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by igorkraw 5y ago
Answering directly to your questions, I don't have any religious background on this, I just see hijacking of our primitive vices for personal profit as immoral and shun-worthy. I think prohibition is bad (just creates Shadow markets) a
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> Sky Mavis has acknowledged that Axie relies on new entrants for growth and promised to release new features that will make the game more desirable for people who are not primarily motivated by cashing out their earnings. Right now, it&
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I'm specifically laying into people getting rich off of other people gambling and making a business out of it. If a group of friends wants to play poker, or if the Axie platform was a co-op owned by all of the players (and no 20% dev s
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This is such a Hackernews take "I thought it was gambling and immoral, but now that it has made billions there might be a point". It can still be gambling and/or a Ponzi schemes. Adding obfuscation over methods to tap into gr
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by igorkraw 5y ago
I know enough US citizens personally that I can assure you, I'm aware of the correction that needs to be applied but consider that you might be underestimating how bad things are in the US because you are comfortable. I personally
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If you compare globally sure, if you compare with Europe, the data tells a different story. The US are 27th in social mobility behind all of the northwestern European nations with high taxation (data from the WEF, infographic from the site
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If you can and aren't already, maybe consider organising with less privileged workers for things like striking in unison. Or getting politically active to grow economy and society so it will be kinder and allow a slip up. One of the ma
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I can't help but wonder this myself, although I don't think it is safe/easy to say this with confidence - but if you look at Jane Jacobs, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Rosa Luxemburg, Chelsea Manning and others, I sometimes thi
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Your last point is true only with positional encodings though, attention itself is a permutation equivariant function
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Startup failure is fine, not being accountable to your employees is what we have a problem with. The concept of the workers council in German law keeps throwing wrenches into the attempts to import the more exploitative business models from
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no, i didn't edit the first one, maybe you meant to reply to svennek. communitycoins: these are interesting because they'd be small-people-fiat, giving tiny communities the possibility to bootstrap mini-economies and then linking
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by igorkraw 5y ago
1. Ivermectin works against worms...so if you have worms and you want to free your immune system to fight Corona, you probably should take it https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/11/18/ivermect..
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I'm down to discuss application of distributed technologies and various consensus mechanisms for concrete use cases. But cryptocurrency has been debated to death and now needs to prove itself. DAOs without currency would be interesting
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Svennek said it well, there is not much of interest left to discuss, the remaining ambiguities are up to taste, not novelty. The only interesting things are talking about whether decentralisation is a value in and off itself without e.g. eq
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I couldn't find any hard research on this but the sentiment seems to be that stack ranking at Microsoft was part of their stagnation before their revitalisation by the new CEO
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If you artificially constrain yourself to an overton window that excludes e.g Bernie Sanders, sure. That's a false equivalence that's being pushed by one ideological cluster though, similar to the horse shoe theory or the idea tha
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-religion /rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)n/ noun the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods. Scratch the last bit, since it's a tautology. How many people in the crypto space proclaim that &quo
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Drew, I would like to balance the GP by voicing my deep respect for taking a visible stance for your beliefs and voicing opinions independent of the business impact it might have. Fascism and white nationalism are not just slurs to throw at
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Like I said to the child comment, I think we are aligned on value, I included subjective and emotional needs on this. I do think this distinction makes sense because the more something has value for you, the less elastic your personal price
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Yes, I was including emotional, subjective needs in there. I think GP and I mean the same thing
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I'm with you on physical value being a bad concept, but I still have to push back a bit >Money doesn't really have physical value, only speculative (you want it because you trust that someone else will want it in the future). A
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The Jante law, tall poppy syndrome etc. is quite overblown in my personal experience, but it might have been a thing in prior times. But in modern Germany and Switzerland (where I lived from) I think the systems simply recognises more that
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Families yes, but I nees to push back against the idea of national tradition and ethnic homogeneity mattering here. The nation thing is very much not the case for Germany and Switzerland at least. France more, and for homogeneous populati
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by igorkraw 5y ago
To answer just what you have in your post with what is the lives reality of people of Switzerland: - anyone who can get 100k people to agree with them decides what to put on the ballot - the parliament, which can shunt responsibility to the
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If you want to see true décentralisation, look to Europe, especially Germany, Switzerland etc., but also the EU And for an ideology that actually build decentralised but just systems, I am strangely enamored by anarchists. They(except Ancap
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I've been thinking about this for a year and haven't found any downsides
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All studied I'm aware of show that plant based protein is orders of magnitude less intensive than beef. If you look for "protein source total resource consumption meta analysis" you'll find many. Most people do not eat g
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1. The point of numbering them is to highlight all of them have been answered already, but he's not interested in the answers. Otherwise, a good faith skeptic would have found the anders to his "concerns" 2. The debate you ar
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You are creating an impossible burden of proof (causation, which in the Pearlian sense can maybe only be established when observing interventional data, which we can't have) while ignoring the balance of probabilities and possible harm
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On a quick glance I see numbers 1 ,43,44,48,90,96, of the climate change deniers list (1), and that's just from a 30 second skim. You are doing the classical playbook of "just asking questions" which either can't be sett

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