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by gfodor 5y ago
Mass mail in voting is a disaster, and people in the US now largely support it because of politics, not because it improves the integrity of elections.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Sure, but it's zero sum. It's a bounded amount of skew in the distribution that's innate in any system that is subject to vulnerabilities that have a high return on violence. This isn't the same as generating people, whi
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by gfodor 5y ago
Fair - I misread. It does seem that you'd need some kind of classic processes and/or auditing to de-risk a scenario where a bad actor who has access to the necessary keys prints themselves money. Maybe there is a way to also analy
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by gfodor 5y ago
Having a proof-of-human system for crypto which avoids storage of biometric data and allows pseudonymous wallets would be a massive win that would change literally everything about what's being developed right now. It's a pretty b
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by gfodor 5y ago
You could read their website, which explains their concept in detail: https://worldcoin.org/
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by gfodor 5y ago
It's not, the point of personhood isn't that it's exploit-free, but it acts as a fundamental rate limiter. Certainly there will still be theft downstream of the verification, but (assuming the approach delivers on the goals)
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by gfodor 5y ago
This is good feedback. They can definitely still pivot out of any issues. It still seems to boil down to if they determine if the approach they're taking will actually work from first principles. You only need it to work once, because
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by gfodor 5y ago
Sounds like you’re saying Elon is lying when he says it’s about freedom of speech and open algorithms. Weird.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Depressing and gross these kinds of laws are even getting this far.
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by gfodor 5y ago
I imagine the final standard of skeptics will be that as long as there's any manual driving happening anywhere, autonomous driving hasn't arrived yet.
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by gfodor 5y ago
The last six months proved that governments are willing to debank their own citizens and entire countries without due process. Thank god for crypto.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Should judges be forced to recuse cases based entirely on the political activity of their spouse? Everyone supporting this seems to be saying “yes.” I guess we should apply that consistently then? Does it end at spouses, or extend to childr
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by gfodor 5y ago
Something tells me Lucas is going to be a bit of a procrastinator. Congratulations :)
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by gfodor 5y ago
If you're willing to develop a new skill, an electric unicycle is much better on several dimensions. The IPS i5 easily fits in backpack. https://www.aliexpress.com/i/4000043671440.html
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by gfodor 5y ago
Proposing a theory is not the same thing as making a claim. But disparaging people as conspiracy theorists without first understanding the theory doesn't do much but slow down science. There is/was plenty of reason to think omicro
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by gfodor 5y ago
The nature of the benefits and harms of such a thing is highly context dependent. Making an absolute statement like this is basically meaningless without specifying more.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Certainly some people who are doing this will continue to do so despite regulation. In any case disproves the comment I was replying to.
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by gfodor 5y ago
Crypto enables illicit transactions.
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by gfodor 5y ago
The UAP report debunks the idea that all the evidence the government has has been debunked. Time will tell but the report reversed Project Blue Book, which ruled out non-human technology.
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by gfodor 5y ago
The gimbal video is not a video of the object from the Nimitz incident. There is a video of that but it’s less compelling in terms of evidence, but also afaik not cleanly debunked. (I think it’s called FLIR?)
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by gfodor 5y ago
Uh, I just read the paper and am trying to explain what’s in it to you. I don’t have a strong opinion about the conjecture’s validity. In the time it took you to ask basic questions you could have read it.
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by gfodor 5y ago
You should read the paper. The conjecture seems to be that arrangements of particles of lower information entropy are more massive than those which do not. Weird? Yes. More weird than the weirdest aspects of quantum mechanics? Not in my opi
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by gfodor 5y ago
The OP claims that low information entropy results in an increase in mass. I don't believe the 'state of matter' bit is exactly right, it seems to be an extension to the mass-energy equivalence theorem. (IANAP)
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by gfodor 5y ago
It's information in the Shannon sense of information entropy, which is about the rarity of sequences of bits, not the notion of bits themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
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by gfodor 5y ago
Here's the link to the (recently published) experiment proposal paper: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0087175
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by gfodor 5y ago
The data says: - Youth + non-obesity reduces risk from COVID - BA.X are less dangerous than previous variants - Vaccine induced heart damage is more likely in younger men - The vaccine induced immunity drops off after 5 months due to waning
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by gfodor 5y ago
Math isn't the thing tripping you up. If we're talking about relative personal risk assessment, you need to incorporate natural immunity, omicron, the waning effect of the vaccines, demographic skew on both sides of this, uncertai
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by gfodor 5y ago
It doesn’t constitute noise if you control for males under 40, especially Moderna. Early on this would have potentially just been data mining, but it’s been replicated and has also led to pulling Moderna for those age groups in some countri
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by gfodor 5y ago
Religious exemptions are the most plausible legal argument so it isn’t surprising that’s what will be filed - I should have known that was the alleged reason though, I responded hastily to the claim the request to get vaccinated is “benign”
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by gfodor 5y ago
That’s a counterpoint to some arguments like “if it’s March 2021 and you’re 40 you should not get shot one” but not ones like “we should be concerned about vaccine side effects from Moderna” and “if you’ve caught COVID and you’re a 20 year

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