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by jariel 5y ago
Yes - and you've just proven the folly of this entire exercise -> those algorithms have nothing to do with AI! If the government believes that credit risk systems cannot use 'race' as a factor, then they ought to reaffirm
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by jariel 5y ago
Criticizing the government is not lying. To the contrary, government control of the 'truth' is quite corrosive to freedom, discourse and everything else. What we need are principled institutions that don't lie. Edit - adding
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by jariel 5y ago
" for spreading bullshit disinformation" Why do you suggest that criticizing the government is BS and disinformation? That's not what is made illegal. Legitimate criticism is. There's a world of difference.
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by jariel 5y ago
" will actually be effective" Effective in doing what? Everyone is caught up in ridiculous AI mythology, and misunderstanding the nature of the tech. AI is just one approach to solving a problem, and will invariably make up just a
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by jariel 5y ago
"Bitcoin mining is a great way to monetize energy that has a low market value and would likely go to waste." Mining BTC is literally a waste. There is no value creation at all. Though some individuals may value it - it's not
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by jariel 5y ago
"it doesn't make sense to target a specific industry" Normally, we wouldn't want to target one line of business over another because we want the market to figure out where the most value creation is, but it's not al
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by jariel 5y ago
You're having a difficult time grasping what debt and credit is. It's not a negative thing, it's a positive thing. Advanced economies run on credit, not cash and it's a matter of allocating services and resources more ef
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by jariel 5y ago
My answer is correct. Yes of course WASM is a VM of some kind, that should be obvious enough i.e. people are not running machine code in WASM. My response indicated that if you want to run JS on WASM you have to build another VM on top of
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by jariel 5y ago
This is not an argument though. Of course government services can have too many or too few workers, that's a matter of efficiency. All rich nations have mostly socialized infrastructure: water, electricity, roads and partially socializ
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by jariel 5y ago
"so whatever you are stating here is none of my concern, nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with anything I wrote about, nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with me." Why are you commenting on a thread about X and Y
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by jariel 5y ago
If that's the case, then none of the aforementioned issues matter one bit. It's pointless to talk about the efficiency of public systems, for even the effectiveness of wealth taxes etc. if corruption is endemic, particularly in th
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by jariel 5y ago
"mortgage debt is almost nonexistent. " This doesn't make a lot of sense, if there is low interest rates and no estate or real estate tax, then people should naturally have considerable leverage.
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by jariel 5y ago
I'm not overlooking it, we all fully realize these things are complicated and nuanced, especially things like comments and speech. Just because things are 'grey' doesn't mean we don't draw lines 'somewhere&#x27
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by jariel 5y ago
This is the thinking of poor countries, like Croatia, Zambia, Tajikistan. All rich countries have some kind of basic retirement benefits and some measure public medical care (the US spends more per capita on socialized medicine than does Ca
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by jariel 5y ago
No, people won't save enough for retirement or major health issues. It's an existential problem. Serbia is 7M people for gosh stakes it's the size of Greater Toronto or Chicago, there doesn't need to be a 'giant bur
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by jariel 5y ago
Yes, if Apple allowed people to download apps that would change the narrative completely. I'm not defending Apple's behaviour, I'm explaining it. If we assume as a starting position that they want a 'closed universe&#x27
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by jariel 5y ago
Web assembly is very low level. It's not a VM, there are no strings. It's designed to model 'assembly' style instructions. To do TS on JS you'd have to build a VM on top of WA. And that would probably be pointless o
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by jariel 5y ago
"the cherished underbelly of the web" So your answer is in your question. Most people don't really want to deal with the 'cherished underbelly'. Also, there's 'adult' and then there's stuff that
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by jariel 5y ago
"they wouldn't have simply walked away from the deal regulating it." The deal did not 'regulate' Iran - is the argument being made. Many people feel that the oversight requirements were not stringent enough, and tha
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by jariel 5y ago
A 'hail of scuds' would be temporary and mild in comparison to a 'real' nuclear threat from Iran. Of course - nobody has any intention of actually dropping nukes on anyone. It's about power and leverage, and Iran&#x
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by jariel 5y ago
"It's worth mocking purely because of the source" "Anything that legitimises scientology is bad" There's no need advocate for or against an idea for ideological reasons here. We're not here to promote some
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by jariel 5y ago
"Horrible attitude which puts him in crank territory, imho." You literally attributed his 'horrible attitude' to putting him in 'crank territory' i.e. 'Common synonyms for crank include crackpot and kook.&
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by jariel 5y ago
Actually, your link to 'evidence' I don't think really supports your case. I see a guy empathetically admitting his technical faults, and who also seems to be bullied out of academia. Einstein was notoriously technically weak
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by jariel 5y ago
"Download the GU Draft - Add your email address to our waitlist to get the latest version of Eric's Geometric Unity manuscript." At very minimum, this is a giant PR move. When was the last time you saw someone use the release
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by jariel 5y ago
Instead of being ideological or paternal about it, just call it for what it is, this isn't Cable News.
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by jariel 5y ago
"It's not HSBC's role to decide which things are pyramid schemes." Yes it is. It's the job of banks to advise on these things. It is a peculiar position they've taken, they've gone further than I think the
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, Hubbard is a dramatic science fiction writer, and it's not 'Science' but a lot of Scientology is derived from other fields some of it is reasonably rational conjecture at least for the era i.e. 1950s. The very first time
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by jariel 6y ago
"I don’t understand Israel’s rational " It's simple - in their estimation, the net totality of the inspections + enforcement policy has value.
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by jariel 6y ago
You've basically proved the point of the commenter you are responding to. By your very own evidence - Spanish and Portuguese utterly dominate Central and South America. There are 650M people there, if ~10% of the population speaks anot
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by jariel 6y ago
And FYI, the same thing would apply to any culture that lacks a writing system i.e. 'Vietnam' as you said. We refer to stages of cultural development i.e. 'Iron/Bronze/Steel' but we may very well use 'Oral

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