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by igorkraw 6y ago
While I agree on you that crypto isn't Anarchy, I feel that Proudhons labor vouchers aren't much different from money. Money is just tokens of debt, be it if gratitude or other, if a group uses them to keep track of that debt it&
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Shouldn't we just shame billionaires a lot and millionaires a little then? On top of calling for revenue neutral carbon taxation that will hit them the most and benefit the common people?
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Thank you, I'll take a look:-)
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by igorkraw 6y ago
The literature says differently, and is also aware of your opinion. https://www.safetylit.org/citations/index.php?fuseaction=cit...
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Could you point me to some papers/books available online (maybe on certain hubs of science) you'd consider "seminal"?
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by igorkraw 6y ago
I hope this doesn't offend you, but I am more confused by your answer than I was before. Could you point me to some papers/books available online (maybe on certain hubs of science) you'd consider "seminal"?
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Could you explain how cybernetics is outside the current paradigm? It's "just" control theory no?
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How does it compare to visidata?
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If you go to your ATM and get 5 bucks, and then go to the cafe to pay a coffee with it and it's registered in their system, this is the exact same scenario, you realize that?
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Yes it is. You just write down "got 5 bucks from customer" and submit it to the tax office. Now one side is anonymous (customers) and the other not (merchant)
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by igorkraw 6y ago
That's just wrong. If me and 10 other people buy things for 5 bucks from a vendor with taler, there is no way to trace it to us as I understand, and no way to distinguish which of us paid which 5 bucks. How is that isomorphic to full s
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by igorkraw 6y ago
What do you think of Bitcoins/Ethereum etc. public ledgers?
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While shutting down any idea that is not 100% aligned in their own platforms. But it's okay, I believe safe spaces are important
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by igorkraw 6y ago
You know there's a difference between Larry flint not being legally allowed to peddle smut, do satire etc. and people telling you they don't like your opinion and not giving you a platform, organising boycotts etc? Also, I assum
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Depends on the crowd size and philosophy. The only true store of value is a diverse portfolio, anything below that you need to use your own priors and data to decide what kind of risk you take.
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You would have to show that bitcoin transactions are globally uniformly distributed for that claim to hold well. The rest of you argument hinges on the idea that the value created by bitcoin on-chain transactions is equivalent to that of ai
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Bitcoin smoothly moves between store of value and next level of banking whenever fees rise to high to transact or a new tech which is totally gonna make it scale and be affordable for micropayments respectively. As a store of value it is
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Because one of the constantly shifting goal posts that the crypto community used a lot in the past is "payment method without third parties". So it is relevant to compare to Visa, to establish that Bitcoin utterly sucks in that
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Countries have millions of people in them, which are doing many things with that energy. It illustrates the waste. Visa is an alternative technology providing a service that bitcoin is intended to replace (preemptive statement: I am simpl
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I mean, that observation that you need cultural homogeneity (the most charitable version) is simply wrong. Switzerland has been multi cultural for hundreds of years and continues to be so, the US hasn't seen a civil war in a similarly
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by igorkraw 6y ago
If I am not misremembering, "all those blog posts" are all written by Frank McSherry, one of the cofounders of materialize materialize and developer of differential dataflow :-) http://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets&
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by igorkraw 6y ago
It basically means you need to learn about double descent: https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1243229024085835779 and regularize your models well, implicitly or explicitly. Your model might otherwise memorize
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by igorkraw 6y ago
If you follow it to it's conclusion to abolish nation states and create a world level confederacy ala EU or a politically binding UN, yes very much so. Usually people try to give some defense of patriotism or "acceptable" nat
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by igorkraw 6y ago
That isn't a threat, that is announcing her terms. You can think they are in their own right to taker her up on it, but its not a threat. Also, as far as I know for a "einseitige Freistellung" (one sided decision to no longer
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by igorkraw 6y ago
In timnits version of the events, as far is know, she asked to discuss the details of the internal review with the reviewers with the authors, as is apparently standard at Google. The leaving Google and working on an end date is unconsteste
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For the record, I found it a pity damore was fired, and I think he and timnit should be allies in this. A German feminist actually analysed his memo and while she disagreed with the evo-psych bits, she actually pointed out that his argument
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Even if you don't want to rehash it, I feel like making concrete statement of which of her actions you feel were toxic is more constructive than vilifying her personally. Contrapoints made a good video on cancelling that highlights t
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I think that will be up for the the national labor board or whoever judges the legality of this. In any case now people, including her co-worker are free in condemning Google for that. Let's hope either Google can address the grievance
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I find it sad that a good chunk of HN seems to just go with the "she's a toxic person" narrative without ever relaying what she actually DID. Ironically, the self identified "anti-SJW" are cancelling her by complain
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Where did she make demand coupled with threats? In her own words, she announced that she'd like to discuss an end date for her employment if she wouldn't be given the chance to fix the paper up for publication. This would very muc

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