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by karpierz 4y ago
I've been learning Rust for the past few weeks and have been enjoying it a lot. - The community is very helpful on Discord ( https://discord.com/invite/rust-lang-community ). - The package ecosystem (crates.io) make
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by karpierz 4y ago
> there was a general concern of the fact that the data collected might be used against be in some unknown way in the future I think this is a reasonable concern. But I think this is where it differs from the concern people have with sha
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> Not 9 years ago when the snowden/NSA revelations came out? What were you worried about looking up/messaging when those revelations came out?
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by karpierz 4y ago
> https://youtu.be/7vfqkvwW2fs I really appreciated this video, thanks for sharing it.
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> i'm not sure i follow this. what is an entity? how are they disrupting the network? It's answered in the article: > They argue this reduces the threshold for a so-called 51 percent attack. "If a node operator's s
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by karpierz 4y ago
Again, I'm not very bright. I don't understand what this: >That's an extremely strong statement. It's the kind of thing someone firmly ensconced in a bubble would say. Is what you say true, or do you just lack the ima
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by karpierz 4y ago
It's the job of the court to interpret the consequences of the existing laws. At one point, the court determined that access to abortion was a right, according to the 14th amendment. Meaning, that the 14th amendment was, among other th
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by karpierz 4y ago
There was no need to codify it into law, as it was already law! That's the whole point of a court ruling! Roe v. Wade determined that the Constitution itself implied abortion as a right, meaning that there already was a law on the book
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by karpierz 4y ago
Sorry, I'm not very bright. Why don't you try explaining things explicitly, so simpler folk like me can understand?
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> That's an extremely strong statement. It's the kind of thing someone firmly ensconced in a bubble would say. Is what you say true, or do you just lack the imagination or empathy to think of one? All this says is: "What y
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by karpierz 4y ago
By your same logic, a broken leg doesn't stop you from jumping. It just makes it "very very very hard." It's incorrect to say jumping on your broken leg is not a choice. But you might find your health outcomes far worse
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by karpierz 4y ago
Specifically, the problem is it produces _almost_ correct code, which is worse than incorrect code because it might fool you into trusting it.
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I'm not making an empirical claim here. I am trying to explain why their results do not imply that "training to balance on one leg" causes good health outcomes. I'm saying that this experiment: 1. Does not define 'b
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by karpierz 4y ago
I think what GP is saying is that this test correlates with things like 'fitness' and 'balance', which themselves are causally related to health outcomes. But training to balance on one leg doesn't mean that your &#
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by karpierz 4y ago
1) Yes, much like if someone finds your credit card number, they can't use it without your name, CVC code, and zip code. 2) It doesn't matter how secure you make it, because if your payment system is impenetrable, I'll just s
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by karpierz 4y ago
> But the point here is that crypto can enable a whole lot of other businesses that don't exist today because of merchant risk. This doesn't address the primary risk that merchants take on: fraud. Either crypto or credit card,
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by karpierz 4y ago
If credentials are stolen, crypto or otherwise, a scammer can then use those stolen credentials to make a payment. All non-reversible transactions do is put the risk of fraud on the consumer. IE, if you buy anything with crypto and it turns
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by karpierz 4y ago
2) this assumes there aren't any third parties on your friend's machine. You're trusting not only your friend, but likely Apple/Microsoft, Chrome/Firefox, and any browser extensions they might be running, which woul
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by karpierz 4y ago
The DMV experience sucks because of political motivations, not technical limitations.
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> The same formula up to the point I can predict how most movies will end. You can also predict how most magic tricks will end: they'll make the dove reappear, they'll escape the water tank, they'll guess your card. It&#x2
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by karpierz 4y ago
If winning the lottery is so great, why don't you just become a lotto winner?
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> For anyone who thinks this wealth shouldn't appear, let me ask this: if someone could discover a cure for all cancers — how much should they be allowed to earn for it? Say 50 million? > I.E. What price would you put on the cure
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by karpierz 4y ago
Lots of hidden assumptions here: 1. The objective of public policy is to maximize the efficiency of capital allocation. 2. Who is efficient at capital allocation is independent of public policy. 3. Efficiency of capital allocation is measur
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I can't tell if this is cutting sarcasm or not; brilliant.
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> Ok but let's be real- buying a stock is not really "creating value". The stock already exists. Company A has issued 100 shares. People are buying/selling it in the market.. no one is creating value there. Sure they
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by karpierz 4y ago
Two key issues with a rule like that: 1. What forces me to comply with this rule? 2. What does "able to be implemented" mean? In theory, you can re-implement my entire codebase. In practice, you'll find it very difficult to m
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by karpierz 4y ago
Extend? How do you address it?
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I don't see how this approach stops a centralized service from taking over via the standard approach of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish [1]: - Embrace: BigTech implements the protocol. For example, say text messaging. - Extend: BigTech imp
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Before you do anything, talk to a lawyer.
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I'm not sure how that's a disproof? The claim is: if "international trade" then "war less likely". The example you've proposed is: "Europe couldn't effectively trade with China, and so waged war

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