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by econ 5d ago
Alternatively we can have a committee distribute attention over things that are useful to the country/humanity/the economy etc.(can't think of the right word) Say, if someone next door is looking for an employee with exactly
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by econ 5d ago
The Mosaic browser (1993) had full text history search. We then got a bookmark system that was every bit as terrible as a web directory. It stayed that way. The delicious search revenue made organizing websites uninteresting. That obscure w
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by econ 5d ago
That is exactly what the article is about.
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by econ 5d ago
The only good clue I have for a new or modified system is that it has to be simple enough for the voter to understand it. The single transferable vote is technically great but the name doesn't explain how it works. You have to make up
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by econ 5d ago
Do you think improvement is possible?
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by econ 6d ago
I'm just playing with the puzzle. It's not like I deeply thought about it and this was my conclusion. Votes per period might not work. You could in stead accumulate votes over time. Of course the proposals could repeatedly go agai
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by econ 6d ago
Then, with the same stroke of the pen you gave the proverbial Hitler lover the means to purge the proverbial Jew or Palestinian. That one can only do it within reddit is of course merely a technical limitation. The idea can be implemented m
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by econ 6d ago
The normal approach is to compromise across topics. Maybe one should have a finite number of winning votes in a period. Then the majority might want something (or not want) but wouldn't consider it important enough to spend their vote
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by econ 7d ago
We should first build the floating cities. Some old ships welded together surrounded by styrofoam in nets with mud on top and Mangroves, lots of Mangroves... Neptune's park.
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by econ 9d ago
There is another niche if you make them several miles long and width. Then can use more conventional construction materials like a concrete shell. (We are of course not ready for that)
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by econ 11d ago
It is giving me 1+ hour ads now based on my view history (I think) and it is actually hilarious. I've watched two till the end. To keep someone engaged for that long you better bring something interesting to the table.
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by econ 11d ago
We need enough slop to create that market. If you already had a hand crafted codebase, a ton of miles on it, no real issue for a long time and customers who value some metric of quality then it might be worth crafting things by hand &md
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by econ 11d ago
Imagine, eventually, a large ever growing library full of unread books. One could roam around forever and discover new things. Might be possible to generate a 3d world using some taxonomy estimate the amount of titles and generate the books
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by econ 13d ago
Today search results are a page full of ads. They can't get away with that unless they completely corner down the LLM market. I forget the name but I see one LLM chatbox that looked like one of those old world news media websites plast
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by econ 14d ago
I want to see and feel the product. Nowadays mostly to see how bad it is.
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by econ 14d ago
Sometimes they put one at the start then again 1.5 min into a video and again around 4 minutes. If I don't skip them I may not even remember what the video was about.
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by econ 14d ago
I could call them, tell them I see their ad, ask questions then call again and again and again and again. I just read one may call a company as often as one wants.
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by econ 14d ago
I couldn't imagine someone running campaign like that intentionally but it's apparently cheap to do so. 20 minutes of my time is apparently worth 3 cent. Those 5 hours watching the same ad again and again probably cost the spammer
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by econ 15d ago
You had huge click farms back in the days. Today the fraud is perhaps more obvious. YT has served me the same 20 min ad 200+ times over the last few weeks. I let the entire thing play 10 times and 50 times didn't press skip for the fir
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by econ 15d ago
I had to much great stuff of my own to think about. Made great effort keeping their earthly matters out of my head. I could see how others changed into one of them which for many was an improvement. Ill do an example from a few days ago:
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by econ 15d ago
We made grids of tiny dots on an eraser, so tiny a grownup couldn't really see it. End of the year a teacher asked how we did it. He knew our answers were the same, he put us far apart, he watched us the whole time every test, the whol
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by econ 15d ago
Deletionists have been circling html since the beginning and have only managed to get rid of document.writeln() they tried really hard to get rid of framesets but ultimately failed. I suspect in the long run a similar lack of "success&
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by econ 15d ago
In the old days we had this thing called a redaction. It was like a dungeon master vs playing the same hardcoded level again and again. Had one suggested automating it back then even the greatest optimist wouldn't see how you replace [
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by econ 15d ago
I'm definitely not experienced enough to know but I read people are having it write somewhat elaborate documentation beforehand. Have it figure out which parts of the code may be touched, what other things will be affected and which un
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by econ 17d ago
The budget obviously isn't what it use to be. I use to search for random blogs. One day I ran into something truly special. Their first post was an extremely crude draft for a book the size of a tweet. All following postings described
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by econ 17d ago
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/20/pentag... >The result is an astounding $10tn in taxpayer money that has gone unaccounted for since 1996. https://www.forbes.com/si
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by econ 17d ago
As Ze Frank put it: I have a theory about this but it's a little bit to deep for the audience.
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by econ 18d ago
At work I have access to all newspapers big and small, I use to read all of them but I haven't touched one in a decade. Not one article that isn't infantile nonsense or outright propaganda of a quality that falls appart in the fir
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by econ 18d ago
Keep up the keeping up
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by econ 18d ago
Maybe if the number of failed logins per hour grows by 10000%

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