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by danbruc 3y ago
Companies could just not produce and show ads but keep the ad budget in their prices and keep spending it. Yes, this will of course not work, this will screw up all kinds of incentives, but then lets make it a tax and let the state send a c
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by danbruc 3y ago
I already gave them my money, just distribute it among the websites I visit and do not bother me with your ads.
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by danbruc 3y ago
I did not want to say that they invented or improved nothing, just that a lot of the building blocks already existed. I just looked this up, non-interactive zero-knowledge proof also seem to have a history back to the late 80s, but if crypt
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by danbruc 3y ago
Disagree. Watching ads pays for nothing. People buying stuff with some ad budget included in the price is what pays for that content. The entire thing is essentially like a tax collected with everything you buy, then part of the money gets
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by danbruc 3y ago
Cryptocurrencies have not actually invented much new technology, they mostly combined existing ideas in new ways. Merkel trees, for example, are an almost 50 year old idea, zero-knowledge proofs are almost 40 years old, proof of work predat
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by danbruc 3y ago
This just reminded me that cryptocurrencies is a thing, this has not been a prominent topic here for some time, I would say. Is the entire cryptocurrencies stuff eventually on the way out or would that be a misperception? Just checked Googl
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by danbruc 3y ago
I have no real clue about control theory, what is the advantage of linear or invertible laws? My idea was to equip the control program with the equations of the system and some unknown parameters for friction and so on. Then estimate the pa
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by danbruc 3y ago
PID controller only appears in the Hacker News title, the URL just says control challenge. Also, why would you allow people to write arbitrary code if you just wanted a PID controller, then you should just allow them tuning the parameters a
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by danbruc 3y ago
It would be sufficient to do exams in person and no longer grade homework.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Why is that cheating? But it is still very slow, I got it down to 0.42 seconds. function controlFunction(block) { const t = Math.round(block.T / 0.02); return (t <= 10) ? +50 : (t <= 18) ? -50 : (
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by danbruc 3y ago
Consumers will pay up to the value the product provides to them [1] and producers will sell down to the costs of producing the product. So why do we have economy? We have it in order to provide consumers with goods and services they need or
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by danbruc 3y ago
We have to make 100 widgets to satisfy demand, you can make 75 per hour, I can make 25 per hour. I would say we both worked for an hour, so we both get half of the revenue. You want three quarters of the revenue because you made three quart
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by danbruc 3y ago
I completely agree with your last sentences but I guess this is still quite a bit in the future and I am not convinced that everyone would get what they need even if we would completely automate the economy. Even with complete automation th
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by danbruc 3y ago
Did I say anything like that? I asked for any evidence besides words in the Bible. But we already know that there is none because if it existed, then it would be a central piece of our understanding of the world and everyone would learn abo
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by danbruc 3y ago
I already got paid for the past ten years. If you had to attend university to get ready for your job, then you can have a bit more to compensate for that time without income. I have nothing against market economics in general, I would welco
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by danbruc 3y ago
If you make $40k profits per month, the price is not as cheap as it could be, that is probably around the median yearly income in the USA. My point is just that this is not a sustainable thing, not everyone can take $40k home each month and
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by danbruc 3y ago
As I said, in theory. Maybe I should better have said in a naive theory, but it does not seem to uncommon that the argument is made that people will just find other job if their current job disappears which, at least to some extent, implies
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by danbruc 3y ago
Now that we have kind of clarified what you mean, what is your evidence that any of those things actually happend besides that someone wrote a couple of paragraphs about them in the Bible? I would also be interested in knowing why those mir
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by danbruc 3y ago
Ask that guy. I would guess it is none of the three, i.e. he did not deduct a salary for him, but I really do not know.
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by danbruc 3y ago
The first question is, do I have to? If not, then I will have to deal with all kinds of intermediate cases, say an industrial designer or film music composers. But ad hoc I tend towards making a difference and accepting that there will be a
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by danbruc 3y ago
As I said in other comments, the term misinformation might not be the best fit, take unsubstantiated claims instead. Also my initial comment was to some extent meant jokingly and provocative. For what I mean, pick whatever supernatural thin
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by danbruc 3y ago
What are those signs and miracles?
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by danbruc 3y ago
Not sell it only once. Nobody would ever have bought an Office license if it would be priced at development costs. But lifetime revenue should be in a reasonable relation to development costs. And everything gets more complicated with expec
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by danbruc 3y ago
Do you think all the people cleaning toilets for little money prefer their job over sitting in a comfortable office and getting well paid? If not, then there have to be barriers. Here are some. You need time, you may need additional educati
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by danbruc 3y ago
There is no room for being a bit provocative here. Misinformation was mostly directed at the unsubstantiated claims about God, beyond that the Bible is of course a multifaceted book of its time containing all kinds of stuff from historical
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by danbruc 3y ago
I did not say this. If I build it in five days - and for simplicity assuming no future maintenance, support or service costs - than I would want to make say $5k for five days of work. Profit is revenue minus costs and costs include salaries
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by danbruc 3y ago
The Bible claims the existence of God without any evidence. As I said in another comment, I am willing to change my wording from misinformation to unsubstantiated claims as there might be a fine line that makes the Bible fall into the later
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by danbruc 3y ago
Nobody has to prove that there are no unicorns, who claims their existence has to present the evidence, and I was obviously not referring to the parts of the Bible that deal with mundane things. But let me rephrase my statement, by printing
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by danbruc 3y ago
Are you saying you prefer cleaning toilets over developing software, are you denying that the theory says that people will seek the best paying jobs or are you denying that supply and demand will regulate compensation? Keep in mind that I s
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by danbruc 3y ago
If, then I would have to do it at zero profits. But I already have a job.

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