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by monort 9y ago
Oil alarmism existed as early as 1919: http://papers.sae.org/190011/
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Silly Ideas in Singapore: Bomb Shelters(singaporeskywalker.blogspot.com)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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A Lesson on Elementary Worldly Wisdom (1994)(farnamstreetblog.com)
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574.
by monort 9y ago
There is no obvious victim when selling a drug, if transaction is voluntary. We already accept that by allowing selling some drugs, that were historically consumed. If you want a future-proof law, you should start from first principles and
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by monort 9y ago
The answer is obvious - AI shouldn't enforce victimless crime laws.
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Electric currency could trash cash (1999)(theguardian.com)
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Barriers to Entry: Who Builds Fortified Boundaries and Why? (2015)(mitpressjournals.org)
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Predictions (Trevor Blackwell)(tlb.org)
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by monort 9y ago
There was a halving of miners subsidy in 2016, that is what drives the price. For some reason the effect is delayed, but it was delayed during previous halving too.
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Belief in Free Will Predicts Better Job Performance (2010)(journals.sagepub.com)
2 points by monort 9y ago|1 comments
581.
by monort 9y ago
Yes, I know Google Scholar didn't exist in 2002, but there were papers anyway: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=audio+fingerprint&hl=en...
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by monort 9y ago
If you are thinking the difference is negligible, you are thinking only about things you can buy right now. Imagine you want to buy: Rockets (Bezos, Musk) Curing aging (Ellison, Bezos, Page, Brin, Pineapple Fund) Curing malaria (Gates) Or s
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In Xinjiang, police checkpoints ensure that the mandated spyware is installed(privateinternetaccess.com)
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The rate of return on everything(marginalrevolution.com)
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585.
by monort 9y ago
This is exactly the problem, that can be solved with software, we know it from the past (IRC, ICQ random chat, Livejournal).
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by monort 9y ago
It looks like this (Romania) https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3628/3493868568_0538c4f264_b...
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Arthur C. Clarke Offers His Vision of the Future (2001)(kurzweilai.net)
3 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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The Dangers of Elite Projection(humantransit.org)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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6 Times Feng Shui Influenced Hong Kong's Skyline(theculturetrip.com)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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The Unmined Supply of Petroleum in the United States (1919)(papers.sae.org)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Why Basement Biohackers Might Need to Start Fearing the FDA(gizmodo.com)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
592.
by monort 9y ago
Satoshi didn't predict mining pools, but they were fully aware that mining nodes will be in minority. It's mining pools that produce centralization problem, not mining hardware.
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by monort 9y ago
But this definition is unusual and doesn't bring any insight. It reminds me about psychological egoism, that says that there is no altruism, everything is egoism. Technically correct, but doesn't help to explain altruism-behavior.
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by monort 9y ago
While this position is technically correct, it is absurd. By this logic, enforcing freedom from slavery is coercive as well, because it requires threat of violence.
595.
by monort 9y ago
You shouldn't worry about it before scaling problem is solved. Dollar will start losing value to bitcoin only if a considerable number of transactions are made in bitcoin, and there is nothing apocalyptic about it - it will be a slow m
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Promotion of natural tooth repair by small molecule GSK3 antagonists(nature.com)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Ars Longa, Vita Brevis(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
598.
by monort 9y ago
Would you use a currency where 10% every year (not once) goes to a relatively small number of banks? USD M2: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m2
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Replacing software developers by the crowd? (2016)(blog.ieeesoftware.org)
2 points by monort 9y ago|0 comments
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Decoherence and Hidden Variables(scottaaronson.com)
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