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by _vertigo 5y ago
I completely agree. By banning these networks, overall suppression of information will greatly decrease. With these platforms banned, it will be more easy for Indians to encounter information that challenges the dominant narrative of the el
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by _vertigo 5y ago
I'm not doing that at all - his comment made it sound like he worked for an ISP. To me, hearing from someone who works at an ISP or even the ISP in question could add valuable context to the discussion. I'll edit my comment to mak
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by _vertigo 5y ago
Did you work at Frontier? edit: Asking because it would be cool if you could expand a little bit on the troubles faced by Frontier or similar ISPs, if you have any info there.
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by _vertigo 5y ago
What, you mean because they are legally obligated to refuse to do so?
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by _vertigo 5y ago
I mean, why are non-crypto consumers better than crypto ones from a utilitarian POV? (I play video games and dislike crypto - I'm just asking). I suppose that people do things other than gaming with 3080s, because I would be hard press
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by _vertigo 5y ago
What, externalities like energy waste? If that's the case, why target ETH, isn't ETH going to Proof of Stake soon?[1] I admit I don't really know if what Nvidia is targeting applies to both pre-merge and post-merge ETH [1] h
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by _vertigo 5y ago
It's honestly pretty surprising to me to see how many people on here are supporting this move. That's not what I would expect, I would expect people on HN to object to this move on principle. Maybe my prediction in where most HN c
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by _vertigo 5y ago
I think it's well understood that deaths in India are massively underreported. California and New York both came close to having their health care systems overwhelmed in certain counties, Florida did not. That's exactly my point.
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by _vertigo 5y ago
The risk of Covid has never been the individualized risk. It's the collective risk of what happens when hospitals and ICUs reach capacity when too many people catch Covid at once. For example, what is happening in India. This was widel
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by _vertigo 5y ago
Well, yeah. That’s kind of what I mean. There are many kinds of housing options besides single-family home that meet my criteria. My point is that we shouldn’t just ban the single-family home, and arguing that we should seriously jeopardize
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by _vertigo 5y ago
Not really. I live in a relatively spacious duplex that shares a terrace in with another house that has a garage facing the street. I live a 20 minute bike ride from downtown. How can it be fundamentally incompatible if the house I share th
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by _vertigo 5y ago
Is this really the future you want to live in? I would like there to be a sane tradeoff between density and proximity to the city center. I stayed in an Airbnb in a central neighborhood in Barcelona (l'Eixample IIRC) and I found it to
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by _vertigo 5y ago
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by _vertigo 5y ago
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost alway
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by _vertigo 5y ago
Eh, I'm not so sure. As the parent said, time will tell.
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by _vertigo 5y ago
Not necessarily proven to be correct, proven to be correct _beyond a reasonable doubt_. That's the standard.
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by _vertigo 5y ago
It's really not about the bugs. The bugs were unfortunate, but bugs happen. The problem is taking the word of the system at face value and not investigating further even when dozens of people's livelihood and freedom are hanging i
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by _vertigo 6y ago
"Important" and "terrible for discourse" are orthogonal.
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by _vertigo 6y ago
I've never heard this criticism of GDPR before, and a couple of cursory Google searches didn't yield anything supporting what you're claiming. Do you have a source for that?
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by _vertigo 6y ago
Didn’t see it mentioned anywhere - this might be in response to a recent scandal where the US champions were found to be using players from outside their district and were stripped from their title. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by _vertigo 6y ago
I think "BOMB CONDOS NOT MURALS" is being presented as a "Left-NIMBY" phrase, not a YIMBY phrase.
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by _vertigo 6y ago
How much energy is moral to use in pursuit of “sound” money? Maybe Bitcoin hasn’t crossed the threshold yet. But I disagree that we should completely sidestep that conversation.
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by _vertigo 6y ago
I think the point is that Bitcoin uses an insane amount of energy for what it accomplishes, if one considers only the financial transaction aspect (and not all of the other benefits that Bitcoin might provide - depending on your position on
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by _vertigo 6y ago
Could you explain what you mean by this?
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by _vertigo 6y ago
What’s a better reply?
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by _vertigo 6y ago
That’s not what the down arrow is for. This is what I’m getting at. Instead of treating the comment section as a dumping ground for your purely speculative opinions masquerading as authoritative takes, and pushing the burden of nuance onto
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by _vertigo 6y ago
Facebook is absolutely full to the brim with “crap content”. Crap content happens to be what drives engagement, so hosting crap content is a large part of Facebook’s business model. You’re speaking with a pretty authoritative tone there as
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by _vertigo 6y ago
That’s an interesting conclusion to draw from that.
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by _vertigo 6y ago
Brown University is conducting surveillance on its students. Everyone knew it was technically feasible, even trivial, but now that there is a financial incentive to surveil, it’s happening and impacting students. I think that’s the reason f
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by _vertigo 6y ago
Never mind the fact that Facebook probably pays better than 80% of tech companies Never mind the fact that tech salaries are already insane Never mind the fact that there is a global pandemic and corresponding economic uncertainty Never min

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