fiatmoney

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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"But if the government can essentially revoke a private individual or company's copyright merely by incorporating otherwise protected text into legislation, that can have adverse effects on copyright holders." This is a settl
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Who's "that dude on reddit"?
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Financial networks interpret regulation as damage and route around it.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
That part of the opinion is nonbinding dicta - basically the judge freestyling, without setting precedent.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
He was charged with "criminal possession of a controlled substance". Your point?
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
That is a recipe for centralized power unaccountable to the population they are theoretically protecting.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The relevant data is here. https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/...
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Those numbers conflate "ever sold" with "sold in the last N days", and yearly vs. weekly usage rates. For regular usage (which would be expected to track sales, and possession) the numbers are substantially higher for b
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Docking fees & maintenance are what get you.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Simplifications. "Arrest" has specific meaning in most jurisdictions. "Seizing" would be more appropriate; one can seize property as well as persons, and in the case of persons there can be a seizure without an arrest.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Cannot "arrest" something that's not a natural person, but yes, they could absolutely seize a bot under a number of civil forfeiture laws, or likely as evidence. The burden would be on the owner to sue to get it back.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
There is zero incentive to recognize money laundering "too well", particularly because it means essentially whatever FinCEN wants it to mean. It's an issue for lawyers to hash out exactly what patterns must be recognized.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Well, in one sense it has notches. In another, the legs are crooked.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
It's almost like a government-encouraged oligopoly is maximizing the amount of value they can seize from people regulatorily encouraged / forced to buy their product.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Just wait until enough democratic voters are imported to overturn Proposition 13 (caps property taxes at roughly what they were when you bought the house, and requires 2/3 vote in the legislature for tax increases). California is tryin
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"one human is a pretty constant unit of work" Trivially false; human productivity routinely differs by a factor of thousands to millions.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
I'm saying they're modelling the problem incorrectly as a CS endeavor when it has a lot more to do with analytic philosophy. "How do I make a program make beautiful music" is a CS problem, but only after you have some no
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
These are not asking the right questions, although they kind of hint at it, and they are not fundamentally questions about AI. Example: "Can we transform an RL agent's reward function to avoid undesired effects on the environmen
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
It's odd (but maybe not surprising) how much fixation there is on concentration camps, the focus of the book, as a synecdoche for Nazi Germany as a whole, when they were only really up and running for the last 4 years or so of a 12 yea
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
It is difficult to look at "% of users who become addicts" in a vacuum, since it's a population selected for willingness to take illegal drugs and hang out with the sorts of people with access to them.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"Birth control" is ridiculously available. "Hormonal birth control" can have serious side effects and interactions, at least at the level of something like tylenol-fortified opiods or mild antidepressants, to say nothin
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
"Surprise" is relative; "blitzkrieg" (or "shock and awe") might be more apt. Iraq I, Iraq II, Afghanistan, Grenada, Panama all fit the pattern. Kosovo doesn't as much, but then again there were other con
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
US defense doctrine mostly revolves around massive surprise first strikes on countries with limited ability to retaliate. Aircraft carriers are OK at this, if you want to, eg, bomb the crap out of Uruguay and don't have basing or tran
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
The fact that 1/3 of the world's population (in a world where 1/2 lives in urban areas) does not live in such circumstances strongly suggests that that is an arrangement is not empirically available, or not empirically valued
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Frankly, I'm OK with trading off massive economic growth and reduction of human misery, including conquering darkness itself, in exchange for having to take a trip out to the country if you want to go stargazing.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
I don't actually find it that implausible that the same sort of organizations that engage in experimental torture campaigns also engage in at least some experimental gaslighting campaigns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
There is a simple solution, particularly in the context of congressional or other government investigations: subpoena them. Nondisparagement clauses don't & can't cover compelled testimony.
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
No, I didn't. The salient aspect is "nice" neighbors; people like poor teachers, or unemployed kids of existing residents, are just fine. Things like HOAs are particularly brutally enforced in poorer neighborhoods attemptin
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
Suburbia is a defensive design. Big houses & lots, and lack of public transport, means that it tends to be more expensive and requires reliable access to a car. Low density means that blight doesn't spread as quickly, and geograp
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by fiatmoney 10y ago
It's not about it "counting", it's about what patterns violence follows. Mental health interventions, gun control, counterterrorism operations, etc don't help gang-related shootings.

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