akimball

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by akimball 5y ago
If I was running defense for Taiwan I would have had small nukes forward placed in the major PRC power nexii for the last twenty years.
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by akimball 5y ago
The existence of differences does not moot the similarities
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by akimball 5y ago
…But they aren’t saying what the drug is
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by akimball 5y ago
I think you might be suffering from a common and general objection to normalizing tortious practices
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by akimball 5y ago
That’s hot
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by akimball 5y ago
That’s a deep question about the semantics of “basic need”, and highly subjective. I do not think that reproduction is a basic need of the individual in ordinary language, but it may be deemed a basic, I.e. survival, need of the species or
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by akimball 5y ago
For the same reason sawdust is called “man glitter”
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by akimball 5y ago
Unfair to Penrose. His view is more like: Hence testing the range and depth of possible relationships to the limits of their coherence with evidence is a worthwhile enterprise.
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by akimball 5y ago
Waiting for a time machine seems like a remarkably inefficient use of the machine
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by akimball 5y ago
Other fat sources are healthier, and other protein sources are less perishable/risky. It is annoying to abstain meat in most restaurants, but this is rapidly improving. My own sweet spot compromise is ovo-lacto-pescatarianism. I eat
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by akimball 5y ago
The sad thing is that many people will just read the headline or the original email and walk away misinformed and indeed disinformed
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by akimball 5y ago
Hacking society has a long and rich tradition, albeit primarily composed of a long series of failures. A lot of us are looking for that one weird trick which allows one to end-run the various socioeconomic impediments to a forward leap in t
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by akimball 5y ago
Let’s see, JET 1998 Q total ca. 0.01, NIF 2021 Q total ca. 0.001 — seems like fusion is getting further away, rather than closer.
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by akimball 5y ago
Also it misprices tail risk, marking it to zero
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by akimball 5y ago
Count the socialized cost of environmental remediation please. It will run into the quadrillion zone
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by akimball 5y ago
Only because profits are privatized while costs and tail risks are largely socialized, for the fossil fuel industry. If they paid their environmental impact costs, no driller or coal miner could operate profitably.
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by akimball 5y ago
Placing bets is investing. Placing bets with a conspiracy attached is activist investing.
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by akimball 5y ago
It has an ordinary language definition. I would frame it thus: The selection or indication of one class of alternatives as distinct from another class.
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by akimball 5y ago
Only if “no different” means not yet observable.
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by akimball 5y ago
The quote and your observation are compatible. I would also observe that predictive determinacy does not preclude choice.
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by akimball 5y ago
Anything built by appropriating other people’s property and/or by depredation of the commons.
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by akimball 5y ago
15.9 million per The Economist
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by akimball 5y ago
One word answer: sortition
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by akimball 5y ago
ADC means analog is trivially made digital. Analog is not an effective firewall unless it is physically shrouded from all sensor networks.
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by akimball 5y ago
Mass capture of telephony is real. Voice recognition is real. Text processing is real. All of these are low-tech these days.
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by akimball 5y ago
The IRS has paid out millions of dollars in a failed effort to deanonymize Monero transactions without a lawful subpeona. Thus, a lawful subpeona is still required in order to unseal Monero transactions in the US, I.e., to compel the produ
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by akimball 5y ago
Making privacy illegal insures totalitarianism
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by akimball 5y ago
Posting the view key for the wallet would prove ownership (and transaction history). This is how Monero allows audit ability and subpoena compliance without risking the security of funds.
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by akimball 5y ago
GPU and CPU miners are roughly equal in mining utility on the Monero chain. FPGAs and ASICS are disadvantaged by the memory bandwidth requirements of the RandomX algorithm
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by akimball 5y ago
The potential (not actual) Monero supply will surpass the Bitcoin supply in 2044. Lost keys may exceed emission, which would imply deflation of actual supply.

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