etherael

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by etherael 4y ago
They make a profession out of what is typically only a hobby.
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by etherael 4y ago
> "perceived" seems like an accurate description of the situation. Look, I hate all politics and politicians and don't care for one over the other, but I do not understand how anybody can perceive this as a sensible take p
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by etherael 4y ago
News at 8, actors self interested. In other news; water wet.
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by etherael 4y ago
And this, right here, is the fundamental problem with all of this. "Legal" vs "illegal" doesn't really tell us much these days about the value of the thing in question. Civil asset forfeiture losses per year long ag
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by etherael 4y ago
Specific instances in the decline in power of particular organised criminal enterprises is much more believable than "crime", I'll grant that much.
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by etherael 4y ago
So crime was not at a manageable level prior to say 1970, when none of these AMLKYC laws existed? And crime has not been at a manageable level after say 2008 when crypto came into existence and made it impossible to actually enforce? Man, f
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by etherael 4y ago
The purchasing power of the average labourer in the US has not much changed since 1971 when gold convertibility was ended and the monetary system moved to a pure fiat one. At the time, a food service worker could have bought about an ounce
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by etherael 4y ago
If you're a one man dictator shop and you're guaranteed to lose unless you roll, I guess you roll. To hell with the collateral damage, if you cared about that you wouldn't be a dicator to begin with.
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by etherael 4y ago
Then why would we assume they want anything other than an escalation cycle? Didn't foreign orders fall by some massive amount over the past year? One narrative for why the Chinese people tolerate their totalitarian dictatorship is the
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by etherael 4y ago
"They don't want to, it's just they don't want the media angry at them" isn't actually a rebuttal, it's an admission that it is indeed happening. We shouldn't care that tyrants are detached or fanatic
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by etherael 4y ago
They're defining harmful content based on political orthodoxy, like every other censorious tinpot dictatorship in history. The objective remains the same too; promote a thought monoculture and propagate the political orthodoxy. The ori
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by etherael 4y ago
It wasn't the training data, ChatGPT wasn't this bad at launch, it got worse as they "tuned it" to "reduce harmful content".
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by etherael 4y ago
How would you view python if any time you used it for anything which could mistakenly or otherwise be interpreted as a breach of woke orthodoxy, the interpreter lectured you? A list called whitelist or blacklist? How dare you. Numpy or pand
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by etherael 4y ago
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
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by etherael 4y ago
Energy density. I'm not sure exactly what it is for lifepo4 but it's lower than 1,406.6 kWh/m^3 for hydrogen at 700 bar, i think roughly half. Both compare poorly against diesel though so I'm left wondering if synthetic
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by etherael 4y ago
To note, I don't actually have an opinion on if foxconn is slavery or not, my point was that they can easily appear that way to outside disinterested observers purely based on "they have suicide nets around the buildings" bec
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by etherael 4y ago
Perhaps because of the suicide nets? I get the Foxconn is not technically slave labour, but you must admit that suicide nets may give to the observer the impression that the gap is not that large between whatever it is and slave labour?
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by etherael 4y ago
I get what you mean and I agree to an extent, but to give an absurd example, if you knew of a company that had a patent on cold fusion, and you had watched it actually work yourself and deployed it at scale in a project successfully, invest
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by etherael 4y ago
Got it, pure luck, no argument.
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by etherael 4y ago
Granted that based on probability alone he just got lucky but from the details of the story it's not possible to be certain of that. If he can offer a narrative about why and how he knew such a move would have such a result and the na
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by etherael 4y ago
By his own logic, he probably can't, he said he used the heuristic to decide whether the article was worth spending attention on, which would result in a no, and thus the conclusion that he hadn't read it. Not having done so, he c
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by etherael 4y ago
Back when it actually worked as a decentralised global ledger capable of allowing transactions without trusting a central party it was revolutionary. Then it got hijacked to discard that property and it is indeed of zero value. There are st
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by etherael 4y ago
Theres an extremely obvious difference that jumps out just from your description. You do know what it is, right?
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by etherael 4y ago
Got it, that makes a lot more sense.
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by etherael 4y ago
> If I have some novel medical compound, of course I can't just mix it into my cookies. Why of course? What justification leads you to "of course" here. Not saying you are necessarily wrong but doesnt sound like say taking
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by etherael 4y ago
I think it's because the political process is all about getting people into groups where they can thus cooperate with each other as an economic bloc, a perfect lie is the optimal unifying concept in this model; something that pulls eve
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by etherael 4y ago
No. I predicted and wrote about exactly this outcome nearly five years ago now. https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7fsbw5/divorcing_the_s...
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by etherael 4y ago
> effluent I dont think that is what you meant to say. You were right, though.
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by etherael 4y ago
Almost all blockchains are digital scarcity. Most of them could theoretically work at a scale larger than a local supermarket. None of them have adopted a change to their fundamental operating parameters that forces such an inability with z
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by etherael 4y ago
By this logic torture also "works". In both cases the application thereof, while it will not assist at all with getting to the truth of any issue, will certainly allow you to manipulate those you subject to it to tell you whatever

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