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by giaour 5y ago
The way you phrased that, I'm not sure if you were a programmer or a senator.
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by giaour 5y ago
I don't mind ads on broadcast TV or radio because they fund the content and don't insist on tracking me. The privacy invasion that accompanies web ads leads me to treat them as malware and prevent their execution on my devices. I
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by giaour 5y ago
I don't. I subscribe to the publications that I regularly read, but their websites are still mostly unusable without an ad blocker.
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by giaour 5y ago
> Some sort of analogy could be margin calls/puts. That is not a comparable situation. The ETH/WETH trader misused a negotiable instrument, and 500K disappeared forever. Someone who loses 500K gambling on margin was gambling an
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by giaour 5y ago
As far as I can tell, no one has argued that transaction validation for this specific smart contract should be built into wallets. You're arguing with a straw man. The point I see made instead is that the smart contract should not be c
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by giaour 5y ago
> People kept receiving salaries, and unemployment benefits. So financial position and income of families was always strong I'm confused; weren't you arguing above that unemployment concerns shouldn't have motivated govern
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by giaour 5y ago
And a large drop in the real value of outstanding debts, which is great for the mortgage-holding, non-credit-extending middle class
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by giaour 5y ago
Your assertion assumes that demand would not have contracted in April 2020 absent government intervention, which seems suspect. Unless you believe no one would have adopted any pandemic precautions absent activity restrictions, thereby aver
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by giaour 5y ago
"No State shall ... make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts"
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Facebook’s cryptocurrency failure came after internal and regulatory pushback(washingtonpost.com)
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by giaour 5y ago
Technically, failure to respond to the census is punishable by a fine of $100, but this is rarely (if ever) enforced. After a certain number of tries without getting a response, census takers are supposed to impute how you would have respon
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by giaour 5y ago
This was an extremely lazy article. It doesn't seem like Yglesias made any effort to engage with the Census's rationale for using differential privacy, with the Bureau's historic methods for privacy preservation (e.g., "
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by giaour 5y ago
> allowing in edge cases the inference of information that is already available in public voter registration rolls. This is a really inaccurate way to characterize what researchers were able to obtain from reidentification attacks on blo
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by giaour 5y ago
The census contains some data that commercial databases are legally prohibited from holding (e.g., info about children within a household). The deanonymization/reidentification attacks rely on joining census data against commercial dat
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by giaour 5y ago
My experience was mostly at small companies with dedicated ops personnel and in government. I worked with a large number of teams that had been chartered with implementing microservices within government agencies, and every single one of th
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by giaour 5y ago
> Microservices allow your team to have control over the full stack they require to deliver a feature. This is honestly pretty rare, at least in my experience. What I have seen is that organizations will buy in to the microservices hype,
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by giaour 5y ago
The service being used here is Azure Monitor, which charges $0.10/month for each metric you monitor with alert rules: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/monitor/ They do charge by the
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Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (Pre-Print)(papers.ssrn.com)
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by giaour 5y ago
The best of both worlds is when you have a human supervise a fully automated process. You can pay them peanuts and still use them as liability sponges. (The term "liability sponge" is shamelessly stolen from https://pap
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by giaour 5y ago
> Nobody is forcing anyone to partake in this new technology. Nobody is forcing anyone to burn fossil fuels, either, but we all breathe and thus can't opt out of its negative externalities. This argument only works when externalitie
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by giaour 5y ago
El Salvador tried to force its residents to participate. The country's bitcoin law stipulates that "[e]very economic agent must accept bitcoin as payment": https://mobile.twitter.com/nayibbukele/status&#x
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by giaour 5y ago
If you use the "pay per request" billing model instead of provisioned throughput, DynamoDB scaling is self-managing, and you can treat your DB as a fire-and-forget key/value store. You need to plan how you'll query your
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by giaour 5y ago
>Meanwhile physical cash is preferred for criminal acts. Would you similarly blame the issuer of cash for these crimes? Authorities (at least in the US) try to strike a balance between crime prevention and seamless use of cash. Depositin
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by giaour 5y ago
> For a starters, its not Bitcoin fault that someone did not have last will, or did not include the keys or their crypto in the last will. Since we can assume that some people will die without making arrangements to pass on their keys, t
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by giaour 5y ago
I have a one-pan induction cooktop that I got at Best Buy for $50 that I use whenever I need more precise temperature control than I can get from my gas range (e.g., when I make candy or meringue). I bet the Breville cooktop is much better
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by giaour 5y ago
Then in the end, we all live by the rules established by whoever has the largest band of thugs. Good thing we got rid of government and created this libertarian utopia.
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by giaour 5y ago
> Because everyone else around them would help defend the validity of the deeds, as they all own property in the same way. That feels a bit like saying that everyone will pitch in to stop mugging since we all carry physical cash in the s
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by giaour 5y ago
In the absence of a governing authority, property disputes would revert to being settled by violence or the threat thereof. Why should my band of armed thugs defer to what it says on the blockchain when they could instead hit you with a $5
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by giaour 5y ago
I recall that in France and Italy, tuition wasn't free, but it was on the order of ~200-300 euros per year. STEM degree tuition cost more since those students had more expensive facilities like laboratories. Take this anecdata with a g
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by giaour 5y ago
https://www.history.com/news/coding-used-to-be-a-womans-job-... is a bit superficial but gives a decent summary

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