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by overthrow 3y ago
Sounds a lot like VTSAX. But somehow people still buy food and shelter even though they could put their money in VTSAX instead and get 7% returns. Either way less spending sounds good to me. We could use a world with more saving and less co
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by overthrow 3y ago
Remember that general-purpose computers use orders of magnitude more energy than specialized hardware for the same task. So if bitcoin uses (say) 0.05% of energy globally, matching the hashrate using general-purpose hardware (assuming an al
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by overthrow 3y ago
Not enough rentable hardware exists on the planet. The article's suggestion that someone would throw billions of dollars into a black hole to "buy up" all hardware globally, get nothing in return, and outpace those who act in
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by overthrow 3y ago
To be completely realistic, the AI would also need the ability to leave you on read.
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by overthrow 3y ago
The word property encompasses more than just what sales tax laws apply to, no? For example, I'd consider an old-school physical stock certificate a kind of property, and subject to theft laws but not sales tax. As far as classifying it
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by overthrow 3y ago
> It sounds like you want to carve out a new type of asset That's not what I'm saying either. Crypto is just mundane property (like jeans), and property already has plenty of legislation around it. Existing laws work just fine.
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by overthrow 3y ago
You're putting words in my mouth. I never used the word "regulated" at all. I said "controlled" - meaning the government should not be the sole entity allowed to own and operate a factory that produces jeans. (I hop
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by overthrow 3y ago
I literally said the laws should apply to all kinds of property equally - yet you think I "want to get rid of all financial regulation"? I hope you enjoyed building that strawman and then tearing it down
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by overthrow 3y ago
You're being silly, but I'll humor you. The world "control" has multiple meanings. In the communist sense: the government should not control the means of production for jeans or crypto. In the social welfare sense: the g
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by overthrow 3y ago
If you read my post, I said laws should apply equally to jeans and crypto. That includes child labor laws.
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by overthrow 3y ago
Being free of government control doesn't imply lawlessness. I wouldn't want the government to control jeans manufacturing, but if someone steals your jeans, that's still a crime. There are laws against theft, and crypto and j
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by overthrow 3y ago
I thought about this but the problem with newer cars (mine at least) is killing the power wipes the memory so it won't pass an emissions check (or something like that). After my battery died I had to find an excuse to drive an extra 10
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by overthrow 3y ago
Well this is timely. I have a parasitic draw on my NC Miata. The first mechanic just replaced the battery. The second told me it's normal for the battery to die if you don't drive it for 3 days (because "cars have computers n
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by overthrow 3y ago
If you think about what they're doing in context: - outlawing abortion - weakening child labor laws It's pretty reprehensible shit.
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by overthrow 3y ago
I haven't and I hope never to get involved in a legal battle with a doctor. I'm just trying to get on with my life. But if they try something funny and it comes down to that, I can't imagine this would leave me any more expos
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by overthrow 3y ago
For those I quietly sign my name as "document not provided" so everyone can quickly move on with their life.
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Clarence Thomas Ruled on Bribery Case While Accepting Vacations(newsweek.com)
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by overthrow 3y ago
> BUT when you try to use it with iterators -- which are also amazing, I love using iterators -- IT DOESNT WORK. Yes it does let res: Result<Vec<_>, _> = iterator.iter().map(|x| x.foo()).collect(); let res = res?; &g
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by overthrow 4y ago
What is the MD5 checksum of the canonical version of the famous Lorem Ipsum PDF?
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by overthrow 4y ago
People have projected that onto her, but it's not true. https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of... > In her view, the photograph is an immense accomplishment that just happened to take on a
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by overthrow 4y ago
When dang reaches maximum karma, the simulation ends. Goodbye friends, we've had a good run. I'll see you in the next one.
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by overthrow 4y ago
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3942181 > For example, illegal transactions, scams and gambling together make up less than 3% of volume.
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by overthrow 4y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35445867
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by overthrow 4y ago
Good thing your ZIP code is not some innate genetic quality then. It's luck where you're born, but not where you move.
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by overthrow 4y ago
This project targets the CLR (the runtime for C#), not a CPU.
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by overthrow 4y ago
(Off-topic) Is there an "Are we open source yet?"-type site[1] that follows the progress of the various open-source LLMs? This is the first I've heard of GPT4All. I'm finding it tough to keep up with all these projects!
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by overthrow 4y ago
The HUD in that video reminds me of cartridge tilting on an N64 to make the models glitch out. https://youtu.be/7DJQb_9CVHc?t=229 Funny in a youtube video, not so much in a $50k car.
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by overthrow 4y ago
That's not very charitable. Some people just want to pick a different point on the tradeoff between convenience and privacy. Imagine User A uses Fastmail every day, logging in manually every morning. User B uses Fastmail every day, wit
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by overthrow 4y ago
Brave is an advertising company just like Google. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3292619/the-brave-brow... > Brave scrubs sites of ads and ad tracking, then replaces those ads with its own advertisements
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by overthrow 4y ago
> To me, it's unconceivable that this prompt results in correct output. Then you'll be happy to learn that the article agrees: While the keys passed a casual inspection, it turns out that only about 1-in-30 keys seem to work a

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