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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Thanks for your detailed answer. I think it's a little unkind, though, to link my idea (having the parliament vote to give narrowly defined powers to an existing politician for the short period until the next election) to the ideology
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think he's suggesting that the Ethereum devs keep pushing back the date for when the Merge is due to occur. That's a little unfair, though, as there has been solid progress for a while now in terms of deploying the change to the
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> It's all innuendo. Nothing was indisputably "revealed". I don't know what sort of evidence it would take to convince you that Modi's team was illegally spying on his political opponents, but I think I'll t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> If the vote does not go Draghi's way, a caretaker government with limited powers will take control until after an election. But Di Maio said this would leave Rome temporarily paralyzed to enact meaningful policies to arm Ukraine o
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This only marks his official employment by Microsoft. He's been working for them unofficially for years. /s
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Unfortunately there's some cold-hearted logic in buying cheap Russian gas for years, even if you know they will use the money to fund their incremental invasion of Ukraine. As long as the one-off cost of switching to another supplier (
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
According to the logic of the original Roe v Wade decision, wouldn't the invention of artificial wombs mean that abortion would no longer be a constitutional right? It is a strange legal framework to be operating in if the creation of
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The remaining timeline seems to be as follows: > Goerli, the last public testnet to run through the merge transition, should do so around August 11th. > If everything goes well with Goerli, we could see a mainnet merge around the week
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Ethereum Devs Pencil in September Date for Merge(decrypt.co)
8 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|5 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Broadly, it seems that in a world where LeCun's architecture becomes dominant, useful AI safety work looks more analogous to the kind of work that goes on now to make self-driving cars safe. It's not difficult to understand t
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Safety Implications of LeCun's path to machine intelligence(lesswrong.com)
3 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|1 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Maybe it's posted somewhere else where it got more views? The videos on that channel definitely seem to be reuploads. Not only are they not in chronological order, but they have an upload date of 2020, despite the original crowdf
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I stared for a long time at your third sentence before I remembered that Leibniz is the correct name of the German mathematician you are referring to, and Leipzig is a German city (where, coincidentally, he was born). https://en.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
As discussed further down, kites were indeed seen as useful for the military in the late 19th century. Wikipedia says[0] > In the early 1890s, Captain B.F.S Baden-Powell ... developed his "Levitor" kite, a hexagonal-shaped kit
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
A fun quirk of history, embedded in the English language, is the fact that "cleric" (meaning "a member of the clergy") has the same Latin root as "clerk" (meaning a worker who is trained and literate). Of cour
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> In much of the country you can buy a square mile for a few million. Yet in other parts of the country people pay that for 1000 square feet. The fact that people aren't building skyscrapers or gold mines in "much of the countr
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It may not be "pure" hate, but if their hate is at a level where it overrides their logical self-interest then it is automatically dangerous.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
They also mean that the next world war is going to be devastating. I think it's too early to tell if we've just replaced a medium risk of a medium scale tragedy with a low risk of an unimaginably bad tragedy. There were two world
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
* Tax them heavily until we've solved climate change (and if we don't solve climate change, flying cars will be the least of our worries). * I'm guessing the GP meant "currently incurable diseases", so pointing out
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Energy is a major direct and indirect input into the price of pretty much everything. The other major factor, of course, being land. While I don't expect many major economies to implement a Land Value Tax in the near term, to bala
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
So FAANG would really become MAMA?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You have to wonder whether the people who support this destruction wouldn't also support the government destroying the electric cars themselves, or even attacking the cars' owners. When their hatred is so strong that they want the
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Is the title a reference to the comedy web series of the same name from a few years ago? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQy1fPyHsOHhS8ODcqlGW9Q
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
When the article said: "In the end only one character had neither a clear source nor any historical precedent: 彁." my instinct was that this character could be retconned to mean "character whose meaning has been lost", t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> these "fully decentralized" identity schemes ... inevitably are a cryptocurrency with extra functionality duct taped to the side. I've not actually used BrightID[0], but my understanding is that you can use it without ne
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Gerrymandering is a term best used to refer to the drawing of electoral boundaries for partisan advantage, and thus isn't really relevant to UKIP's under-representation in 2015. But yes, it is voter disenfranchisement, and UKIP wo
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
(2021) > STV sits in the electoral system sweet spot, meeting nearly all of the ideal voting system criteria to a high degree. Nearly all? What about the criterion that people don't want their MP to live two cities away because the
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
First it will be required for playing online games[0], then governments will require ISPs to enforce it for anyone who goes online. Once people start side-loading to get around future bans on E2EE messaging apps, I expect governments will r
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> account recovery is not something "nice to have", but rather a hard requirement — and it's impossible, by design, in a public-key-crypto-based system. Can you give some examples of acceptable account recovery systems? Do
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think you don't have the right fonts installed.

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