Aqueous

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by Aqueous 9y ago
This strikes me as a massive overgeneralization. States are just an organizational structure of institutions, tasked with operating a society. They are not intrinsically inclined towards building concentration camps any more than they are i
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by Aqueous 9y ago
If there was any lingering possibility that Craig Wright could still be Satoshi, this pretty much settled the question for me once and for all, from the "talk" you posted from Future of Bitcoin dated 30 June 2017. A direct quote
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by Aqueous 9y ago
It seems like you might be duplicating work? At the end he mentions he's dropping VNC in favor of headless Chrome.
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Dynamis: Peer-To-Peer Unemployment Insurance Based on Ethereum(dynamisapp.com)
1 points by Aqueous 9y ago|0 comments
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by Aqueous 9y ago
I've stopped being on board with viewing "these people," as Marc Andreessen calls them, as having access to some sort of privileged truth, available only to them and Donald Trump. They watched the same campaign we did. They k
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Russia cyber attack targeted voting software and election officials(rawstory.com)
17 points by Aqueous 9y ago|2 comments
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Unfortunately I suspect this ends up being similar to the "paradox of thrift" [1]. It might make sense for one person to do this, but if people did it en masse, it would be catastrophic for our economy and therefore for each of us
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Indeed, coupling the two makes fake news seem like deciding what is and isn't a fact is somehow political on serves some ideological agenda. But it isn't, or shouldn't be.
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by Aqueous 9y ago
I'm simply saying that while both are cases of free speech, fake news is allowed to spread out of control on the Internet due to a lack of editorial controls while hate speech is largely constrained by community norms.
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by Aqueous 9y ago
The Russian strategy to interfere in our election to bring about the result that occurred and that they wanted to occur clearly involved many parallel strategies operating in tandem, including targeted social media advertising in swing stat
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Maybe we shouldn't unilaterally disarm ourselves in a world of co-equal, spying, sometimes despotic countries who would like to delegitimize American democracy (though we're already doing a great job of this ourselves.) We have ev
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by Aqueous 9y ago
Not sure if this is sarcastic or not. If it isn't, it's ridiculous. If this is a bubble, it needs to burst (or, preferably but imaginarily, gradually unwind in a non-traumatic fashion) as soon as possible. That's why bubbles
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by Aqueous 9y ago
A little uncomfortable about the coupling of hate speech and fake news. Hate speech, while odious, is an unfortunate side-effect of free speech. And so we already have a mechanism for regulating it: social norms. Even at its worst, hate sp
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by Aqueous 10y ago
"As a result, if your definition of objective is that something has a definite state independent of the context, that is demonstrably false." Here is where we differ - it's not my definition of objective. In this context obje
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by Aqueous 10y ago
If by objective you mean it is an object that exists independently of our perception of it, quantum mechanics, like Kant, also assumes that a reality independent of our perception exists. Otherwise it wouldn't be a scientific theory at
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by Aqueous 10y ago
What Kant said about the world of appearances (phenomena) and the world of objects in themselves (noumena) is also interesting especially for this discussion. He said we can know that there is a noumenal reality - a reality completely indep
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Once you admit that keeping secret and controlling the release of sensitive information has some 'harm minimization effect' - and therefore that releasing information in the wrong way or to the wrong people is potentially harmful
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by Aqueous 10y ago
I'm not sure I believe this story one bit. Looking at the footage her attack is quite aggressive and she strides away very quickly. Also, VX nerve agent is deadly in small amounts. The fact that she appears fine means she may have been
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Some are quite bearish on the possibility of the ETF actually being approved: http://www.coindesk.com/needham-bitcoin-etf-attract-300-mill...
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by Aqueous 10y ago
That's a failure of the school administration and disciplinary processes, and separating kids from each other based on perceived or measured intelligence is not going to solve it. Bullies are going to find a target whether there's
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by Aqueous 10y ago
4. This idea that education is only for my own individual welfare has to end. It's creating a culture of individual atomism that is instilling the most anti-social, selfish values and corroding the country at its roots. We go to sc
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Indeed - it goes against everything we know about human nature. Have humans ever spontaneously and independently changed their own behavior, at their own inconvenience, en masse? No - not without strong economic, social, or legal incentive
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by Aqueous 10y ago
I agree that Sokal's point of view was uncharitable to the majority of post-structuralists, but I can attest to the fact there is a definite strain of radical relativism on today's campuses. It goes hand in hand with a reflexive q
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Unfortunately, a large percentage of the world's population is on Facebook which means that a large percentage of the world's news is being consumed through Facebook. Many would argue that, simply due to the enormous amount of
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by Aqueous 10y ago
But I don't think I've ever known a single person in my relatively long life that would go on and on about bird watching In contrast, all the people I've known who go on and on about bird-watching have been single.
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Assuming all of this is accurate, Thiel's thinking and actions are so full of contradictions and irrationality it's hard to understand how he became a billionaire. Just two that stick out right away: "- Thiel is passionately
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by Aqueous 10y ago
You are correct. I should have read more carefully. They do seem to have changed their minds. I do feel that WaPo should address the inconsistency I think my point about the difference between 'is illegal' and 'should be ille
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by Aqueous 10y ago
To play the devil's advocate here: this entire article rests on the assumption that the only way public interest could be served by exposing a government program is if that secret program is criminal. But this isn't true - the pub
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Honestly? Still not sure myself. The "leave a comment for my secretary" form is either some Grade-A douchebaggery or trolling perfected. But if this whole thing is intentional satire then it's too many layers deep to make its
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Author seems a bit biased against Tesla, and pro-GM. First off, no mention of the fact that Elon Musk has said that he wants competitors for Tesla. He wants the entire market for electric cars to expand (more potential customers for them, r

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