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by bsedlm 5y ago
How could we be sure they aren't actually trying to cleanse evidence of high-level corruption and other crimes?
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by bsedlm 5y ago
they prefer to remain anonymous for easy maneuverability
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by bsedlm 5y ago
there seems to be a really powerful group of people that don't approve of facebook selling access to "eyeballs" fairly and equally to anybody willing to buy this. I conjecture that they'd prefer if somebody (i.e. them) h
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> How would you gain consensus on which git repo is the original? How do you distinguish between the original repo and a fork? the one with the most commits? (perhaps, more accurately, the most commits all of which pass all tests) > C
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> Right but which chain and which NFT? whichever them who you want to recognize your status know about.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
power comes in many sizes. small largely inconsequential power during an evening at a party, or the power of a clerk in a bureaucracy are both power, albeit small (short-term) power. They're both power
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by bsedlm 5y ago
wasn't Microsoft also in this race with the HoloLens?
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by bsedlm 5y ago
some people, mostly young people, might consider it 'fun'. also, at a certain point, a real experiment may yield nothing in return, i.e. a risk was undertaken yet nothing at all was gained.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> transparency is a deflection and most of the implementation is based on lies transparency(openness)-opacity(secrecy) are not the same as honesty-deceit. all language-based 'explanations' can be argued to be lies by nitpicking
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by bsedlm 5y ago
but why are you so adamant on making everybody so perfectly safe? there used to be something about freedom and risk; heck, about life and risk. it's risky to be alive but it was more risky live way back in the day at what point does sa
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by bsedlm 5y ago
this is the best explanation I've even seen for a positive aspect to secrecy. yet I still distrust secretive practices on principle, because evil deeds require secrecy 99% of the time
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I think he's saying you cannot only rely on any particular simple metric (nor just a couple of them). I'd say you gotta use many metrics, the simpler they are the more metrics you'd need. simple metrics ignore the subtelties
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by bsedlm 5y ago
What I really want to know is *who* do you have to know (similarly who has to know you; or rather who do you and Nike executives both have to know) in order for this kind of acquisition to even happen
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by bsedlm 5y ago
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by bsedlm 5y ago
similarly, free software (in RMS's sense) does not mean you cannot charge for it. however this has practical considerations which are still open problems
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by bsedlm 5y ago
He seems to be saying something very much along the lines of [1]. However, I don't like the work clock centric viewpoint. In my own experience this kind of pattern: > My own experience of background work, though, is that sometimes m
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> It actually has to be used, which it generally has not been: maybe it comes down to where does it need to be used (as in which level, capital investment and other long-term assets in contrast with consumer goods)? This money is quickly
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by bsedlm 5y ago
This seems reasonable, lots of new money (currency) leads to inflation. As far as I understand this is how it works; this seems to be as basic as suply and demand based pricing. If this is not the case, the reasoning is counterintuitive.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
so if they make more money (vast incrase in money supply) does not lead to inflation? (not anymore?, what's changed?)
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by bsedlm 5y ago
sometimes I think that the main difference is that the Spanish didn't have a clear idea of where they'd arrived; they had sailed looking for new trade routes. But then they "struck gold" and they improvised. But the rest
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> the most benign European imperialists. "most benign" does not equal "least worse". sure, they didn't violiently decimate the native populations, salmonella took care of that on its own. And instead of violently
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by bsedlm 5y ago
It's as close as they can get to suing the internet
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by bsedlm 5y ago
maybe we gotta consider the publicly facing status pages as something other than a technical tool (e.g. marketing or PR or something like that, dunno)
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by bsedlm 5y ago
is there a difference? if Russia had indeed banned tor, what would have happened? what would they have done which is different from 'some ISPs in Russia block access to tor'?
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by bsedlm 5y ago
Dan Harmon (who is a pretty good storyteller) made a really good (and IMO fun to read) overview of how this plays out in "practice": https://channel101.fandom.com/wiki/Story_Structure_101:_Supe...
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by bsedlm 5y ago
that'd be super cool. one or two days off every month! (in addition to weekends)!
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by bsedlm 5y ago
https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/prelude.html this work claims that the 12 tones system (IMO not a scale) seems "universal" is in fact so widespread because of the timbres in the instruments used (i.e. the haromic s
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by bsedlm 5y ago
so the author said something which can be nitpicked, therefore the entire article is rubbish? I guess we all do this to a certain extent given that there's so much content to parse through and anything that will allow us to quickly dis
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I like to think (based on my shallow understanding of technical aspects of stories) that the basic formula of the hero's journey (a hero goes somewhere else and brings back some kind of change) is a general scheme to codify how to chan
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I wouldn't say that this article is about the universal structure of stories, it's really about the universal purpose (or reason) common to stories in most (all?) cultures. IMO, the universal structural aspect is about how to tell

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