eucyclos

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by eucyclos 8mo ago
"fuck you money" meets "money's getting shallow and weak"
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
By Jove you're right. To the avatar store!
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
>we do this socially too There's a school of thought that the reason so many autistic founders succeed is that they're unable to interpret this kind of programming. I saw a theory that to succeed in tech you needed a minimum am
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
I suspect it's a left vs right issue because the right is the cheerleader of the military industrial complex, which is only justified by protecting oil interests. If oil becomes a curiosity useful for making certain consumer products a
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
That's probably why it's best to stay small. If you've gotten permits for 10kw project in a backyard or on a Walmart roof, you'll probably have a leg up when you start playing at a scale that brings out the nimbys.
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
>Should the model consider that more people consider one or the other to suck? If it's teaching how to avoid logical fallacies, which includes appeals to the majority, the answer is an obvious 'no'.
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
True, but if your point is that most slavery regimes throughout history were less awful for the slaves, it's also worth remembering that most accounts of those regimes weren't written by the victors of a war that saw the other sid
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Rental versus outright purchase is a weird transition. I have this idea for a faction in a post apocalyptic setting that started out as a libertarian community that idealized a society with zero slavery but found it constantly hiding in arr
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Maybe I should have said naturally rather than well. It's true that if privacy is your focus you can implement a Blockchain that achieves it, but at it's core Blockchain is a ledger of transactions that anyone can audit- privacy i
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
My Esperanto teacher told me 'there are always a lot of marriages after Esperanto conventions '. It makes sense it would be the primary shared language of some couples
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
I'd heard of this movie before and had to check it out - the scene I watched where he was speaking to who I assume is the female lead sounded like an American and an Italian both speaking perfectly passable Esperanto. If I were to nitp
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
I thought Ben Goertzel had a good take on it: "someone made hands for a brain that doesn't exist yet"
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Anonymity is the one thing cryptocurrency does not do well. It's much harder to sieze but much easier to trace.
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
I don't think the packaging is supposed to be alive at the time of usage.
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Pressure cooking in small batches is the diy standard, I've had good results with a standard insta-pot
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Bandcamp does ok without ignoring what the artists want. I think the biggest issue with buying directly from the musician isn't the price but the friction of purchasing online
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Fascinating. I'm reminded of the 'conservation of ninjutsu' trope. We've known for a while that birth rates fall as education rates increase, but this almost suggests there's a 'conservation of iq' princip
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
I am fascinated by the reverse Flynn effect - do you have a favorite theory to explain it?
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Clearly Ireland does more than suggest it. If you think it's such a bad idea, maybe you can explain what salient factor is so different between the glorious past and the present quagmire.
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Officially no, though bond purchases are the most common thing central banks do with cash. Unofficially though, new currency is mostly worth anything at all because it's backed by the 'full faith and credit ' of the hosting c
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
I think the argument is that governments don't fund public goods through taxes but through issuing currency, while taxes guarantee a demand for currency and prevent its devaluation. Hence the 'function' of taxes really is to
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Apres moi, le deluge.
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
never, ever is quite strong wording when you're in an arms race with 14 year olds who want to gain illicit access to something digital. I know everyone's a digital native these days and real life isn't a 90s hacker movie, but
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
I heard that in Japan, it's common for condo developers who want to buy out smaller buildings to compensate the owners with an equal amount of floorspace in the new building - not sure how common that practice actually is, but what a w
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
The majority of great works created by the ruling classes of Athens or London at the height of both cultures ascendency is a major counterexample. Maybe we just had bad luck as to today's ruling class.
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
I think the old theory of the planes of existence has a lot of utility here - if you substitute "the dimensionality at which you're analyzing your dataset" for the hermetic concept of "planes of existence" you get e
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
This is all true, but I think the issue is upstream of where you're pointing - democracy declines when the goal becomes to win rather than to serve the constituents. Parties are a way to win and they also reinforce the idea that winnin
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Well, I usually reconstruct what TFA is about in Hacker News from what readers are saying about it and I can report that it works almost as well for a lot less effort! I jest, but on a serious note, a leading theological text would probably
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by eucyclos 8mo ago
Having seen student politics with and without parties - my student union had them, my engineering society banned them - I'm convinced that it's not bad voters that ruin democracies but political parties. Parties need to simplify t
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On the one hand, I agree and wish more people would pay for useful code. Hell, I wish I would be more willing to pay for useful code. It's irrational how unwilling many people, including myself, are to pay for things like that. On the

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