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by mjfl 8y ago
My parents had 9 children. What do you think of that?
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by mjfl 8y ago
But you didn’t set up the business. Whatever business was behind the transaction either had or hired a transaction processor with a legal team experienced with international payments like Stripe or PayPal. And in general, they are doing som
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by mjfl 8y ago
It’s difficult for non-personal transactions in general. If you have a business that delivers some digital product, it is very difficult to serve an international client base without running afoul of anti money laundering compliance issues
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by mjfl 8y ago
I don't know how to quantify the electricity/carbon use of large banks and multinational law firms, but it probably isn't small? The current "safelow" gas price on Ethereum is 2.6 gWei, or $0.016. https:/&#x2F
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by mjfl 8y ago
The usefulness of cryptocurrency is not abstract: cryptocurrencies are useful for sending value over the internet and over international borders. Doing so without cryptocurrencies is very difficult and costly, requires large banks and multi
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by mjfl 8y ago
I would say that the stock market is a means of exchanging ownership of these exponentially growing assets we call companies, and that a public market exists for doing so is tremendously egalitarian. Any average Joe can become a part-owner
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by mjfl 8y ago
The whole concept of psychopathy depends on the premise that normal humans act with empathy towards each other, which is laughably false.
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by mjfl 8y ago
This reminds me of Nuskell, a chemical reaction network to "DNA domain-level strand displacement" compiler build by Stefan Badelt et al in Erik Winfree's lab at Caltech. https://github.com/DNA-and-Natural-Algo
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by mjfl 8y ago
You've shown no evidence whatsoever that you personally understand climate models. You are still making the "the data is out there" argument, without getting into specifics. You are doing, precisely , what I've been s
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by mjfl 8y ago
But for other consensuses, for example evolution, any individual person can readily explain how it works to a anyone else. Then it is up to the person hearing the model to accept it as fact, and maybe they make some logical error rejecting
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by mjfl 8y ago
All this may be true, but appeal to authority is still a logical fallacy. You can't just shame people into believing something they don't understand because "smarter" people believe it. It's a shameful failure of co
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by mjfl 8y ago
why AI?
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by mjfl 8y ago
that would do it. So really Boston can't really compare with SV because of that factor of 100 difference.
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by mjfl 8y ago
Is the explanation that Silicon Valley companies invest a lot more in / are better at publicity - best example being Mark Zuckerberg boy genius meme?
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by mjfl 8y ago
If someone drives as if they are drunk, all the time, then I don't think they should have a license as they are clearly a danger to public health. On a similar note, the driving test for a license could include a run in the simulator t
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by mjfl 8y ago
I am perfectly comfortable remembering and even admiring Thomas Jefferson as a great but flawed person, just like countless people from history. I don't think the things you listed are out of the ordinary for his day. I think it's
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by mjfl 8y ago
They have found a way to bottle prestige which is extremely profitable. It has negative marginal cost and only you can distribute it.
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by mjfl 8y ago
That doesn't make any sense. A 32 hour work week is not nearly enough hours to make an additional 8 hours pointless. That's a full 25% of your work week so far. Maybe if we were talking reducing 60-80 hour weeks to 40, maybe. But
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by mjfl 8y ago
Parallelization on a single particle level at every point in space.
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by mjfl 8y ago
what if scientists actually considered being economically competent? There is no law of nature that holds that scientists must be aloof savants.
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by mjfl 8y ago
By technical incerto you mean Silent Risk right?
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by mjfl 8y ago
replace "narcissists, sociopaths, and borderlines" with "Leos, Tauruses, and Pisces" and you'll realize you're assigning arbitrary labels to people you don't like without actually knowing anything about th
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by mjfl 8y ago
Do you think modern PhDs overspecialize?
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by mjfl 8y ago
Tools first, 100%. People learn concrete things, and then they learn the abstractions. The abstractions are nearly useless by themselves. It's the reason that people learn addition before algebra before group theory. The people that sa
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by mjfl 8y ago
It's not a strong one. You could say that about any two games in the same genre - "Starcraft is just a re-skin of Warcraft". I would still buy Starcraft.
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by mjfl 8y ago
actually, he's a tenured professor at UToronto, has 9600 citations, and ran a clinical psychiatry practice for 20 years - including some time at Harvard. So, he's had more success at academic pursuits than like 99.99% of people. T
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by mjfl 8y ago
I think pornography is going to be a significant selection pressure on the human race, much more than we realize. We're basically running a global-scale experiment right now. Who knows what's going to happen in 10-15 years, when t
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by mjfl 8y ago
I'm not involved in it, but I know for a fact that the "NoFap" movement goes back like 8 or 9 years, and probably further back, and the Proud Boys have only recently come about, maybe in the last two years. In fact, I'm
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by mjfl 8y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that we disarm the police? "Stop it right there, or I'll... I'll get really mad!"
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by mjfl 8y ago
"We should take the problem of life and PUSH it somewhere else!"

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