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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It's a bit more nuanced than that. The argument doesn't start from a position of "we don't like the result" (although I'm sure many people are primarily motivated by that), it starts from a principal that the
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> why even waste the breath to complain that you would have won under a different set of rules? Because the other set of rules would prevent a political minority from seizing complete control of all branches of the federal government. I
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> "By design we make it clear and simple for customers to both sign up for or cancel their Prime membership." I'd almost respect them more if they said "Okay, you got us, we deliberately added as many complicated step
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The robotaxi company will have to conform to local laws. What do you think car manufacturers have to do? https://unlikekinds.com/article/ecall-eu-cars-emergency-call...
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This is just moving the problem around. The briber/threatener can just demand that you request one of these correction forms and fill it in for you. Having said that, these risks also apply to postal voting, so the jurisdictions where
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The question of Parliamentary vs. Presidential is orthogonal to that of Proportional vs. Plurality. (Sorry if that terminology just makes things more confusing). To give a concrete example, the UK uses the same plurality voting system as (
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
For online voting, someone can log into the site/app and then hand their device to someone who bribed or threatened them. For an in person vote, you can mark the ballot one way and then tell someone you voted another way. Also, anythi
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> hyper partisan politics of the US at least could've been avoided if we just had online voting Other countries with more proportional voting systems don't have the "too big to fail", two-party duopoly that the US has
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> mailing a copy of everyones vote to them? So everyone can prove to the person who bribed or threatened them that they voted how they were told to?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
1. If you're sending a portion of your monthly wages as a remittance to your family, spending a dollar[1] isn't too much. 2. A smart contract allows decentralised organisations to function, with democratic voting and transparency.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
They are (at least) two separate use cases, even though they are both examples of sending money. (You could equally say that they are all examples of sending data). 1. Some people want to be able to send large amounts of money internationa
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's a rather flamebaity opinion, but you have a point. It's like Mozilla are saying "We have centrally planned the number of carbon credits that may be spent by each technology, and determined that blockchains are a forbid
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
1. Permissionless, censorship-resistant global money transfer 2. Smart contracts 3. Append-only logs synchronised between mutually distrusting parties 4. Decentralised identities 5. Microtransactions for online games and to replace web adve
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> we're not open to allow anyone and their dog to become a "trust anchor" Or, to put it more simply, you designed another centralised identity system.
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> laws should be up to the democratically-elected legislature Even if those laws go against the democratically-passed state constitution? That's not the way democracy usually works.
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> tied to super market checkout systems Norway is one step closer to that: https://www.lifeinnorway.net/norway-to-track-all-supermarket...
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Isn't it possible that the UK government is supporting "weird digital ID" because they know it will inevitably fail in some catastrophic way and then they'll be forced to step in and unify all these proprietary systems i
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> No pinging of a central server is ever done Until the next time there is a terrorist attack or other scary event, and the opportunistic politicians say "We could have stopped this if only we had been keeping these pings in a datab
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> A more universal digital ID Would you support a global digital ID, based on standards from the UN? It could even be used to store your vaccine data: https://www.telekom.com/en/media/media-information/arc
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That's just like, your opinion, man.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I wasn't sure that an air compressor is a good comparison, but I thought that a typical fan was also not a good comparison because the air it moves doesn't have much resistance to it. Presumably if you're trying to force air
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> 7 Trillion tons of air per year Thanks for running these numbers. I have a few more calculations to add which support what you're saying. Let's consider a fairly standard industrial air compressor[0] which has a rating of &q
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
For context, here's a news article from March of this year: "The biggest food price hikes are in meats, with pork and beef up 14% to 20% compared with a year ago." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meat-prices
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> Use two tiny needles I'm wondering if it would be possible to manufacture some sort of clear plastic sandwich-like material that contains two separate chemical "fillings", kept apart by a central barrier which, if punctu
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I agree with the need to standardize phone chargers, but that's quite a different market. It is much more likely you'll let someone borrow your charger than borrow your bottle top, and also more likely that you'll buy a spar
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The original OpenAI blog post[0] says: > Crafting a diamond pickaxe requires a long and complicated sequence of subtasks. To make this task tractable, we reward agents for each item in the sequence. but a lot of these steps are standard
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OpenAI’s New AI Learned to Play Minecraft by Watching 70k Hours of YouTube(singularityhub.com)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> to make sure the bottles are of a particular strength, quality, durability. That sounds like something the free market can solve. If people want bottles that last 5 years, then some company can offer a 5 year guarantee, or there could
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> While our time series analysis supports previous findings that periods with persistently scarce supply last no longer than two weeks, we find that the maximum energy deficit occurs over a much longer period of nine weeks. This is becau
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> With this mandate, now I can take my used shampoo bottle and refill it at the store (assuming stores offer this). Do you really need a standardized bottle for this? As long as the shampoo dispenser measures how much product it dispens

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