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by gojomo 5y ago
Seeking infection may cure their skepticism faster than any amount of scolding!
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by gojomo 5y ago
Maybe it is? Many other countries are fine considering documented prior infection as equivalent to vaccination for compliance purposes. There are some results hinting infection-recovery alone is better than vaccination alone, especially ver
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by gojomo 5y ago
You are free to write as many words as you’d like on your idiosyncratic beliefs, but the fields of law, finance, & economics, as practiced & documented, disagree with you: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f&#x
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by gojomo 5y ago
“You responded by saying Monero improves privacy.” I did not mention Monero at all! I pointed out that “rule of law & democracy” did OK before the recent modern era of massive, preemptive, general-warrant-like financial surveillance.
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by gojomo 5y ago
Perhaps pedantically from a particular viewpoint, & if banks used a blacklist of certain bill numbers. But to financial economists, cash is a textbook example of a ‘fungible’ thing. So a statement like – “Monero is fungible, cash is n
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by gojomo 5y ago
Except for the de minimus overhead of making-change/breaking-big-bills, physical cash is usually described as 'fungible' in the sense meaningful for economics: each $N is completely equivalent to any other $N – na matter its
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by gojomo 5y ago
Rule of law & democracy began when people had far more privacy than today. The founding motivations for the USA included resisting privacy abuses like 'general warrants' – the state peeking into everyone's business, wit
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by gojomo 5y ago
‘Break the economy’? Can you be less euphemistic? And which economists make the case that regulatory prior restraint of individual investor choices is how to avoid a recession/depression? (Rather than, say, fiscal or monetary policy?)
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by gojomo 5y ago
Lots of things are different from 1929 today! Why would the rules for highly regulated, specially-privileged-under-the-law banks have to do with what individual consenting adults should be allowed to invest in?
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by gojomo 5y ago
Consenting, competent adults should be allowed to opt-out of having the SEC as their ‘white knight’. (Matt Levine also has a version of this idea, where he suggests people should, with sufficient effort, be allowes to sign a piece of paper
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by gojomo 5y ago
Thanks for looking closer!
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by gojomo 5y ago
The title obviously varies from the source, & I have no opinion on any prior cases of editorialized titles from the submitter. But, on this story itself, the submitted title is more honestly representative of the article contents than
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by gojomo 5y ago
Be careful: some people who are in other matters Very Very Smart will then insist you're flashing a 'white power' symbol. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/media/jeopardy-h..
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by gojomo 5y ago
"We're sorry to inform you that Apple iCompliance AI Eyes, as of last night's updated version 16.4.2, has identified the following violations of laws & emergency edicts in your recent local photo roll: • Unmasked proximit
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by gojomo 5y ago
A "blink", or the iterative strategy of a skilled manipulator/abuser/groomer? Push to the level of their target's discomfort, then back off – without respecting the "no!", pretending to hear only "not
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by gojomo 5y ago
So, pick the 2 (out-of-36) that did better than a solo radiologist & run them everywhere, at nearly zero marginal cost. Also check if ensembles of the lesser-performing systems (with other systems or with radiologists) can do better, an
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by gojomo 5y ago
"Forget it, Jake. It's Bankertown."
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by gojomo 5y ago
How large of a model download would be required to remove the dependency on a cloud service?
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by gojomo 5y ago
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28097508 Apple's system and ones like it likely create an incentive to abuse more children I'm surprised more people haven't noticed this counterproductive dynamic.
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by gojomo 5y ago
Alt headline: To support public health priorities, Facebook withheld report that risked spreading vaccine fears. It’s all how you spin it!
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by gojomo 5y ago
Using advanced radiocarbon dating, it may be "up to several decades older than previously thought". And "at least 20 years older" – back to about AD1420, instead of AD1440-1450. So this isn't a massive revision chan
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by gojomo 5y ago
Maybe the people who want absolute safety can stay in their homes, & whatever tiny perimeter of limited interactions can guarantee their safety, while those who accept some risks still have the human right of travel? Just a thought. COV
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by gojomo 5y ago
From: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/08/th... > Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that > Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence
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by gojomo 5y ago
Yes - but the humans that lived for those "millenia" were much smaller in number than today. They were much poorer, often "dirt poor", despite constant manual labor that barely left time for literacy – much less HN-like
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by gojomo 5y ago
It's not hyperbolically "fine", but unless you're living a rustic nearly off-the-grid life, you're regularly enjoying modern goods dependent on the fossil fuels industry for transport, fertilization, packaging, plas
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by gojomo 5y ago
I'd not trust Salon to know what billionaires, or science/technology, will be able to do. Modern Salon is even more ideology-addled than the historic NYTimes, which editorialized human flight was a million years away in 1903, when
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by gojomo 5y ago
It only gets upgraded if it was designed to be so upgraded, which adds cost/complexity. If you don't manage your backdoor before the probe leaves human hands, you can't add it later. And, other mechanisms (some described in s
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by gojomo 5y ago
Hardware on Earth can be compromised any time later - via coercion, inducements to collude, etc. The usual disadvantage of far-space probes – older tech that can't be upgraded – becomes an advantage in the trusted-validator role, as lo
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by gojomo 5y ago
Because jokes & trolls often raise interesting questions, & prompt stimulating discussions?
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by gojomo 5y ago
If that was a designed-in capability, sure. But these would be non-updatable.

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