emiliobumachar

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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
> very useful for scientific calculations and simulations Don't forget control systems.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
If you mean able to damage the holder, you'd need to triple-check they can't be unintentionally activated or activated by untrusted parties. Even if just a self-destruct, you'd need to double-check. Bricking the entirety of C
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
I haven't read the law, but I'm a priori very skeptical of "directed at" reasoning in law. After it's on the books, it will be used to go after whoever the prosecutor wants to go after, subject to their constituen
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Most new cars sold in Brazil, for over a decade now, can run on gasoline or sugar-cane ethanol, or a mix of both in any proportion. One can fill up with either or both without bothering informing the car, and when turned on the engine will
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Everyone gotta sleep, they get exposed to whoever they're sleeping with. If everyone stays home , not just indoors, their extra exposure is very small.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Is that actually a fact? Are they outbidding everyone else - and potentially could be outbid themselves next time, by someone even richer? Or is someone allocating tests to them regardless of someone else's willingness to pay more? Is
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Crackpot regulation proposal: scraping is legal if you favor mirror sites and afterwards create a mirror yourself and maintain it to some arbitrary standard.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Organized crime does maintain violent monopolies on legal goods in various times and places, but that tends to be much smaller than illegal markets.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
I'm not sure the Moon would be that much easier than Mars. It's far enough that any transfer of anything needs a lot of planning. And no atmosphere. Mar's thin atmosphere means you can get some materials just by pumping air,
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Thank you! I was vaguely aware that something good and artsy was happening, but was not quite aware of what that was.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Nope. Counterproof: http://paulgraham.com/good.html "When you write something telling people to be good, you seem to be claiming to be good yourself. So I want to say explicitly that I am not a particularly good person
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
I'll say again that Google and Facebook are being dragged kicking and screaming into the role of judge and jury of what is or isn't acceptable speech. They don't like it now, but they may well grow to love it.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Well, yes, but a few working power plants would make the situation a bit better for as long as we can still maintain them, wouldn't they? What's your contingency plan, everyone commits suicide the day the volcano erupts?
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
If someone could cook up a truly credible plan to defuse that bomb over a century or three, environmental concerns could be sidestepped.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Yes, on average. But the cops more at-risk of gross misbehavior, if correctly identified by the insurance companies (big if), would still be priced out of the market.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Make it thirty, and the internet is not widespread.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Great project! I'd just like to mention an obsolete advantage of the Mercator projection, which I assume played a large role in its spread. Back before radio, GPS, and accurate clocks, navigation in cloudy days was really, really hard.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
End-to-end encryption properly implemented on clients is resistant to any malicious software that may run on servers. The only relevant vulnerability is stealth updates infecting the client, but the client could disallow it as well.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Did you mean you're not going to apply for citizenship? Does the global tax extend to green card holders who are not citizens?
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
> Either Netflix is legally allowed to act like this or the twitter users are legally allowed under fair use. They did say "even if". I don't think they claimed Netflix is in their rights. > The First Amendment deals wi
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
The link you posted opens with "Cultural appropriation is the adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity." I read the top summary and the overview section, and it still
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
It can't get much worse than everybody dead except for a dozen people in a basement, can it?
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Also, they'll totally get flak if they systematically hire part timers. See current Uber/Lyft woes regarding contractors/employees. If the government gets its way, and it may, these companies will eventually go "you&#x27
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Scott Alexander: "A Christian proverb says: “The Church is not a country club for saints, but a hospital for sinners”. Likewise, the rationalist community is not an ivory tower for people with no biases or strong emotional reactions, i
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
I did not downvote, but license proliferation is a big problem in free software. People cannot combine software with incompatible licenses.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
Malicious attacks on human-driven cars would work too. Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1958/
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
You know the very extreme of dental issues, nerve infections? Well, they're the very extreme because when it gets to the point of aching intensely all the time, anyone gets treated in a matter of days. If there's no treatment, i
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
You're generally right, but missing an important detail: nutrition. We are not smarter than the subset of our predecessors who had the privilege of developing without ever starving.
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
You listed a lot of ways to pay in time and energy instead of cash. (Disclaimer: I own a car)
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by emiliobumachar 6y ago
People all across the privilege scale, up to and including people who would never need to work another day in their lives, fail to do the Right thing.

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