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by bsedlm 5y ago
I like to think about Natural numbers as a basis for money (accounting) giving way to Integer numbers as a basis for money (banking). Going on along this trend, one gets to Real numbers (Finance? trading stock?) and so until modernity with
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sometimes I think that this is a much bigger reason for nuclear electricity than anybody would ever publicly admit. to the point that if you remove all apperances (politics, marketing, etc) this is THE biggest drive behind the push to nucle
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and the mainstream political world is much safer, steadier
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> Considering that Taiwan is already independent and would need to be persuaded to join the PRC, these kinds of threats seem counterproductive to China's goals of "peaceful reunification". --flurben so flurben will now be
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where has this been all my life!? on the plus side I found it now...
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yes. there's a hint on the ideology under attack in your observation. empowered users are dangerous to real-life systems. best keep such power in the hands of a select few properly credentialed engineers.
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I recall some articles about schools doing this too.
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But now that everybody's information is on the market, privacy has computable cost, who will pay for your privacy? In general, he advent of information age had turned explicit many formerly implicit costs. I think a similar argument ma
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I consider the energy expense exactly the reason (and the cost) of the decentralized trust afforded by PoW. How is it irrelevant?
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I disagree, it is relevant, just not directly related. It's relevant through an idelogical lens.
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I like to think mathematics is really all about this *theroetical* pursuit. Assume nothing, explain everything. Thus I claim that mathematical constants are a failure of the mathematicians. This level of constantless mathematics would have
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by bsedlm 5y ago
There's a fundamental incompatibility between ownership-based capitalist markets (and their orderly political state association) and free and open source software owned by "the community". I believe the trend we are now on wo
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collective systemic greed
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by bsedlm 5y ago
isn't chip making is extremeley repetitive? (though not manual, or maybe we could say manual but through extermely complex tools?)
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When thinking about how China came to dominate all manufacturing, it makes me wonder if China was playing Go and rest of the west was playing chess
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> He calls out stupid people for being merely vessels for ideologies. Then immediately proceeds to declare - with effortless stupidity - that god is the source of liberation from stupidity. His understanding of god is very different from
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I feel like this analysis do not take into account the true magnitude of computing in respect to language. Long ago we invented writing, so a literal tradition (as opposed to an oral tradition) was possible. But the transition took thousand
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> But many are too scared to confront the women. This reminds me of this Monty Python sketch: Monty Python - Hell's Grannies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmzMzmnB-iQ
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by bsedlm 5y ago
and in a more costly, less forgiving environment, there is not enough abudnance of wealth so society becomes less free. Neo-fascist autocracies here we go! (they're just cheaper)
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I think we were at a sweetspot around the 2000s... The windows XP era. But this is most likely my own familiarity bias?
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hypocrisy (along with taboos I guess) seem to be a necessary part of a functioning society.
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I prefer to argue the same thing by saying that we recognize this is a rational expected behavior of any entity developed enough that it looks after itself. Similarly to other lines of reasoning critizizing specifically facebook for "k
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by bsedlm 5y ago
>Maybe the idea you are really looking for isn't "prevent it from being encrypted", but instead, "make any 'simple' reversible transformation of it, have parts that hint at a way to decode it / leave it
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> You'd need to cleverly narrow down the definition of "encrypted" you're operating under. absolutely. I suppose I should have explained that I'm thinking of "practical key-based symmetric(?) encryption&quot
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> The organization should be designed to execute its mission in the most cost effective and transparent manner. I argue that this describes a specific type of organization in a specific environment (context). namely a business organizati
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> Notice how there are no clear criteria for evaluation in this space? No math. No models. Just loose concepts strung together with words and sprinkled with calls to authority (e.g., Andy Grove) to add credibility. No evidence. No scienc
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by bsedlm 5y ago
for some reason, this reminds me of this question that occured to me. How could we design some sort of error correction/encryption algorithm which makes the information impossible to encrypt. If we consider error correction to be the c
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I'd say the same thing about Google.
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(I'm trying to better understand this) I think it's not so simple because authoritative DNS systems are involved. So it's not just a BGP error. It's a BGP error which disconnected authoritative DNS for all facebook. I&#x

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