meanduck

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by meanduck 10y ago
> Nobody says voting will get you the government you want. That is the point. Vote is increasingly becoming deselect method (Govt that is least bad) than select.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Yes who needs better and more correct code for critical missions, If we all shout loud/longer enough we would win.
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by meanduck 10y ago
But what you gain from being politically active is the right to not be abused, at the loss of productivity. Its lose-lose situation.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Aww Govt is sad they are losing right to enslave citizens. Bureaucrats/Welfare-Addicts are worried about nearing possibility of doing actual work for money. Your argument of "at least we are not as bad as Uber" is just sick.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Its obvious you and many others here are statists. And its fine if thats how you want to live but I dont. So instead of endless debate on this/UBI/RTBF/etc, we need to work on a (better) framework to decouple land from poli
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by meanduck 10y ago
> in that if you actually stop consuming government services, i. e. leave the country Stop spreading the nonsense that Govt is owner of the land. Its not. At best Govt/Army is protector of the land for which almost everyone happy to
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by meanduck 10y ago
Yes Govt is solely responsible for every human achievements since 1900.
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by meanduck 10y ago
I guess GP is refering to repetitiveness of same arguments. A tree thread is good for discovery but not so good for reaching a conclusion/consensus. Flat/linear thread should be used instead.
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by meanduck 10y ago
I think Research = Observe-Theorize-Experiment works. Reverse engineering is not research because someone already has the answer.
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“Francisco’s Money Speech”(capitalismmagazine.com)
1 points by meanduck 10y ago|0 comments
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by meanduck 10y ago
No No No. There are probably ~100K of ISPs, many of them in judicially-weak countries. This will never work. ISPs are not the problem. Its fundamental oversight in routing architecture of internet. BCP38 is Best Current Practice. Not a prot
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Anti-Spoofing, BCP 38, and the Tragedy of the Commons (2014)(internetsociety.org)
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by meanduck 10y ago
It cant. One solution would be blackholing AS 456 from AS 789 at the requrest of its members. Hopefully this will teach 456 to stop misbehaving. Though we do assume that AS wont itself misbehave and send a spoofed packet to one of its membe
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by meanduck 10y ago
Should not a router be able to this filtering ? Making Internet Exchange Points do it would be even more quicker. Once big IXPs do it smaller would follow suite for the fear being cut-off and eventually ISPs.
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by meanduck 10y ago
No country subsidize for other countries. Certainly not for moral reasons. Subsidizes get introduced either to score political points and/or bribes. Thats it.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Everyone is egocentric. For countries, egocentric-ness is maximum. UBI/FB like threads are filled with comments that seemed to forgot this so obvious fact of life. Its the worst thing about HN.
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by meanduck 10y ago
Lets say we have total population P, fraction of rich q. Total wealth W, fraction of wealth possessed by rich x. Lets say we take txW and give to poor. Share/poor : txW/P(1-q) Fractional increase in wealth of a poor (FI) : ( txW&#
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by meanduck 10y ago
> The economist looks for competitors in cases like this. A firm cannot just willy-nilly raise their prices without a competing firm leaping in to give consumers what they want at a lower price. As it turns out, Mylan has a great friend
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by meanduck 10y ago
> Well, social mobility is the change in social status relative to others, which can correlate with income, yes. It also correlates with things like education and skills, type of occupation, etc. Why do you classify it as social mobility
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by meanduck 10y ago
What is socioeconomic mobility (of a person) in this discussion ? Is it rate of change in salary ? > If people who could have been top-notch scientists, engineers, civil servants and entrepreneurs were prevented from doing so because the
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by meanduck 10y ago
Except hn cannot imprison or tax you. The problem is not tracking but give more power to something overly-powerful. Same thing applies to corporations.
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by meanduck 10y ago
> If what you say about "requests" and "responses" is both true and dispositive of the issue of authorization, then you're saying that virtually every SQL injection vulnerability on the Internet is also an "
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by meanduck 10y ago
Its internet. Anyone can request anything. All requesters knows this. Almsot all servers knows this and thus check each request for access. So yes there is one node that is going out of the widely accepted "social" norm but its Fa
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by meanduck 10y ago
Cryptocurrency does not mean it has perfect dicentralised distribution. It only means that its (much) better than fiat currency's.
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by meanduck 10y ago
And how are they single institution ? And if you dont like the distribution you can be a miner as it is required by cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is still being adopted. We should see more fair distribution or see another better cryptocurrency. A
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by meanduck 10y ago
Mining pool or single gpu its irrelevent. As long as honest people can get more computational power than dishonest ones, cryptocurrency is decentralised and 51%-honest.
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by meanduck 10y ago
To make it more decenteralised. Cryptocurrency without enough participents actively voting with their computational power is not a cryptocurrency and will have none of the improvements over fiat currency. Bitcoin might have 51% dishonest pr
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by meanduck 10y ago
EDIT: OK lets say some 51% is dishonest. You have the option to become miner and reduce their power/influence share. 51% being honest is fundamental assumption of a cryptocurrency [1]. The assumption gets stronger as total computatio
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by meanduck 10y ago
There is no scenario where (eg) bitcoin's 51% computing power goes to single institution. If one govt jumps in so will the others. In fact you can jump too and vote with your computing power. And note this is not possible in fiat curre
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by meanduck 10y ago
There is no reason to be disappointed. The guarantees are same as before. That is, Its 51% computing power that sets the next reality not a central/political/technical institution.

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