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czierleyn | 1 month ago | on: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

Being from Europe I do not like the remark that he only objects to DOMESTIC mass surveillance.

czierleyn | 1 year ago | on: Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen

Is this the same idea as?

czierleyn | 1 year ago | on: Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Nice, but my native language is Dutch, so I'll be waiting for this for the next 5 years to arrive. If it arrives at all.

czierleyn | 2 years ago | on: Portable EPUBs

When the IDPF merged with the W3C a couple of years back they tried to develop a new standard called PWP, Portable Web Publications, which was supposed to be a new 4.0 version of EPUB, as far as i know. But there was much resistance from the publishing community and the project was shelved a couple of years ago.

See: https://w3c.github.io/dpub-pwp/publishing-snapshots/FPWD/Ove...

czierleyn | 2 years ago | on: We Could Fix Everything, We Just Don't

By the way, the idea of the ‘Tragedy of the commons’ has been thoroughly debunked and should, in my opinion, not be used anymore in an argument as if it has any value.

czierleyn | 2 years ago | on: When was the last time Marc Andreessen talked to a poor person?

To me it is simple. Andreessen has a clear list of enemies. I now know that Marc Andreessen is my enemy. I will look upon him as such from now on.

czierleyn | 3 years ago | on: The DeLorean Alpha

We don’t need another supercar for the rich.

czierleyn | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?

"Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing" by Chris Bail. I have always had a difficult relation with social media. I hated them from the beginning and my discomfort has only grown over the years. This book was an eye opener to me and clearly explains why social media leads to polarizing and it's not what you expect. To me this was one of the most thought provoking books I read this year.

czierleyn | 4 years ago | on: Hacker News RSS

Reeder

czierleyn | 4 years ago | on: Poetry as a Surveillance Survival Guide

The first line of the article

"During the twentieth century, the FBI closely monitored poets, read their work, and speculated about their political and artistic intentions."

is very different from the second line

"American surveillance agencies even hired people with backgrounds in poetry to be spies and code breakers because of their skills in close reading, language analysis and critical thinking."

The first line it seems to me is part of the MacCarthy era suspicion of the creative class. Poetry is always ambivalen and you never know exactly what they're talking about. That is suspicious. As a secret service you want clarity and everybody that speaks in riddles is suspect.

The second line is about exploiting the skills of poets to become spies and code breakers for the American cause.

Did they use those poetic spies to spy on other poets, or did they use them to spy on regular spy stuff that had nothing to do with poetry? Or where those poetic spies used to spy on other creative artists? Where those poetic spies heroes or part of morally corrupt McCarthyism? I wonder?

czierleyn | 4 years ago | on: The price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades

I read about the Candela C7 boat last week. See https://candelaspeedboat.com/

czierleyn | 5 years ago | on: Soil bacteria could improve crop yields, via fungi

I read about Elaine Ingham for the first time a couple of months ago and it was a revelation to me. Her website https://www.soilfoodweb.com/ is very informative too. I wish these ideas were adopted much more broadly. It sounds like a solution to many of our problems. No fertilizer, no pesticides, no pollution, reclaimed biodiversity. What are we waiting for?

czierleyn | 5 years ago | on: Write Simply

I think simplicity is overrated and often an excuse for dullness.

czierleyn | 5 years ago | on: Japanese companies fight for share of EUV chip technology sector

There was an interview with the ASML CEO recently in Dutch newspapers and what he said was that the succes of ASML is that it created a very tight knit ecosystem of companies that are all very important for ASML's success. Copying the success of ASML is so difficult, because it's not just one company you need to copy, but a whole ecosystem of highly specialised companies.