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by mindcandy 3y ago
> there is no mechanism for attribution. What if there was? What if I hand-painted an image (without AI) and God himself came down from heaven and explained to the world that my painting was derived 10% from my observations of the collec
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Anecdotally, as a 6’0” moderately-attractive dude in SF: I’ve laughed at the statistically unlikely number of founders/CEOs/upper management who are not only taller than me, but also are not subtle when they use their imposing hei
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Looks to me more like we were in a very long, very cool period and are suddenly popping out of it and are only accelerating. That’s fine for the planet. But, sucks pretty hard for any life forms that evolved to fit the Earth in the last 10
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by mindcandy 3y ago
eschelon said that we are in an ice age and multiple people asked “how can you call this an ice age?” I either didn’t see the linked reference or it wasn’t there when I read eschelon’s comment. Either way, I’ve seen the Little Ice Age come
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Climate change deniers tell each other we are coming out of The Little Ice Age that started in 1200AD. Which is technically correct. What they don’t tell each other is that “Little” is an understatement and we shot way past the prior “Medie
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by mindcandy 3y ago
How can anyone and everyone prove that the tokens were actually properly paid for? Prove there were no secret smokey-room collusion deals. Prove there were no unpaid tokens minted. Prove that international government/criminal organiza
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by mindcandy 3y ago
The catch is: Even with proof of stake, you need to prime the pump with proof of work. Otherwise, you have nothing to stake! Hopefully we’ve proven enough work already to serve as a foundation and from here on we can scaffold up with stakin
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by mindcandy 3y ago
That was Thaler's argument. He had the first prominent case in this debate. AFAIK, the artist implicitly gets copywrite to the work they created then your contract with the artist transfers that copywrite to you. Thaler tried to argu
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by mindcandy 3y ago
As an expert in Chinese culture after watching a single YouTube video... "Lying Flat" apparently is making a comeback. But, it is an old idea in China. A big theme is that skill and effort are not rewarded. Connections are. So, yo
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by mindcandy 3y ago
> Since 2016 San Francisco’s homeless budget has ballooned to $672 million from $224 million, yet the number of homeless in shelters has increased by a mere 736. That equates to $609,000 in higher annual spending for each additional pers
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by mindcandy 3y ago
The art documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film) (available on YouTube...) is basically about how the distant separation of employees from the consequences of their decisions naturally lea
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Around the time of the $20K bubble, I asked a convenience store clerk if anyone actually used the Bitcoin ATM they featured. He said there were 2 distinct groups: Rich-looking, post-middle-aged dudes with fancy cars and homeless people. Th
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Evidence points to the specific change we are charging forward into resulting in huge amounts of drought, famine and flooding around the world. This will lead to resource wars and refugee crises at a scale we have not yet dealt with. Or, if
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by mindcandy 3y ago
Totally agree. AFAICT, our math curriculum has been set for a hundred years by mathematicians. People who by some quirk of their upbringing were extremely strongly motivated to dig deep into mathematics. Naturally, the mathematicians laid o
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by mindcandy 4y ago
Everyone is crying Corporate Greed in here. And, I can understand why. But, here’s another perspective based on listening to David Holz answer all kinds of questions from random users for four hours a week for over a year during Midjourney
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by mindcandy 4y ago
One of the first proposals for blockchain was a email with a minuscule, verifiable fee to make email spam uneconomical. Spamming emails is one of the cheapest things you can do with a network connection. Even $1 per 1,000 emails would make
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by mindcandy 4y ago
In the real world, do wealthy companies want to be named on this list of 3 or 4 groups spamming NPM? That’s a lot different than being seen buying a banner ad.
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by mindcandy 4y ago
I attended Carmel HS some 30ish years ago. It was a great school back then. Though a bit smaller :). One of the privileges of my life was that my family moved from Indianapolis to the outer edge of Carmel specifically so I could attend that
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by mindcandy 4y ago
You have this backwards to the point I thought you were being sarcastic. Cows and pigs require a huge multiplier of agriculture (and water) to feed them in order to produce an equivalent amount of food for humans. Thanks to subsidies target
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by mindcandy 4y ago
In my research into Ethereum, I learned that in the creation of SHA-3, they did a lot of hammering on SHA-256 to see if new weaknesses could be discovered and addressed. The conclusion was that SHA-256 is still solid as far as anyone can t
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by mindcandy 4y ago
Don’t think about this in the abstract. You have to make it concrete. Go make a service. Like a photo-sharing service. A service like that should obviously feature user comments, right? And, then users start posting millions of blatant raci
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by mindcandy 4y ago
In the last few steps, going from “Yes, you need trust-less updates” to “<tiny distraction>” to “Meh whatever, just use a regular database!” seems a bit lacking in short-term memory…
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by mindcandy 5y ago
How likely is it that this is the result of Russian bots mass-reporting Ukraine supporters for "violations"?
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by mindcandy 5y ago
That's because people whip it out constantly and almost always where it's not appropriate. It's pretty rare that anyone tries to enact a new standard. So, instead we see this comic use to downplay every time that anyone doe
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by mindcandy 5y ago
Maus is an incredible book. Banning such a deeply engaging depiction of the holocaust because it contains the word "damn" is pearl-clutching to the point of self-parody. It is difficult to imagine another book that could hold th
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by mindcandy 5y ago
Based on the nature of open-source software and the generally implemented design of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum: Explicitly No. Anyone is free to make a fork of any chain that does whatever they like. That's the easy part. The har
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by mindcandy 5y ago
When the day comes that it becomes really real and everyone from now on gets to live for a few hundred years. But, not you. You are already too old for it to work. Maybe if you led a much more healthy lifestyle. But, no. You get to gro
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by mindcandy 5y ago
There's a whole lot of BS in NFTs at the moment. But, there is one thing they are good for: Everyone is crying out for a decentralized, interoperable metaverse that is not walled-off and owned by corporations. OK. So, how does anyt
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by mindcandy 5y ago
You would be mistaken. I'm no expert. But, I've been in SF long enough to talk to many homeless people there and read a bit on the subject. Paranoia, drug dependence, coping self-delusion, self-destructive pride and sometimes ge
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by mindcandy 5y ago
Yes. But, which of those two options is actually happening?

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