Yes, I know what you mean, but you can say no to movies, social media, tv, and choose to live in the countryside for example (of course that depends on your financial situation and where you live). That alone makes a big difference.
One thing I believe is that the less you're involved in fantasy, the more realistic your dreams are. So if you're a simple, practical man without beliefs in supernatural, your dreams will be about daily life; but if you read fantasy and have superstitious beliefs and watch a lot of movies, you will have more complex and bizarre dreams. I mean, it's hard to dream about something you haven't encountered.
If cops are practically mandatory in a state, how is that statement meaningful? Why not just say state equals violence?
Or are you saying humans don't need to control each other? If they do, how does it make a diffrence under which label the oppression is practiced?
1) His way of giving away things for free undermines the suffering people go trough to make a living; it makes effort and hardship look like a joke (maybe in the future no effort is required, and we are reminded about this possibility here, and it's sad); 2) It promotes consumerisms: getting stuff (phones, cars) is supposed to liberate us, and doing it in this way reveals how empty it all is; 3) It feels rarely personal and well-thought: he just throws away stuff, so it undermines the gift giving culture also.
MS Word, huh. Hmm... Yes I guess it satisfies this one condition I have. Haven't used it for ages. But it's a key feature for me not to be cornered right from the start, so I would think it's ruled out anyway. Also, moving along the axes should be difficult without changing the document first, which is quite annoying, iirc.
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned a Microsoft product, since I like Unix more. I just thought the problem is understood more easily that way.
Treesheets seems quite nice. Maybe I'll try it out, but I'm still hoping to find a cleaner alternative.
Hehe. Yeah, paper notepads would be nice, but they aren't big enough (they'd have to be tens of meters wide), and if I taped them together, they'd be difficult to handle. Also, erasing stuff is a pain. At one point I was considering using a wall paint for writing on the walls :).
Obsidian is probably a nice tool, but I'd like to have my rigid grid. Graphs are ok, but I don't like how inexact they are.
I'd like just to type, and click switching between cells.
It's hard to say what kind of forces are involved. I could probably open the side panel and be able to see if I run it without water. I was hoping the rubber seal would mostly be flapping along mildly as a whole.
I was thinking of a truck wheel patch, but I'd like to be sure there won't be any stains, and that the glue won't react with the detergent, for example. I don't know if it's possible.
Maybe you don't mind me asking.
I have a small hole in my top-loading washing machine's rubber seal and I have been wondering whether it could be fixed (a new seal costs 100$ and it'd feel nuts to throw it away for environmental reasons alone). I know there are rubber glues, and I have made tests with one, but the question is can they be used inside a washing machine. Does anyone know (a solution to this problem)? The hole is 4cm x 1cm.
Edit: As a side note I have wondered also whether I could use two pieces (of metal, let's say) that I'd screw/press together tightly to prevent the leak. Does that make any sense?
AI will kill the need for all these abstractions. There will be as many or as little abstractions you want. It doesn't matter. New languages of all shapes and forms will be generated eventually on the fly. You will just have to know what you want.
I have thought along similar lines, and I think one's own abilities determine the places you end up :), meaning that the more one knows, the more likely one will end up in deep conversations with deep thinking people in sites or situations that are buried in the net and/or in life out there.
I'm pretty sure I'm excluded from these events :D.
edit: but on the other hand, it's quite easy to get in touch with famous and brilliant people if that's what you like, so... if you have something interesting to say, maybe you'll get somewhere that way.
I have had text file + folder system for over 4 years now, and I feel it iteratively gets better and better.
The upper level (text file) category determines the high level structure, e.g. 01. todo; 03. ideas, concepts; 06. thoughts; 12. humour; 04. politics; 19. food; 05. self; 20. mathematics; 21. philosophy, etc, and the file itself contains high level remarks/thoughts, depending on how necessary it's to have subcategories.
The folder is named after the text file category and it contains subcategories and material (research papers in pdf, pictures, sketches, etc). The system structure moves recursively downwards, although in most cases I only need 2 levels.
For example "19. food" has subcategories such as 01. vitamin content; 02. electrolytes; 03. meal design, etc, and these could have their own subcategories.
I feel my system is like an externalized version of my ego (including extensions). As I put more content into the system, I become more aware of myself and my shortcomings and the thought/emotional patterns I have, and as I make changes to the system I develop/restructure my own thinking.
It works really great, but I still haven't figured out 1) how to deal with the material in version control, because I'd like separate the text files that I put into git from sizeable material files; 2) how to automatize the backup process; 3) how to store sensitive data in git automatically (it would be nice if I could encrypt files in a meaningful way and still be able to have a measure of the size of the diff).
Thanks. Yeah, I don't doubt that there are problems and that it could get really hostile and difficult. I'm just unsure how unsolvable the conflicts are, and I'm not convinced that there's a fundamental flaw, such as "single definition of truth", in the world of Open Knowledge Movement (as I interpret it).
I salute your efforts, but even if you have experience in the field (Wiki, OSM), I'm sorry to say that your arguments are weak and overly specific. I'd be more understanding if you had said working for Wikipedia/OSM isn't worth it, but to extend your "arguments" to all of Open Knowledge Movement is just too much.
I find Wikipedia, the end result, extremely valuable, even though I don't know what's going on in the shadows (probably the usual, petty human affairs as you said).