meowkit

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by meowkit 4y ago
Consensus Failure is the issue that underlies all your listed examples, and many more important ones. Gridlock, over an >extended< period of time, indicates there is a problem. Its like an engine seizing.
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by meowkit 4y ago
...it is more fundamental. It's Moloch - the optimization for one criterion ( https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ ) on the grandest scale. It's attention in the "att
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by meowkit 4y ago
> What the study exposed is that science journalists, whose literal job is to understand this stuff and explain it to the general public, suck at their jobs. I was under their impression the job of a journalist was to get attention of re
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by meowkit 4y ago
Given the software advances in drone stabilization, would it not be possible to add some sort of dynamic stabilization to this hypothetical airship?
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by meowkit 4y ago
A normative statement - which I declare to point out that you could also share what should be the case. What might be more helpful is that ballot initiatives should have a stricter template based on type. If you're changing tax code it
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by meowkit 4y ago
> It can take such "fee" because it’s so enormous that it can negociate prices in a way you couldn’t So what's the solution to this problem? In one way I think this could be framed as rent seeking via economies of scale.
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by meowkit 4y ago
How are the incentives described any different than any other system?
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by meowkit 4y ago
> There's no such process for cryptocurrencies. It wouldn't make any sense for someone to acquire every instance of a coin. Coins don't pay dividends. They don't represent any kind of underlying assets. It's just
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by meowkit 4y ago
Because there have been several testnet merges (including a shadow merge of the mainnet) that have been successful and identified issues that have been fixed.
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by meowkit 4y ago
Tag the coded signs on a GPS map. If the detected "sign" is not on the GPS map the system can label it as "probably malicious".
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by meowkit 4y ago
This is a long winded way to dance around nihilism. Nihilism is much like a hidden tarpit on the philosophical journey. Easy to fall into and get stuck. Necessary in a way, but not the place to dwell. A primary thing to point out is percept
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by meowkit 4y ago
Problem is you are incentivizing people to sell their vote or to threaten others to vote a specific way (abusive spouse wants to verify their SO voted a certain way). The only info we should provide electronically is that your vote was coun
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by meowkit 4y ago
HN is like what Reddit used to be. Heavy emphasis on news, technology. Usually some interesting debate in the comments when they were added. Found some screenshots from the early years: https://www.reddit.com/r/historyo
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by meowkit 4y ago
Incrementalism and flexibility are key in habit forming and dissolution. I recommend the Impulse Blocker plugin for a timer on specific websites (youtube, hacker news, etc.) iPhone has timer tools for limiting app usage and different modes
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by meowkit 4y ago
The tx/sec are guesses. Its too soon to know what the upper limits of blockchain TPS could be. The arguments for massive TPS scaling are not that the Ethereum base chain itself will process them at transaction time, but that that L2+ c
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by meowkit 4y ago
Your framing is a piece of the general principle as far as I am aware. It's a multipolar trap that is hard to see because we're embedded in it, and in the short term a lot of actions appear rational, but have externalities that ar
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by meowkit 4y ago
A user-provided argument could also be an input parameter or a regular function parameter altogether. Yes, hyperparameters are often set by the user of a model, but more specifically they are parameters that exist separately from the data p
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by meowkit 4y ago
The URL has not been "generated" in the same sense. You are retrieving an existing string. The images from google are not "generated" in the same sense, they are indexed from google's search algorithm. The generativ
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by meowkit 4y ago
Because non-Chinese companies cannot compete in the Chinese market place without strict handicaps. Some cannot participate at all. However the true question here is more likely to be "what does unfair mean".
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by meowkit 4y ago
Tech people know how to back up their devices, passwords, photos, etc. Hell most apps are good enough that people are backing up these things without even realizing it.
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by meowkit 4y ago
The atomisation of culture is evidence enough for me to believe that this erosion of worship is already under way. Its so much more diffuse. The cultural icons we each follow is so diverse already. I can imagine AI generated icons that only
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by meowkit 4y ago
With the following context: "Diversity" as a variable input to some bodies ability to problem solve. "Real" diversity are the dimensions that can vary and affect the above context. Different mental models/modes + pa
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by meowkit 4y ago
Apples to oranges. Investments are compared by their up front costs and rates of returns. Crypto up front costs are dirt cheap as most of it is open source software, and in a bull mania the rates of returns are astronomical. Nuclear is a ma
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by meowkit 4y ago
No. Its a settlement layer. I do 1000 streaming transactions on a channel. When the channel is closed (withdrawn back to the L1 chain, or settled - offchain is the wrong term here Lightning is an L2 "channel"), the transactions ar
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by meowkit 4y ago
The hypothetical question to a hypothetical situation deserves a hypothetical answer. There would be no massive cost. It would be a project affordable by the curious humans/robots/organizations of The Future. Automation will const
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by meowkit 4y ago
Did you even read the post? The conclusion: > Innovation has the potential to make financial services faster, cheaper, and more inclusive and to do so in ways that are native to the digital ecosystem. Enabling responsible innovation to f
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by meowkit 4y ago
Its not an attack. Its more likely they don't want to use man hours to support certain scenarios. WSL is part of Microsoft's internal push to embrace open source. Its feature development. Source: I work on the windows kernel and h
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by meowkit 4y ago
How do you know that a real world event happened if you didn't perceive it with your own senses? One of the long term goals of blockchains interfacing with the "real world" is to build oracle marketplaces that compete to prov
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by meowkit 4y ago
Don’t expect people to answer your question when it appears you have already decided what that answer is. Do your own research. There are plenty of current and hypothetical use cases. A lot of the value derives from shifting your mental mod
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by meowkit 4y ago
The biggest mistake in basic nutrition is false dichotomies like the one presented here. You can have a baseline healthy diet, and on occassion have a heavy pasta meal, have a pizza, order a steak, drink some alcohol, eat a sweet. The trick

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