when those students enter the workforce, they expect the surveilance. they grew up under chat control so they're used to it. get with the times to live and die another day

time to explore. isn't this HACKER news? get hacking. ffs

...all the way back to pen and paper

it already kinda isn't... but this will be a Telescreen in your pocket. it really already is; but at least for now it's possible to use android and force it open.... but not for long.

next up: government license to open web browser dev tools... but by then it won't matter cuz it'll be 100% web assembly i.e. binary, the actual web 2.0.

each platform having your its own currency? well that's simply one nation. a federal government, registered at the UN. this translates the UN into Etherum, register your currency and be a part of what exactly?

I know insects also have their own microbiomes

it's all part of how there's widely available social media technology and academic graph languages.

of course the government is going to track the citizens, it's all a matter of how, how much, and to what end.

the more I think about it, the more I think this is the core of a rePUBLIC

there's a bunch of private actors, the "citizens" who get together to form the republic, and thereby establish "the public space" aka the commons

it really does seem like we all gonna be using jj soon enough

I recall pijul.org that was another working prototype of better git

and I wonder how much overlap is there in the way they have made the improvements.

yes, I also enjoy trying to answer this question.

what is such an structure even mean? how could it be that simply defining numbers, obersving addition, and generalizing it away into multiplication would yield this natural structure?

It all begins with zero. the predecessor of One, the best known number.

zero can be assumed by anyone. the surprise is how all zeros are the same zero. (by uniqueness of emptyset; but as I hope you can see, I'm a crank. a nutjob. I'll stop

I thought this when watching the 3b1b + ben eater collaboration on quaternion visualizers.

von Neumann would say you'll never grok quaternions. but merely get used to them.

then maths is really THE absolute best description available of language and nature.

but non-mathematical minds will simply wonder and be amazed at how "maths explains the world", a clear indication that somebody is not thinking like a mathematician.

> Whenever there's a mysterious pattern in nature, people have felt the need to assert that some immaterial "thing" makes it so. But this just creates another mystery: what is the relationship between the material and the immaterial realm?

the relationship between the material and the immaterial pattern beholden by some mind can only be governed by the brain (hardware) wherein said mind stores its knowledge. is that conscious agency "God"? the answer depends on your personally held theological beliefs. I call that agent "me" and understand that "me" is variable, replaceable by "you" or "them" or whomever...

oh, and I love (this kind of figurative) digging. but I use my hands no shovels.

the first 2 naturals form an integer.

that integer and a 3rd natural constitute a real (but this 3rd natural best be bigger than zero, else we're in trouble)

what I choose to focus after observing the "unphysical" nature of numbers. is the sense of natural opposition (bordering on alternation) between "mathematical true" and "physical true". both are claiming to be really real Reality.

in the mathematical realm, finite things are "impossible", they become "zero", negible in the presence of infinities. it's impossible for the primes to be finite (by contradiction). it's impossible for things (numbers or functions of mathematical objects) to be finite.

but in the physical reality, it's the "infinite things" which become impossible.

the "decimal point" (i.e. scientific notation i.e. positional numeral systems) is truly THE wonder of the world. for some reason I want something better than such a system... so I'm still learning about categories

ultimately they failed because they wrote such that it didn't matter if other people understood. it's a style that is only intelligible if you already know (from some other experience) what they are describing.

updating is a systemic issue, not a per-project matter

you gotta pay for that. or dig through the academic publisher archives; which you also gotta pay for unless you believe in digital piracy and evil copyright infringement which may or may not fund terrorism

like they used to say: information wants to be expensive so pay to be free