CamTin

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by CamTin 8y ago
The possible upside of this may be the decentralization of massive content silos like youtube or facebook, toward federated or self-hosting platforms where the administrators of individual "sites" can better know their users. I ca
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by CamTin 8y ago
Arguably you shouldn't be able to enter into such a contract, similar to how you can't contract yourself into slavery, even if you want to.
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Yes, you've described exactly why this is a bad practice.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Nobody ever liked shopping for insurance. Nobody ever liked trying to find a job. Nobody ever liked "find a market niche" and "marketing their unique skillset." The Neoliberal fantasy is that all life choices are reducib
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by CamTin 8y ago
Don't these problems already arise when trying to prove bias in a legacy meat-based intelligence?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Presumably you could sue the bank that is using the AI to make the loan decisions, or is there something I'm missing?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Yeah the whole idea of parimutuel betting is that there is no "bookie" and that you are betting against the other gamblers. No central entity is taking a side in the bets. This makes sense when you realize that the central entity
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by CamTin 8y ago
Not sure how it works elsewhere but horse betting in the US is almost always parimutuel, meaning that everybody gets the post odds, regardless of when they bought their ticket. In other words, betting early doesn't give any advantage a
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by CamTin 8y ago
That's true for penicillin, but what about more exotic medical procedures? "Socialized" medicine is railed against for "rationing" but all markets have rationing as well. The whole point of a market is to ration res
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by CamTin 8y ago
And now the poorest man in the world will die from the same infection because he can't afford the antibiotics, or has no access to a doctor who can prescribe them to him. What's the difference between something existing but being
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by CamTin 8y ago
Remember that the laws these supposedly insidious foreigners are accused of breaking are in the same moral category as the ones your beloved hacker heroes rail against. Is this a China vs US dispute, or a war by capital against people, with
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by CamTin 8y ago
If I run a firm with lots of capacity and a thriving overseas trade, why would I buy up a competitor with no overseas business just to shut down their plant?
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by CamTin 8y ago
I think Masters and PhDs are basically in a totally different market than workers with bachelors', Associates', "boot camp" certificates, or no degrees at all. They are being hired for "alpha hacker" positions
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by CamTin 8y ago
I guess you're referring to this: "The view of PGLAF is that it is up to the rights owner in Germany to identify people there who are infringing on its copyrights, and pursue remediation there. It is not up to PGLAF to police or d
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by CamTin 8y ago
I understand that German courts claim to have jurisdiction, and have some kind of specious explanation for why that is. But why does the project have to entertain the fact that they do? What can a German court do to them? Put another way, i
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by CamTin 8y ago
Maybe somebody can explain why this US-based project has to respond to German court rulings in any way. Is there any reason not to just toss any scare letters in the trash can or say "Jump off a bridge, we're not in Germany"?
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by CamTin 8y ago
Do I really think that the rational thing to do is always only eat the cheapest food? No, I don't. I was reacting to the premise, which is that all diet advice is as likely to be correct as any other. This is clearly a false premise.
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by CamTin 8y ago
I'm not saying I agree with the premise (that we really have no idea what a healthy diet looks like), but given the situation where are all diets are equally likely to be healthy, picking a cheap one makes sense.
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by CamTin 8y ago
It at least has the definite benefit of being less resource-intensive. If you accept the premise that we're just guessing what the right diet is, we may as well guess the "cheapest" option.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Congress can override a Presidential veto, but it requires a 2/3 majority, which neither party has by itself (due to parliamentary rules, it's slightly more complicated than that in ways that I don't totally understand, but t
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by CamTin 8y ago
Nobody "came up with" the idea. It's the consequence of a principle of the American Constitution, wherein only Congress can appropriate money. This is a bedrock principle, because it provides a check on the Executive: The Pre
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by CamTin 8y ago
What do you dilute it with? You just spent a bunch of time and energy seperating water from it. I guess we should ship/pipe the brine to wastewater treatment facilities, and mix it with the treated waste before discharging it back int
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by CamTin 8y ago
This is a fascinating idea, which rings very similar to the idea of "trails" as described in Vannevar Bush's "As We May Think"( https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07&#x2F
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by CamTin 8y ago
Fascinating! I have always understood the desire to spread the revolution to the West was straight from Marx, where the struggle against capitalism, a global system, must of course be a global one. Coldly understanding that "millions o
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by CamTin 8y ago
I'm not sure a private-sector restructuring is exactly the right frame for left policy change, since the whole point of these changes is to refocus ourselves away from the tyranny of constantly optimizing for productivity instead of ha
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by CamTin 8y ago
I think this is the right way of thinking (ie a materialist view, which looks at what an economic system means in real resources), but it's obviously more complicated than a binary choice between "rich people spending all their mo
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The US is just returning to its traditional political economy, where the land is pillaged by elite interests, the rabble is dealt with as it can be, and any "freedom" anyone has is totally coincidental and mainly stems from the fa
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by CamTin 8y ago
Which original purpose? The elite school one of allowing the next generation's ruling class to network with one another, or the land grant one of doing the same thing for flyover country, but also discovering new ways of applying ferti
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by CamTin 8y ago
It will be almost impossible to get a good idea of the actual RCA from public reports, since even if they are accurate, we would need a complete understanding of the topology of the network in question to understand them. That said, the pub
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by CamTin 8y ago
Totally stateless PHP apps (retrieving and storing state at the top and bottom of each request) plus autoscaling based on CPU load starts to look pretty close to Lambdas + scheduled tasks to keep them "warm". This is how most LAMP

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