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by Perceval 17y ago
I think this is an interesting attempt, but will fail when it meets a persistent spam group, like most anti-spam systems. First, captchas can and will be broken/gamed or otherwise circumvented. Second, trust networks are not new and are cer
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by Perceval 17y ago
I also grated at seeing that reference to Nietzsche in there. Probably because I recently read On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life , but still. Nietzsche is probably Top 3 on the list of 'most abused philosophers.'
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by Perceval 17y ago
I don't know why you're being moderated down. The Japanese had already begun conquering large swaths of East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and so on. A U.S.-Dutch oil embargo was hardly belligerent compared to the actual conquests
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by Perceval 17y ago
I agree that voting systems on the web end up favoring the most persistent, rather than the most worthy or highest quality. This is something that I've seen on Wikipedia and Digg. And to an extent with the trolls on Kuro5hin. I think mode
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by Perceval 17y ago
I agree. I think one would have to have some sort of automatic moderation in place. Something like the Robot 9000 built for the xkcd IRC channel that moderates on the basis of originality (such that duplicate noise comments get chatters a
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by Perceval 17y ago
He's like a modern day Proust, without the prose.
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by Perceval 17y ago
I agree, which is why I support downplaying the egoistic elements of online communities. Hiding usernames where possible, hiding raw karma scores or post ratings, etc. The less systemic/administrative information plastered all over the pl
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by Perceval 17y ago
One of my ideas about moderation and rating systems is that the act of moderation tells us more about the person doing the moderating than it does about the story/post/person being moderated. If we think about moderation as relational rat
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by Perceval 17y ago
Machiavelli warned Princes about the danger of being an 'unarmed prophet.' He might similarly warn you about being an 'unfunded revolutionary.'
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by Perceval 17y ago
This guy writes up his adventures infecting himself with hookworms over at k5: http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/3/16/3408/66053
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by Perceval 17y ago
I don't think it's that difficult with proper reference to historical examples. The first socialist welfare programs in Europe were instituted by authoritarian, nationalist, militarist Prussian leadership shortly following the unification
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by Perceval 17y ago
Given the number of retailers that end prices in 9 or 5, one could probably calculate a better model of efficiency based on real world distributions. The secondary problem would be that tax is applied after the nominal price, and local tax
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by Perceval 17y ago
The United States remains the #1 exporter in the world in terms of aggregate value of goods exported. We still do make plenty of things in the United States. The manufacturing that gets exported is the stuff that requires low- to medium-sk
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by Perceval 17y ago
Well, I agree that we should transition to other energy sources, but that's not really topical to the article. It doesn't matter much whether we use oil or not domestically. It's whether or not major chunks of international trade will rem
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by Perceval 17y ago
It's an interesting threat, and one that we're going to have to keep out eye on. But I have reservations about how effective multinational cooperation on international monetary policy can be. One of the reasons that the dollar is the globa
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by Perceval 17y ago
Some other HN user actually coded a Greasemonkey script to do just that: http://www.alexc.me/hnscore-another-look-at-post-quality-on-... If you wanted to do it right, you'd need to collect a seed sample of articles you thought generated e
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by Perceval 17y ago
Your option three reminds me of T.S. Eliot's review of George Orwell's classic Animal Farm . Eliot wrote: “After all, your pigs are far more intelligent than the other animals, and therefore the best qualified to run the farm – in fact the
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by Perceval 17y ago
>A Chicago school economist decides that the cause of the crash was regulation I don't think that's the point he was making with that quote. What he was getting at was that extensive regulation and oversight did not stop the problem fr
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by Perceval 17y ago
Do you have a citation for point one? The author of the article discusses not just Chicago School monetarism, but also the many other strains of economic thought over the past decades, including the 'New Keynesians.' Krugman apparently als
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by Perceval 17y ago
How 'common' is the common good you're thinking about here? If this lobby group becomes dominated by Republican issues and concerns, will you still consider it a "benevolent project for the common good?"
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by Perceval 17y ago
>What ensures these other lobbyists don't become part of the corruption problem? This project is not a solution to the problem of money in politics. It's a "if you can't lick 'em, join 'em" project.
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by Perceval 17y ago
Why should micropayments enter into it at all? Sending letters to Congresspeople should be enough to indicate the amount of support. Consider the stamp purchase my micropayment.
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by Perceval 17y ago
If you're really interested in how artists approach color and theory, you might pick up a copy of Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art , which puts forth a modernist/Bauhaus color theory: http://books.google.com/books?id=mG-VRWgfpu
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by Perceval 17y ago
Wow, it's hard to know where to begin with this post. It seems strange to me that you're trying to use Marx to justify a liberal position. After all, Marx would be the first to disagree with you about the feasibility of using the state to
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by Perceval 17y ago
The author of the article almost alludes to this when they write: >Consider the freeze that started in August of 2007. Each bank was adopting a prudent course by turning away questionable borrowers and holding on to its capital. But t
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by Perceval 17y ago
Yes, game theory can get inscrutably complex, even through the initial models are pretty simply to set up and understand. The basic components of any coordination/cooperation problem are the same: you have actors with preferences, you have
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by Perceval 17y ago
The traditional citations here are The Club of Rome and various environmentalist that reject the possibility of sustainable industrial civilization. The Club of Rome published a famous book in 1968 called The Limits to Growth . They are s
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by Perceval 17y ago
It's unfortunate that the article uses the Prisoner's Dilemma as its example, because the Prisoner's Dilemma is actually not the best game model to set up as the opposite of the Invisible Hand. A more appropriate model would be the Tragedy
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by Perceval 17y ago
Science proves what Hobbes already knew: that nearly all knowledge held by any given individual is accepted on the authority of whoever told them the knowledge. Since very little knowledge is directly gained by experience, most human knowl
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by Perceval 17y ago
The author states that people won't be using HTML, they'll be using SMS, MMS, or WAP. This is reasonable, but the author doesn't seem to understand that SMS (and the MMS extension of SMS) and WAP are protocols , whereas HTML is a markup

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