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by darawk 5y ago
Ya, it very well may be. I make no claims about the integrity of Abigail's transcription here. She may well be severely misrepresenting things. But if so, that's where the criticism should be located.
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> Last month, the California Teachers Association (CTA) held a conference advising teachers on best practices for subverting parents, conservative communities and school principals on issues of gender identity and sexual orientation. Spe
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by darawk 5y ago
I think this point is sort of the fundamental contradiction of modernity, and it underlies many of our disagreements and problems. Succinctly, it's the non-unitary nature of preference. I want to eat the cookie and I want to be thin. T
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by darawk 5y ago
This is exactly right. The crime stats are down because there is no point in making a report to a police force who won't make arrests because the DA won't prosecute. Simple as that. Blind reliance on "data" without refer
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by darawk 5y ago
I think the point is to teach people that apparently obvious things are not always actually true. This is extremely important in math as you move on, as i'm sure you know. Many "obviously true" things are not actually true wh
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by darawk 5y ago
I think this take on decentralization and structurelessness sort of misses the point. Of course it's true that all systems that do anything useful have structure somewhere. The point of various movements for "decentralization&quot
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by darawk 5y ago
I think a better framing would be that the way to force society to fix itself is to use software to demonstrate how things could be different. DeFi and crypto have already forced major changes to TradFi by exactly this mechanism, and they w
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by darawk 5y ago
Ya I don't find it to be at all implausible that two such people could be browsing HN. I just find it to be implausible that they commented within 10 minutes of each other just by chance.
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by darawk 5y ago
He's not saying its an indicator of credibility. He's speaking to the probability of two infrequent commenters commenting. The density of frequent commenters in all comments is very high.
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by darawk 5y ago
Two unrelated co-founders of multi-billion dollar fintech making anonymous accounts to comment here within 10 minutes of each other seems extremely unlikely to happen organically. Consider that the second one is a reply comment to the first
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by darawk 5y ago
Except that they are though...You can go run a validator on Eth or Cardano right now.
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by darawk 5y ago
> Miners do not set the rules, they are merely a service that provides immutability to a ledger, with a nuclear option that will bankrupt all the billions they have invested, should they misbehave. Stakers do not set the rules any more t
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by darawk 5y ago
So by "broken" you mean you can't actually break anything. Got it. MEV is well known, and the system operates just fine in its presence.
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by darawk 5y ago
Sure, go steal all the money in curve. I'll wait.
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by darawk 5y ago
> you didn't read the article to the end, did you? I skimmed it. It made no serious arguments. If it had a serious argument, it would have exploited one of the many existing proof of stake systems. > Security model in PoS = trust
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by darawk 5y ago
> Proof of stake is a scam. When I say that, I mean that proof of stake is (1) claimed to be a consensus system, and (2) constitutionally incapable of actually producing a consensus. Ok. Go break one of the many existing systems that ope
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by darawk 5y ago
Isn't this much better known as Goodhart's Law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by darawk 5y ago
> I'm not convinced that the trend towards greater complexity and rot exists in and of itself. That smacks of a teleological interpretation of human history and one that's grounded in a very brief and aberrant period of our spe
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by darawk 5y ago
> This the kind of generalization you often see from dabblers and rarely see from actual historians or even amateurs with a solid understanding of history. The complexity and rigidity of legal systems in various parts of the world varies
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by darawk 5y ago
So, you're saying that those exact bumps and grooves are the repository of value for Starry Night? That if only we could perfectly replicate those grooves, then it'd have no value?
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by darawk 5y ago
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802 MOMA is going to be so mad when they find out Starry Night is worthless now.
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by darawk 5y ago
> A lot of us older grizzled engineers came from an open source culture that, at least aspirationally, built software around ideas of abundance, post-scarcity, universal access, and equality. We may not have always succeeded in achieving
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by darawk 5y ago
Benford's law does not apply here. Benford's law is designed to separate human generated numbers from truly random ones. The numbers generated by exchange trades are generated by humans choosing trade sizes. This entire methodolog
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by darawk 5y ago
They can keep issuing them. They will not have the same value, though.
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by darawk 5y ago
That's the point. It's about consuming different things, not consuming less. And consuming different things that are at least as good, or better than the things we're consuming now. Nobody has ever, or will ever, make any ser
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by darawk 5y ago
Consuming less is not a serious solution and never has been.
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Yes, but your property tax rate is a much lower recurring rate than the capital gains tax rate. In fact, a tax like that on unrealized gains would probably be a much better way to structure things. You pay 1% a year on unrealized gains unti
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by darawk 5y ago
Imagine what has to be going on in your mind that you believe turning non-housing into housing will gentrify something.
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by darawk 5y ago
You're right about that. My point isn't about his overall wealth, or whether it's socially good that he has it. A few comments up the tree, someone asserted that Bezos wasn't strongly incentivized by the value of his Amz
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by darawk 5y ago
This is probably his most widely appealing post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/12/beware-the-man-of-one-... All the ones listed here are pretty good too: https://slatestarcodex.com/about&

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