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901.
by maaku 12y ago
What do you mean "good, bad, utilitarian"? Good and bad are descriptions we attach to causal causes which lead to outcomes with higher (good) or lower (bad) utility. Having either my friend have dust in his eye or some stranger to
902.
by maaku 12y ago
Play fair. > His core beliefs include that the obvious goal of the human race is immortality "We should be allowed to live as long as we want to." Emphasis on the want. I don't find that very controversial. > that it is
903.
by maaku 12y ago
> Here is someone who could boot the very first version of DOS on a Ivy Bridge system I would not be surprised if there is someone at Intel or Microsoft whose job it is to do just that for every release.
904.
by maaku 12y ago
Most airlines were avoiding the eastern Ukraine corridor...
905.
by maaku 12y ago
I'd buy one but I'm out of town until the 22nd... let me know if they're still available.
906.
by maaku 12y ago
There is no such thing as non-GMO food, is my point.
907.
by maaku 12y ago
You realize that every single food you eat was genetically engineered by humans?
908.
by maaku 12y ago
Neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki had any effect on the Japanese leadership of the time, as minutes of government meetings show. The nuclear attacks paled in comparison to the firebombings or larger cities such as Tokyo. What ended the war was
909.
by maaku 12y ago
> ORBIS is designed for modern browsers and uses technology that works best in Chrome or Safari. This is on latest Firefox. Really? The only truly open browser is not "modern"?
910.
by maaku 12y ago
That's how the reference client works. That's not necessarily how miners operate. If they're acting in self-interest, they'd accept fee-per-kb irregardless of priority.
911.
by maaku 12y ago
> bitcoin has has really only had one hard forking change to enable pay-to-script transactions. ... which wasn't a hard fork. The only hard fork so far was the move from BDB to LevelDB for chain state data.
912.
by maaku 12y ago
An attitude like that and you'll never work there.
913.
by maaku 12y ago
Military client? mIRC is shareware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC
914.
by maaku 12y ago
Utterly unusable on Android*. EDIT: Works on iOS.
915.
by maaku 12y ago
> One of the other things I learned there was not letting the perfect be the enemy of the better. Yes, but when the better is significantly better, and only a small marginal cost, it's worth doing. > Don't be ridiculous. B
916.
by maaku 12y ago
The relay fee doesn't go to the people who are actually burdened with maintaining the historical block stream. It is a fully externalized cost.
917.
by maaku 12y ago
The issue isn't OP_RETURN, it's one vs many OP_RETURN outputs per block, and stuffing data in the block chain vs compressing it via hash functions to 32-bytes per block.
918.
by maaku 12y ago
But then how else do you socially signal yourself as an expert in a field you may or may not know anything about?
919.
by maaku 12y ago
Gwern, as a LW'er you should know about scope insensitivity and the danger of discounting possible futures. Yes the energetic and capital cost of transmitting, validating, storing, and keeping on hand a few dozen bytes is a minor thing
920.
by maaku 12y ago
> No, there are not. What there are are ways which are slightly cheaper on a few dimensions which are irrelevant compared to the dimensions of reliability, cost, explainability, and ease of use which are totally trashed by your alternati
921.
by maaku 12y ago
This is a horrible idea. DO NOT DO THIS. You are making the bitcoin network worse if you do.
922.
by maaku 12y ago
There are better ways to do this. You shouldn't be pushing this kind of data into an OP_RETURN output where you are burdening the entire network to store, retransmit, and validate that information from now until the heat death of the u
923.
by maaku 12y ago
No, although you'd be excused for thinking so -- I co-invented Freicoin afterall ( http://freico.in/ ). I'm against nominal interest, which is the non-risk portion of the interest rate. But that is of zero relevance
924.
by maaku 12y ago
So? The cost of money doesn't increase.
925.
by maaku 12y ago
Have you tried Haskell?
926.
by maaku 12y ago
You can do that in many languages...
927.
by maaku 12y ago
However these are rushed through is mere days, without any time for public review.
928.
by maaku 12y ago
That's a problem that needs to be fixed.
929.
by maaku 12y ago
Or in the process accidentally invent limited time travel and find that you have better things to do. [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/
930.
by maaku 12y ago
Which would be defeating a strawman. I don't know anyone who claims DNN is precisely how any aspect of the human brain works.

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