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by kaffee 8y ago
A bit more detail: https://njal.la/ accepts cryptocurrency. I like njalla. Would be nice to see some others taking their approach. Anyone know of others that embrace the idea that one should be able to register a domain nam
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by kaffee 8y ago
Don't neglect the possibility that there is no solution. Market failures happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
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by kaffee 8y ago
Actually, this prompted me to look up the funders of OpenAI: - Sam Altman - Greg Brockman - Reid Hoffman - Jessica Livingston - Elon Musk - Peter Thiel Useful information in interpreting the mission statement, I think.
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by kaffee 8y ago
Not releasing the model? These people aren't scientists. edit: toned down a bit.
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by kaffee 8y ago
Does anyone else find it strange that there is no real-world data in these notebooks? It's all simulations or abstract problems. This gives me the sense, personally, that economists aren't interested in making accurate predictions
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by kaffee 8y ago
I would love to pay money (or do some sort of proof-of-work hashing) rather than solve Google's infuriating, privacy-hostile CAPTCHAs. I rather suspect that Google, as an advertising and consumer-surveillance firm, gets rather a lot
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by kaffee 8y ago
I'm not sure the existence of alternatives, advertised through Twitter, is much of a comfort here. The integrity of the domain name system shouldn't depend on someone having a well-known twitter account that can advertise alternat
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by kaffee 8y ago
IPFS has perhaps 2,000 times the resources ($) of dat. (Raised via the filecoin sale.) Surely that must count for a little.
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by kaffee 8y ago
I bike everywhere and do not want to own a car ever again. How good is Nashville? Are there bike-friendlier versions of Nashville?
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by kaffee 8y ago
How do I purchase an mp3 or an ebook from someone in another region with cash? This is definitely something I would like to do.
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by kaffee 8y ago
I broadly agree with this. My sense is that KYC hurts individuals who value their privacy and maybe catches some mid-level crooks. The big criminals bypass it without much difficulty. The recent case of Dankse Bank confirmed my opinions abo
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by kaffee 8y ago
I think YUL has some of the highest airport fees for any major North American city. For example, there's an "Airport Improvement Fee" of 30 CAD (on every flight) https://www.aircanada.com/us/en/aco&#
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by kaffee 8y ago
Check out Chicago or Montreal. The tourist tax is just massive.
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by kaffee 8y ago
Can you clarify this last statement? Surely it's a question of which geographic nation-state you plan on working in. Not all of us live or want to live in North America.
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by kaffee 8y ago
Let's not forget that these fake reviews are being paid for. That's clearly better than non-paid-for fake reviews. That is, there's some friction for the malicious actors. Imagine how much less spam we would have if it cost
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by kaffee 8y ago
This is, more or less, the solution advocated by the law professor James Boyle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boyle_(academic) He wrote a good book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (2008), wh
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by kaffee 8y ago
I've been searching for a self-hosted feed reader for some time. Looks like Nextcloud News is unmaintained. Is it still worth looking into? (Java is a step too far, so I'll pass on Fiets.)
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by kaffee 8y ago
In ranked order, 1. On the Media (WNYC) 2. Behind the News with Doug Henwood 3. Talking Politics https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/ 3. The Dig by Daniel Denvir 4. Chaosradio edit: formatting
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by kaffee 8y ago
Seems plausible to me. Doesn't Joey Hess live in KY or TN?
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by kaffee 8y ago
Comparing 2 Yubico Security Keys to the Titan Security Key pack is the correct comparison. Looks like the Titan Security Key (USB) has NFC and the Yubico Security Key does not. And the Titan Security pack has two adapters. I call it a draw.
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by kaffee 8y ago
For those of us who desperately want to put javascript (the entire language) behind us, many of the "problems" this article mentions are features. Refusing, on principle, to be inter-operable with unchecked javascript code is a d
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by kaffee 8y ago
I've been really happy with the Lenovo X260 and, were I in the market today, would get an X280.
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by kaffee 8y ago
This is a reasonably good post, I think. Worth reading if you're interested in reddit community governance. One thing that might make the solution marginally better would be a public record of bans with a brief note about the reason. e
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by kaffee 9y ago
Use tor for hidden services only. There's far less scope for a hostile geographic nation state to serve malware and/or record IPs. I'm also confused about what exactly a nation state learns when it sees that you accessed nyti
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by kaffee 9y ago
Really, copyright is about "civil order"? Interesting. This is the first time I have heard that particular justification for IPR. edit: ok, that's not true. the MPAA/RIAA advertisements do equate piracy with violent crim
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by kaffee 9y ago
Why are you taking it upon yourself to say such a thing? You're doing free work for the legal industry. Fighting copyright monopolies is hard enough without adding Stockholm syndrome to the mix.
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by kaffee 9y ago
Is there no indignity that the boomers will not inflict on their progeny?
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by kaffee 9y ago
Boardroom gender quotas are being adopted by more and more countries. There's little evidence that this has proved harmful, modest evidence that it has helped company performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gend
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by kaffee 9y ago
I agree with @erlend_sh. Patreon _does not_ have much in the way of a network. Its recommendations (if you like this, you'll like that) are typically awful. They're so bad in fact, that I suspect there's some sort of legal&#x
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by kaffee 9y ago
Yes. Thomas Jefferson said something along those lines. I think every generation might be a little extreme. Every other generation, certainly.

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