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by nhaehnle 11y ago
The "X is freer than Y" example is only superficially subjective. The issue at hand is that people disagree on what "free" means. This can be resolved in a mutually agreeable way by first clarifying the different possibl
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
It says so right in the article: "In Bitcoin-NG, the protocol is, instead, forward-looking: every 10 minutes, NG elects a leader, who then vets future transactions as soon as they happen."
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3D printing has been huge in design prototyping for a long time - and at least SpaceX have used 3D-printed parts in actual flight.
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It's kind of amusing, because you are somewhat in line with what Bruenig writes, apparently without realizing it. If you think that Bruenig is arguing for price controls without any qualifiers, you read the article wrong. He is arguing
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It is easy to come up with examples where this ethical theory leads to ridiculous outcomes. At the same time, it would be foolish to completely dismiss it. Many of the examples listed in the article under discussion here give people the imp
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That's an interesting argument and technically correct. I only wonder whether it's politically feasible/stable. My fear would be that the economic advantage of the capital owners (even if reduced) would eventually lead to a l
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Matt Bruenig (who I generally recommend to anybody interested in questions of economic justice because his writing introduces laypeople to brilliant and refreshing points) has a series on Uber surge pricing where, among other things, he mak
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Except that in the long-term endgame of automation, capitalism (or, to be more precise and less labelly, the private ownership of the vast majority of capital in the hands of a minority) really is the problem. I've expanded on this a b
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Are you so sure about that? Capitalism is at its core about the (private) accumulation of capital in the sense of means of production. This capital is used by human labour to produce things. Technological change is ultimately a process by w
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Twitter is another example of consciously making use of this.
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> It is likely that those particular positions benefit and are motivated to cheat on regulations for the benefit of the company? No, the bottom line of the company is affected, and it is far more likely that business people are applying
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> drawline(Point(vec.x1, vec.y1), Point(vec.x2, vec.y2)) True, though you can usually reduce the pain by implementing appropriate conversion operators and/or implicit constructors. > Again, it's only inferior until the very
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
I don't know. It's easy to over-interpret what somebody intended to say. Which brings me to your own "M2 is derived from M0". There are certainly interpretations of that statement with which I would agree, but there are
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The article claims 2 billion lines of code across 25000 engineers, which boils down to 80k lines of code per engineer. I'm not sure what to think about that. It seems to be in a reasonable order of magnitude for C++/Java-type lang
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
There's still a big difference between WhatsApp and the likes of Facebook when it comes to complexity. Last I checked, WhatsApp does not do face recognition, to pick an example at random.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
I downvoted you because yours is a largely content-free comment in which you pretend that 'Rape Town!' is the only content of the top-level comment you are complaining about. (And I realize that my comment adds even more noise, bu
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Protect against tampering/provide evidence of tampering. That said, calling that "a blockchain" is really pushing it, because the anti-tamper properties are provided by Merkle trees alone, and those have been around far longe
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
The money that the central bank creates is central bank money/high-powered money/M0. The money that private banks create is the money in general circulation, i.e. M2. M2 is much bigger than M0.
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Banks do borrow money from the central bank occasionally, though mostly they just sell government bonds to the central bank in exchange for money. The general thrust of what you're saying is correct, though: If you want to understand h
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
In principle, it is just as applicable. And indeed, the headlines in my newspaper's digital subscription aren't clickbait-y either. It's just that the structure of digital media tends towards article-at-a-time rather than iss
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Interesting. The fundamental goal seemed a noble one, but it was badly implemented. Any lessons to take away? One immediate idea is some kind of vesting, i.e. you can't actually sell your vouchers for X years (or stages, being able to
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
If "horse" is a stand-in for non-human-powered transportation, then many people in the developed world don't have one. Plenty of cities (outside of stereotypical US suburbia) are perfectly livable only owning a bicycle becaus
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Constant-space iteration over the elements of a balanced binary tree requires parent pointers and therefore requires circular references.
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By and large, this does apply to traditional dead-tree newspapers. And it makes sense: When the reader has already bought the newspaper, helpful headlines are better because they contribute to an impression of higher quality leading to repe
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The most interesting to me is that Intel apparently stopped publishing transistor counts starting with the 14nm node. This is significant because as structure sizes become smaller, the restrictions on possible layouts (so called DRCs, desig
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
The new move semantics use null references for things moved from. No. When you move the contents out of somewhere like an std::vector instance, that object is left in an undefined but valid state. You're free to continue working with
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
Git definitely wasn't a first-mover. Being used by the Linux kernel probably helped, though. (Though the Linux kernel actually used a different DVCS before Git...)
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Maybe this is a not-so-frequent thing, but I know it's not just me: As I see it, the big advantage of Git over other attempts at DVCS is that its internal model of the world is very simple and just right. Early on when Git was still ne
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by nhaehnle 11y ago
One of the nice things about tig is its configurability. I have this in my ~/.tigrc, which helps a lot with my workflow: bind main R !git rebase -i %(commit) bind main M !git merge --ff-only %(commit)
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Even AirBnB isn't sharing though, in the traditional sense of the word. This should be obvious when you compare it to CouchSurfing, which is genuinely about sharing. I would argue that the way it's traditionally understood, shar

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