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by jude- 5y ago
TFA states that the money is from aid packages from Congress, so not really. Also, how do you know that this is giving the recipients any advantage? If they're behind on their rent, they're already in shitty financial circumstance
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by jude- 5y ago
Seize rt.com next. For the same reasons.
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by jude- 5y ago
Can you identify these undeserving people? Can you do so at scale with reasonable expense, such that you don't end up spending the majority of your money determining who is "worthy" and who isn't? If the answer to eithe
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by jude- 5y ago
> They're not getting that money back. It doesn't necessarily mean that they want to see people become homeless. That sounds like a pretty privileged take on their parts. If they were wealthy enough to survive a global pandemi
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by jude- 5y ago
More fundamentally, what is resentment doing for Alice? Why bother exerting that negative emotional energy, holding a hatred for someone else's positive change of circumstance? It's not like your hatred is going to change your
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by jude- 5y ago
Have the majority of the beneficiaries of this program done anything irresponsible, and do we have a way of accurately and dispassionately measuring this? COVID-19 wasn't their fault, nor was the government's handling of it their
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by jude- 5y ago
> but it does feel punishing that other people are having their way paid for while contributing less. How Dickensian. Nothing is being done to you, so I fail to see how this could be seen as "punishing." It's not like li
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by jude- 5y ago
I sense a lot of resentment coming from people who managed to pay rent. My question to you all is, why? Why be upset that someone who was at risk of getting evicted now won't be? Would you rather make large swaths of the population
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by jude- 5y ago
(1) with zkps, you can run the credit check (or any sensitive computation) locally, and export a proof that demonstrates that your credit score is X as calculated by credit algorithm A without revealing your sensitive financial data. (2) As
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by jude- 5y ago
Whatever you say, bro. Whatever you say.
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by jude- 5y ago
> I wonder if that is exactly waht (sic) you were going for. Yes, it was. If you agree that Bitcoin is just as useless as videogames, and agree that videogames are not useless, you must also agree that Bitcoin is not useless. I personall
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by jude- 5y ago
How so? Videogames are no less useful than Bitcoin. Like, if all videogames disappeared tomorrow, humanity would fundamentally be all right.
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by jude- 5y ago
I'll believe sharding when I see it. It's a much harder problem than it seems. Also, the dirty little secret of zkrollups is that they don't scale the system or make the system more trustworthy in this context. First, the p
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by jude- 5y ago
I wasn't aware Bitcoin-the-protocol could prevent banks, companies, and countries from buying and hodling Bitcoin. Maybe, Bitcoin is whatever its users say it is. Maybe you should reread the paper.
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by jude- 5y ago
Vitalik should really give you proper attribution.
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by jude- 5y ago
> It's just not a community interested in growth, it seems like it's only interested in increased adoption & the idea of bitcoin as a global reserve currency. If they're aspiring to build a global reserve currency, the
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by jude- 5y ago
You should consider rereading Leslie Lamport's original paper. BFT is a property of corrupt votes, not the network. You keep trying to make it about the network. Like, if you want to have a conversation about how the network can influe
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by jude- 5y ago
And how, exactly, will the "network conditions stabilize" if over 1/3 of the votes are malicious, and thus able to prevent the honest voters from ever agreeing on anything ever again? Are you betting that the attacker will j
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by jude- 5y ago
Once they stop, they don't start again without external intervention (so you're back to The DAO when it comes to which validators are not Byzantine). PoS is a bet that 1/3 of the staked tokens never, ever fall into the hand
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by jude- 5y ago
Let's see here: * Closed source * You can buy but not sell tokens * Anonymous, unaccountable developers * They send your seed phrase to their servers [1] This is a blatant scam, and New Yorker should be ashamed of themselves for giving
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by jude- 5y ago
The guy who designs Tesla vehicles actually used to work for Mazda as chief of design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Holzhausen
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by jude- 5y ago
Some of the extra infotainment stuff (read: media content) is subscription only. Some functional extras like full self-driving or faster acceleration are one-off purchases. The rest of the software -- all the things you'd expect the
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by jude- 5y ago
Jamming wouldn't break line-of-sight or optical communication. Imagine drones that can simply see one another, and communicate by changing color (e.g. with LEDs).
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by jude- 5y ago
Doubtful. The CCP runs a command economy. It doesn't need to sell its goods to finance a war when the state can simply force the economy to produce the means of war. Want to stop China from waging war? Knock out its means of production
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by jude- 5y ago
I think we need to stop seeing open-source development as a form of free-as-in-beer labor, and start seeing it as a form of professional empowerment. Nothing -- nothing! -- stops you from forking my code and making the changes yourself. Yo
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by jude- 5y ago
I kinda feel like this is something DARPA and the NSF should really be working on. Like, why can't we have an OS and programming environment where it's straightforward to prove basic end-to-end security properties before runtime,
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by jude- 5y ago
This is an exchange and banking problem. Someone somewhere is allowing these terrorists to cash out. Find the bank (or country hosting it), cut them off from SWIFT, and apply sanctions until they stop funding terrorism. Cryptocurrency, like
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by jude- 5y ago
This, but in the other direction. The most liberating thing about computing for me was learning how to use a Unix shell effectively. Things that used to take 10s of minutes of tedious pointing, clicking, and dragging now take about as long
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by jude- 5y ago
The problem is that most of the money (and developer interest) flowing into this space is driven by speculation on the rate-limiting token. This is clearly unfortunate. If you look past that, what you have is a highly resilient, replicated,
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by jude- 5y ago
No one said you have to use the technology for illegal things, or even as money. Even Bitcoin-the-blockchain is only a timestamping system (seriously, even the Bitcoin whitepaper explicitly states that this is the purpose of the blockchain

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