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by jl2718 3y ago
I see a lot of different ideas that fall under the flag of socialism, but I keep seeing good results from one disjoint set of ideas being used to justify another which has objectively terrible results.
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Hmmm… apparently unrelated, but… The dominant payments startup at the time was “Square”, which was named because they made a square-shaped device that read a magnetic stripe into a phone audio port.
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I had a card-carrying communist teacher in high school, and he used to say that representative democracy was obsolete because we now have better mechanisms for Athenian-style direct democracy. These referendums seems to indicate that this w
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by jl2718 3y ago
Study the carbon cycle a bit and then come back and tell me I’m wrong about this: Offsets do not work. The best application of that funding would be to stop destruction of the ocean habitat. Short explanation: Almost all surface and atmosph
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by jl2718 3y ago
I question the utility of imprisonment to achieve any legitimate social goal. It may not be an effective deterrent of the most heinous crimes. It doesn’t seem to work as rehabilitation. It only works as physical prevention of recidivism in
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by jl2718 3y ago
Two things: 1. I experienced rapid vision loss during an acute diabetic reaction to starvation re-feeding, and getting insulin sensitivity back might be the best way to protect the eyes. Consider metformin in addition to the obvious diet an
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I thought so too, and I went to one of the three National Service Academies, so I was taught about a lot of these people directly. Many of the modern top generals were some of the lowest-ranked graduates, and generally took the easiest majo
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by jl2718 3y ago
Apologies for being unclear about this. I’m not suggesting exploitation like extracting value. I’m saying that they make their videos primarily interesting to children’s existing attention span, whereas book time may teach children to incre
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This comment is overly-dramatized, but has a point which is perhaps more subtle. There is a difference between training their attention mechanisms and exploiting their attention mechanisms. The vast majority of this ‘educational content’ is
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When we study ants, we do not begin with a belief that their behavior is wrong or improper. We assume that they act in a way that is required for their survival and proliferation. It would be ‘nice’ to say that such things are just a social
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by jl2718 3y ago
Simultaneous debt collapse and global de-dollarization: good luck timing this one. Knowing that the markets are massively distorted and unsustainable gets you nothing. Knowing the next wave of irrational distortion gets you good long-term r
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Not very informative without normalization by miles driven.
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My first computer job was a high school internship at a small software company that was gifted an Alpha for testing, and it was just sort of sitting there in the lab next to where I worked doing basically nothing until it failed to boot int
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This protocol is private because “trust me”.
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> Oftentimes, employees are getting plenty of work done; it's just that the projects are of little to no importance to the company's bottom line. a.k.a. “Innovation”. For whatever reason, I’m one of those engineers that big org
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by jl2718 3y ago
Purple thumbs are a pretty good system, and they were definitely not convinced by voting machines, nor paper ballots. But, it's a physical security nightmare. My job was to keep IEDs out of the polling places. There are many more issue
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by jl2718 3y ago
What do you propose to do with paper? Mostly it just gets fed into a machine. Is it impossible to vote twice with paper? Is it impossible to throw away paper? Is it impossible to miscount paper? Paper doesn't impart any security proper
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by jl2718 3y ago
Until it’s a result you don’t like. Have you ever considered the possibility that there are places where election systems can’t be trusted? I’m sure you’ll be just as supportive of the Russian-led vote in occupied regions of Ukraine. My pro
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by jl2718 3y ago
This is an extremely weak straw-man argument. It doesn’t need to be on the blockchain, mobile, or even the internet. You can print out the cryptographic proof on paper if it pleases you.
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Meanwhile in academia, I’ve proposed research into cryptographically-provable voting systems, and received nothing but hostility and discouragement. The same cryptography professors who started their careers in the topic after the 2000 elec
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Nobody’s trying to decrease racial bias. It’s compliance training.
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Imagine being told that your 50-year-old brain surgeon is returning from to a year-long psychedelic sabbatical just prior to your surgery. LSD, ayahuasca, psilocybin, frogs, everything. They tell you that this has completely changed everyth
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by jl2718 3y ago
They talk about tax revenues as if that’s a relevant component of bond market cash flows. It’s not. I have an easy solution for bringing it down to any number you want: more government spending, the more wasteful the better. You see, govern
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by jl2718 3y ago
If they changed the wording from “corporate profits” to “lack of competition”, then a solution would be apparent. As it is, they’ve crafted the narrative to encourage a push toward even greater monopolism.
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Perhaps we’re starting to see the limits of the machine learning era in AI. We may have nothing more to teach it. There are a number of ways to go from here, none of which is entirely within our control or understanding.
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Reminds me of this: https://youtu.be/z3kF9S0h_7A Not even once, kids.
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This feels more financial than political. As in, it really has nothing to do with the migrants, it’s just a way to funnel money into pockets of donors. Let’s just accept defeat and start paying direct tribute to our overlords. More efficien
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The gaming will be awesome, no doubt. But… you’re not going to have time for that. This is going to take over the ‘virtual workplace’ and thus you will spend most of your life with all of your actions and surroundings monitored to make sure
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Imagine a world where computer use required a prescription from a limited number of licensed engineers. You have to pay to talk to them about your problem and they’ll set you up with an app to use for a week or two.
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Thank you for that perspective. From the AI side, I think it’s funny how there can be so much simultaneous interest in both “AI writing”, which is exactly as you say, and “AI summarization”, which is like inverting the AI writing function t

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