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by hudon 6y ago
Probably the first thing to help you understand “why [OP] is asking that” is that different Christians and Jews will tell you different things with respect to “self determination”. Some believe in free will, some don’t, and there is plenty
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by hudon 6y ago
> if we care about existing, our sole responsibility is to each other and ourselves The conclusion does not derive from the premise... I can care about existing in a hedonistic way and then responsibility in no way derives from my caring
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by hudon 6y ago
The fact that changes to Bitcoin Core get some amount of reviews is not enough for all vulnerabilities to get caught, as seen here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposu... And some of those vuln
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by hudon 6y ago
The truth now though is that those who can “organize the majority of the computational power” are the same as those who can push to Bitcoin Core. One must only look at recent forks to see how this power grab happened.
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by hudon 6y ago
You’re right, the only thing preventing what you’re saying is the community keeping the leaders in check. But the leaders have way more influence individually than each community member does, so if one with git access to the Core repo is co
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Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers(theatlantic.com)
4 points by hudon 6y ago|2 comments
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by hudon 6y ago
I own a Tesla and love it. Having said that, “full self driving” is so far off what it actually does it’s actually not just a marketing issue, it is a safety issue. I’ve had my Tesla drive towards an incoming lane, slam on the breaks in th
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Coronavirus: Why Everyone Was Wrong(medium.com)
15 points by hudon 6y ago|47 comments
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Covid has exposed America as a failed state(unherd.com)
6 points by hudon 6y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 6y ago
1. All rituals have a reconciliatory nature, I think you’ll see this in many psychosocial models, (especially René Girard’s). Rituals like The Halvening distract from the hostility of conflict and gives rivals a chance to cooperate on somet
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by hudon 6y ago
I’m providing a sociological hypothesis for something that people usually only provide technical explanations for. If you have a novel explanation for why Bananas are purchased that is unrelated to nutrition, it is worth sharing at least.
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by hudon 6y ago
Why have a “halving” every four years, you may ask? Having a periodic “The Halvening” ritual every four years allows Bitcoiners to reconcile and forgive each other’s trespasses for one, it also gives Bitcoin a nice bump of attention in the
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by hudon 6y ago
I see the opposite, these behaviors seem most espoused by intelligent folk, who know there is value in science but whose opinions are riddled with emotional bias, as well as the media and politicians, who in turn know that the words “scienc
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Moynihan’s Law(acorn.nationalinterest.in)
1 points by hudon 6y ago|0 comments
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by hudon 6y ago
Your chart tells me TSLA is a more volatile stock. Everyone knows TSLA is as volatile as a cryptocurrency. Why do you want to believe in god-like tweet powers so much?
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by hudon 6y ago
Did Elon also cause AMZN stock to drop around the same time? And FB? And MSFT? And UBER? That’s a whole lot of clout, unless I’m misunderstanding something here...
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by hudon 6y ago
You’re forgetting the most crucial and definitely centralized aspect of Bitcoin: the developers. Their influence over the protocol’s modifications outweighs a large sum of random individuals’.
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Trump Rewrites the Book on Emergencies(wsj.com)
4 points by hudon 6y ago|1 comments
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by hudon 7y ago
The most recent bug (that we know of) that allowed double-spend was in production for over a year [0] (~Sept 2017 to ~Sept 2018). I don't think it is possible to accurately determine the probability of this bug being exploited (because
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by hudon 7y ago
If you're capable of playing a long con, it costs much less than the stated dollar prices. With Bitcoin, for example, a smart malicious actor could infiltrate the Core development team and through their social capital make certain mali
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by hudon 7y ago
Yup. And when you need to measure where artillery shells land, the GR model is overkill and you'll waste less time by using a Newtonian prediction. I think this proves my point?
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by hudon 7y ago
At low speeds relative to the speed of light, they have the same accuracy don't they? And in that case, the Newton model is simpler so more useful. At high speeds, it becomes inaccurate and then you need the other model. So there is no
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by hudon 7y ago
That’s the open question, isn’t it? We don’t know what we don’t know, so no matter how elaborate a rational defense of reform is, the reality may always be one step more complex than we thought. That’s not to say we shouldn’t reform, but th
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Book Review: The Secret to Our Success (2019)(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by hudon 7y ago|0 comments
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Streaming Takes a Toll on the Environment(cbc.ca)
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by hudon 7y ago
> money is power Money isn’t power. Power is power. If Putin became bankrupt tonight, he’d still be one of the most powerful people on earth tomorrow morning. Power is the capacity to have others do what you want, including handing you t
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Bored of the Coins(techcrunch.com)
1 points by hudon 7y ago|0 comments
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Why We’re Investing in Virtual Kitchen Co(a16z.com)
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Zuckerberg admits Facebook in a poor position to promote Libra(ft.com)
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by hudon 7y ago
They wouldn’t say this, but I’m guessing it’s a sly reference to Sleepy Joe (Biden).

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