FabHK

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by FabHK 10mo ago
I find those Cantonese words ending in -p, -t, -k harsher than mellifluous Mandarin.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
> The question isn't about alienness. It's about difficulty. The original link is specifically about difficulty to native English speakers, which is certainly linked to its alienness.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
That's declension of nouns. Then there's the conjugation of the verbs, which is reasonably regular in German and similar to Latin (three persons, two numbers, three basic tenses each with a "perfect", two voices, across
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by FabHK 10mo ago
While you might have a few global super stars (Lady Gaga, Black Pink, ...) everywhere, the average pop radio station in the USA, Russia, China will be very different from each other.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Yes, is that (obvious) point being addressed in the paper? At first skimming, it just says that a "sufficiently souped up laptop" could, in principle, compute the future of the universe (i.e. Laplace's daemon), but I haven&#x
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by FabHK 10mo ago
But it's ok if done by AI companies?
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Interesting, got 61 points in 1h, but is off the front page due to being a dupe? (I can't find the thread it's a duplicate of.)
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by FabHK 10mo ago
You can have the data safely on-prem, connected to computers that are connected to the internet, or safely in the cloud, connected to computers that are connected to the internet. The threats are not that different.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
> App Store search results to be roughly torrent search levels of trustworthy Well put. So it is a combination of a walled garden and a torrent search; just not sure whether it's the best of both worlds or the worst.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
I searched for "Sparkasse" on the German Apple App Store, the good old staid conservative public savings bank. The top result was an ad for Crypto.com: Buy BTC, ETC, ...
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Quality of life in HK is quite high, btw, plenty of green, parks, and sky. (However, no cycling in the centre, only the outer areas or islands.)
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by FabHK 10mo ago
The ongoing enshittification of Coursera, Udacity, and EdX is sad to watch.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Pet peeve: > N^2 scaling: if every fed has to talk to every other fed to exchange messages, the number of connections will scale exponentially No. That's quadratic growth, which is a fairly mild form of polynomial growth, which is m
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Indeed. Read some of the Project Euler discussions (after solving a problem). The J answers tend to be very short and very fast.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Git is nice distributed tech. It's permissioned, though. Good old permissioned distributed tech. Which predates Bitcoin (obviously, as git is older than Bitcoin).
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Agree. Blockchain is good for nothing but crypto (by virtue of the oracle problem, among others), and crypto is good for nothing but crime. It's funny, people speak as if decentralisation was a good thing, but very few bother to explai
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by FabHK 10mo ago
A bitcoin transaction costs around $100 (in invisible money supply increase, paid by everyone that holds Bitcoin, but received by the miners). There's no way a fiat transfer costs that much.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Yes. And if a country with say 200m people suffered a banking collapse, everyone could do a Bitcoin transaction every 40 days (assuming everyone else stopped using it), and would use only about 1% of the world's electricity. Great stuf
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Indeed. Bitcoin's blockchain grows with a laughable 3kB/s, yet is an unwieldy 700 GB. A blockchain that allowed you store one song per second would be hundreds of TB before long. There are other architectures for that sort of thin
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by FabHK 10mo ago
> spread the gospel of the blockchain immediately jumped on th AI bandwaggon There were also a few months of super conductors, don't forget :-)
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Read Irrationality, Extortion, or Trusted Third-parties: Why it is Impossible to Buy and Sell Physical Goods Securely on the Blockchain . Or just read the title, it has the main point. http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09857
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Indeed, and there are some good reasons, too: US regulators want to prop up smaller regional banks and avoid large national monopolies (for what is essentially a natural monopoly). The externalities of the crappy US banking system are so va
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by FabHK 10mo ago
You might have formulated things a bit unclearly, but I fundamentally agree that money, like everything else, should be under democratic control of the people. Not controlled by some crypto bros that are happy to interfere with the protocol
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by FabHK 10mo ago
You don't solve the issue of authoritarian governments with crypto, though. I haven't seen China collapsing exactly since 2009. Instead, you give criminals a tool for crime. And gamblers a new casino.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Yes. The oracle problem. Because of it, the only blockchain use case is basically crypto (and other purely on-chain stuff, such as NFTs (well, they typically link to off-chain sources by URL, haha) and crypto kittens).
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by FabHK 10mo ago
> the people who depend on it for everyday survival Oh, my, all those poor people that died prior to 2009.
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by FabHK 10mo ago
> Spending money usually involves getting a good or service in return, which inherently requires "trust" Indeed. Good paper driving the point home: Irrationality, Extortion, or Trusted Third-parties: Why it is Impossible to Bu
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by FabHK 10mo ago
lol. No, PoW existed before. Putting it all together in this specific form was an innovation, if only a minor incremental one on the large body of work of state machine replication, enabling for the first time sybil resistance and thus perm
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Sure, but fiat is indispensable to running a modern economy. And the abuses that occur, of course, are curbed by vigorous regulation and enforcement. Sure, HSBC laundered money for the Mexican cartels. When it came out, it was a big scandal
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by FabHK 10mo ago
Crypto is not prevalent in the Philippines or Indonesia. Except maybe in the scam centres in the Philippines run by Chinese gangsters that are operating pig butchering and other scams, and threatening to undermine the Philippine government.

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