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Loud ideological people monopolize a lot of the discussion, and the nature of the media landscape ensures that only the most sensationalistic and emotive content goes viral. But certainly, it is possible to have a constructive problem-sol
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Most of them are committing massive fraud. Gambling with customer funds. Misreporting trading volume via wash trading, and using that to create false impressions in the market that they can trade on. For instsnce, using their own tokens or
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Exactly. Plus, they all have shared vested interest. Talking their book.
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The state has a monopoly on the use of force. It can tax, expropriate, conscript, regulate, and otherwise redirect resources however it wants, and it can demand payments in any currency it chooses. The wishful thinking involved in trying to
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Calling out useless "tech" for being useless doesn't make you a luddite. If you call out a "free energy" machine for not actually making free energy, that just makes you honest and reasonable.
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If you are concerned about all of the major cryptocurrency players having "counterparty risk," as you should be, then your question should less be whether to move off exchanges, and more about how to cash out.
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Likewise, the new Microsoft Edge (Edgium) started strong, but they keep adding more and more feature bloat. And now website notifications from Edge are integrated at the OS level. While I like the web as a platform, I am already dreading th
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It was an intentional double entendre
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It is worse than that because the "market cap" in the context of crypto scams is meaningless. Spot price times the number of tokens means nothing if the tokens have no intrinsic value. Apple may be overvalued, but they have enormo
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I think the point of Season 3 was that the whole world had been transformed into a kind of Westworld through predictive algorithms and surveillance, and that we aren't really that much less programmable than the robots.
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I thought season 3 was good. Better than Season 1. The plot was relevant in the world of big data. The show Devs had this kind of theme as well. It asks interesting philosophical questions. But yes, Season 1 had more artistry and nostalgia.
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It isn't as if there was this long line of sad rocket companies waiting out in the cold, shut out of their dreams of outer space by the mean old government. There simply weren't any others except for the go-to contractors that NAS
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If congress asked Intel to build a computer meeting specifications from 50 years ago, regardless of how stupid that request is, and they somehow failed to do that in a resonable amount of time or budget... it would be an astounding display
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SLS is a joint project between many large bureaucratic private organizations, and thus design-by-committee is more of a function of the way that those institutions operate, and their need to coordinate with one another. Congress cared that
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The point you are trying to make is that that government is unlikely to succeed in terms of timeframe or budget, and that is probably true. Yet, your argument doesn't support that point. SLS is also a project that is built by private c
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Yea, just did.
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Once the kids are older the daycare fees go away, and they start to look after themselves more. Sounds like you may be an urbanite. Judging from the penthouse reference. Feeling pinched at that income is a special joy of city living. Or Cal
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Deep Learning seems good at approximating things or iterating on things in coordination with humans. Or if you are doing things that do not need an explanation for how the magic box came to its results, and does not need guarantees of corre
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There was an app called Stocard that I used at one point. I prefer to have minimal keychain items. The problem with the app barcodes is simply that they are slow to load, nonstandard, and not open source. I think a common standard, lightwei
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Cryptocurrency companies need writers because they are participating in a global pyramid scheme which is entirely based on a constant need to lure in more suckers. They need to shape the narrative and create a false aura of respectability,
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Exactly.
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This was great! The kind of content that redeems the internet, for all of its numerous faults.
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Seems to be correlated with a downward trend in this statistic. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics...
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More reasons: It makes the world uglier, noisier, and homogenized. It makes urban regions hostile to families with children. It creates a constant feeling of stress and aggression (road rage) It requires a surveillance state, a police state
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I would think that the extremely complicated algorithms that are often used are just intrinsically difficult, and things like metaprogramming allow a lot of expressivity in C already. Having to think through race conditions is likely more o
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My understanding is that safe lead levels are often measure in parts per billion Which means that, if they are measuring in ppm, even the lowest lead paints are vastly higher than what they ought to be.
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Investor Sex Change?
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>Intel also has a packaging line that spans 2D technologies as well as 3D technologies like its Foveros line. Very cool
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The commons was managed in a decentralized manner, but indeed there were consequences for violating the written or unwritten rules. And government was often involved in managing them historically. Hence the poem: >The law locks up the ma
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Sovereign authorities also precede the existence of states.

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