candiodari

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by candiodari 5y ago
I think the issue discussed was different. Can you please explain WHY a global government would create a post-scarcity society? In fact, I'm quite curious what the connection is between global governance and post-scarcity at all. How d
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by candiodari 5y ago
> Similarly, uranium sitting in the ground at low density is largely inoffensive, but increase its density up to the critical point and you end up with an uncontrolled chain reaction. This is not going to happen. What is going to happe
1203.
by candiodari 5y ago
> You're lucky your income tax rate is only ~50%. It morally could be much higher. Can you explain the moral reasoning behind this? I don't understand how taxes figure into this. Those taxes aren't used, nor will they be,
1204.
by candiodari 5y ago
> I'm assuming that that hasn't been used in this case because the intention here is actually to lock the owner out and only allow the manufacturer access to change the device. Is that the case? No the intention is to lock out
1205.
by candiodari 5y ago
Actually one of the reasons big infrastructure projects were undertaken in the middle ages was just the opposite: to provide a reason for an economy to exist. Something for the population to do. Most spectacularly this is seen in Cathedrals
1206.
by candiodari 5y ago
It's also very unlikely that nature won't adapt to plastics. They have great amounts of chemical energy, and they're everywhere. Already you can see great decreases in plastic lifetimes, and they're decreasing faster and
1207.
by candiodari 5y ago
It seems like people have already forgotten. When TV ads gradually got less and less effective in the 90s. What was the result? Incredibly intrusive constant bloody annoying ads. Not less of them, far, FAR more. To the point the TV became u
1208.
by candiodari 5y ago
Which doesn't matter at all: it's not like the dam wouldn't have been built if there was no Bitcoin, so the implied causal connection is extremely tenuous. Especially since the Three Gorges Dam predates Bitcoin by 2 or 3 deca
1209.
by candiodari 5y ago
BTC (actually Ethereum) are incredibly handy when doing international transactions. That these things are effectively global also makes them very useful, because of bank fees and the difficulty. At one point I actually sat down with a bank
1210.
by candiodari 5y ago
This depends greatly what you want to do. After all, this has incredible latency (compared to the cloud), limited throughput. Zero configuration. Free. You want to train the next imagenet model? Analyse 100Gig database? Probably not the cor
1211.
by candiodari 5y ago
I don't get that reasoning. Obviously the Fed will prevent any such loop from happening, and it won't be the least bit controversial. They have many options to do this. For example, the Fed can in fact print money and buy treasuri
1212.
by candiodari 5y ago
The point that there is no shortage of tax havens in the EU itself, including leading EU nations, is true. Luxembourg, City of London, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Netherlands, Belgium, the Vatican, Switzerland (sort of), Malta, all for slightly
1213.
by candiodari 5y ago
This has been debugged for 20+ years now. Not bad at all.
1214.
by candiodari 5y ago
Exactly, if there is one thing that is to blame for cooking CPU's it's an ORM, and those aren't very typical to see in PHP at all.
1215.
by candiodari 5y ago
psych is questionable for basic reasons. It is a humanities science. It's purpose is not to figure out the world but to change it. Figure out how to end poverty for example. Therefore it is not well suited to figure out the world. Yo
1216.
by candiodari 5y ago
EU states stripping their citizens of their citizenship: https://www.dw.com/en/revoking-citizenship-how-it-works-acro... Generally this is done with (of course alleged) terrorism as an excuse, although this does not se
1217.
by candiodari 5y ago
Uh making people stateless against human rights is about stripping people of their last citizenship. Israel is not doing that at all (in contrast to most EU countries these days I might add, who are doing this, which shows once again just
1218.
by candiodari 5y ago
You can also point out that there are 2 law systems ... one of them makes it a crime, punishable by death, to give someone of the other group shelter (whether letting them stay, or even selling them a house). That law ... is a Palestinian l
1219.
by candiodari 5y ago
You were very fortunate indeed. What would have happened if, like half of all children, you got a below-average math teacher ? Yes the solution to all learning problems is more intelligent teachers. We know. This has been shown many times.
1220.
by candiodari 5y ago
Sadly this is wrong. Nothing to do with leftism, rightism, ... Any mass ideology has the same problem: half the people in the world are below-average. Which means that any movement that grows consists of ever more below-average people. Ther
1221.
by candiodari 5y ago
> Of course, if the woke can really get away with that, ... What do all ideologies say to the god of reality ? "Not today"
1222.
by candiodari 5y ago
Luckily everyone else can be trusted with sensitive data: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/06/police-backd... https://www.aclu.org/other/faq-government-access-medical-rec
1223.
by candiodari 5y ago
Actually Ireland demands that some percentage of workforce plus some percentage of revenue is in Ireland. So no these are sometimes very large offices, and a bunch of actual business is also routed through these offices. Unless you mean in
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by candiodari 5y ago
You do realize this doesn't work, right? Pharma "profit margins are very high", okay, but that means 10% (yes like everywhere there's that one company that does 30% for a while, averages however). So 100% nationalizing t
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by candiodari 5y ago
This is just the old conflict between ops and dev. A software dev wants a little code to express a lot , while maintaining some central guarantees, and doesn't really care about edge-cases beyond not having to code them explicitly. Ne
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by candiodari 5y ago
This is from 2011. Is this really the most recent comment you can find? A video that's going viral claims that both Hamas and Fatah and Israel have elections coming up, and all 3 are far-right governments (and in Hamas' case, a
1227.
by candiodari 5y ago
They are unguided munitions. They're an accelerated cannon ball and even then they don't seem to put much effort into aiming them at all. It is a futile exercise to try to hit anything with these rockets. They will occasionally hi
1228.
by candiodari 5y ago
Hamas themselves boasted of firing 2000 unguided rockets into Israel in a single day. Additionally, they boasted switching to a new type of rocket that "can hit all of Israel". https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-m
1229.
by candiodari 5y ago
Nobody in their right mind will consider a lot of attention by three letter agencies a reward or help. They may, and can, do a lot more damage than 0.4% of revenue, and can do a lot of damage to the individuals making the decisions as well.
1230.
by candiodari 5y ago
The first ever computer virus (arguably) was “brain”, arguably ransomware: https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-malware-when-were-com... Needless to say, it predated cryptocurrency by decades and it’s creators are at the

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