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by Epa095 4mo ago
I agree, but this is also clearly a increased barrier. Going back to OPs comment that perfection is impossible, the goal is to raise the bar, I would say that this is more than good enough.
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by Epa095 4mo ago
Well the idea with the date/timestamp was that it would only be valid for X minutes, but if you are afraid that in the 10 minutes window it can be used multiple places you can add some salt to the process. PH pops up a page showing &qu
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by Epa095 4mo ago
Why does the government need to know what pages you visit? It could just encode a string representing the date and 'above 18' and sign it with its private key. PH then just needs to verify it using the public key.
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by Epa095 4mo ago
Yeah, this article cites someone saying that someone else said something. Maybe it was said, maybe not. Maybe it was a exaggeration, maybe not.
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by Epa095 4mo ago
Are you in the lisp company? If so, how is it? Hard to get people? Or is it a geek-magnet?
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by Epa095 4mo ago
It is a good example that what Europe lacks is capital. And there is an rich get richer phenomenon where wealth flows to the USA, and successful European companies gets sold (and many talented Europeans ends up working for American companie
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by Epa095 4mo ago
The point of all this free trade ideology is that it would make the whole world into peaceful liberal democracies. No, it's truly not. Yes, for some time it was said (and probably believed) that free trade, capitalism, and dem
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by Epa095 4mo ago
This reminds me of a 1995 Norwegian song, freely translated by me and chatgtp: We dreamed of America where the soft wind lives. We dreamed of America where honey flowers grow, where the sky is vast and blue with st
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by Epa095 4mo ago
This differes between fields, sometimes even down to the niche subject. In my subfield (of computer science) it was strictly alphabetical by surname, and the idea was that either you contributed or not, and there is no gradient. In other fi
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by Epa095 4mo ago
As mentioned before, your view that Europeans can't afford to eat the cheap shit that makes you fat, is just straight up absurd. Across western countries (including the USA) obesity is a poverty problem. It's often called the &quo
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by Epa095 4mo ago
And infant mortality rates 2/3 of the USA.
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by Epa095 4mo ago
You don't think Europeans can afford to eat the cheap crap that makes one fat? Healthy food is expensive, garbage food is cheap. Obesity is a poverty problem in the whole western world.
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by Epa095 4mo ago
Regarding your last sentence about the jealousy, I have been thinking about this quite a bit for myself, if it is actually jealousy. And I have come to the following realisation: I would like 20$ million. It would let me live the life I wan
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by Epa095 4mo ago
So, money is likes votes into the economy, and it decides what the economy produces. When a rich man decides that a house should be built for his two dogs, and that another human should spend their time taking care of those dogs, he can use
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by Epa095 4mo ago
I guess this is the difference between people existing for the betterment of the economy vs the economy existing for the betterment of people.
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by Epa095 4mo ago
Significant wealth inequality is a existential threat to the 'free' part of both enterprises, and the society around them.
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by Epa095 4mo ago
And still Mississipi has a child mortality rate og 9.65 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to Germanys 3.4. Life expectancy is 72.6 vs 81.7 (!!) Looking at income per person really misses some important factors of a societies rea
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by Epa095 5mo ago
Cool, definitely better than endless scrolling on the 'you are not good enough'-machine ticktok.
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by Epa095 5mo ago
Previously discussed (with pretty decent comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496043
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by Epa095 5mo ago
You don't compete with anthrophopic from the basement. For that you need either a shit loads of money, or a government which are not afraid of getting very very involved. There is a lot of Europeans working on AI, it's just that a
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by Epa095 5mo ago
He talked about exactly this in the article The optimists will tell you this is just productivity gains. The economy has absorbed automation before; agricultural employment collapsed from ninety percent of the American workforce to two
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by Epa095 5mo ago
Is there anything particular about Americans which makes them incapable of forming a rational, constructive union?
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by Epa095 5mo ago
> If the unions goal is to raid donations and get an increasing share, that could potentially go bad. Why would you assume that is the unions goal? That the employees of Wikipedia will suddenly have as their purpose to raid donations fro
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by Epa095 5mo ago
It is, after all, a God which turned out not to be a God, but just America.
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by Epa095 5mo ago
I am no expert, just a guy reading the Internet. And it seems like there are two opposing factors. The increased access to nutritious food has dramatically increased health, shown in the increased average height. The exception to this is th
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by Epa095 5mo ago
Did the previous tools, which freed us from physical work, take human physique to another pinnacle?
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by Epa095 5mo ago
Your description of 'real Americans' remind me of the description of Gavin Newsom as 'looking like an American president in a Canadian movie'.
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by Epa095 5mo ago
So it's not about illegal vs legal immigration after all, but about where the immigrants come from?
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by Epa095 5mo ago
In Norway the valuation of publicly listed stock companies is different than the valuation of non-traded companies (for publicly traded stocks it's the market value, while for the other companies it's their assets minus debt, so u
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by Epa095 5mo ago
The S&P500 has increased 9.8% annually the last 100 years, roughly 6% annually adjusted for inflation. Yes, past performance is no guarantee for future, but historically a completely passive index placement of wealth into S&P500 wou

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