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by manytree 4y ago
Pethaps a more relevant example is the assertion that it’s absurd to believe non-ionizing radiation at the levels produced by cellphones could be harmful. Dismissed by the same line of reasoning, but now an assertion increasingly being take
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by manytree 4y ago
The issue with this argument is that it’s trying to assert that “science says” something isn’t true (generally one of the most valuable things laypeople derive from science, but not the spirit of reasoning that is responsible for its origin
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by manytree 4y ago
Second carbon steel. Excellent pans, I don’t worry about seasoning too much - hit with steel wool and hit water when necessary. Still very little sticks if you use them enough.
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by manytree 4y ago
I’d say it’s both: GPS are great but you should be well practiced in wayfinding with a compass in case the GPS fails. I’ve never taken a GPS on long hikes anyhow seems overkill as long as you have a good topo.
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by manytree 4y ago
> At press time, representatives from the world’s leading economies had signaled that they would continue to heavily rely on fossil fuels until they had something more than an overwhelming scientific consensus to go on. Lol
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by manytree 4y ago
What a lovely article and piece. Tremendous. I don’t think I will make such a commitment to this film as did the author, but in a way I feel it is perhaps the only way to understand it: at the speed of undilated time.
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by manytree 4y ago
I can think of 0 reasons why the “police should investigate that” Why?
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by manytree 4y ago
I agree. Especially given the recent development of consiousness theory bestowing the likelihood of consiousness upon all animals and even perhaps inanimate objects. I.e., if you can answer the question “what would it be like to exist as...
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by manytree 4y ago
Defendents didn’t pay for the cotton https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles_v_Wichelhaus
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by manytree 4y ago
Wow yeah I missed this. Read through most if it and was looking to see if anyone else had already commented my thinking: “And the new design is WAY worse in every way!” Honestly it’s hard to tell what it even is with the new design: SaaS pr
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by manytree 4y ago
Thanks for this link. Had me remember that excellent movie. And an excellent illustration of the perils of “selling out” rights to depict a fictional character.
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by manytree 4y ago
Yeah it’s a pretty glib answer. Not clear at all how you kick them off the network. Perhaps he’s conflating some kind of protocol exploit that could be patched against with a 51% attack.
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by manytree 4y ago
Honestly there’s a lot of valid points to be made here but the actual report reads as if their intention was to prove blockchains are insecure and centralized. That is true for a lot of them, but true Nakamoto consensus is not quite as frag
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by manytree 4y ago
Vitalik says: > While there are plenty of automated stablecoin designs that are fundamentally flawed and doomed to collapse eventually, and plenty more that can survive theoretically but are highly risky, there are also many stablecoins
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by manytree 4y ago
A lot of finacial theory jargon here but not a very clear explanation. Definitely not a “proof” in the logical sense. Likely the Vitalik post linked in this article will have some insight.
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by manytree 4y ago
Be careful throwing around the word quack. Among The “SkepDoc’s” oppositions to the Weston Price foundation’s website are these assertions: > [That weston price offered] Advice not supported by good evidence, like using unrefined Celtic
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by manytree 5y ago
Yeah, the DID you receive from the attestation service can be used multiple times, and is assumed to be immutable, so you sign messages with your private key to prove ownership of the DID but generally reveal no other information. One conce
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by manytree 5y ago
Sounds like exact quandary that the emerging DID spec (Decentralized Identifiers) [ https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ ] is hoping to solve. I.e. you can submit your proof of age to an attestation service (in this case
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by manytree 5y ago
One of the most successful implementations of VDFs in crypto right now is Chia, which uses proof of storage space interleaved with proofs of time from VDF servers. There is not an incentive created by the consensus algorithm to have many VD