Yup. They did the same thing to me a few years back. Not sure why. Had to re-apply as a developer with a different email address. I don't use Apple products anymore.
I remember this video from when I was a kid. I will always upvote it. It also seems a bit weird that it was produced by the office of Charles and Ray Eames (designers whom most people probably know from their iconic chairs from the 1950.) It seems that producing educational videos wasn't too far out of the lane for an industrial design house in the 70s. When was the last time Frog produced a video like this? Or Hubert? Or Manz? Can't remember if Vignelli's studio ever did videos.
Yeah... I was hoping someone over at Alphabet understood that people click on videos to see content and tolerate ads. They don't click to see the ads and then might stick around for the content. But that might be asking for too much from Google management.
If you're not running adblock, you should internalize the fact that you are subsidizing other people's flawless viewing experience by suffering through advertisements.
Sideload a proper YouTube client, otherwise you're like one of those human batteries from the Matrix except you're fuelling my yt-dlp hard drive.
I found this by poking around on the ystrickler.com site and was happy to find someone else who thinks about thinking and had actually read Il Saggiatore (The Assayer). I read it with something completely different in mind, and would recommend it (The Assayer) as one of the beginnings of a social discussion on the nature of science, but would caution against thinking it was the end of the conversation.
Still... I liked the page linked to. It's nice to see kids still care about practical epistemology.
I appreciate your decision to render no mobile content instead of bad mobile content. But a description of what content I'm not seeing on my phone would help me decide if I want to look at it when I get back to the office.
Yeah... say what you will about FIAT currencies, but at least they can be used as currencies. I always chuckle at people who insist their transactions on exchanges are secret. With the "Know Your Customer" rules, FINCEN knows what you're doing (or at least has the option of looking into what you're doing.)
It's funny. I drive a FIAT, and started capitalizing it ... But yes, in this instance I was talking about fiat currency, not FIAT Currency, a little known sportster model sold in the UK market for one year 1968.
Like most kids, I had my Randian phase. But I grew out of it before moving to Sili Valley.
I've always been a bit of a fan of Adam Curtis' documentary style, and "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" (named after the Brautigan poem) is worth watching. I'm not sure how much of his narrative of Rand is accurate, but it's well presented:
Hearing someone proudly describe themselves as a libertarian always reminds me of the ol’ twitter quote that goes something like “libertarians are like house cats - fiercely self-assured of their own independence, yet completely reliant on a system they don’t appreciate or understand.”
- The rebellious teenager. The often 'outgrow' it.
- The self made man (who in a certain way also rebels against society). These are generally the entrepreneurial types. Their understand the essence of views put forth by AR. Their views do not change over time.
I've talked to quite a few objectivists (at one point I lived near Austin, which has one of the only, maybe THE only university in the world that treats objectivism as a serious subject of study) and not a single one of them had read a page of her actual writing on metaphysics and epistemology. So for example, they generally can't articulate an answer as to how her ethics of self interest differ from simple hedonism.
They all liked her fiction because they, almost all being bright people on the spectrum, derive all their self worth from their intelligence rather than from their interactions with others. So a novel presenting such characters as moral champions under attack from leeching inferiors naturally appeals to someone with an ego driven worldview.
The author of the linked post never really addressed whether he thought about reconsidering his views on Randian self interest as a virtue, which is a perfect way to philosophically ground the kind of exploitative and useless effects of crypto that he described.
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