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by paulgb 4y ago
> Fighting to stop censorship while also fighting to keep religious texts out of the public school system isn't contradictory to me. Right, and I think the Catholic League’s framing is disingenuous. From the opinion[1], the ACLU was
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by paulgb 4y ago
> They’ve also literally promoted banning books. Which ones? Was it the ACLU as an organization, or an employee of the ACLU?
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by paulgb 4y ago
> They know perfectly well that an individual right to boycott has never been in danger; they're just rattling the collection plate. It seems it was in this case, but for their intervention. https://eu.cjonline.com/s
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by paulgb 4y ago
The site mentions a service called Quillbot which apparently does just that. https://stylometry.net/avoid
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by paulgb 4y ago
I haven’t seen those calculations but I’m very skeptical. The reason people are profitably able to invest in housing is that it is scarce. If the supply increased, housing would no longer be a desirable investment. > what makes you thi
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by paulgb 4y ago
> Like only individuals and non-profits are allowed to own houses or you can only own a property if you are registered as a resident of the city. As a renter, I’m not a fan of this. The worst landlords I’ve had have been local and the be
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by paulgb 4y ago
I agree with the general principle of that, but in this case I do think it represents a broader trend. Walking around NYC, if I see an intentionally obfuscated plate, nine times out of ten it has a police placard in the dashboard. It’s such
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by paulgb 4y ago
And an oligopoly is still preferable to a monopoly. It may be unrealistic to run my own email server, but I can use GMail on my domain and if I want to switch to Fastmail, I can do that. If that’s where fediverse ends up, it will still be p
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by paulgb 4y ago
I agree that Epstein should have been stopped sooner and the fact he wasn’t is pure corruption, but he apparently had blackmail material on people in high places. Note that the judge’s son was killed after Epstein died, so if it was relat
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by paulgb 4y ago
> There was an incident recently in which someone removed an obstruction from a license plate[…] Fortunately, the incident seems to only have encouraged him, and he’s continued to “fix” plate obstructions. https://twitter.com&
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by paulgb 4y ago
Employee pay is also a signal, but a much more expensive one, because total payroll at a large company is usually orders of magnitude larger than the CEO’s compensation.
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by paulgb 4y ago
I’m partial to the Lake Wobegon explanation, which gets a mention in the article: > Alluding to the fictional town in the radio program A Prairie Home Companion, Clifford (2017) describes the Lake Wobegon world of setting CEO compensatio
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by paulgb 4y ago
Why do you think the miniseries will take his side? The “white collar crime miniseries” genre is generally not flattering to those involved.
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by paulgb 4y ago
Even if the feature set were limited to what’s possible with Java/JNI, the fact that Oracle does not own any piece of it is a feature in its own right.
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by paulgb 4y ago
I love the plotter community! A timely shill: for three years now, I've run an annual international postcard exchange that's kinda like a Secret Santa for people with plotters. This happens to be the week that registrations are op
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by paulgb 4y ago
Yes, it is not Byzantine fault tolerant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_in_sheep%27s_clothing
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by paulgb 4y ago
If “right tool for the job” is too hand-wavey, maybe “optimal tool given the problem constraints” is a better phrase. E.g. I’ve seen proposals for “credentials on the blockchain”, but if you assume that a credential issuer has a known publi
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by paulgb 4y ago
No, but ignoring the design criteria that an invention solves for is a recipe for using the wrong tool for the job.
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by paulgb 4y ago
Yes, a specific transaction needs to be chosen as the consensus transaction. But if there are multiple to choose from (e.g. in the case of an attempted double spend), the miner can choose either one. The blockchain doesn’t guarantee, for ex
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by paulgb 4y ago
One thing about gambling on real-world events (as opposed to dice rolls) is that it puts a price on overconfidence. I was into political betting for a while and found that the more avid amateur bettors usually have a better grasp of the nea
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by paulgb 4y ago
I particularly appreciated the explanation of NAT traversal around 8:04. Nice succinct explanation of something that always seemed a bit scary.
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by paulgb 4y ago
Yes, I think the article presents a false dichotomy: - Create regulations that parallel the traditional financial system, or - Do nothing When there is a reasonable third option: - Don't create new regulations, but do aggressively purs
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by paulgb 4y ago
I’m not sure if anyone has done so yet for Go, but Shopify has done this for Rust. https://github.com/Shopify/javy/tree/main/crates/quickjs-was...
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by paulgb 4y ago
The core advantage of nix as I understand it (and I would be happy to be corrected if I'm wrong): - Build caching in containers treats the build process as a list of steps: first you do step 1, then step 2, etc. (these correspond to th
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by paulgb 4y ago
I’ve also noticed a palpable increase in spam, especially DM spam. Besides that, I think it’s just a loss of faith in Elon to run the place well. There’s already been so many unforced errors[1], and it’s only been a few weeks. People are tr
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by paulgb 4y ago
“Verified” was never meant to mean “blindly trust this person”, it was meant to mean “this is the (notable/famous) person it says it is, not an impersonator”. Some people put too much weight on it, and I partly blame Twitter for making
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by paulgb 4y ago
If speed is the primary advantage of a car to a horse, what is the primary advantage of an insurance DAO to mutual insurance?
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by paulgb 4y ago
acyclic, not acrylic ;)
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by paulgb 4y ago
Is an insurance DAO fundamentally any different from mutual insurance? What benefit does the blockchain provide? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_insurance
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by paulgb 4y ago
He sorta forced his own hand here by saddling the company with so much debt that it couldn’t afford not to drastically cut back spending.

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