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by beaner 5y ago
On the contrary, actors who are bad at judging what qualifies as a "good" idea should be removed from the filtering process.
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by beaner 5y ago
I mean, citations please. If it really was a lab leak, who is to say it wasn't from a small specialized research team, maybe some academics who were aware of the science but not the implementation, and a couple people in management? Th
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by beaner 5y ago
Why does it require a cover-up so vast? All you need to keep the secret is blocking access from international investigators and the silence of the very few people originally involved. There's tons of precedent of harsh and inhumane pen
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by beaner 5y ago
Google did respond and consciously decided to maintain the "locked as private" status of the video, with an explanation of an irrelevant "violent criminal organizations" policy violation. Automation isn't to blame h
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by beaner 5y ago
It's just the age-old bias of disliking what you don't know because you haven't spent time around it. It's not categorically any different from something like racism.
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by beaner 5y ago
Because an outright ban is misguided anyway. PoW systems incentivize renewable R&D and investment. If you just straight-up make it illegal, you kill a major driving force of change for the better. If you restrict carbon output instead,
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by beaner 5y ago
> why can't we discuss the bigger problem first without getting into the weeds of all the smaller problems? People seem to be intentionally conflating some things. A carbon tax is nice precisely because it avoids getting into weeds
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by beaner 5y ago
I don't understand. We clearly have general laws like "don't shoot people," rather than 320 million individual laws like "John Edmund Smith IV of Springfield, Ohio cannot shoot people." And we didn't start
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by beaner 5y ago
That's only true so long as the price continually rises. As soon as the price settles, everyone is operating on the margin and can only become more profitable by reducing costs. Unsubsidized renewables are already the cheapest new sour
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by beaner 5y ago
But is it even a productive first step? There are arguments to be made that proof-of-work mining incentivizes renewable R&D. By banning that because it uses "too much" energy now - what are we potentially losing? What developm
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by beaner 5y ago
If that's how you feel, maybe that's the vibe you're bringing with you.
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by beaner 5y ago
The crowd of HN tends to be more philosophic. Without a moral / ethical / long-term practical view, we're just ships with torn sails floating in the waves, wandering about, making short-term decisions. Decisions often have 2n
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by beaner 5y ago
They did not answer it. "Broaden the scope too much" - why? The question seems completely appropriate if you're actually trying to solve the climate problem. The response didn't address this, it targets crypto specifical
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by beaner 5y ago
They didn't do that either. It reads more like avoidance. The semblance of an answer by posting anything, rather than a plain, direct response. Which gives the original questions more weight: why were they not able to be responded to d
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by beaner 5y ago
You answered literally nothing that the person you're responding to asked.
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by beaner 5y ago
Such a close-minded view. Children are great but they're just more people with their own experiences, like this man. And it seems rare these days that they might be as naturally at-one with the world around them as he is.
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by beaner 5y ago
Yeah, the point taken from the study is really designed to stoke tension when it is not really reflective of anything meaningful when it comes to job applicant filtering. It reminds me of a learning from one of Thomas Sowell's books. T
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by beaner 5y ago
Only in japan
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by beaner 5y ago
Yeah... I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole for you. You have to have been paying attention. These things turned out to be false but were continuously reported on at length as if they were true, even though plenty of sound skeptic
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by beaner 5y ago
The only difference is that the Guardian/NYT's lies are accepted enough to be dangerous. See: russiagate; russian bounties for american soldiers; the lack of representation of blacks and minorities in initial Covid coverage, leadi
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by beaner 5y ago
This is not what you said. You said: "He sold a small fraction of his holdings, so that there would be shares to trade ."
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by beaner 5y ago
You haven't heard what I've said. My point is not that in the real world a market would exist without sales occuring (even though that is true). My point is that the idea that some people "must" sell shares for there to
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by beaner 5y ago
You're coming at it from the angle of, practically speaking, what do large exchanges require from their listers to agree to the process? While I'm talking about the literal definition and pure concept of a DPO. There's no rea
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by beaner 5y ago
Why not? "DPO" stands for "direct public offering." It's an offering. Insiders can now offer their stock to others for trade. Actual trades are not mandated. It just means the market is now open.
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by beaner 5y ago
"So that there would be shares to trade." This doesn't make sense. All of the shares are available to trade as soon as the DPO happens, regardless of whether or not they exchange hands. People who want them are free to place
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by beaner 5y ago
There's always some to trade if the price is high enough. Having to dump large amounts as if it's a given is something banks tell startups so they can get the equity themselves for a price they like.
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by beaner 5y ago
People who want crypto to fail seeing causation in correlation.
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by beaner 5y ago
By which definition Bitcoin is still not a "fiat" currency, since it is not government-issued.
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by beaner 5y ago
Fiat means "by decree," I don't think it means anything about being backed by a commodity. Dollars used to be backed by gold and it was still fiat money. Bitcoin is backed by its own scarcity.
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by beaner 5y ago
All of these things are nice, but they're easier to throw in than improving the operating system, and that's the biggest differentiator.

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