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Phlex – fast, reusable, testable view components in pure Ruby(phlex.fun)
2 points by nolantait 4y ago|0 comments
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LMAX Disruptor Pattern in Crystal(github.com)
3 points by nolantait 5y ago|0 comments
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by nolantait 5y ago
Markets are some of the best tools we have at coordinating behavior in a decentralized way. I wouldn't advocate some capitalist wasteland. For example if we added market dynamics to a wealth tax we could make it viable and fair for all
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by nolantait 5y ago
Assuming you can't also choose to move yourself and your assets to another country offering better terms. That's how the dynamics are changing. Peter Thiel and New Zealand are a small picture of the future to come. Countries will
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by nolantait 5y ago
The money exists in a closed system controlled by a central banking system. You might move your money around but the control remains. I didn't mean to imply that my free will is at risk with our current system. Only to point out that t
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by nolantait 5y ago
It is a balancing weight because the states military power depends on a landed citizenry that is easily taxed. If you remove the easily taxed part you also remove the military power part. Not advocating a lawless return to strong man tribal
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by nolantait 5y ago
Right. But every change in the societal order will be illegal by definition. Its more that our capabilities to rebel are increased over time. We would all be in feudal bondage if machines didn't reorganize our relationship between work
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by nolantait 5y ago
Voluntary taxation might be taken as just asking people to pay taxes which I am thinking is a bit of a strawman. If instead you chose to pay for the services you wanted and subsidized services for others you could end up with the same syste
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by nolantait 5y ago
A customer relationship is different in that the feedback loop between your wants/desires and the governing body is more immediate. The rules that were arrived at seem to be less about effectiveness than about special interests. Not to
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by nolantait 5y ago
For example, Keynsian economics requires everyone to be forced to save through a central banking system. Otherwise the whole thing collapses. Keynsian economics has dominated the last 100 years of politics. Crypto gives you an escape which
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by nolantait 5y ago
What about the idea that it acts as a balancing weight to the perverse incentives for countries to debase their currency? Radically if the relationship to taxation was more of a voluntary customer relationship it could lead to better outcom
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by nolantait 5y ago
The kind of men particularly predisposed to aggression need an outlet that is not war or tearing each other apart. That is not a waste of time and resources. Probably does a lot of good to unite nations by also providing the same kind of ou
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by nolantait 6y ago
I think the criterion of tolerance depends on if the beliefs are open to falsification or not. Nazis are not up for a debate about their ideas and so can be punched. I think misinformation is not really that problematic as the truth is valu
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by nolantait 6y ago
You can roll this yourself with Cells ( https://github.com/trailblazer/cells ) and Stimulus Reflex ( https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/ ). I've been watching view_component too but the simplicity of cel
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Bean Counter Free Accounting and Bookkeeping Tutorial(dwmbeancounter.com)
1 points by nolantait 6y ago|0 comments
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by nolantait 6y ago
This article focuses on micropayments for consumers for something like movies or news subscriptions. But what about micropayments for something like micro work. Platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk, Fiver, etc all build their own minimum w
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Build a Twitter clone in 10 minutes with Rails, CableReady, and StimulusReflex(youtube.com)
2 points by nolantait 6y ago|0 comments
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by nolantait 8y ago
Thomas Sowell splits it down collectivist lines: "If we attempt to define the political left by its proclaimed goals, it is clear that very similar goals have been proclaimed by people whom the left repudiates and anathematizes, such a
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John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video](youtube.com)
71 points by nolantait 11y ago|59 comments
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John Searle: Consciousness in Artificial Intelligence [video](youtube.com)
4 points by nolantait 11y ago|0 comments
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by nolantait 12y ago
What was the book he recommends at the beginning? It is hard to make out. Also can anybody recommend their resources for machine learning or AI in general?