kerningije

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by kerningije 1y ago
Look up civil forfeiture.
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by kerningije 1y ago
You: > [...] USSR used a system called dead hand [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand to detect a nuclear attack and to retaliate. [...] USSR required a nuclear retaliatory system that could prevent hasty dec
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by kerningije 1y ago
No dollar was ever spent by the US government outside of the US if not in self interest. Failing to see these cuts as sabotaging US interests is very, very naïve.
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by kerningije 1y ago
The whole point of civilization is wealth inequality
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by kerningije 1y ago
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by kerningije 1y ago
I don't think you understand the content you linked. An automatic retaliation systems is not there to "prevent hasty decisions". It is there to make automatic hasty decisions based on input from sensors.
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by kerningije 1y ago
Yes! Thank you! I have read Wiener and Ashby to reach this conclusion. I've used this argument before. A piece of software capable of creating any possible software would be infinitely complex. Also the reason I don't buy the &quo
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by kerningije 1y ago
People said we have outsmarted downturns just before every major downturn in the past century and a half. Boom and bust is how complex systems develop. The biosphere down to that slime mold mapping out food sources. It's always a pul
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by kerningije 1y ago
I have come to realize that we barely understand complexity. I've read a lot on information theory, thermodynamics, many takes on entropy. Not to mention literature on software development, because a lot of this field is managing compl