jdmichal

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by jdmichal 6y ago
> What? I have no idea what you're talking about. OK. https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption > Carbon footprint per transaction: 312.24 kg, estimated at 780,602 VISA transactions.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This right here is IMO the fundamental heart of the argument. Things like reversible transactions and such are features that were built into the banking system, not bugs. It really comes down to a question of which feature set is valued
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is a pretty bad-faith "what-about-ism" response. The energy consumption downsides of proof-of-work systems are pretty well known. And those particular downsides don't apply to the systems you listed. Sure, running tho
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Sure. But there is no actual thing as "free" money, in the sense that it all comes from somewhere. And honestly, probably nothing is truly free. Even sunlight is the result of spent nuclear potential of the Sun. Unearned is ma
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Do you mean the uncertainty principle or the observer effect? From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle > In quantum mechanics, the uncertainty principle (also known as Heisenberg's u
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It should be illegal for the government to inform people of available services, even if some of them are provided by a church? No, separation of church and state is about each having their own, unique power structure and operating as indep
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I'm not making any moral judgement. I'm just explaining where that money is coming from, and that it's not "free". Also, issuing a refund would still likely incur fees with the processor. They may dodge fees
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's not free. That cash refund isn't refunding the merchant their processing costs for the credit card. And that's what's paying your 5% cash back. The store is losing a pennies each time that happens and some of the
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Yes, heaven forbid law enforcement perform work to enforce the law. That would be a terrible outcome. In non-sarcastic words, I'm unsure what point your comment is trying to convey.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's negotiations 101, so fairly common? If you've ever done any reading on negotiations, you've likely encountered it.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Huh. I'm quite familiar with the banking side of AML having worked at one. But I was completely unaware of this.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
EDIT: I'm wrong please disregard. You can have it. You just need to do everything in cash and not use the banking system. Of course, there's a lot of advantages to the banking system... But you can still use things like safety
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> Providers of anonymizing services, commonly referred to as “mixers” or “tumblers,” are either persons that accept CVCs and retransmit them in a manner designed to prevent others from tracing the transmission back to its source (anonymi
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I think you're basically describing the idea of having pure computations on pure data objects as much as possible? In which case, I believe that's fairly idiomatic in functional languages. And it's becoming more common in l
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You are 100% spot on. Lisp is not a single language. It's whatever language has been constructed around the given problem. This is the Lisp Curse: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I looked at the requirements earlier and was blown away. Their official recommendation is three servers with some very expensive hardware. Three Epyc processors, one machine with 128GB of RAM (and a lot more swap space), and one with 2x G
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I recently got some Mega Construx for my kid, as they have the license to make Pokemon characters. One of the Pokeballs that came in the set has visibly deformed pegs on the top, making it impossible to use as displayed in the instructions
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by jdmichal 6y ago
In the left-hand image, an orbit would be a horizontal line, because it's a constant distance. So it's a mirror of the time axis, but translated upwards in space. It would be exactly the same axis-mirroring translation in the ot
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I imagine even just driving those (wooden?) pylons at the beginning to create the drainage areas took years. Even modern powered devices take a good day or so to pound in a single pylon around here.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Regarding the link: > Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're looking for here? Do you want an endorsement that I don't like voter suppression? Because sure, I don't like voter suppression. But you keep bringing up points that are at best tangentially re
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Agreed on all accounts. I'm mostly just disappointed that, when the chance comes to actually affect change, we seem to mostly just be moving from one provably broken system (FPTP) to another (IRV). While at the same time increasing c
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This is hilarious to me because you are basically making the correct point, but with the wrong conclusion. Let's take as a potentially erroneous given that early voting worked perfectly OK. Then, in 2020, it's run exactly the s
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I'd rather see approval voting than ranked choice. The outcomes are roughly the same, but the system is easier and less disputable. Which is very much a feature in the US; remember hanging chads in the 2000 race? If they can dispute
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> The history of voter suppression in certain states cannot be ignored. Agreed but mostly orthogonal. Providing early voting at all is a drastic improvement reducing voter suppression. Since it lasts for multiple days, it allows for ma
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Clearly you don't remember the lines of people camping out multiple days to pick up an iPhone...
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I didn't cherry pick, I picked a county I'm familiar with because I live there. Maybe some other people can chime in with their local areas. But since Georgia was one of the two areas mentioned in the article, let's look at
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by jdmichal 6y ago
So, these lines are not representative of an actual election day. Actual election day is November 3, 2020. Some states are in early voting right now [0]. That typically means that there's a very limited number of polling stations o
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You had all the time to type that, but no time to type what was actually incorrect? I'd love to learn.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
What can I say. Sometimes you're not working with the blessed standard data structures for which those algorithms are typically written.

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