cwkoss

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   by cwkoss 4y ago

   How many deaths would you attribute to cryptocurrency? Dollar hegemony's death toll is in the millions.
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   by cwkoss 4y ago

   Feels like a yellow journalism headline. It's only a loss if they have to liquidate before maturity. Kind of feels paradoxical: money can be accounted for in the future but not today. People tied up a bunch of money at worse terms th
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   by cwkoss 4y ago

   I feel like the main problem is that the practice is so pervasive and diffuse its hard to focus attention on a particular target. The most effective course of action is to adopt a strategy of intentional unfairness: pick one offender at sem
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   by cwkoss 4y ago

   Privatized credit rating agencies are so outdated and barbaric. Feds should nationalize them into a single public service run without profit.
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   by cwkoss 4y ago

   Hell yeah, I'd be down too.
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   by cwkoss 4y ago

   If crappy phone photos are enough to make a decent depth map, I think Stablediffusion can do this today. The only missing piece would be for the band to train a model on high quality photos from specifically their concerts. ControlNet is r
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   by cwkoss 4y ago

   I'd imagine a significant majority of mass-produced lettuce is grown with some sort of shading to prevent bolting.
8. 338.▲
   by cwkoss 4y ago

   For making customer deposits whole, someone will get to become an iconic bay area institution. Not worth $20B to me, but there are dozens of vain people with billions that may disagree.
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   by cwkoss 4y ago

   Can the bank be sold and continue operating under new ownership without making all depositors whole?
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    How many dimensions does the vector space have? Seems like there are an infinite number of ways you could convert word->vector, how do you choose which one is 'right'? What should I google to understand how a word is encoded a
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Sahara dust feeds the Amazon rainforest https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    I think it's plausible that the deep state feels threatened by Tiktok because it is out of reach of US misinformation campaigns: Tiktok has the power to counterprogram against falsehoods spread by US officials. We've seen how cozy
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    I feel like the FBI has politicized quite a bit since Comey.
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    The deep state whining about TikTok is the pot calling the kettle black. I think a lot of people would agree that Twitter and Instagram are worse for users. Twitter is a bunch of bullying and wrath, Instagram is jealousy and avarice: extrem
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    EA is inherently psychopathic because it seeks to do analysis of morality devoid of emotions. I'm convinced most EAs are psychopaths.
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    'Pain mound' low tech compost driven water heaters are neat too
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Thinking of every inbound package as "extending the amount of border" is mission creep nonsense IMO - it's propaganda mostly for the benefit of legislators holding the purse strings. Regardless, it doesn't justify the ex
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    > grow linearly with the amount of border that needs protecting. Have the geographic borders changed in the last 25 years?
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    > being driven by prescription drug manufacturer industry associations and interest groups You do know those groups are currently profiting off selling fentanyl for medical uses? Fentanyl is very commonly used in US medicine - particula
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    I prefer content from creators putting their stuff out their because it is their passion vs the creators trying to run their accounts like businesses. Platforms are welcome to select for the latter (and some do), but I'll take my eyeba
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Found: https://insightprediction.com/m/162/will-there-be-an-armed-c... no depth, and unavailable to US people
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Make the tax scale with number of homes the entity owns.
23. 353.▲
    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Would be super cool if citizens had stories and lives, more like dwarf fortress dwarves.
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Make a multiplier on property tax based on number of properties owned. Make it robust against corporations spinning off one-shell-per-properly. Make it revenue neutral so the increased tax revenue from landlord-companies and airbnb super
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Anyone able to read between the lines and see what features will be coming?
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Maxis had a really cool integration ecosystem for a period. I remember flying my sim copter in my sim city. Driving cars around Streets of Sim City - in my city. SimCity was the worldbuilder and they let you play in that world in a variet
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Down to 2 weeks in image generation. Stablediffusion ecosystem is super cool.
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    Yeah, I'm aware of "churning". AFAIK its only possible to beat the system by taking advantage of many temporary offers in series and distorting your spending to get the 'free' value offered by their featured partn
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    lol they just cant help themselves
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    by cwkoss 4y ago

    I know this is a contentious topic for some on HN, but one thing I like about blockchains is the way fees are used feels more fair and just.