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by nebabyte 10y ago
> they could either just buy some thousand Bitcoin and spam the network with transactions Marginal loss on each transaction + "spamming transactions" = essentially paying people to run their machines at 100% for a while for you
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Right to remember in the public sphere, right to be forgotten in the private sphere. Negating the first is Animal Farm. Negating the second is the Panopticon.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
I just realized someone could create an honest-to-god "privilege checker" groans
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> If you ride up late at night on a motorcycle, you have a choice between committing a serious traffic offense and waiting several hours for the light to change Uhh, or (A) Back up, pull over your motorcycle, walk the crosswalk(s) as a p
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> A driver cannot control nor override a light You can rewire it or shoot it with a gun. It has no physical control over your actions. That is the actual sense of the word "control" in a humans-vs-robots debate.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Now why can't more of my constituents be like this upstanding citizen.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Good thing we're laying the groundwork for "controlled information", such as not recording your experiences to play back for others (say, if it involves a police officer [or 'voting officials' at voting booths, as w
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Nobody has to have any information either I mean hey, nobody has to participate in a democracy. It'd be so much more convenient if I could just, like, dictate what would happen, and they had no way of looking it up The internet&#x2
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Funny you'd ask, I used to look into that a lot too. There wasn't one when I last checked, lemme know if you hear anything.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
The "they" who decide the content classes which will be handled by the project (enforced as rules of the wiki) are nonprofit organizations I'll never be on the board of, so basically what cgriswald said.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Oh not 'actual' techies that envision the world embracing a new information era, we just want the code monkeys that know enough to pursue the profit motive for us and have internalized the idea that such a role is so in-demand tha
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by nebabyte 10y ago
You're still subject to the laws that get passed. How 'bout that ISP spying, and those latest pushes against net neutrality. (But okay, at least you have cheap - for the US - rent) I'd love to get locked in to that as a sma
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> Here's the thing. Would New Zealand stay that way if it pursued a policy of large scale immigration, they way the US has? Probably not. Anyone adopting the "give me your weary" immigration stance would by design attract
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Reminds me of this comic: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0135.html
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by nebabyte 10y ago
*losing, every Yeah, it's actually kind of amazing how many 'traditional' checkboxes Uber seems to miss with its 'rapid growth'. Little network effect lockin, low (ish) barrier to entry (with the hardest thing being
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Uh, that seems like something they'd get called out on pretty quickly if they tried, and would make them look worse off with the actual number than if they just opened with it Uber's gotten away with a lot of stuff but I doubt eve
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by nebabyte 10y ago
In the same way that going down the street kicking dogs is 'healthy', in that it's a good leg work out. It's not sustainable , as sooner or later you'll go to jail, but they didn't say sustainable :)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Right? The entire system is based in 'precedent', which is just a nice way of saying "well this is how we decided we'd interpret it or something similar before, let's do that" And rulings are the reciprocal &qu
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Title just gave me an epiphany. Could members of that flight sue as a class for trauma/emotional distress?
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by nebabyte 10y ago
"Care to change that tone, citizen?"
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by nebabyte 10y ago
That's a terrible example. He's talking about control and overrides; in that context, a red light is a literal counterexample of your point. You can violate systems with overrides, and doing so might have consequences, but that&#x
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> now The problem is that - taking away that control is just one parameter, one preset, one configuration setting away - We don't exactly have the best track record for consistently picking people we can trust not to fuck with those
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by nebabyte 10y ago
'Wikipedia with intuitions' would beat out any single book trying to record them. My hope is that they one day expand their scope to not only cover knowledge but different ways of looking at it/understanding it. Then for any
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by nebabyte 10y ago
The only justification I've ever heard for why lobbyism should be legal is "lobbyists act as 'lawyers' to help the people be heard in the legislative sphere". If that were true, "if you cannot afford a lobbyist
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by nebabyte 10y ago
> you miss out on the social media sharing buttons Oh, sad day... :)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
Non proximal individual. Now what?
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by nebabyte 10y ago
I was okay with using "imo" and "lol" in words in this discussion as full forms also lack taboo glyphs, and I concur that such with said glyph is tantamount to a violation.
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by nebabyte 10y ago
What, gay? (I wasn't going to, but skimming his words, I can't spot what this is a followup to; so I thought I'd ask, though with that initial jocular quip.)
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by nebabyte 10y ago
But for fact that said individual was said prior, and that I am slightly in a similar domain to him, I would not know which (singular) particular individual half of that points to
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by nebabyte 10y ago
I am highly in favor of using humorous colloquialization nyms which match anti-fifth-glyph format to point out individuals. For Musk, ^this nym in particular

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