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by igorkraw 5y ago
More democracy does not necessarily mean more committees in a big centralised state. One problem I personally have with representative democracy is that the representative class will proliferate. If e.g. the railroad/community was orga
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by igorkraw 5y ago
I'm reworking my website (see my profile/email) and will try to put them there as I finish my PhD. Just need to find rhr time to do it properly. It's one thing to type out comments, it's another to publish self contained
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by igorkraw 5y ago
I'm hopeful. "The logic of political survival" ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/logic-political-survival ) is one of many books that make a decent case for democratic systems simply being better than a
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Or we might get Ob'enn (I heavily recommend the attached comic universe) https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/Ob%27enn
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Because usually, we have less than that hospitalized, and capital efficiency demands elimination of redundant capacity. In the US shareholder value of private hospitals, in my homecountry of Germany, political pressure to remove "ineff
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Feel free to plug in population numbers into an exponential growth function and watch the medical system get overwhelmed. This isn't about it collapsing - once a few thousand people have died preventable deaths and a bunch of medical
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Anyone know the state of link time optimisation on this? Last time I checked it was advised to use this for dev builds only
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So basically, you don't. You need to pay the forces enforcing your property rights somehow, and with taxation comes comes either a large overhead as the state needs to basically become a Forex trading house to ensure it can pay in what
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How do you deal with the notion of private property as a non-statist?
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This reads somewhere between propaganda and faux-intellectual gibberish to me, what are you actually trying to say?
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Yeah, but what if the contract implementing the decentralised exchange has a bug?
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Would there be much benefit? Hacks happen because of two reasons: 1. Bugs 2. Social engineering In a decentralised exchange you increase your vulnerability to 1 trying to get rid of 2 on the exchange side, and I'm unsure you can offer
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Does this handle ambiguity in definitions/standardization of expressions? Like, if I define entropy H(q,p) with mesures q (X), p(X) and with mesures a (y),b(y) , can I use the mathlingua parser to abstract this to the same representati
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by igorkraw 5y ago
0. The vaccines are incredibly effective, as evidenced by the almost zero rate of bad progressions. You can look up the studies for exact number, but I think mRNA was something like 80-90% effective against the original COVID-19, that'
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by igorkraw 5y ago
No,they do no need to have evidence. People don't always act rationally, and if you spend any time talking to a person with anti-vax beliefs you'll notice their belief isn't founded on evidence but on narrative, distrust and
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In that fantasy world they'd still need to provide evidence that the ban us justified, otherwise people can challenge it in court. The vaccine people have the "benefit" of a collapsing medical system and am absence of a simil
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Small correction, it's a non-profit association that can be placed in the same cluster as Mozilla, the EFF, the CCC or the Linux Foundation (i.e., the good guys if you care about FOSS and an open software and internet world)
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Thanks for the clarifications on your first two points. On the last: You are using very wavy forms of utility. How do you define utility? I was thinking on the utility of the individual, asking about whether something like getting lost in g
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Thanks, this is interesting, but I'd argue you need to distinguish between the label and what's actually being lived. Swiss direct democracy has concrete effects when votes happen, I don't know if that was true in Gaddafis Li
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I work in this field, I have a project specifically on adversarial examples and I have a strong opinion on this. I personally think worrying about adversarial examples in real life production systems is like worrying about getting the vanil
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The UK maybe not, but my country of Germany was (source in german https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/kontraste/vernichtung... ). Or rather: it omitted to ensure it could pass on vaccines that it would by and is
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True, although one could argue that it happened too often to late. My go to example is still Brexit which was a legally non-binding referendum and still got passed into law despite a system very much designed to "constrain populism&quo
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I'm specifically shitting on representative democracy. Part of the reason I'm trying to emigrate to switzerland is it's direct democracy, which I find has all of the benefits of a representative systems while alleviating so
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> An African Union official told the BBC developed countries were to blame for the emergence of the variant. > "What is going on right now is inevitable, it's a result of the world's failure to vaccinate in an equitable
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Important to mention here open access can also mean "authors pay the journal thousands of dollars to enable open access to their paper" (e.g. 4.5k for Science advances). Given that arxiv.org runs with about 16$/paper accord
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by igorkraw 5y ago
First of all, it's simplistic to say socialists reject markets see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism >Early models of m
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It feels like you are agreeing with me only to go back to defending the thing you call sick? My whole point is that we might not be able to change the system, but we can at least refuse to accept it. Other points touching on ideas you raise
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Because then there'd be ambiguity between a function ending and returning unit (nothing) or returning whatever the last line expression returns. You could change things around this, but Rust has a goal of unambiguous syntax, hence also
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Well, yes,you have rediscovered a core theme of criticism against the capitalist, consumerist mode of production anarchists and other leftists tend to raise, together with commodification. There is a coherent view that most AAA video games
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By the state or by private individuals without profiting and without advertising. I'm also in support of banning loot boxes in commercial games like we've seen in some European countries. Again, the problem isn't gambling. Th

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