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by FabHK 2y ago
While an actually reasonable standard would be to extend the law as to summarily prohibit all permissionless cryptocurrencies, thus ending the debate.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Matt Levine uses this line in a specific context: If a listed firm does something bad (anything, really), but doesn't immediately disclose it (as is usually the case), it can then be sued later - not directly for doing the bad thing, b
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Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law(papers.ssrn.com)
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Dan Solove on Privacy Regulation(schneier.com)
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by FabHK 3y ago
And Jan Marsalek, of fake German payment startup Wirecard.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Examples/source? According to this stack overflow question, the US is (fairly) unique in not having immigration exit checks. https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/122289/why-don-t-...
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by FabHK 3y ago
Indeed. This article is fairly good, but a lot of the author's writing is strongly biased towards gold/crypto.
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by FabHK 3y ago
> at best a passive investor can count on preserving their capital against inflation. That's not true. A) most active funds fair worse than passive funds (as has been shown many times), and similarly, most active traders fair worse
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by FabHK 3y ago
Insightful, but by no means complete (missing, among other things: matching of liabilities with assets; risk or diversification or the basics of modern portfolio theory; the notion of real vs nominal returns (only alluded to); etc.)
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by FabHK 3y ago
The commenter names three publications that gave a lower number with good evidence, namely supply constraints.
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by FabHK 3y ago
On-device also preserves privacy. I think that's the main reason Apple prefers it, not the cost of servers.
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by FabHK 3y ago
The M1 MacBook Air is way snappier than an Intel MacBook Pro. It's night and day. Much better machines.
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The Philosophical Case for a Four-Day Workweek(jacobin.com)
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by FabHK 3y ago
And you might like Proofs from THE BOOK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_from_THE_BOOK
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by FabHK 3y ago
You mean Max Tegmark? I mean, some of their ideas are way out there, and obviously if not tempered can lead to bad consequences (e.g. SBF/FTX). But a hack?
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by FabHK 3y ago
The progress since the 2015 DARPA challenge (where robots succeeded mostly in falling down) is impressive. Less than a decade! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by FabHK 3y ago
We've come a long way from the 2015 DARPA Challenge, where the robots succeeded only in falling down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Robotics_Challe
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by FabHK 3y ago
What do you mean? There's plenty of simple standard HTML to achieve nearly everything needed (except fancy nonsense and tracking). As GP says, simple, highly accessible, very performant, easy to understand (both for the developer and t
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by FabHK 3y ago
For Safari on iOS and macOS (and some other browsers on the Mac), there's the excellent (and similarly well named) StopTheMadness extension. https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/
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by FabHK 3y ago
To be fair, they should not only test on something other than a MacBook, but also on a few machines with low RAM, old/different browsers, slow connections, ad blockers, JavaScript disabled, etc. etc.
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by FabHK 3y ago
The "Foundations of Blockchain" lecture series by Tim Roughgarden (CS prof at Columbia & head of research at a16z) covers some of these topics (state machine replication, possibility & impossibility results such as FLP) ve
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by FabHK 3y ago
AKA Moravec's paradox. > Moravec wrote in 1988, "it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one
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by FabHK 3y ago
So beneficial that they commit suicide?
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by FabHK 3y ago
The 2018 crack that one can foil by picking a decent passphrase instead of a 4-digit number?
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by FabHK 3y ago
And, famously, Michael Lewis's first book, "Liar's Poker": > Despite the book's quite unflattering depiction of Wall Street firms and many of the people who worked there, many younger readers were fascinated by t
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by FabHK 3y ago
How is "README" easier to tab-autocomplete than "Readme"?
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by FabHK 3y ago
Sorry, 100% expected, sure, 100% normal, fine, 100% unremarkable, ok, but 100% logical?
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by FabHK 3y ago
Incidentally, the answer "So it appears first when sorted by ASCII (where capital letters appear before small letters)" is insufficient - not only would "Readme" be sorted pretty close to "README", but LICENSE,
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by FabHK 3y ago
Meta comment on this (excellent) article: I liked the memes and the accessibility-friendly captions thereof.
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by FabHK 3y ago
Several of these IDs change when you get a new Personalausweis, Reisepaß, or Health Insurance, respectively. They don't identify you, but the document or contract. Some of the tax identifiers might be specific to you and a tax author

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