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   by api 11y ago

   Sanders/Paul 2016! Not a joke. I would vote for it.
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   by api 11y ago

   This is outrageous. It's the exact opposite of what we should be doing. Or do we actually want US citizens paying rent to landlords overseas and for housing to be unaffordable to anyone who hasn't had an exit event?
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   by api 11y ago

   I follow it a bit. Right now we know that it's theoretically possible but it's very slow, too slow for uses other than maybe very niche things. In the next five years I fully expect to see an acceptably fast implementation that
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   by api 11y ago

   Tangential but: As a cyberpunk hippie who thinks people should own their data and control their computers (personal comput- ing regardless of form factor), that's why I focus mostly on the transport and the cloud. The cloud is where y
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   by api 11y ago

   TL;DR: The number of cars on the road is growing much faster than trucks, and far more people drive them. Even most truck drivers also own cars and often drive their cars in preference to their trucks. Most ground-transportation-related inv
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   by api 11y ago

   Are there any authors who don't have an agenda?
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   by api 11y ago

   This is why frontiers are so important. Only on a frontier is it possible to basically nuke the past and build a new society that is (relatively speaking) free of this kind of meta-stable eternal corruption. Once this kind of thing is estab
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   by api 11y ago

   Why? I've seen this before but it always mystified me. Oh, and totally tangentially but: how do human beings actually live in Vancouver? The rents and real estate prices are almost as bad as the Bay Area but minus the high paying jobs.
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   by api 11y ago

   In a more ELI5 sense, would it be true to say that derivatives are not "real money" in the same sense that company valuations are not? Company valuations are projections created through some combination of extrapolation of growth
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    by api 11y ago

    If it's a slow thing that happens with aging (as some research suggests) then this might also be an anti-aging treatment to a small extent in that it might restore a little bit of the health of a younger brain.
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    by api 11y ago

    My guess is that in a "professional" organized crime family if you have to whack someone it means someone (possibly yourself) screwed something up very badly. Killing someone is extremely high risk and is probably regarded as slop
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    by api 11y ago

    I don't think it's ever a forced choice in an absolute sense. What really happens in practice is that we assign a high weight to highly trusted entities in a game-theoretic sense and we tend to mimic their beliefs in order to ma
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    by api 11y ago

    But some people do, and over time this leads to ethical codes evolving. Nothing remains constant over time, least of all living or sentient systems. If you initially bias an AI toward fluffy feel-good morality but put it in a world where de
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    by api 11y ago

    If we're talking about "real" AI, then AI will chose its ethical code. Otherwise it is not sentient and is not a thinking being. A better question is: "what conditions lead thinking beings to choose positive and benevole
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    by api 11y ago

    I suspect this is why "collect the best and brightest and lavishly fund them" star-power startups tend to fizzle. The best and the brightest are that way by yesterday's metrics.
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    by api 11y ago

    Oh sure, it's a judgement call. I would say as a founder that it's best to seek a high but not insane valuation, and of course the definition thereof depends on multiple factors: what I think a reasonable growth estimate is (whi
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    by api 11y ago

    Not sure how much it will impact startups with saner valuations, but yes I do suspect we might see a unicorn apocalypse at some point in the future. If it happens it will unroll more slowly than a public market crash since these markets are
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    by api 11y ago

    Personally I don't think life extension is a good or even a meaningful thing unless we're also extending the quality and vitality of life. Any kind of extreme life extension must also include measures for restoring neural plastici
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    by api 11y ago

    We'll just cut the tubes to those areas.
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    by api 11y ago

    I'm pointing out that as a social movement alt.med is driven in part by a mismatch between the real success and reliability of scientific medicine vs. the claims made by its authorities. Is fat good for your or bad for you this week?
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    by api 11y ago

    Doesn't this sort of thing present a problem for the idea of life extension? Death serves important roles.
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    by api 11y ago

    I agree to some extent, but not completely. Some day population-wide studies fishing for a p value below a certain threshold will be looked at with the same disdain that we look at homeopathy. "They actually believed you could do studi
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    by api 11y ago

    I dunno. Can you deal with right-to-left, left-to-right, and vertical languages with different glyph forms on the same screen while also coping with multiple accessibility settings, sub-pixel anti-aliasing, embeddable GL components, compone
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    by api 11y ago

    In a bio class a professor summed it up with "the hardest thing about medicine is being able to tell whether anything actually works." I told a friend of mine who's into alt.med once that yes I think a lot of alt.med is bunk
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    by api 11y ago

    PH strikes me as a vanity metric. Does it really get you noticed that much?
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    by api 11y ago

    GUIs tend to do this. I think the reason is that programmers fundamentally underestimate the problem of building a good graphical user interface, and therefore systematically design solutions that are inadequate. These inadequate frameworks
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    Vultr adds support for BGP sessions and AnyCast to its cloud instances(vultr.com)

    7 points by api 11y ago|2 comments
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    by api 11y ago

    It's hard to take on the surveillance state when you have to make a living and all the money and jobs are in surveillance and surveillance based business models.
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    by api 11y ago

    Before you invite regulation into this area, take a long hard look at how the government has historically approached cryptography and IT security. This is a far simpler domain with far simpler concepts, and it's a total shitshow that a
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    by api 11y ago

    Great takeaways from BEAST and CRIME. For BEAST, my takeaway was to never introduce a dependency into a cryptosystem of any kind without thinking very carefully about the implications-- and if in doubt, don't do it. I also took away