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This looks great, thanks

Interestingly enough the issues you list seem related to capitalism rather than just any form of societal system.

Many literary utopias have non-capitalist systems but usually some sort of circular sharing system (some are outright communist, but others more slow living).

Greed must always be checked by a society. But since Calvinism we've had a dual moral reasoning (was that Charles Taylor or Hegel, can't recall). Through Calvinism capitalism attained the moral good of earning more than you need, to deploy greed for God.

Humans are naturally greedy (natural egoism is not immoral just a biological drive) and our political system should balance that out somehow.

This is great news and has a much larger impact than the featured feature IMO.

Well technically they would just be Europeans.

This looks really nice, well done!

I never could get used to jq's syntax so instead I've just been grepping. But this looks to be for jq what htop is to top, which is great for exploring response data.

Thanks for the summary, mate.

Care to recommend any?

IMO Python imports behave like the bash source command.

This is why people use the `if __name__ == "__main__"` so the majority of people will address it in all their scripts even if they don't know the reason why.

It's a feature not a bug IMO. You can use importing a .py file as a singleton hack. You can also use `refresh` to re-load a module, to clear it of any runtime overrides.

And soon you'll have it again.

In my unqualified opinion the usability of e.g. phpBB forums (discussing through the browser) was much better than calling up a local BBS on telnet. Multilevel prompt menus in telnet can be quite maze-like.

Web crawlers indexed online forums too, so you could find the content right away through the same search engine instead of having to search the BBS discussions for hours or post a request on the local BBS and wait (days) for replies. Your technically illiterate aunt could browse the search results for posts containing the recipes she wanted from a number of disparate forums, and choose to read anonymously (and print out) or login and contribute. All you need is an email address.

This accessibility and semi-transparency created a major shift in where you go for content, effectively forcing the tech literate to follow suit as well. It fits in the general trend of democratizing the internet, and IMO was a good thing for tech. (I blame the monetizing and large commercial entities for the current state of fragmentation.)

I still login to a local BBS about once a year to say hello. Although I have a shell account now so I don't need to telnet over the net. It's still very alternative and hacker friendly.

As a novice, R is really fun too because it operates differently than general purpose languages (it's all about matrices).

While I appreciate the sentiment, I feel you're missing the point. This is akin to maddox's writing. It aims to strike a nice balance between satire and self-immolation, but might stumble in its attempts.

You're supposed to feel conflicted between the obnoxious tone and the rational message. The writing makes fun of know-it-alls while also making a well reasoned argument.

People who shout about ancient aliens and hidden technology always completely ignore that the people in the past had access to the most advanced machinery available: humans.

Add time to that, so that your project can have a scope of generations, passing down knowledge gained from a lifetime of doing this particular thing, the results become unsurprising even.

Amazing, inspiring and ingenious but also unsurprising.

2-4% of unreviewed content shall be phallic..?

The AI part is local. I believe it's used for coarse image categorization and face recognition.

Providing face recognition sans a cloud seems like a big selling point to me.