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by lovecg 5y ago
HN has the right to control what people say here. Are you against that as well? The reality is that internet discussion without moderation is virtually impossible.
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by lovecg 5y ago
Immediately thought about that fighter pilot article as well. I read it some years ago and still have spontaneous moments of “better be careful with this lighting situation” or “let’s check the blind spots here extra carefully” when driving
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by lovecg 5y ago
> If that was to be repealed things like the possibility of being liable for defamation on the site would level the playing field. Giving the platforms still more reasons to ban people they deem liabilities? Not sure what your argument i
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by lovecg 5y ago
https://oversightboard.com/meet-the-board/john-samples/ for example
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by lovecg 5y ago
> It seems that the big factor is power. When you're in power, you use any excuse to silence the people who disagree. When you're not in power, you recognize that free speech is a universal principle. This is an oversimplificat
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by lovecg 5y ago
What’s a “censorship resistant social network”? Would Trump be allowed on this platform? Would it be hosted on AWS? One person’s censorship is another person’s moderation.
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by lovecg 5y ago
This headline is at best misleading and at worst intentionally dishonest. How I interpreted it when I first saw it: “Facebook is considering hiding these posts” (looking into, as in planning to do something). Censorship, bad, etc. What it a
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by lovecg 6y ago
You’re getting downvotes, but I think (correct me if I’m wrong) you meant something like the hash difficulty will adjust down if this is an extended downtime. So we would have fewer miners, easier hash difficulty and the same block rate. Th
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by lovecg 6y ago
It sounds like what the other person is saying the primary motivation for this “engineering” is not to save money just because they could, it’s to avoid disputes and compliance risks as much possible (which incidentally results in them savi
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by lovecg 6y ago
Would be worse without taxes though, no? Since you mentioned the debt ceiling, that’s another concept that doesn’t make any sense (except as yet another thing more politics can be piled on to). It’s like first the congress votes on the size
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by lovecg 6y ago
They could’ve just skipped adding a day in leap years for like 40 years and avoid the big disruption. Apparently this was considered as one of the proposals but didn’t go through.
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by lovecg 6y ago
That might be true on average, doesn’t mean that specific cases could have vastly different outcomes. I don’t see how a propaganda campaign can push the vote to 70%, this is not Soviet Russia. Money does help but not on this order of magnit
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by lovecg 6y ago
Equating a specific approach with _the_ solution to the problem is the oldest trick in the book. You’re implicitly assuming that this specific proposal to form a union is equivalent to “having a say in how they work”. That’s definitely what
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by lovecg 6y ago
Really, it seems indisputable to you that someone who’s job is on the line and who probably spent quite a bit of time looking into what was being proposed ultimately decided to vote no must be wrong? I’m curious what better information you
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by lovecg 6y ago
I still think there might be something here. You can allow certain aggregations (like “sum of the tax column”), but they have to be explicitly permitted; otherwise shuffle and hash everything enough times to make a single lookup sort of che
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by lovecg 6y ago
I have a different view: it’s not the collection that’s the problem, it’s the firehose attached to the database. For the applications you mention, make aggregation over all records prohibitively expensive by design.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Yeah it’s cool to think about how some technology might have developed if the economics didn’t make the evolutionary branch obsolete. I think that’s the appeal of steampunk fiction etc.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Couldn’t you gear down? This whole discussion makes me think what would a modern maxed out aircraft piston engine be like!
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by lovecg 6y ago
Playing poker is trivial to automate, it’s essentially fully solved. Driving is often surprisingly social. I had many instances where I observed somebody pulling out of a driveway in front of me and something about how their head was turned
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by lovecg 6y ago
It’s unreasonable to hold someone’s statements of opinion and future expectations to the same standard as statements of fact. Otherwise every single CEO would be guilty — they tend to be an optimistic bunch.
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by lovecg 6y ago
You’re not alone, I misread it exactly the same way! Now I’m worried about my wiring insulation.
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by lovecg 6y ago
I beg to differ. The major problem with VR for me is fatigue - can’t wear the headset for more than about an hour. If that was solved I’d never leave. > you couldn't possibly map them out on a VR controller Hand tracking + 10 finger
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by lovecg 6y ago
Why would employees want something drastically different for the company? Employees in general like to get paid.
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by lovecg 6y ago
Seems to be working quite well in Europe [0]. There are reasons to be optimistic. [0] https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/02/24/p...
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by lovecg 6y ago
Cap and trade, and then gradually lower the cap (driving the price of emitting carbon up). When a lot of money is on the line people tend to get creative. There’s no physical law that says we must put CO2 in the air to unlock these resource
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by lovecg 6y ago
Frankly all of this advice sounds a lot like “don’t water your lawn in a drought” while the almond farmers down the road continue to guzzle it up. One tends to throw their arms up in exasperation and drown their lawn in water out of sheer h
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by lovecg 6y ago
Are you advocating for only certain people not to have kids (in which case, what’s your criteria on who should and who shouldn’t), or that no one should have kids (e.g. the humanity should die out)?
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by lovecg 6y ago
That’s a weird argument to make. When people care about “the environment” they usually mean something like “keep the planet pleasant for humans”. Sure the humanity can commit collective sacrificial suicide to “preserve the environment”, but
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by lovecg 6y ago
I think it does add information. “Out of an abundance of caution” is a stock phrase that means “we don’t think this is currently a problem but it’s a prudent thing to do”. Without it, the statement is open to interpretation: were any users
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by lovecg 6y ago
Except if you could really approach lightspeed the distances would approach zero, so there’s that.

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