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by hans1729 4y ago
>So scarcity pays no role in value? Is the Mona Lisa not valuable? You're mixing up things. I can draw a one-off picture, that doesn't make the drawing valuable (sadly. If you want to buy my paintings, hmu). The value needs to
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by hans1729 4y ago
That's not right. One: gold is the og currency, it doesn't have to prove its value because it already did. Two: it is also being actively used for transactions, look no further than jewelry. If you have gold, you will find someon
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by hans1729 4y ago
If you don't want kids. If you do, it's always a factor. Do you want your kids to grow up in a stable culture, or in a declining one? Surrounded by polarization, extremes of all kinds, instability? I consider moving to the US for
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by hans1729 4y ago
You need a lawyer just to subscribe to a local gym?
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by hans1729 4y ago
"Why does confrontation with horror make you feel uneasy?" ...
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by hans1729 4y ago
At first sight I’ve read “an object-oriented Haskell book”. [brief pause for contemplating the thought] Naturally, someone went there: https://www.parsonsmatt.org/tutorials/
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by hans1729 4y ago
>[first paragraph] This post is probably not on top of HN because “the media” uses him for ad revenue, just saying. >[second] That’s not even close to the full picture. Its not like he went into a shop with cash to buy a car. Not sayi
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by hans1729 4y ago
Fair question/point. Yes, I do think so. The intuitive model associated with some variable/word as a concept relates to other structures/models/systems that it interfaces with. Just because the operator that accesses the
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by hans1729 4y ago
> A tool that adds work wouldn't be very useful, would it? Sure could, if it provides benefits that outweight the additional work. Insurance companies will happily pay a couple more IT-specialists if it reduces the amount of cases t
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by hans1729 4y ago
I suppose the "as a reflection of reality" is the catch in that phrase. Is π built into the fabric of that which is absolute? Which statements are we able to make about axioms that hold outside of our reference frame?
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by hans1729 4y ago
assertion: thinking is synonymous with computation (composed operations on symbolic systems). computation is boolean algebra. -> therefore, doing math is to think. I'm not trying to be pedantic, I just don't think using intui
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by hans1729 4y ago
Healthy soil can be cultivated at scale, so if quality is the top priority that's not an issue. At least two major factors are at play: - soil usually doesn't get time to recover and gets fertilized every year, nutrition can'
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by hans1729 4y ago
Now I’m curious, where do you live? “News” are serving a very weird market, almost 100% about selling stories that satisfy the distorted attention span of demographic majorities who have no interest in going beyond the surface level of thei
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by hans1729 4y ago
Thank you. For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL see the second paragraph.
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by hans1729 4y ago
I queried google for '"SNOBAL" acronym' and am no wiser than before, what do you mean? Also, I like to think of myself as a "real" programmer and I take great care to produce readable code :-)
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by hans1729 4y ago
Something can't be traitorous with respect to the intellectual discourse of a given topic, but to a group . Group consensus is not about intellectual correctness, obviously. Groups are about evolution, as is belonging to them and seek
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by hans1729 4y ago
>You are case in point to HN losing quality. I've done my homework on crypto, why are you insinuating otherwise/go ad hominem? >Crypto allows for decentralized money that one can self-custody and send/receive [...] I&#x
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by hans1729 4y ago
Not just aging out, idealism as a political motive is essentially dead, because it's a luxury that can't be afforded anymore. The new green line - everywhere - isn't "nuclear bad", it's "act on climate cha
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by hans1729 4y ago
The same applies for Germany; our plants that have been shut down can, de facto, not be reactivated. The effort would be too big, and the industry lacks the experts as priorities shifted for obvious reasons. In other news, Germany just star
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by hans1729 4y ago
Not at all, that's just what it is to non-enthusiasts. If you lose interest in HN because HN likes to dump on crypto, that's fair, but that's a you-problem, not an indicator of HN losing quality. It's pretty simple rea
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by hans1729 4y ago
Oh come on . "Useful" is subjective? Either there exists something that serves a purpose to target groups outside of the crypto world or there is not.
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by hans1729 4y ago
> Web3 is going through rapid development and high variance Well thats one way to put it.
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by hans1729 4y ago
Discourse, not discord. Discord is a "we sell your data" app directed towards zoomers and gamers, nobody sane should promote it.
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by hans1729 4y ago
> killer app > a feature, function, or application of a new technology or product which is presented as virtually indispensable or much superior to rival products
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by hans1729 4y ago
> plastics [...] ideal material microplastics polluting every organ of every organism on the planet would like a word with you
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by hans1729 4y ago
It very likely already did, specifically in Go. The problem is that humans would still be required to comprehend what they are seeing :-) letting agents develop strategies in an unsupervised manner has already yielded strategies we haven’t
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by hans1729 4y ago
> My main point is that it seems that some artists such as Picasso (and I'll throw in Rothko as well since I saw them mentioned here) are artificially popularized by people trying to seem high class/intelligent. Rest assured: w
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by hans1729 4y ago
Since "art is about art" came from me: I see nothing unsubstantial in that very expression. Art is expression, art is play, but most importantly, art is free. I don't see why anybody has to be ostracized for not finding acces
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by hans1729 4y ago
> “could the masses still be convinced his art is good in modern times?“ Is your actual question directed towards the quality of the art, or towards the ability of the masses to recognize it? Maybe it’s because I used to paint a bit, but
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by hans1729 4y ago
Imagine what the alternative would imply. AI would be solved, and thus, intelligence itself. Predicting tokens is not actually true intelligence, and that’s not really the point of these models. This is a step on the letter, not the rooftop

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