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961.
by darawk 7y ago
The whole article is an explanation of how he figures.
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by darawk 7y ago
Why isn't it defined in terms of the solvable problems? This quantum computer can factor an n-bit composite number seems like a fairly objective test.
963.
by darawk 7y ago
Thrown their citizens to the wolves and caused all of one death, and no other problems to speak of? Seems like they made a great call to me.
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by darawk 7y ago
This is the premise of GANs. It seems to me that the tech already exists to make extremely hard to spot fakes using GANs, it's just that nobody has bothered to write the code to do it.
965.
by darawk 7y ago
Right, but there are potentially more efficient ways to go about that. Particularly if you have the buy-in of local governments to instrument their roads for you.
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by darawk 7y ago
That's a terrible point, though. The way the costs come down is by slowly chipping away at them, and scaling up production of all the important components. This is how all new technologies arrive.
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by darawk 7y ago
Hmm. I see a lot of people here responding that disabling this would break the Accessibility Services, and I completely agree. However, it does seem to me like there is a genuine problem here. Perhaps the solution is to have a two-layer acc
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by darawk 7y ago
Ya I get that that's why it isn't happening. It's just ridiculous.
969.
by darawk 7y ago
Well, the goal isn't necessarily to reduce doing stuff. The goal is to price the costs of doing stuff appropriately. That incentivizes two things: 1. Doing less stuff 2. Doing the same amount of stuff with fewer negative side effects.
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by darawk 7y ago
The worst part is that all of these problems are more or less easy to solve economically. Just tax the externalities. A gas tax that pay for carbon offsets for each gallon of gas would not actually add all that much at the pump. Barely anyt
971.
by darawk 7y ago
> Why should a democracy not be able the enforce a city-scale quarantine effectively? Because decision making here is less centralized. People have rights, and they will agitate about them. It's not clear where the governmental auth
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by darawk 7y ago
It seems like in a situation like this authoritarianism is a strength and a weakness. On the one hand, you get fed deceptive information by your local officials, but on the other hand, you have the power to enforce city-scale quarantines ra
973.
by darawk 7y ago
Doesn't that depend entirely on how many Italians end up catching it?
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by darawk 7y ago
No...this is how you measure performance. If you are paying an active manager like Buffet to manage money for you, you want them to do better than a dumb strategy like "just buy the whole index". That is why relative performance m
975.
by darawk 7y ago
If the original commenter here is suggesting that 15% of Italy's population will be hospitalized...that is its own counter-argument. That's pretty clearly not going to happen.
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by darawk 7y ago
When you say "15% hospitalization" are you suggesting that 15% of the population will be hospitalized?
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by darawk 7y ago
Right, but users would know when a secret transaction has been added. And no, your example does not negate the only technical advantage. Governments are not the only entities that might tamper. And most importantly, a blockchain forces even
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by darawk 7y ago
I certainly have. But this system is not designed like them.
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by darawk 7y ago
Except that if their models have already inferred sufficient structure from your data to do this in a way useful for training, then their models have already solved the problem your models are trying to learn.
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by darawk 7y ago
But they are the most efficient known solution to the problem. Efficiency is relative.
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by darawk 7y ago
There is a difference between deciding all transactions will be published and making them public by design constraint. Blockchains make transactions public by design , and this design cannot be easily subverted by the people running it.
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by darawk 7y ago
It's nothing like social security. It's a business that's growing. Eventually that growth will plateau, at which point it will be profitable. This is an extremely standard pattern that thousands of businesses have gone throug
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by darawk 7y ago
That's not universally true though. Many times new development will block a view, or it might run the risk of bringing in "undesirable" groups which would lower property values. There is definitely a long-run argument that va
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by darawk 7y ago
A radix sort is a type of hashing, no? You're bucketing the items based on a reduced form projection of them onto some smaller subspace.
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by darawk 7y ago
That would be a reasonable explanation I think if the rates of schizophrenia were merely lower amongst the blind. But what's said here is something quite ab it stronger than that: there are zero known cases of schizophrenia among the
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by darawk 7y ago
Respecting human choices and agency is 'legalistic'? That's quite the reductionist leap.
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by darawk 7y ago
Not really. There is an important difference, in my opinion, between covert surveillance conducted for national intelligence purposes, and surveillance conducted for run of the mill police purposes. There is no real way around the fact that
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by darawk 7y ago
No, you can't. His point is that you can say definitively that Chinese companies are controlled by government agencies, though.
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by darawk 7y ago
"Philanthropy is tax advantaged" just means that you don't have to pay tax on the money you donate. You don't keep any extra money for yourself.
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by darawk 7y ago
They are not being 'deprived' of anything. They agreed to exchange their labor for a fixed price, and they received that price. There was no 'deprivation' anywhere in the system.

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