esotericn

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by esotericn 8y ago
I'm thinking of a "bad health simulator" that starts at age 50 after a lifetime of eating a terrible diet. Obviously there will be no good choices, everything will be limited. It's not an interesting "simulation&quo
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by esotericn 8y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by esotericn 8y ago
I don't think you can call a demonstration that deliberately excludes many available options a "simulator". If you are poor, then living alone or taking on a lease is insane. The implicit assumption that you can't move a
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by esotericn 8y ago
I am specifically calling out "infinite" scroll here, i.e. the practice of artificially limiting the amount sent to a very small amount then populating it on the fly. The comparison is with just sending all of the content (via API
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by esotericn 8y ago
The primary issue with infinite scroll is not the implementation, it's the idea that a page with "infinite" content is useful or desirable to begin with.
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by esotericn 8y ago
You can currently add a transaction to the Bitcoin blockchain for (converted) approximately one US cent. Reference: https://bitcoin.electronrelocation.com In the future we expect fees to increase (as they must for security purpo
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by esotericn 8y ago
The 'large metro area' drop is completely unsurprising to me as someone living in London. Working young people are looking at the "will I ever be able to afford to live in a house" problem. It is not at all uncommon for
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by esotericn 8y ago
The author did include this caveat: > WARNING: This method of DRM will keep honest people honest. But determined people will figure out how to break it. This is the case with any kind of DRM. It seems to me that this is more about essent
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by esotericn 8y ago
A desire for wealth is distinct from materialism. The main benefit of having enough money is to have security in one's self - stable living situation, health taken care of, and so on and so forth.
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by esotericn 8y ago
> Just make sure they learn to recognize the value of trans-material assets: one can loose their financial wealth in an instant easily, but their reputation, skills, knowledge, intelligence, health, psychological capacity, inner dignity
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by esotericn 8y ago
PCIe passthrough is great. Still a few kernel bugs to work out, but when it's working it's magnificent. Linux/OSX/Windows VM with GPU passthrough working here. The main system can be up all the time with a "reboot&q
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by esotericn 8y ago
It's not clear to me that these issues don't simply boil down to energy problems. The limiting case: an endless source of free energy. Using this, it seems obvious that any carbon-emitting procedure can be mitigated, by capturing
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by esotericn 8y ago
> These are high victim impact crimes that are being hindered by the inability of law enforcement to access encrypted communications. Consider that, on some time scale, we (or at least, some actor) will eventually possess the technology
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by esotericn 8y ago
I remember a time when popular rhetoric was that violent video games would turn the players towards crime. Turns out, if you get too involved, violence will be perpetrated _against_ you. So it goes.
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by esotericn 8y ago
It's unclear to me that student loans present meaningful systemic risk. Mortgage defaults rather obviously have a knock on effect in prices for homes, which huge numbers of people rely on (across the globe) for security, retirement, et
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by esotericn 8y ago
You cannot proceed through life without making some people unhappy. Even in the most charitable interpretation, assuming that everyone you encounter is benevolent, intelligent and knowledgeable - views will differ and upset will occur. That
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by esotericn 8y ago
The primary benefit I see with cash is that it's simply trivial to accept. A store owner, market stall holder, hawker, beggar - anyone can accept cash, trivially. You hold out your hand, someone gives you some coins, done. None of the