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by eduren 9y ago
Sorry if that confused you. You're right, the analogy kinda falls apart there. I was hoping to illustrate to any less technical readers how integral the blockchain algorithms are to the security and integrity guarantees that bitcoin in
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by eduren 9y ago
To your first point: While there are definitely valid concerns with just how much energy we spend maintaining the bitcoin network and the blockchain, it's hard to call it wasted and it's definitely not busy work. The energy we spe
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by eduren 9y ago
You're honestly comparing the accuracy of a product out in the market, with one in the patent stages back in 2013? I understand being skeptical of the accelerometer + hr monitor solution, there are certainly more involved ways of analy
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by eduren 9y ago
>but my point still stands Does it though? You're criticizing people praising PG but using an article not written by him as the example. If you have another example that's written by PG and relevant to your point then please ed
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by eduren 9y ago
What makes a "pillow sensor" more accurate? Is there anything like that on the market?
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by eduren 9y ago
Mule never know what these Hollywood types try next.
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by eduren 9y ago
I do believe there exists some combination of format, production, and screenwriting that could bring Foundation to video. The largest problem is getting the right people to do it. My ideal setup: Format: Miniseries with 1-1.5 hour episodes
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by eduren 9y ago
> almost everyone I talk to immediately gets on the defensive when I say that I don't drink and never will Choosing not to drink is your choice to make. But if _almost everyone_ you talk to about it goes into defensive mode, that so
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by eduren 9y ago
Not to mention that getting good at retrograde landings will be necessary for landing on other bodies in the solar system.
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by eduren 9y ago
Then why don't you build that one CRUD app and sell it to everybody? That's gotta be worth all the money being paid to develop duplicate apps. If I were you, I'd delete this comment before anybody steals the idea.
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by eduren 9y ago
You asked a pretty important question (we agree that this isn't simple) and I replied with what I thought to be the best solution. And yes, the government. The funny thing about a democracy is that if enough people want the govt. to pr
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by eduren 9y ago
Economic assistance. Give them the resources to choose their new career path for themselves.
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by eduren 9y ago
Yup, end-of-the-line logistics would be an easily transitioned to stopgap measure. Some former truckers would be able to stay local and handle loading/unloading. Not as many as are currently on the road, but every little bit of transit
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by eduren 9y ago
Of course those need to be taken into consideration but to be fair, aren't most of the conditions you listed dealt with by a human driver pulling over and waiting it out/calling for assistance? That's exactly what an autonomo
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by eduren 9y ago
Most streamers have fans/volunteers who are given moderation powers. No need for micromanaging while they're actually playing.
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by eduren 9y ago
From what I've seen, there are plenty of companies that keep sensitive data out-of-band for just that reason, and have policies to keep it out of their Slacks.
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by eduren 9y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) Snark aside, I'm definitely interested in whether or not this field will have impacts on future policy. In order to be useful I feel it would have
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by eduren 9y ago
Paper: https://people.cs.vt.edu/~dongyoon/papers/EUROSYS-17-NodeFz.... Very interesting. From what I'm reading it's a novel approach: >A remark from one of the developers inspired the approach we took
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by eduren 9y ago
Well in the interest of discussing that, I do have some thoughts: >could US and other electoral processes (and let's just say government in general) have been directly affected by technical means One could claim that an intrinsic va
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by eduren 9y ago
But what's worse, an actual downvote button, or not being able to stop people from using flag as one?
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by eduren 9y ago
liberal tears > diplomacy and leadership I don't know how many years of this I can take.
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by eduren 9y ago
>I wonder what the Adams brothers would do with "fuck you" money If EA bought Dwarf Fortress then they would move onto their next game: "Slaves to Armok: God of Blood Chapter III: Simulation Hypothesis" Some say we al
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by eduren 9y ago
If bureaucracy is the problem, then why only here? European governments are notorious for their large number of civil servants.
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by eduren 9y ago
Yeah, no need for the article IMO
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by eduren 9y ago
>Shouldn't we be focusing on distributing the fruits of automation as widely as possible? Is that not something that taxation would provide?
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by eduren 9y ago
I agree that the base notion of a subjective "you" is problematic. But I enter discussions like these with the assumption that the person on the other end is, like me, experiencing their life subjectively. "I think, therefore
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by eduren 9y ago
I've seen similar arguments to yours (against the deconstruct-reconstruct matter teleporter), and they never seem to understand the real dilemma: It kills "you". Not the objective "you" of course, that lives on in t
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by eduren 9y ago
While I agree that the compression breakthrough doesn't make much sense realistically, I think it makes a great premise for the show. The plot needs Richard to actually invent something revolutionary (and thus fail to get it off the gr
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by eduren 9y ago
Wow, I saw this thread after just reading that chapter over lunch. My first time reading GEB and I'm absolutely captured.
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by eduren 9y ago
While I'm sure that methodology can produce personal drive in some people, others can follow the same process and feel like it'll never mean something. Also, if possible, could you point me in the direction of this "meaning o

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