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by ethn 9y ago
Beyond what olegkikin mentions, the Lightning Network requires you to put stake (the total amount of bitcoin that can be used within those off-chain transactions). The illiquidity opportunity costs of that stake is greater than any value th
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by ethn 9y ago
Kaczynski specifically writes about exploring written and communicative mediums in his works, including the Internet. He concludes that approach is fruitless, below is the quote. Anyone who has a little money can have something printed, or
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by ethn 9y ago
As many mention, the system is not infallible because data entry is as safe as those who control the input of it; it does not increase trust directly. However, what it does add directly is accountability. If each process, is suppose, transm
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I said that because it turns out, it doesn't even matter if Hyperloop works or not. In the best case of implementation, it's still not even beneficial to the common tax payer.
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The entire point is that there is no problem with private transportation, as that's on the risk of private individuals instead of the common tax payer. You can have a system like the Hong Kong rail, operated and owned by MTR Corporatio
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by ethn 9y ago
You've ignored the body of my reply, you're being extremely parsimonious. Any money from taxes that does not benefit the general tax payer, is at the expense to the common tax payer (not to mention the neglect of the collection of
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by ethn 9y ago
Through avoiding externality payment due to the cost of "the tragedy of the commons" to the tax payer, as well as the massive subsidies to SolarCity, Tesla, and Space X. It is suspect to believe Hyperloop won't be massively s
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by ethn 9y ago
Your riposte is a strawman argument on whether the rich should benefit more from the government because they pay more and their taxes help others (their same wealth that wouldn't have been possible without the government). The governme
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by ethn 9y ago
Taxpayer money is being diverted from services that are in dire need presently. That money is being used to privilege Musk and company to vast commonly owned underground land. In the past, fortunately still in some cases, companies were for
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by ethn 9y ago
Roads aren't a speculative technology, they are proven to work, and are not owned by a private enterprise. Elon Musk is being subsidized to create a monopoly of transportation on commonly owned land. But yes, this isn't just a pro
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If it really is beneficial, then Elon Musk and the share holders, should use their same influence they have on the government, on the financial institutions that exist to acquire low interest loans. There is of no reason, that the tax payer
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by ethn 9y ago
The problem with the Hyper-loop and Elon Musk in general, isn't that Elon Musk is wrong or that the Hyper-loop won't work. The problem is that he engages in a nepotistic political-industrial complex. That is, he subsidizes his ris
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This is largely a fallacy in the understanding of economics. Profitable, at least shouldn't, mean profitable to the government but to the shareholders of the government, its citizens. Costly government projects on large-scale speculati
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by ethn 9y ago
The article doesn't believe that rural voters are irrational. The article claims that the information given to rural voters falsely portrays terrorism as an active threat to rural voters. You are not disagreeing with me.
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Freud made a bunch of metaphysical claims that have no evidence whatsoever, hence why modern psychology has completely deviated from his ideas. Economics does not support the view that people are irrational (quite the opposite) and neither
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Terrorism is a real threat to interests abroad and test on the ability of the US to mitigate small risks. If they can't mitigate small risks how would they be able to mitigate a large risk? Every single human created disturbance (i.e.
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by ethn 9y ago
I think it's quite ridiculous that any author can get away with the obscure clairvoyant claim that people are really irrational and desire to be fearful——it's a claim contrary to primitive animal and human psychology alike. The mo
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by ethn 9y ago
"There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is." -Niels Bohr All of science is abstract, not even "force" de
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by ethn 9y ago
You continue to ignore the weak points of Deutsch's argument that I've pointed out. You can create a computing machine by assigning physical states to any physical behavior, quantum, classical, hamiltonian, etc. The proof is trivi
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by ethn 9y ago
You didn't defend Deutsch's erroneous assumption that atoms are responsible for physical interactions in computation. Even in quantum computing atoms are not responsible for any computation––especially if you have a system like DW
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by ethn 9y ago
First if you can measure it then it must be in ~physical reality~. If we are directly interacting with it why even consider it to be in another universe? Is my keyboard also in another universe? Second, since when is one atom responsible fo
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by ethn 9y ago
This blog post[0] is ostensibly an account from one of their actual employees––considering the fraudulent actions happened on the same dates and both founders sent a fake wire as the account noted; among other shared similarities. Quite vin
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A few years ago GeorgiaTech† created a special anti-bacterial copper alloy (Cu-PANI††), which is now significantly used in the Atlanta Airport drinking water pipings. [†] https://www.truepani.com [††] http://pubs.acs.
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Services cost money, that's why all phones don't offer free calling. The 'free' calls will eat away at the margins. I don't understand why this quote is controversial. It's quite obvious that they want the free
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"If they're not selling something to you, they're selling you" -Anonymous
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I just received one of these as well. They seem to get their targets by compromising a single user and then by monitoring the people who are viewing the same Google Docs as the infected victim had in the past.
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"The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.", SICP, 2nd Edition. The article misses what I believe is the most important point, which is the concept of the abstraction of a
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by ethn 10y ago
Exactly. >I reduce mathematics further as a nice description of logical relationships; a derivative of our own model of the universe. The rules of logic are the behaviors of objects that we experience and observe. In a differing reality,
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by ethn 10y ago
Despite the author's argument, for me at least, there are an order of a priori "hints" which argue why Mathematics ought to be seen in the natural sciences. In the beginning of mathematics, it was likely, if not definitively
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by ethn 10y ago
"Things hidden since the foundation of the world" by Rene Girard. Changed literally everything.

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