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by igorkraw 4y ago
IIRC it scales logarithmically , which is the wrong side of the logarithm to be on. I might have missed some new compute-data ratio breakthrough though
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by igorkraw 4y ago
There is one thing that extremely easy way to retain the "benefit" you claim: make advertising opt-in. Truly, continuously opt-in. Every time there is an ad, you have to tap "yes, I'd like to see it" (or "yes,
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by igorkraw 4y ago
If this is true, what makes you think you are outside a few sigma?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Before we start talking about tragedy of the commons with fertility, how about we fix the surrounding factors that cause people to have babies later in life or only one (subsidies are a good start, but they need to be massive if the surroun
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by igorkraw 4y ago
The fact is that oil companies have been knowingly sabotaging the discourse and scientific process about this in a similar way that the tobacco companies kept 'having the debate' for as long as possible to not change their busines
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Yes. "It is very fine to discriminate against people based on them behaving like assholes" is another one. If you can't point to the injustice in the discrimination and are reduced to claiming all discrimination is bad you ha
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by igorkraw 4y ago
You are simply saying one of two things:"deflationary thing would be nice to keep your savings in" and "the USD is a strong currency". What kept people from buying gold, bitcoin or commodities or other speculative assets
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by igorkraw 4y ago
> A counter argument could be that it is unfair for the rich to be exposed to such increased scrutiny merely because of their money I think it is very fine to discriminate against people based in things that give them enormous power, qu
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by igorkraw 4y ago
>If I am being pedantic, "x^2" are still nonlinear though yes, and this is where this paper should have been stopped, with no ill intention towards the authors. Polynomial networks have gotten good results (my colleague https:
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Yeah, but we were talking about incentives not about finding capital . Nerds are perfectly capable of writing proposals, budgets, etc. if they have the time, and if there is not need to feed constituents and make a profit of the results,
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Speaking as someone who has built things in python, rust and Julia,I have to say that while I love multiple dispatch and the possibilities the Julia ecosystem offers, I'm not surprised he went to Rust over Julia: it's not much slo
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Well, he's also a Vietnam vet. So he has probably killed a lot more than two people, but the majority of it was state sanctioned if that makes you feel more at ease?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Which is why justice and the judicial system is not really intended to facilitate revenge. Also, for the fullccontext >(...)serving in Vietnam when opposing soldiers ambushed and killed his commanding officer. Returning home to San Franc
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by igorkraw 4y ago
For the research part (figuring out something previously impossible)? No need to incentivise, the kick of figuring it out is enough to motivate people, just provide UBI so the nerds can tinker. For the development/application part? Let
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by igorkraw 4y ago
These arguments have been heard a lot though, so why do we have to keep giving them platforms?
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Again: it does apply. But free speech does not mean no consequences, or the right to a platform. And the ones where it does not apply are generally not the ones featured in the mass media as a response to being "silenced"
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by igorkraw 4y ago
To the first: you are free to seek the information elsewhere. That's the whole point of my argument, the whole "the person who loses when X is silenced is not the speaker but the listener" doesn't work when you can go to
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I wonder why these type of op-eds see to always defend the speech of racists or those in favour of the beliefs of old billionaires, or the importance of publishing racist (etc) speech in private newspapers with editorial control , while th
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Humanism, non-tankie leftism and the more tolerant/loving religions all have "we are all brothers" ideologies. Internationalism is a key feature of leftist ideology, hâte the sin love the sinner etc. Ans even then, you can&#x
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Why would a monopoly be interested in providing the near possible service? They can simply lobby to make upstarts impossible, or buy them, or bleed them dry with localised dumping prices, or steal all of their best ideas given they have mor
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by igorkraw 4y ago
> Yes, Nazis and white supremacists represent a particularly deranged set of ideas, but with compassion it is possible to tease the humanity out of even them. If Daryl Davis can convert Klansmen, surely you can find common ground with so
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by igorkraw 4y ago
On top of what sibling comment said, trains will go anyway, so increasing occupancy means less total carbon since otherwise you'd have train+car. And for some people, this might mean not taking the plane, although I'm unsure about
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by igorkraw 4y ago
If you disincentivise individual ownership of expensive land and buildings, building dense housing becomes more profitable. Also, you can pay for social programs with the tax revenue.
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by igorkraw 4y ago
They won't become homeless. They will have to move after selling and incredibly expensive house. As opposed to those who are homeless but are not receiving any tax benefits for not having a home, they will have capital to rent for a
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by igorkraw 4y ago
That's the hard question. Once you have a community that decides to so it differently, you can use democratic consensus or voting (partial exampl Vienna, lots of counter-market public housing), but to get there you either need force or
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I mean, either you are cruel to home owners who have capital or you are cruel to poor people. I know where my priorities would be. Or we could of course try to remove the cruelty completely by not using a market system to manage a natural m
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by igorkraw 4y ago
BS, XMPP federation has been around for decades now. Google messenger used to speak it before the removed it , maybe Facebook as well.
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by igorkraw 4y ago
Last I checked the EU was still the largest single market block in the world. Maybe that changed since then, but I don't think Apple will simply cede that to a competitor - especially since it would go heavily against their "we ca
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by igorkraw 4y ago
I'd say it's more that there is an increasing desire for science and science literacy, but those are expensive public goods that our current system has limited incentive to provide. That leaves the window open to interest groups a
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by igorkraw 4y ago
There's peerpub and retractionwatch, but that's about it I believe. Science is inherently decentralised

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