ineptech

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by ineptech 5y ago
"We must remove that stuff because those ideas are dangerous/offensive, and if you disagree with removing it then you must agree with that filth!" is extremely helpful to the sorts of people who do edgy stuff to attract atte
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by ineptech 5y ago
> The best government program is near to no program. 1000x no! We need government to work - that's not negotiable - the question is not whether it works well enough to make you happy, it's what it should work on. The US didn&
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by ineptech 5y ago
Perhaps, but it's generally done in the context of arguing against the idea. The connotation of a thought-terminating cliche is that it is a dodge, an avoidance strategy. It fills in the space where a real statement would go, and fulf
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by ineptech 5y ago
I don't think this is a good example. If your position is, "We should do X because of Y" and I respond "conspiracy theory", I'm taking the position that Y is inaccurate. You could respond e.g. by citing evide
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by ineptech 5y ago
Edward Lorenz summarized chaotic behavior as: "When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future." So yes, you could predict the locations computationally to an arbitra
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by ineptech 5y ago
> ...it calls for public action towards the creation of a publicly funded messaging option for government officials and other official channels that should be held to constitutional standards rather than corporate private standards It so
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by ineptech 5y ago
You can upload press releases to pornhub, that doesn't make it a news site. Stop getting your news from youtube; problem solved.
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by ineptech 5y ago
I believe lawsuits are public info; try the NY county clerk's office.
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by ineptech 5y ago
It wasn't "memoryholed". Youtube is an entertainment site, not a repository of legal filings. And it's not the only option, just the one most likely to be correct.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Going out on a limb here, but in the course of announcing your lawsuit, did you mention any of the myriad covid talking points that youtube has been banning for months now?
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by ineptech 5y ago
Making sense isn't equivalent to being justifiable. Imagine a FAANG telling their devs, "We're reducing your options, but that's okay because our stock price has gone up."
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by ineptech 5y ago
Thank you!
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by ineptech 5y ago
This is overlong and pretty florid, but its conclusion (that a long record of forked changes, each being good for big ETH holders but bad for miners, is roughly equivalent to the self-dealing of wealthy insiders in the traditional financial
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by ineptech 5y ago
I'm intrigued, could you elaborate on how you ran it? Was it a one-day event, or something people did in their 10% time, or something else?
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by ineptech 5y ago
Totally agree, the numbers in this article strike me as ranging from "suspect" to "bullshit". I should've clarified that I was defining how I and (I think) other real managers use those terms. For example, my guess
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by ineptech 5y ago
I phrased this glibly for comedy value, but this is not a silly problem; it is part of the "Oracle problem" and it imperils the entire fundamental value prop of defi. If it's not clear why, consider: what keeps defi from impl
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by ineptech 5y ago
> I wonder if DeFi has some kind of option for an Oracle to a human verification step... "For safety, all transactions have to go through Dave" == "Free money to anyone who manages to hack/bribe/kidnap/etc D
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by ineptech 5y ago
"Engaged" and "disengaged" are terms of art in management which refer to whether someone is totally checked out or not. Someone who spends most of the day on Facebook is "disengaged", even if they're very
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by ineptech 5y ago
Isn't a lot of this probably just normal resignations that are not caused by covid so much as delayed by it? If X% of workers resign in a normal month for one reason or another, and we have a year where people can't do that or do
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by ineptech 5y ago
Isn't this asking for a solution to the oracle problem? i.e., is there a working way to get any real world data on to the blockchain that isn't manual/censorable? I mean, once that's solved, there'll be a lot mo
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by ineptech 5y ago
It's not a boolean, it's a threshold. I'm not surprised that anyone ever made that accusation, but I was surprised that it was among the first few comments on HN.
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by ineptech 5y ago
Fascinating article. I thought she was exaggerating when she complained about people accusing her of being a media whore, until I scrolled down to the [flagged] [dead] and saw someone doing just that. But I don't think she has a choic
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by ineptech 5y ago
I think your beef is with the author of the headline, not the study.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> Isn't the point of the free market that consumers are free to vote with their dollars? Can you pinpoint the moral difference between "Google should be allowed to refuse to host content that they dislike" and "Restau
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by ineptech 5y ago
Any of those are fine - with disclosure. It seems pretty clear that in this case, they were less than transparent. > “If you watch the film, other than that line you mentioned, you probably don’t know what the other lines are that were
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by ineptech 5y ago
Yeah, it won't cure baldness either. What it will do is solve a specific problem (countries undercutting each other and driving the tax rate to zero) which AFAIK has no other solution. The fact that it doesn't also solve a dif
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by ineptech 5y ago
Once upon a time, neat/surprising/weird/amazing sites were part of the currency of the internet. "Check out this link" was a welcome message. Sites full of links to neat stuff were really popular. You tried to fi
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by ineptech 5y ago
What a surprising response. What's wrong with quitting your job because you want to work remote and they won't allow remote work?
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by ineptech 5y ago
I meant as contractors; the attraction would be that they don't need to be integrated.
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by ineptech 5y ago
> "there's more like me, be happy to help you out, but on a contract basis and as a group." Deception aside, this seems like a reasonable idea, and I've wondered if anyone might do this as a result of covid (as in, &q

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