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by mac01021 6y ago
I think they're clearly useful for tracking ownership of genuinely-unique physical entities - I could sell farming rights to a bit of land or sell my car without the state DMV or a county government having to coordinate the transaction
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by mac01021 6y ago
> high levels of debt to whom will your child be indebted?
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by mac01021 6y ago
> IANAE I'm not sure professional economists are either...
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by mac01021 6y ago
That's an interesting way to phrase it. If the atmosphere were going to saturate in a way that would prevent combustion from even happening that would be a very interesting scenario.
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by mac01021 6y ago
I have questions about Waymo's taxi service. I'm certain that they occasionally run into situations that require human intervention, or at least need to be prepared for such an eventuality (see examples below). In such scenarios
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by mac01021 6y ago
This is interesting, but a little weak. It reminds me of this other,10-year-old post about Tom Bombadil from the Lord of the Rings: https://km-515.livejournal.com/1042.html
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by mac01021 6y ago
I agree the GP was cruel and demeaning and at least partly wrong. But it's been asked for someone to describe the specific changes in their worldview that resulted from living abroad (and specifically the ones that could not have been
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by mac01021 6y ago
> Doesn't that just leave you in an echo chamber of people who agree with you, and you don't learn anything new? Only if the GP does not want to consume expressions of opposing viewpoints.
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by mac01021 6y ago
You can have a company with many offices, and every employee in an office all the time, but no one office designated as the HQ.
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by mac01021 6y ago
No HQ need not mean no office.
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by mac01021 6y ago
What qualifies as a like-minded friend? Same hobbies? Same political ideology? Same profession?
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by mac01021 6y ago
In terms of hardware costs that is probably true. In terms of the ability to develop a technical understanding of computers and to use computers as a medium for certain types of creative expression, much ground has been lost over the last 2
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by mac01021 6y ago
I just wonder what kind of organization or project faces this kind of decision. I've worked on workflow/crud-type web applications whose computational needs could be met using a single server with a couple of GB of RAM using a sin
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by mac01021 6y ago
Are you confusing Scott Alexander (whatever his real name is) with Scott Aaronson?
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by mac01021 6y ago
0> By the dictionary: "a person who bases their opinions and actions on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response." 1> I guess someone who chooses to label themselves as a rationalist likely
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by mac01021 6y ago
That's right. If you want to sequester more carbon, you have to create more forest.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Forests are self-sustaining, if you don't cut them down. Individual trees die and decay, but their place is taken by their offspring and the total biomass of the forest does not decrease over time. The amount of carbon stored in the fo
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by mac01021 6y ago
I'm going to say Clojure is probably what you want. Via clojurescript, it has very good interoperability with the tools you're already using and it's possible that you might even choose to use it on the front end in the brow
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by mac01021 6y ago
The problem is that people need so little and that 98% of commerce consists of people transacting for something more than the bare minimum of staying alive.
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by mac01021 6y ago
What kind of applications do you want to build? What non-lisp languages do you usually work with? I think you will find that Clojure has the largest community and the widest use for commercial applications but, depending on your specific i
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by mac01021 6y ago
Shouldn't the fact that you're paid to do it for a living give you _more_ time to spend on it?
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by mac01021 6y ago
I've never heard of it before now.
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by mac01021 6y ago
When was that?
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by mac01021 6y ago
I tried this out last week, hoping it would be good enough for me to cancel my plan of setting up a matrix server. It's a nice idea, but I likely will not continue using it or try to sell anyone I know on using it because it doesn&#x27
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by mac01021 6y ago
I was hoping this would be about the centralization of the power to govern in the federal government and the need to transfer much power back to the states.
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by mac01021 6y ago
I'm not sure that's true. Email has a somewhat archaic data model that has suboptimal support for things like threading.
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by mac01021 6y ago
The article is not talking about bugs or software errors. It's talking about how programs respond to exceptional conditions like malformed user input, missing config files, etc.
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Code Budgets(danielbmarkham.com)
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by mac01021 6y ago
CPI may not have gone up, but it sure seems like the prices of a lot of corporate stocks are pretty inflated... I don't know if that is related to a change in money supply.
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by mac01021 6y ago
Could this kind of problem be solved well using smart contracts? (Not for Bitcoin, obviously, but on some more sophisticated blockchain system). Like, have a thing where if your wallet is inactive for a period of greater than one year then

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