Nevermark

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   by Nevermark 12y ago

   I suppose if you remember creating yourself, and exactly how and why you did that before you had experienced any of your subjective reality (so presumably there was none), then your view is both worthy and consistent.
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   by Nevermark 12y ago

   Listen to Eiffel 65's Blue (Da Ba De) song and when you here this: I'm blue da ba dee da ba die... Think this for one pass through the song: I'm blue, I bleed, I will die, I be-lieve I will die I bleed, I wil
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   by Nevermark 12y ago

   Any ideas in the following "solution" that could work? I am sure there are problems with it, but it contains a general approach I have not seen suggested: If a miner wants to be part of a pool they must publish their participation
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   by Nevermark 12y ago

   I am pretty sure there is nowhere in the world where 1/x of the people really get a 1/x say in anything. Things like votes are attempts to make it so, but as a practical matter if you only get to vote between a few choices created
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   by Nevermark 12y ago

   Skill: Step 0: Create 1024 different "funds". Step 1: In half the funds (512) buy a very volatile stock. In the other half, sell the same stock short. Wait a week and close out all positions. Half the funds will now have made a
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   by Nevermark 12y ago

   Humans became a technological species immediately at the critical point where a few percent of us could be rational and original a small percent of the time. That was enough for knowledge to start snowballing. In historical terms, that happ
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   by Nevermark 12y ago

   I think you may be misinterpreting the studies. Generally speaking, there are very few people on the planet that are demoralized by being paid a lot. Demoralization can happen when the social situation emphasizes pay as the only reward. T
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   by Nevermark 12y ago

   Self-driving cars will have reflexes and driving skills so great that they will be able to navigate complex obstructions and other machine driven traffic using nanosecond turning choices and G-forces that will leave you as jelly on the side
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   by Nevermark 13y ago

   Unfortunately freedoms actually come with costs in the real world, which is why freedoms are never absolute. Who pays for the immense amount of arbitration necessary to allow a billion internet citizens to file takedown requests while not e
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    by Nevermark 13y ago

    When it comes to good laws, its not just about which values trump others in theory, but the real costs and side effects of the specific law trying to hold one above another. The costs and abuse inherent in all humans being able to force pri
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    by Nevermark 13y ago

    Objective C: C is too low level and C++ is too static.
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    by Nevermark 13y ago

    Wow! Love your games. I got started programming by writing games like this on a TRS-80 Model 3 in the early 80's, but we only had one "beep" sound then. I went on to write parsers for text adventures, which got me into pars
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    by Nevermark 13y ago

    Without an automatic way of removing manager responsibility, it is very difficult to demote/fire good people who have simply hit a wall. Especially as other managers (both lower and higher up) have a strong interest in making the demot
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    by Nevermark 13y ago

    I like your transaction idea and have an improvement. The trick is to reduce the costs of one-time punishment. This makes transactions less risky for contract keepers and more risky for contract breakers: Terminology: I would call a contr