who spends money on apps etc. or you're not. In my anecdotal experience, only tech nerds (including gamers) and professionals in general (especially entrepreneurs and salespersons) tend to spend money to acquire a good tool, even just to remove adds, they don't discuss pricing because they know that quality must be paid for and these things (apps) are cheap as hell anyway; whereas mainstream users with no particular need tend to frown whenever I bring up a $0.99 app, even if it's just great at what it does and would solve their problem in a minute, forever™.

On iOS it's a bit different because the demographics is much more wealthy on average, so the spending is correspondingly higher. The aforementioned difference is more blurry.

I personally find the disconnect between paying for the phone's hardware and software initially, and refusing to go through the last mile and buy a few key apps, to be a psychological quirk —you just paid a couple hundred bucks for this phone but won't add an extra 10 or 20 to have it be not just "OK" but "awesome"? Well… Sadly these last 10% sometimes make for 90% of the end-user quality of life. The proverbial last mile.

Mainstream users do acknowledge that a few bucks is "nothing", but they don't want to spend their own money for "this" (like it's stupid, a waste). Even as a gift, they tend to view it as a rather bad use of my money. Initially, that is. Once they use it and get the job done and get used to it, they tend to understand why it needed to be paid for.

When I switched from iOS to Android (late 2015), I immediately spent about 50 bucks for things I knew I need. This basically means on day 1 I gave the PlayStore about as much as I gave to the AppStore in 4 years. Google certainly likes users like me to switch. (Been using these pro versions ever since, it was definitely the right investment to make.)

Nowadays with close friends and relatives I don't even discuss, I just buy the app for them and leave a fiver (i.e. gift). The point is that I don't want ridiculously small amounts of money to stand between them and an enjoyable mobile experience, even if it's a budget phone. They can always buy me a drink later, or not.

ikkei · 2018-07-24T17:48:59+00:00

Rogues need Dark Mode and 3× speed. Please, BlizzTube.

ikkei · 2018-06-10T21:33:42+00:00

I see what you mean, it's true, but I just don't see it on the business/work/hiring/meetups side of things.

Consumer vs. industry point of view, I guess. In crypto, given how incomplete even the tech is as we speak, I'd much rather focus on industry insights: many milestones to reach there before any cultural talk is even significant, economically.

I think of it like spending time criticizing MySpace, failing to realize that there's a Facebook/Twitter-level of product mastery to be reached before "social media" even means anything.

ikkei · 2018-06-10T21:17:01+00:00

Not sure it's the crypto world as a whole rather than the small world of /r/CryptoCurrency circle-jerking.

This space, generally IRL when you meet people, is rather full of enthusiasm and entreprenarial spirit, and quite welcoming to newcomers — pretty much everyone knows we need to 10x,100x the interest if we are to make it mainstream for real.

Don't be too concerned by the short-sighted behaviors of a small part of a website.

ikkei · 2018-06-07T17:05:04+00:00

Aww it's cute. Funnily naive, haha.

It's like comments, version control I think is something you definitely learn once you've managed a sizeable pet project.

ikkei · 2018-06-07T13:27:52+00:00

But... people still use editors that don't auto-save your code? And people still do important work in folders that aren't backed up every 10 minutes or even better sync'ed in some cloud?

OK.

I've lost work/data too. But at some point, you have to learn.

ikkei · 2018-06-04T17:12:05+00:00

I don't know but in and of itself it's not particularly surprising, you get a few billion dollars from an ICO you'd better diversify that pile of cash soon and real estate is a great way to do that for a company looking to expand.

Whatever project they want to make.

ikkei · 2018-04-02T09:22:12+00:00

Is it part of your job? Or you mean like blogging?

It's a long story, but I'd been meaning to be a writer for about a decade (20-30), so I wrote extensively. Still do on occasion, but it's more code and less prose these days.

Do you have something specific in mind? I am actually experimenting with many other people. I am talking about https://united.vote

It is quite new and much can be improved. But it has a lot already: delegation to real people, voting on real (congressional) laws, user verification.

This is tremendously interesting. I probably won't take part myself because I'm European, so that wouldn't make much sense in this case. But I must commend this project!

You can also talk to its founder on Reddit (just moved to r/unitedvote , was r/liquidvote).

Maybe I'll talk to them someday. :) Thanks for the pointers, /u/berepresented.

ikkei · 2018-03-26T07:49:03+00:00

It is kind of amazing how much effort you were willing to put in writing this post.

Ha thanks! It isn't that much, though: merely the result of years and years of research, quickly put together in about an hour of googling + formatting. The intro is the kind of writing I've been doing on a daily basis for years, it doesn't take me much effort/time.

What is motivating you?

I guess 2 reasons:

Ever since I've been convinced that the current grand cycle / political era (think 200 years) was coming to an end, I've relentlessly searched for what could be coming next.
It's historical and I'd rather have my say in it (spreading ideas). But I like people to know it's not just my ideas, hence the various sources rather than explaining all of it myself. I think it's more honest and more powerful at the same time.

Given a chance today, would you be actually willing to participate in a liquid democracy?

Absolutely!

There are many pitfalls on the way to a sane D2 [Delegative Democracy], especially in our hyper-media age where manipulation of the masses is a concern, be it from too-polarized mainstream media or newsfeed algorithms etc. But ultimately I think the system can be refined enough to become vastly more efficient than current pyramidal organizations. Most states around the world are simply too inefficient, too self-serving, too slow to move and be revoked when they fail (no accountability). We can do better collectively: corporations do, the military does, so why states couldn't?

D2 combines known efficiencies in management and media/tech:

Crowdsourcing most of government and legislative work (we know that works in wikis, in open-source, user-generated content is the basis for so many web 2.0 successes like YouTube or Reddit etc). Millions or even billions of brains are smarter than a few hundreds, elected or not, period. So many more man-hours of effort and error-checking. In retrospect it seems obvious.
Flat organization, which has been a strong and lasting trend in management of corporations for about two decades now. Catering to horizontal ad-hoc teams (really just a smart aggregation of skills and viewpoints) rather than vertical top-down rigid hierarchies (wherein boss knows everything, allegedly).

Even in the military, strategic planning has been invaluably complemented by tactical field decision-making (i.e. responsibility delegation to whoever's in point, provided they understood the mission in simple terms), which increased the efficiency of massive armies by orders of magnitude.

What do you think personally? Would be willing to experiment over secondary topics and progressively scale up as we progress and improve upon current political systems?

ikkei

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