Imnimo

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901.
by Imnimo 5y ago
My understanding of common carrier rules is that they want to avoid a situation where a railroad or telephone operator who controlled the only available line could charge exorbitant rates to customers who had no alternatives. I don't
902.
by Imnimo 5y ago
The flip side of such a contract is that you would be locked out of selling the item if its value dropped too far (thereby depriving the creator of royalties), and if the value increased, the royalties would only be ensured on the original
903.
by Imnimo 5y ago
>They can decide to sell 10 copies, and dictate that if they are resold, the photographer gets a 20% royalty. Suppose that I want to sell my copy, but do not want to pay the 20% royalty. What stops me from selling it for 1 cent on-chain
904.
by Imnimo 5y ago
What percentage of the current value of Bitcoin do you believe is driven by demand from people with that outlook?
905.
by Imnimo 5y ago
This looks really cool, but I feel like there's just too many obstacles to using this with my group. Right now we use Roll20, which has a LOT of faults. Weird glitches happen basically every session. But it's free, and it works
906.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Critically, a trigger warning is specifically NOT "please don't mention rape in this law school". If you weren't going to mention it, you wouldn't have a warning, would you? Even if it's true that trigger warn
907.
by Imnimo 5y ago
If I'm the teacher, I'd say everyone is responsible for all of the material. A warning is not an exemption, if a student feels (correctly or not) that avoiding material is necessary to protect their mental well-being, it might co
908.
by Imnimo 5y ago
> it's no longer the case that adults can avoid discussing any topic that might upset the fragile minority. Isn't that the point of a warning? You're still going to discuss it, just with a warning up front. If you were go
909.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I certainly buy that exposure is important in treating PTSD, but that seems like a decision the patient and their doctor should be able to make. If I'm a teacher, for a student, I feel like I'd rather let a student make the decis
910.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I mean, it's possible that the optimal position isn't all that far off, but I would need to see that actually demonstrated before I start caring about the national median. It's not like the relevant demographics aren't
911.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I don't understand why I would care about the median national voter. Shouldn't political parties focus on winning specific state-level races, both for congress and president? The national popular vote is meaningless.
912.
by Imnimo 5y ago
>it cracked the Byzantine Generals Problem, a previously unsolved problem in computer science whose brilliant resolution enabled the entire field of blockchain research. This is delusional.
913.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Best grad school application is maybe John Nash. His recommendation later just said that "he is a mathematical genius".
914.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I don't know exactly how ETH works, but it seems like with bitcoin there could be a risk like this: You send your huge-fee transaction secretly to your co-conspirator miner. They start trying to include it in their blocks, and eventua
915.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I'm having a very hard time imagining a scenario in which I would feel the need to tip someone for a Tweet. I understand why I might want to pay someone for, say, a Youtube video, or a substack article. But is there really enough valu
916.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I think the article is talking about waste in the form of ASICs used for mining that need to be constantly replaced with upgraded versions to remain profitable, so it's already physical vs. physical.
917.
by Imnimo 5y ago
There's also a "One way ->" sign pointing to the right, maybe it thinks it's only allowed to go that way?
918.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Google says there's been 100M AirPods produced, and that each airpod weighs 4g, plus 38g for the case, so 46g total. That's 4.6 metric kiltons of airpods. The paper says that Bitcoin produces 30.7 metric kilotons of e-waste per
919.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Well, but even beyond regulators and media, if I'm a parent, do I want to let my kid watch videos on a site where they might click over to a how-to on a homemade medicine that'll kill them? And if I'm the guy running YouTube
920.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I do sympathize with him, and I think his specific content should be available on YouTube, but I can also see why YouTube would want to ban him. If I'm YouTube, and I don't really understand anything about biohacking, do I really
921.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I don't think the original commenter here is lying by omission, they're adding additional context - that even if you have natural immunity, you still benefit from getting vaccinated.
922.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I think the reason for this sort of response is that people are worried (and reasonably so, in my opinion), that people will say, "I'm pretty sure I had covid back in February of 2020 so I don't need the vaccine!"
923.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Typically in a betting market, you can continue to buy and sell your shares after placing your bet, so if the market moves and you now think that A is overpriced, you can sell some of your shares and lock in profit. It's not entirely
924.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Nescafe is the mother of invention.
925.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Well, but the reason we want to decide the number of guards in the first place is that we want to prevent a streaker. If, in order to decide the number of guards, we use a process that increases the odds of a streaker, isn't that coun
926.
by Imnimo 5y ago
That's where I disagree. Your expected value on buying A is (probability A is implemented) * (true(A) - market_value(A), and similarly for B, because your receive zero return if the thing you bet on is not implemented. Thus, even if
927.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Certainly that's true if I have infinite capital, but if these markets require participants to have infinite capital in order to work, we've got a problem. If I have finite capital, then any money I put on the factory is money I
928.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Unless the two choices are extremely close, we probably don't want it to be the case that a single investor, even with 100% of their funds, can single-handedly change the outcome. We just want each investor to be incentivized to put t
929.
by Imnimo 5y ago
Right, that's the system they propose. But I'm saying that can result in an agent being incentivized to put their money into a policy they believe to be worse, as long as they believe that policy is underpriced and more likely to
930.
by Imnimo 5y ago
I don't think that matches what they're describing in the article. The problem is that we only get to try implementing one of policy A and policy B, so if someone bets "I think policy A will achieve the goal", but we im

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