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by chr1 6y ago
It would have been 1 bit if all measuring devices in the universe were oriented along the same axis. If you prepare electron in a device with one orientation, then measure it again with a different device you need the vector.
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by chr1 6y ago
Firefox usage would be the most obvious metric.
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by chr1 6y ago
Some of this may be reasonable, but many of tech regulation laws do not help the customers, and they would never pass in a referendum. On the bright side maybe this kind of thing will help tech giants to understand that they must disrupt th
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by chr1 6y ago
The robot would be more like exoskeleton with wheels.
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by chr1 6y ago
Would be cool to have a mobility device based on their handle robot (the one with wheels). Basically a hybrid of bicycle and wheelchair that can go over stairs, and be safer in case of accidents on the road.
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by chr1 6y ago
Sorry, i have misinterpreted your comment, but reading it again i still do not quite understand it. If voting is open people can simply vote from their phones, everyone can check the status of their own vote, there can be two several indepe
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by chr1 6y ago
> Anonymity is crucial to voting Why do you think it is crucial? It did not exist in USA until 1888, it did not exist in Rome until 139 BC, start of the end of Roman republic. And in Rome the secret ballot actually have caused civil war
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by chr1 6y ago
For that to be democracy people would need to vote explicitly for that "monarch for four years" scheme, but people vote for campaign promises which are not being kept.
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by chr1 6y ago
But why do we need cryptography if we are not trying to keep it anonymous? If we remove the requirement of anonymity then the task is not much different from counting upvotes on a video. Which is easy to implement, and easy to verify by dif
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by chr1 6y ago
This is a very interesting question! I guess the usefulness of anonymity depends on the situation in the country. For instance in Armenia we do not have absentee ballots just for that reason. And before the 2018 revolution there was large p
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by chr1 6y ago
For the system to be a democracy the representatives have to represent the desires of the people who have elected them. In ideal case the results should not be different from the results of direct vote. If there is no way to elect a represe
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by chr1 6y ago
There is a big difference between picking someone to be your boss and decide what needs to be done, and picking someone to work for you and try to implement what you think needs to be done. You are not going to read the idea on the ballot,
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by chr1 6y ago
With liquid democracy voting is not an one off thing, where wealthy person can buy a vote once, and then make up for it by corruption. If wealthy people can keep paying half the country to keep the laws the way they want, and half of the co
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by chr1 6y ago
I never could understand the argument about republic vs democracy. Some people say republic protects rights of minorities because representatives are voting on laws, and there is a constitution. But if majority wants a law that is unfair to
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by chr1 6y ago
Do you think that would be more likely than voting for socialists in the current system? I think the difference is that with direct voting when the endless subsidies ruin economy it will be easier to vote for something reasonable, instead o
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by chr1 6y ago
Online voting is hard because people are trying to solve a wrong problem. Now anonymity in voting is needed because a vote has too much value for the politician who is being elected (four years of power), and too little value for the voter
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by chr1 6y ago
>You are still talking about mapping the simulation to a representation that will make sense to you. I am talking about mapping that will make sense to anybody at all, be that inside or outside the simulation. If such mapping cannot be c
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by chr1 6y ago
What does “encode” mean here? If it is supposed to contain the whole state in one chunk, the space of possible deterministic algorithms is too huge compared to the amount of dust, so it can't contain that. If it is supposed to find sma
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by chr1 6y ago
It's not enough if the mapping function does not use the information from the random set. For instance it is easy to construct a mapping from ordered digits of pi to ordered letters of your comment, but all of the information of your c
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by chr1 6y ago
In the latter case users could write the name in comments.
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by chr1 6y ago
Do you argue that we cannot do this in principle, or that we cannot do it yet? The second can be true but considering that people have lived on all kinds of different diets, there should not be too many unique components vital to survival&#
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by chr1 6y ago
What do we get from supporting Firefox against the "monopoly" though? Chromium is as open source as Firefox, and users have as much influence on features Firefox implements as on features Chrome implements, which is zero. I woul
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by chr1 6y ago
Why do you think it doesn't add up? Before the removal you have "usefulness of firefox" + "usefulness of extensions" > "usefulness of chrome" after removal "usefulness of firefox" < "u
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by chr1 6y ago
Centralized moderation at scale is impossible to do for the same reason that centralized planning of economy is impossible to do: which is that goals, knowledge and resources are not known to the centralized authority that is supposed to ha
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by chr1 6y ago
I understand that, what i don't understand is why do people consider deleting a number so important. No matter how was it obtained, it's just a number and deleting it doesn't benefit anyone. (Arguably leaving it online may ev
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by chr1 6y ago
If we temporarily put aside the question of me being a monster, is there any evidence that fighting with the images helps in any way to prevent the actual crime? People playing violent video games do not go to the street killing people as a
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by chr1 6y ago
I did, but i did not see any harm done by not removing the videos, only effect it had was helping to find the girl.
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by chr1 6y ago
So pornhub helped to find the girl and catch the trafficker. What's the ethical issue with pornhub here?
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by chr1 6y ago
"Trying to forcibly deplatform an widely held opinion doesn't work and may need to it's resurgence" is another fact that people unfortunately do not understand. If you want to deplatform anti-abortion people, you need to

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