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by ethn 6y ago
The point of representative democracy is to prevent the tyranny of the majority in mitigation of the deterioration of minority rights.
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by ethn 6y ago
I'm working on this with https://intrgr.com . We look for the <meta> field on any article we aggregate for their payment request id https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request . In the near future, the a
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by ethn 6y ago
No problem. You should look into this more. Conditional expressions in DDB do not provide aggregate expressions and can only determinate on single attributes belonging to the same table. Consistent reads aren’t enough. You would need to pre
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by ethn 6y ago
DynamoDB is the wrong technology for this. You can't prevent phantom reads. Transactional databases (precisely invented for this!) are the way to go. To quote DDIA: 'A service that allows users to spend money or points needs to ch
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by ethn 6y ago
Bitcoin-like blockchains are by default triple-entry accounting: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/acfi.12556
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by ethn 6y ago
You can give https://intrgr.com a try. It standardizes the Article format (removing clutter), gives you related articles from around the web, and recommendations if you make an account. I made it because the web has become unrea
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by ethn 6y ago
Thanks for checking it out. Those features are on the backlog, I hope to have them out soon.
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by ethn 6y ago
I'm working on this with https://intrgr.com In the current form, blog posts are recommended to others based on their reading interests. I can add the rss feeds of any blogs you like to the global pool of articles. Just plac
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by ethn 6y ago
It's simply easier to dismiss the potential legitimacy of actions which challenge one's existing notions than to reconsider those notions. What's interesting is that "markets are irrational" cannot be a failure of t
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by ethn 6y ago
As far as I know, this is a solved problem. http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~naor/PAPERS/pvp_abs.html An implementation of this is Hashcash which was used on UseNet very successfully: https://en.wikipe
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by ethn 6y ago
This is also the conclusion of Kant, free will is impossible to prove or disprove as it’s a question of the noumenon.
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by ethn 7y ago
In General Relativity time is absolute throughout the same inertial reference frame...
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by ethn 7y ago
As another HN member mentioned, this is a pretty awful article. What is the alleged conflict supposed to be? It's my understanding that quantum mechanics necessarily describes systems in a single inertial reference frame, so for that
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by ethn 7y ago
> I dislike the cybernetic approach because I find that it first commits to epistemic helplessness The confusion here is that my statement has nothing to do with cybernetics. Although it’s taken from his book titled Cybernetics, almost 6
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by ethn 7y ago
Q1) By the mere copying of behaviors, no. It is clear that there are at least the a priori intuitions of space, time, and causality necessary for humans to obtain any knowledge. It is within that a priori framework where concepts and then d
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by ethn 7y ago
It can instead be logically inferred that it must not be what he's arguing. Coase: “Or, alternatively, if this operator had the right to cause interference, he would be willing to desist if he were paid more than the costs of suppressi
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by ethn 7y ago
> But it's rivalrous in a distinctive way--it's a function of contemporaneous and evolving limitations of the existing state of technology and usage patterns. > Whether a new radio system "interferes" with existing
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by ethn 7y ago
That’s a mistaken view. Coase argues precisely that the market would self-regulate by broadcasters determining the spectrum interferences with each other and drafting financial agreements to ameliorate those interferences. Not by having an
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by ethn 7y ago
Coase actually argues in that paper, in true UChicago fashion that the spectrum should be completely unregulated in a free market for private efficiency. He’s actually arguing against the FCC. As he also touches on in The Nature of a Firm.
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by ethn 7y ago
Wouldn't it be so shameful yet serendipitous, after spending billions on Noisy Quantum computers, it turns out that computation, the entire time, was only a result from the accidental facilitating of analog processes through the eventu
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by ethn 7y ago
https://youtu.be/UKbp85zpdcY?t=270 Freeman Dyson speaking to the candidness of Schwinger in private one-on-one discussions.
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by ethn 7y ago
Traditionally you have error correction issues which require frequent and specific manual tuning on a case by case basis. This was the age of the analog machine. However there are some recent works which have introduced compromises to conti
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by ethn 7y ago
“The economy of Singapore is a highly developed free-market economy.”[0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Singapore
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by ethn 7y ago
During my plane flights I passed the time rediscovering the equations of lift. The physical intuition I’ve found, is for plane flight, the plane must move faster in the direction parallel to the ground than the time it takes for those air m
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by ethn 7y ago
I’ve also rediscovered this in similar work I do. But upon later research I’ve learned this is called containment.
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by ethn 7y ago
Supply and demand (SD) doesn’t tell you what the equilibrium price is, which is what we are concerned with. That’s what this analysis resolves, and in this context, the long term view of the wage; of which the wage reaches a state closer to
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by ethn 7y ago
Wage isn’t based on the difficulty of the job. Wage is based on the opportunity cost of the uncaptured labor value incurred due to employment. For software engineering, this is acute since with the same skills needed for employment one can
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by ethn 7y ago
This is correct w.r.t the formalization of Minsky. Further, there is a conflation among models and implementation from the parent commenter. Minsky propounds in his automaton theory that a machine may be implemented in any way and it is onl
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by ethn 7y ago
You would love Eliade’s The Sacred and Profane. This also is a good prerequisite to understand Girard’s work.

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