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10321.
by api 8y ago
I wrote a ton of IRC war bots and scripts back when I was a teenager including something called the "Sumo nick collider" and the textbox.irc script. The latter was a general client enhancement script but had tons of extensions for
10322.
by api 8y ago
During the height of dot.com mania would you have written off all web projects? People did. I remember reading those kinds of comments.
10323.
by api 8y ago
I'm not optimistic about this for game theoretic reasons. It would require a global scale all-cooperate scenario, since any single defector gets massive economic benefit from defecting and using cheaper energy to undercut everyone else
10324.
by api 8y ago
I really wish more people understood this. Over-engineering is the plague of modern software.
10325.
by api 8y ago
The Dual EC gambit struck me as very clumsy and ham fisted. The "number theory in your PRNG" argument is exactly wrong in an obvious way too, especially when you consider quantum computing. Did they really think nobody would notic
10326.
by api 8y ago
What's new? Unless you are manipulating logic gates directly you are working at some layer of abstraction, and there is no way to tell how many layers are below you. Modern CPUs long ago ceased being directly manipulated gate machines
10327.
by api 8y ago
... on design and user experience. Take note.
10328.
by api 8y ago
Why not just include a cheap resistance heating element mounted somewhere safe so worst case your solar system has some load to take the power?
10329.
by api 8y ago
If we do end up finding a bunch of classical performance equivalents to quantum algorithms this could have huge implications for physics.
10330.
by api 8y ago
I wasn't complaining about loan interest but about how new money is allocated. It's allocated top down in a way that benefits a politically and economically connected aristocracy.
10331.
by api 8y ago
AFIAK that kind of "money from helicopters" approach is something I've heard discussed by progressive economists, but until quite recently it was not technically feasible to do this fairly. It would still be pretty hard to im
10332.
by api 8y ago
It would work out very badly. I lack the background or connections to obtain a bailout, and my bank would be too small to be "too big to fail."
10333.
by api 8y ago
My problem is with how new money is distributed. It's given to banks to lend at interest rates higher than they borrow it from the fed. I'd love to borrow money at nearly 0% interest and then turn around and lend it at 5% or even
10334.
by api 8y ago
There are good reasons to be skeptical of some things in the cryptocurrency world, but whenever I see people high in the existing financial system talking this way about it I can't help but think of RIAA executives in the late 1990s ar
10335.
by api 8y ago
I don't have any off the cuff but examples I've heard include future newspaper headlines and policy announcements. This leads me to suspect that QAnon is managed by Trump's organization or those closely allied with it, perhap
10336.
by api 8y ago
I knew this would happen when people started worshiping him. Our culture loves to elevate people to near Godhood and then smash them down. It's our own symbolic version of ritual human sacrifice. Maybe it ensures a bountiful harvest. B
10337.
by api 8y ago
Such things are common in sales in general. It's absolutely cutthroat. Salespeople, managers, everyone is in a Hobbesian all-against-all fight to the death for commissions. Crime and fraud are abundant. Personal attacks are not even th
10338.
by api 8y ago
I do think QAnon is something more than just some basement dweller or troll. There's just a little bit too much of it and there are too many cases where it's seemed to have information ahead of time that few could have possessed.
10339.
by api 8y ago
They're not interested in anyone but people willing to write million dollar plus checks using their products. Those same giant customers have large legacy investments and plenty of money to hire teams of people to deal with things that
10340.
by api 8y ago
That's exactly why white supremacists picked those terms.
10341.
by api 8y ago
You can be against neoliberalism, unfair trade, or international political entities overriding national sovereignty without being antisemitic. Picking a dog whistle term that happens to sound like a reasonable position is a standard politic
10342.
by api 8y ago
This just confirms what was obvious from behavior -- namely that Wikileaks is not neutral and has a clear political agenda.
10343.
by api 8y ago
"Globalist" is a very old antisemitic slur -- see "The International Jew" by Henry Ford.
10344.
by api 8y ago
Trump like the neocons is a reaction to a declining American world order. That being said he's doing things that will also like the neocons merely hasten this decline. You can see this pattern in corporations all the time. Companies th
10345.
by api 8y ago
It's not strictly necessary, no.
10346.
by api 8y ago
The web is an application. PSNs are a fundamental innovation. A fundamental innovation is a conceptual leap that brings about a qualitative (not quantitative) jump in capability. Before it something is simply impossible. After it that thing
10347.
by api 8y ago
It sounds like it's more than just the substance. There seems to be a policy of actually pushing its use from the government. I suspect there is a lot of pocket lining going on and that is the real cause of the famine.
10348.
by api 8y ago
The dot com era actually started in the late 1960s with packet switching networks. It took 50 years to get mass adoption. The first really working cryptocurrency was in 2008. I expect mass adoption by 2058.
10349.
by api 8y ago
I think the author generalizes too much from one example re: decentralization existing to work around the law.
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by api 8y ago
Do spectre mitigations already out there fix this?

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