Certhas

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by Certhas 6y ago
In a technical sense, yes. But there is definitely social value in having a system that is in principle auditable by (almost) everyone. An open source voting machine would still be only auditable by the small minority of people who can read
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by Certhas 6y ago
Remember Monoprix trolling the Amazon Go ad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNoa-9TBH30
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by Certhas 6y ago
Look at the evidence. Lidl (and ALDI) are exapnding all over the world. Meanwhile Walmart decided to pull out of Germany because the competition was to tough. ALDI and Lidl are world class at selling a limited selection of medium quality go
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by Certhas 6y ago
You misunderstood the problem. The important part is not writing the html, it's writing the text. This solution is centered around the best collaborative/cloud text editing that you can find for free. How does your solution addres
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by Certhas 7y ago
I think it's the other way around. CB create money as compared to governments, and they are rather insulated from pressure to create money in normal times. The point being to limit the danger of runaway inflation if governments decide
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by Certhas 7y ago
For historic reasons states have built systems that prevent normal governments from inventing money at scale: Independent Central Banks. It's of course an important ongoing debate in economics whether this is still appropriate, but it&
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by Certhas 7y ago
That's useful, thanks!
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by Certhas 7y ago
I read it as: You can think for a reason to do X but doing Y is strictly better, so your reason is invalid. I'm pretty sure what the comment doesn't say, also in tone, is something like: Here are two options, X and Y, sometimes yo
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by Certhas 7y ago
That's a valid constructive critique. The people who are saying it's not necessary because they prefer alternative ways of interacting with their machine are not arguing that though. The bit the parent replied to was actually clai
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by Certhas 7y ago
Personally, I just use a tiny magnet to flip bits on a metal disk. If you want to see the results, you can use an AFM. You see, a shell really isn't necessary to interact with a computer. The big advantage is that, as you are working o
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by Certhas 7y ago
But it compiled instantaneously. So "compile" was simply the command used to "jump to next error".
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by Certhas 7y ago
You should try to understand differential forms, if you have those then Maxwells equations in vaccuum really aren't strange any more. But Differential forms aren't that strange really. They are the mathematical objects that allow
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by Certhas 7y ago
Because Firefox in Jitsi is seriously not working unless you have small groups and resources to spare. But they are working on it: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758 https://github.com
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by Certhas 7y ago
We use the Zoom standalone mostly. So Firefox isn't involved in the Zoom side. Jitsi works fine with small groups. But if we have >10 Firefox users in a room it doesn't for us. Maybe if you have much better internet than we hav
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by Certhas 7y ago
We tried to but with most of our team on Firefox it simply doesn't work unfortunately. Zoom has been the only thing reliable for us. It's a bit ironic that somewhere, someone is switching from Firefox to Chrome because of data con
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by Certhas 7y ago
You didn't look at this at all, did you? If you did, please explain how it's useless.
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by Certhas 7y ago
That's exactly what laws are for.
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by Certhas 7y ago
How do you decide who needs it? I think the sane option really would be to give it to everyone and increase taxes to compensate. Progressive taxes fall most heavily on those that can afford them. They are the best tool for this job. Of cour
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by Certhas 7y ago
The fact that the company is also in Boston is also reported in the German article. That's besides the point though. The real story in this is that reportedly the US Government was/is looking to secure _exclusive_ access.
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by Certhas 7y ago
I agree it's hyperbolic, but the numbers are staggering and quoting the current deaths are really misleading in this respect. This will affect small percentages of everyone. A million deaths world wide, with a disease that is expected
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by Certhas 7y ago
Okay you're just trolling now. We are very much in the initial exponential phase of Covid-19. As I derived above, once you get to 10% you might start seeing deviations from exponential in the SIR model. The bump that you saw in China i
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by Certhas 7y ago
In your link, look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_modelling_of_infe... S = N - I - R, and lets used normalized ratios, so i = I/N, r = R/N, etc... so the dynamics of i are given by: di&#x
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by Certhas 7y ago
Mathematically wrong is not a relevant category here. There is no "ground truth" that is approximated by an exponential growth. Every disease model is counterfactual "spread of the disease if no countermeasures were taken&quo
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by Certhas 7y ago
It's to early to say. The people who are popping up with symptoms now might have been infected up to two weeks ago. If you look at the Wuhan data, you see that the lockdown worked, but the number of confirmed cases at the time continue
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by Certhas 7y ago
The post in question mostly presents observations about the base line models and data taken from reputable and cited sources. It didn't make up simplistic models on the fly. I would say it is breathless journalism. I also would wish fo
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by Certhas 7y ago
But the early stages of disease spread _are_ exponential. And I find that people really fail to understand the meaning of that, and how scary numbers like "new confirmed cases doubling every two days, 500 new cases in France yesterday&
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by Certhas 7y ago
I think that this spreadsheet is communicating several things well but I share it as a "reasonable bad case back of the envelope calculation". And if we mean the same article, it actually does a reasonable job at outlining the unc
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by Certhas 7y ago
I am sure that there is some of that going on, but it also strikes me as a heavily biased article. Even neglecting that the carrier is most likely an order of magnitude more complex than the tanker, there simply is a difference between crea
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by Certhas 7y ago
P.S.: Regarding "people want to ban Amazon from using their source because they’re doing business with ICE", from what I can see they merely want to use the license as a place to express their misgivings. Amazon would still be fre
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by Certhas 7y ago
That's a fair point, and I fully agree that there are many political issues around the UCHR. I am certain a lot of the business world would want to stay away from code that is licensed in this way, and I suspect that the authors of cod

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