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by bo1024 6y ago
Wow, this is wild. Let me see if I can summarize from my quick read of the links people have posted (just a summary, not claiming those links are correct). The catalyst event happening is apparently an impending "short squeeze" fo
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by bo1024 6y ago
> The decision makers in Ethereum care overwhelmingly about maximizing the value of their massive premine holdings. That's not the impression I got of Vitalik Buterin at all, nor others at the Ethereum foundation. Maybe you have a
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by bo1024 6y ago
I don't think it follows that my summary is wrong. I'm suggesting Ethereum people are happy to incentivize investment and stakeholders to protect ETH's value -- but not because they actually care about investors getting a goo
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by bo1024 6y ago
I don't know what you mean exactly, but: Bitcoin is really stable, it's not under development in the same way Ethereum is. So "bitcoin devs" don't really exist. Whereas a relatively small group of people could poten
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by bo1024 6y ago
Enjoyed the article. I think one can boil it down pretty simply: decisionmakers at Ethereum don't care about investors. They're going to make decisions that support and enable interesting decentralized applications, and "defi
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by bo1024 6y ago
I've read a few of her articles recently and been very impressed. I understand a default stance of skepticism but the writing speaks for itself. I would be curious for your criticisms on this "petrodollar" article, for instan
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by bo1024 6y ago
What bothers me about this article is that it tries to present a logical argument that tech monopolies are a problem, wrapped in a political rhetoric about how liberals are authoritarian. It starts off as an interesting perspective but ends
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by bo1024 6y ago
Can you get static IPv6 addresses assigned? Or do they change periodically?
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by bo1024 6y ago
Some readers could prefer the story-telling style, but others prioritize getting the information. To contrast, a novel wouldn't give away the ending on the first page, but a scholarly article absolutely has to give the take-away in the
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by bo1024 6y ago
I'm really looking forward to an IPv6 future with no NAT. My hope is it will empower people to easily host websites from home, make peer-to-peer connections, and generally own their stack. Example: you want to access a home camera (or
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by bo1024 6y ago
I think this is a legitimate downside of IPv6, but a small one in the big scheme of things. Considering in a world of IPv4, most people don't get to have an IP address at all...
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by bo1024 6y ago
The book just came out a few days ago. You can see a talk about the book's topics by the author here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbgukiJy6hY
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by bo1024 6y ago
There is modeling research that doesn't align with claims made here (disclaimer: I know an author): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.08.20190629v... > A highly effective transmission-blocki
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by bo1024 6y ago
This could be a good response to the "I have nothing to hide" arguments.
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by bo1024 6y ago
I think your opening paragraph is disrespectful and dismissive. He's a well-published professional mathematician. Why wouldn't someone take his advice just because he used to play football? Also, this article wasn't about him
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by bo1024 6y ago
That's not quite the whole story. She set a deadline (a few weeks?) after which she would resign, and Google terminated her immediately that day.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Most of them are full time researchers publishing papers. For example someone might do a study on facial recognition accuracy on different ethnic groups and how that impacts user experience or other disparate impact of automated systems.
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by bo1024 6y ago
You might save a little bit of confusion by calling it an email "address" validator.
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by bo1024 6y ago
I've greatly appreciated his writeup on how to properly thread email conversations from the MIME files. By far the best resource on the subject I was able to find.
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by bo1024 6y ago
The problem is YouTube's algorithm -- recommendations. If we accept the algorithm, then there is no middle ground: either you ban this content from the platform entirely, or watch misinformation spread wildly. But there could be a midd
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by bo1024 6y ago
This doesn't prove that the technology is ready or safe. It only proves that Waymo thinks it's a worthwhile gamble. This is the same place where Uber's self-driving car killed a person with no repercussions to the company.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Yes, and there are a lot of good reasons for that! The two functions become obsolete at different rates, and people have different needs for each of them, so it's the right place to put an abstraction layer. When I buy a computer monit
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by bo1024 6y ago
What do you mean by 2k in a laptop context? (i.e. non-ultrawide)
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by bo1024 6y ago
Ah thanks, I didn't see that was the same person higher up.
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by bo1024 6y ago
How about Jitsi? https://meet.jit.si/ https://jitsi.org/
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by bo1024 6y ago
I think this is a great solution! I have been thinking over the problems with captchas and also came to the conclusion that a proof-of-work puzzle is a fair, private, and hopefully-effective solution. You can look around for "useful&qu
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by bo1024 6y ago
Turnout is a huge variable.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Yes, I agree with all these things. I still think there needs to be a lot more precision and details about what the polls claim to do, to say they screwed up.
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by bo1024 6y ago
Yes, but "quite a few conceptual breakthroughs" leaves a lot of room open for if it would be at all similar to deep learning today.
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by bo1024 6y ago
This is not precise enough and I don't agree. > when the vast majority of polls in Florida showed Biden in the lead, and then Biden lost there by a few percentage points, that’s a polling error. The job of the polls is to gather i

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