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by darawk 4y ago
I'll give this a shot. I've written variants of this comment a billion times on HN, but I sort of enjoy trying to create the perfect articulation of what it is that I like about crypto, so I'll try again: Crypto is an alterna
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by darawk 4y ago
> Liquidity is not a property of h2o molecules but it is of water The ability to speak English is not a property of floating points, but it is of certain, very specific large tensors of them. What's the difference? > Emergence is
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by darawk 4y ago
Let's make this concrete. What in your mind is a specific example of a concrete system with an emergent property, then?
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by darawk 4y ago
> Consider a researcher putting a book on a thin ice-sheet, and then putting a car on it. Here, they're concluding the ice has different properties in each case -- but it doesnt. This is just a linguistic shell game with the meaning
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by darawk 4y ago
> There’s nothing wrong with asking for evidence, but as we can see from your other comments, there is no way for anyone outside of Twitter to definitively prove what the accounts tweeted before they were banned. That's not entirel
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by darawk 4y ago
I'm annoyed by everyone just making things up that they find ideologically convenient. I'm annoyed when Elon does it, I'm annoyed when his enemies do it.
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by darawk 4y ago
I don't necessarily believe him without evidence. But i'm not going to believe anyone else who doesn't provide evidence either. It'd be great if people would just stop making things up all around.
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by darawk 4y ago
I think it's fair not to draw conclusions either way without confirmation. But if that's what's happening here the statements should be framed in those terms, not as a declarations that he banned people who didn't even v
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by darawk 4y ago
Why do you think he was banned for that tweet?
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by darawk 4y ago
I'm not defending his choice to ban it. The person I was responding to made the claim that the journalists were banned without even having posted the banned information. If that's true, that's bad in a different way than the
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by darawk 4y ago
> Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it. Do you have evidence of that? He claims they were reporting the location.
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by darawk 4y ago
> At a deeper level, the criticism fails to appreciate how people use citations as a measure for academic promotion. In most cases tenure committees care about aggregate statistics like total citations, h-index or i10-index. If a researc
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by darawk 4y ago
Bahamas said that they did it in response to a US extradition request. So, it seems like he's getting extradited.
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by darawk 4y ago
> TFA is extremely clear that the presence of citations (in the aggregate, as a count) on “weak” papers is something the author considers a problem and a perhaps a moral failure on the part of citing authors. The author also believes tha
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by darawk 4y ago
1. He addresses this repeatedly throughout the piece. Journal impact factor is (largely) uncorrelated to replication probability. 2. Yes, but this hardly seems like a defense of citing something false (without comment), or something that ha
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by darawk 4y ago
You don't need to be able to perfectly describe something in your head. That's what you hire an artist for. Almost nobody hires an artist to produce the exact thing they are imagining - they have a general idea of what they want,
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by darawk 4y ago
> Then, for 14 years, tons of money was dumped into it, and not much happened. It's still mainly used for black market goods. It still has terrible user interface. The transaction rate is still low. The transaction fees are high. An
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by darawk 4y ago
Thanks, agree with 1 and 2. For 3, I think his statement as written "big crypto projects are very rarely scams" is clearly not literally true in a meaningful sense, and it's right to criticize him for that. However, I think a
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by darawk 4y ago
1) Large numbers of people on this site regularly argue that the entire conceptual foundation of crypto is fraudulent and/or without merit, not simply overstated. 2) I don't think he's arguing that everyone who thinks crypto
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by darawk 4y ago
I suppose I'm thinking more about data science / engineering oriented things, since that's what I tend to use Python for.
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by darawk 4y ago
That list actually seems genuinely pretty minimal. Reading your comment I was expecting a long major list of changes, but it's only 3 things, most of which seem relatively unlikely to impact most programs, with the possible exception o
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by darawk 4y ago
I think one thing to keep in mind here is that, while everything you said is true for most ordinary defendants, Sam's parents are both highly regarded Stanford law professors. They have both been spotted in the Bahamas with him, and ar
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by darawk 4y ago
Would we actually? If so, doesn't this imply that the probability of earth just having been destroyed by one of these things was roughly a coin flip, and therefore gives us a (much higher) rough estimate of how likely such an event mig
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by darawk 4y ago
I think the true answer to this question is that it was/is a gold rush with low interest rates that led large amounts of capital to be allocated to less than competent people. In particular, the companies and operators that look the sm
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by darawk 4y ago
Then you didn't read very carefully: > Several letters noted the fact that the derivatives market had become concentrated in a dwindling number of players, and argued that it would be safer to trust middleman-free operations such as
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by darawk 4y ago
If the CO2 emissions produce energy that funges against carbon intensive energy, it is a net benefit. The arithmetic here really isn't hard.
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by darawk 4y ago
As they should. That's the whole point of carbon credits. If you produce energy without producing CO2, you should get credit for that.
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by darawk 4y ago
Yes, it was: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-15/ftx-once-... > The author claims that it had previously been explored and found not to be worth it. The author isn't an unbiased observe
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by darawk 4y ago
Many of the TradFi HFT firms were in support of FTX's proposal. The people that ran FTX were generally reasonably competent at finance (ex Jane Street), but extremely cavalier about risk with other people's money, and extremely po
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by darawk 4y ago
That's a red herring though. FTX's proposal was good - it was just contrary to CME's profit interests.

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