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by legutierr 3y ago
> And given that we've seen exchange after exchange fail to perform basic tasks like "don't commingle customer funds," I have a hard time feeling any sympathy for cryptocurrency companies here. There is nothing per se
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by legutierr 3y ago
> All NP problems have transcripts that are validatable in polynomial time Sure, but are they provable in polynomial time? Proof generation is much more expensive than just running through the original computation through standard means.
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by legutierr 3y ago
On-chain computation is required if state is also stored on-chain. Local state is transformed by every node on the network in exactly the same way. It's not wasteful—it's the reason that every node knows definitively that the st
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EU: Proposed liability rules will harm Free Software(fsfe.org)
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by legutierr 3y ago
This seems like circular reasoning to me. "Human's don't just parrot what other people say, therefore we must be doing something more than what LLMs do, because an LLM only parrots the words that it is trained on. But an LLM
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by legutierr 3y ago
> The answer to "What are LLMs but humans with extreme amnesia and no central coherence?" is that they are not like humans at all, and only resemble them superficially. Is there any chance at all that we humans are are also jus
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by legutierr 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehumanization
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by legutierr 3y ago
Everything humans create depends on humanity existing, and humanity ceases to be without children. Human life is a prerequisite for everything humans create.
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by legutierr 3y ago
Congratulations, you really do make a lot of money. Going by the averages, based on the information you shared, and assuming you live in the US, I’d say you make north of $300k per year. Thanks for sharing that with us. Now we know that y
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by legutierr 3y ago
I think you might be misreading some of these comments. I also wonder if you are aware of the history of eugenicist ideas in the west, and how enmeshed those concepts are in many every-day attitudes about who should be having children—ofte
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by legutierr 3y ago
It's such a strange thing to argue that a child who is poor would be better off never to have been born at all—and then to characterize that argument as somehow being in favor of that child's interest. My point is that a hard-work
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by legutierr 3y ago
> Poverty is a variable to properly taking care of a child, that does not mean that the parent means that being poor automatically makes one unfit to have a child, which is what you're conflating, if I understand correctly. In fact,
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by legutierr 3y ago
> We should work towards counteracting those systemic incentives, by making it easier for middle class, educated people to have kids (an example would be % tax breaks for each child, which would be more money for middle class people). Ye
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by legutierr 3y ago
I think you might be missing the point. The apparent concern that these comments show for the well being of children is misdirection and rationalization, hiding the true intent behind anti-natalist perspectives, which are fundamentally euge
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by legutierr 3y ago
In what world is this NOT a controversial point?!? Genuinely, I ask: what is the cultural environment in which you exist, such that you can make this argument without at least knowing that other people would find it deeply offensive? >
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by legutierr 3y ago
> People who are irresponsible probably aren't calculating the costs..or they don't care. Are you saying that poor people who have children are implicitly irresponsible for having had children? That seems to be what you are sa
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by legutierr 3y ago
Don't we want people in general to have more kids, not just middle-class people and rich people? And don't we want those kids to have healthcare and lunch at school? Are you saying that middle class people are less able to afford
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by legutierr 3y ago
> Cash already does that and so does my chip n pin card. Does the merchant who accepts your chip n pin payment receive the funds in their account immediately after they accept your payment? In the US, merchants have to pay fees and&#x2F
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by legutierr 3y ago
> What exact counter party risk is eliminated by blockchain technology? Some specific examples currently available: • Atomic swaps, where traded assets are immediately moved between accounts upon execution of the trade, eliminate the pos
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by legutierr 3y ago
Is there a better solution for the performance of atomic swaps between antagonistic traders each operating in a different legal jurisdiction?
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by legutierr 3y ago
It's relevant that the first railroad bubbles took place several decades before the events described in the article. Sometimes it takes a long time for capital-intensive technologies to be fully deployed, and for economic benefits to
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by legutierr 3y ago
Misrata is in Libya, no? Were the people who captured and killed Gaddafi not Libyans? Are you saying that these people were working under orders from NATO? What was their motivation, if they were not fundamentally angry about how Gaddafi
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by legutierr 3y ago
Right, of course. The thousands of people gathered in protest in Kiev were all there at the direction of the U.S. State Department.
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by legutierr 3y ago
A Russian puppet was overthrown by a revolution of the people, and replaced by a democratically-elected president, followed by multiple successful elections, and the peaceful transfer of power from one party to another, over nearly a decade
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by legutierr 3y ago
If Lybian forces were on the verge of committing war crimes and killing thousands, then "intervention" would be an appropriate word to describe what the Western powers did. They "intervened" to prevent an imminent atroc
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by legutierr 3y ago
Are you asserting somehow that blockchain tech violates the fundamental physical laws of the universe?
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by legutierr 3y ago
Do the engineers at Google even know how the Google algorithm actually works? Better than SEO experts who spend there time meticulously tracking the way that the algorithm behaves under different circumstances? My bet is that they don&#x27
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by legutierr 3y ago
> Come for a couple of weeks, or get an immigrant visa. You mean, come for a couple weeks, but don't fall in love or start a family with an American girl or boy . > Getting married is fine. Getting married and then changing your
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by legutierr 3y ago
I’m not sure how this logic applies when having insurance is mandatory. If you don’t have insurance, you’re not driving legally. Are there really people out there who wouldn’t otherwise buy insurance, but they choose to do so only because
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by legutierr 3y ago
> primarily coming from decreases of nonwhite students Given the actual numbers, its more likely that the largest number of applicants negatively affected by this will be white, in absolute terms.

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