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by grovulent 11y ago
You make some pretty sweeping claims - strung together with some pretty appalling logic. Take for example: --- And the rationale for this is like something right out of Alice in Wonderland. Supposedly, proof-of-work makes it prohibitively
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by grovulent 11y ago
It's is amazing how many psychopathic corporate shills you'll find astro-turfing all over the place. It's disturbing too how much they are able to influence the discussion.
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by grovulent 11y ago
This is not a story. Google is only even announcing it because were there to be even suspicion that a google car had been the cause of an accident there would be hysteria (irrespective of the statistical reality) - so they don't want t
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by grovulent 11y ago
I don't have anything intelligent to say about this - but this for me is one of those moments where I feel positively in awe of how next level some people are.
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by grovulent 11y ago
Oh okay - so you're talking about product which is intrinsically valuable to its creator, irrespective of it's potential intrinsic value to others. Seems reasonable... don't know if I agree with your larger thesis... but it
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by grovulent 11y ago
I'd be interested to know if you can give a coherent account of what "value in itself" actually means. Because from at least one interpretation - 'value in itself' means that it is not valued because it has a use in
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by grovulent 11y ago
Yeah - living long enough to reproduce in modern times is easy enough now - but it wasn't back in the day. I do wonder if survival back in the day actually required the level of risk taking that adhd people are capable of. If you stay
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by grovulent 11y ago
adhd folk are natural risk takers... so this result is unsurprising. One thing I've always wondered is how adhd folks didn't get selected out through their risky behaviour. Their existence could certainly confer some group benefi
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by grovulent 11y ago
And don't forget they were trying to minimise the potential competition and challenge to their revenue streams that modding represents.
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by grovulent 11y ago
A lot of labs are very much like this... with the actual science work getting done by the post-grads. What the author doesn't realise that while the lab heads might not be doing a lot of science on a day to day basis - most are overloa
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by grovulent 11y ago
I think our difference of perspective comes from the idea that everyone has equal access to "free speech" and so we should listen to everyone equally. But, that's not the reality we live in. The police commissioner, the mayo
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by grovulent 11y ago
I do think it is important to give credit to the far left for their activism on certain fronts. On this point I agree with you. You define a safe space as something that people opt into. Do you really believe that? Here's an exampl
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by grovulent 12y ago
Yeah - I'm making that comparison. Because firstly - Bitcoin is being treated as a commodity by governments around the world (particularly when it comes to taxation policy). Secondly, we're talking about broad perceptions of trus
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by grovulent 12y ago
I can't tell if you agree with me or not. We're talking about the institutional systems built on top of the monetary system and our respective trust in each. You seem to say the same at the end of your comment. But I'm not
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by grovulent 12y ago
>> Such a thing has (in modern times) never happened with the normal monetary system, and couldn't happen (because governments wouldn't let it). Easily trumped once again. Not only have governments let failures happen at a
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by grovulent 12y ago
The point about U.S. dollars being the default is fair - though I personally don't think it can be the whole explanation. >> Why should he use a new thing? But this is not actually the same question as the reputation assignment.
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by grovulent 12y ago
I think you're not quite seeing my point. I agree that something like what you wrote is likely descriptive (very roughly) of the conscious thoughts of the average punter - but what we need here is an explanation of WHY this is going th
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by grovulent 12y ago
This article is correct in stating that trust and reputation is a serious problem for Bitcoin. But I don't think the article diagnoses exactly what is causing it. After all - there is nothing in all these negative headlines that give
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by grovulent 12y ago
This is obviously bad - and certainly suspicious... but the lack of withdrawals given the situation is just sensible. Withdrawals will require movement from cold storage - am I right? Well - if you've got a security problem with your
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by grovulent 12y ago
Actually - I don't know! I'm going to email the academic that posted it. I'll let you know if I find out.
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by grovulent 12y ago
Ah good reply - I fear I didn't do you justice. Just on point 2 - you say it's a problem of matching the right material for the student. Let's test that intuition. If you're an educator, and you needed to choose a proof
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by grovulent 12y ago
This looks really cool - thanks for the link. :)
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by grovulent 12y ago
I don't disagree that there is a lot of conceptual stuff going on behind any proof... but I contend that the same is going on behind logic proofs as well. You wouldn't gain a good understanding of a particular logical system (wha
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by grovulent 12y ago
Nicely said. Bear in mind though that logic books and their proofs generally rely on a 'stack' as well. You prove a theorem and then you're able to use that theorem in your proofs going forward - with the theorem itself bein
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by grovulent 12y ago
So I'm going to make a controversial claim and then try to defend it: There is a cultural problem in mathematical communication and pedagogy, which is keeping the discipline from having a wider accessibility and appeal. I come from a b
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by grovulent 13y ago
You may be right. I apologise for any inaccuracies in my shoe-placing. It's as good as I can do when trying to empathize with psychopathic assholes.
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by grovulent 13y ago
And facebook always makes good decisions right? Look at how they interpreted mobile. It's a device which is multi-faceted, multi-purpose... and they turn it into a bloody facebook window (facebook home) - getting in the way of how mo
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by grovulent 13y ago
You say you understand that these agreements are illegal and unethical and at the same time admonish us to put ourselves in the shoes of those people who engaged in this illegal and unethical behaviour. Okay. Let's do that shall we? I
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by grovulent 13y ago
Am I not the only one seeing this deployed as riot gear in the Ukraine and else where?
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by grovulent 13y ago
Would I be a zealot if I said the printing press precipitated a revolution in human society and culture? I'm just saying something similar about bitcoin IF it meets certain conditions in the future. If you bothered to read the articl

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