Kinrany

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901.
by Kinrany 5y ago
He mixes evidence with unsupported opinions and just-so stories though.
902.
Ancient Mexican city endured for centuries without extremes in wealth and power(heritagedaily.com)
3 points by Kinrany 5y ago|0 comments
903.
by Kinrany 5y ago
How hard would it be for all vehicles to broadcast an ID, a location and a velocity and reply with confirmations when one vehicle sees and "hears" another one?
904.
by Kinrany 5y ago
> There is no harm in this in itself, propaganda is as much part of the war as any other part Huh? War is incredibly harmful to civilian infrastructure, and propaganda is similarly harmful to our ability to communicate. Putin's pro
905.
by Kinrany 5y ago
Free market will work in a post-scarcity society, sure.
906.
by Kinrany 5y ago
Even if it's one in ten thousand, the system still needs to be resilient to being exploited to malicious actors. Many cases of mental issues are caused by genetic factors and chance, not environment, to address your argument specifical
907.
by Kinrany 5y ago
> abuses of it can be regulated That's the whole problem, isn't it. Coming up with and installing regulations every time the system is abused is no easier than inventing and installing a new system of governance. When the syste
908.
Russian Protests Against the War with Ukraine. A Chronicle of Events(ovd.news)
23 points by Kinrany 5y ago|0 comments
909.
by Kinrany 5y ago
I don't think it's for all functions, sorry.
910.
by Kinrany 5y ago
Rogozin doesn't have the authority to say what can or cannot be used to justify war, does he?
911.
by Kinrany 5y ago
> One could imagine a language It's called Kotlin. Of course this is a relatively minor feature and few C-like or ML-like languages have it. Using it against Smalltalk is a bit unfair.
912.
by Kinrany 5y ago
The value is indeed in knowing the problem and common mitigation strategies.
913.
by Kinrany 5y ago
That sounds like ADHD.
914.
by Kinrany 5y ago
It should be layer 0, not layer 2. Full coordination is not a good default.
915.
by Kinrany 5y ago
The state will have access to both anyway. Inconveniences like these are significant for individuals but trivial for organizations, especially those not bound by law.
916.
by Kinrany 5y ago
One way this already backfired: credit cards cannot be used to pay for hosting and VPN services.
917.
by Kinrany 5y ago
Cryptocurrency projects should be cloning these interbank exchange mechanisms, not making a single global ledger.
918.
by Kinrany 5y ago
Internet access and personal computing devices are critical civilian infrastructure. That's like advocating to blow up all the bridges in the whole country.
919.
NimbleChain: Low-Latency Consensusless Cryptocurrencies(arxiv.org)
2 points by Kinrany 5y ago|0 comments
920.
by Kinrany 5y ago
If the government was reasonable, there'd be no need for an alternative banking system.
921.
by Kinrany 5y ago
That's a property of any market that allows speculation, including stock market. Gambling has the distinction of being purposefully designed to make you lose money.
922.
by Kinrany 5y ago
> It was a combination of the right technology, at the right time, rolled out in the right way, with the right decisions from the Kenyan government to allow the system Right, the government was too slow to regulate this system before it
923.
by Kinrany 5y ago
The Moynihan Report: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Negro_Family%3A_The_Case_F... It seems to conflate changes in family structure with prosperity and is based on shaky assumptions about the relationship between the
924.
by Kinrany 5y ago
I'd also like to read about people's experiences with Cue. > In a language like Nix there isn't really a distinction between compile time and runtime anyways This is very true, but exactly for this reason Cue's unifie
925.
by Kinrany 5y ago
"Do one thing" is too short to mean anything. Originally it's about avoiding the quadratic explosion of the number of things that must be implemented. The method is to replace M * N separate pieces of code with - a single ext
926.
by Kinrany 5y ago
The argument is that this is rent-seeking. A mechanism like this allows the company to capture 99% of the value they add compared to their competitors, which is obviously not fair.
927.
by Kinrany 5y ago
3*4+-7=5 and 10=8/2+6 cover everything but 9.
928.
by Kinrany 5y ago
People conflate opinionated formats with autoformatting for some reason. An autoformatter removes 99% effort from formatting code, and that includes code actively being worked on. Autoformatters are incredibly useful. A standardized format
929.
High-order Virtual Machine (HVM): Massively parallel, optimal functional runtime(github.com)
493 points by Kinrany 5y ago|151 comments
930.
by Kinrany 5y ago
It's worse: every possible advantage of mergers is a good thing made impossible by competition. Mergers are a sign of the market itself being inefficient.

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