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by ihm 7y ago
Looks like you live in Portugal. Do you feel like no one is forcing you to use the euro? > Who's even talking about replacing their national currency? I’ve heard from people close to the project that this is Facebook’s explicit long
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by ihm 7y ago
Did the people who live in those countries ask Mark Zuckerberg et al to come replace their national currencies with one which allows Mark et al to control how they’re allowed to use their money? If so then maybe this would be an ok argument
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by ihm 7y ago
They plan to “market it aggressively in developing nations”. Western companies extracting rent from the global south: this is colonialism by another name.
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R: A simple program for making decisions randomly(github.com)
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by ihm 7y ago
Does anyone know if they use encryption and access control to granularly regulate access to data? For example, the part of the system that feeds data to advertisements shouldn’t have access to my private messages (in my view that would be a
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by ihm 7y ago
I don't know if this is a comprehensive source. Here's a poll where 70% of the respondents supported Medicare for all[1]. [1] https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/412545-70-...
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by ihm 7y ago
> In a year, every other advertisement on TV would be for health insurance, like it is with car insurance now. It's strange to see someone say this like it's a good thing. Almost no one wants to "shop for the health insura
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by ihm 7y ago
I think it’s because the profit motive is only sometimes incidentally aligned with the goal of technological progress while publicly-funded researchers have progress (and often actually bettering the world) as their primary goal.
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Uber and Lyft drivers strike today ahead of much-anticipated IPO(latimes.com)
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by ihm 7y ago
Similarly, crustaceans have hard shells, which explains why we live in buildings made out of hard materials.
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by ihm 8y ago
Walking around Pacific Heights gives me that feeling… How to stop it and create a city where anyone can live: - build world class public transit - double the number of houses but decommodify the housing market as much as possible with lots
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by ihm 8y ago
Ok, sure, I agree all borders are problematic. So what reason is that?
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by ihm 8y ago
Whatever the policy on the books is, we have a pretty clearly different actual policy resulting from the way ICE chooses to enforce the law: brown people who want to live here are treated strictly and with hostility and white people who w
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by ihm 8y ago
People are coming here because they think they can find a better life. What is the argument for trying to stop that? Also, the phrase "illegal alien" is extremely dehumanizing. These are just people.
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by ihm 8y ago
This is about what capital funds, not the labor market. Given how unorganized it is, workers mostly just have to work on whatever projects get funded.
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by ihm 8y ago
Maybe you mean the legitimacy of majoritarian rule? And even more, representative majoritarian rule. Democracy is the idea that people should have a say in how their own lives are run, the exact mechanism could be many things.
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by ihm 8y ago
Reminds me of this comic from a few weeks ago: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/speciation
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by ihm 8y ago
One thing that is always missing from these articles is the idea that it’s actually good for individuals (and for our society) to get an expansive view of human knowledge rather than a narrow training to turn you into a worker on a producti
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by ihm 8y ago
Types are definitely an ideology of sorts, but that’s not a good argument: gradual typing is complicated and creates a lot of challenges for e.g., compiling fast code.
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by ihm 8y ago
Most revolutionary thinkers don't think replacing the existing leaders will "magically" lead to a better society. They have grievances with the existing systems, reason to believe those in power won't address those griev
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by ihm 8y ago
“Letting supply and demand decide” means deciding to give the housing to whoever will pay the most: which group do you think will pay more, the entire world of tourists who want to visit SF on vacation or people who live here? Which of thes
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by ihm 8y ago
One never has absolute dominion over their property in the way you’re framing it, nor should they. The city has a right put restrictions on how land (which really ought to be a common resource anyway!) is used.
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by ihm 8y ago
If you're in a position to create a $100B company, don't you think you're in a position to help create the kind of future society that will benefit everyone rather than merely trying to look out for oneself in the context of
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by ihm 8y ago
There's https://file.pizza which uses WebRTC for an easy to use peer-to-peer transfer service.
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by ihm 8y ago
We use monads extensively (with monad syntax provided by the ppx_let extension) and OCaml also has a sophisticated module system that is useful in a similar way that type classes are. I would say type classes and a good module system are es
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by ihm 8y ago
Why do you include Reason? Reason is just an alternate syntax for OCaml which has a "fancy" type system like Haskell or purescript.
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by ihm 8y ago
Wow! Reading the table of contents, this seems like a pretty complete book. Most introductions to logic neglect the entire area of intuitionistic logic and proof theory so it's nice to see one that covers that along with the usual infi
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by ihm 8y ago
If anyone's interested in working with SNARKs - I'm the primary author of snarky (the OCaml SNARK DSL linked in the above website). It's being used in the development of Coda[0] and we're hiring. [0]: https://
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by ihm 8y ago
Ban media organizations larger than some size (or some better proxy). Nothing is fundamental when you can control the rules.
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by ihm 8y ago
You can almost do this in OCaml using GADTs. The only trouble is you won't get nice "string syntax" for your format specifier. The idea can be seen here: https://github.com/bobzhang/ocaml-book/blob

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