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by pksebben 4y ago
That story is heartbreaking, and such a good example of what to do with grief. Grieving about the thing that hurts has a terminus, emotionally; bearing a grudge 'pins' the grief to you, holding it in place indefinitely.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I think that depends on the flavor of robustness. spectacular failures occur with systems that have high interdependence of parts, high centrality, and recursive effects. There's also a relationship between cascading failure modes and
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by pksebben 4y ago
I believe 'centralization' here refers to centralized control. The ledger is distributed anyhow, so not very central.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I don't really have a dog in either kennel, but something about the idea that a human absolutely must be in the control loop for a currency to work feels... not wrong, but maybe "not wrong so far". We've managed to get c
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by pksebben 4y ago
We had gotten rid of bank regulation, which caused 2008. https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/glass-steagall-... .
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by pksebben 4y ago
the edge here being that if a tool is powerful enough to take someone's head off, we should probably do something to mitigate the risk of folks using it.
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by pksebben 4y ago
is this paper saying that Bitcoin _will_ all be mined using methane, or that it _could_? because those are two vastly different conclusions.
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by pksebben 4y ago
that's an optimization error of another stripe - thrown away or not, the beef gets sold and FarmCo makes money
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by pksebben 4y ago
You've sort of missed my point. I'm not pushing a particular political agenda, here. I'm talking about how many roadblocks there are between a vote and a policy change, of any stripe. The fact is, if we all agreed on somethi
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by pksebben 4y ago
they made a couple of statements. Which are you asking for clarification on?
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by pksebben 4y ago
I'm with you on this. It also occurs to me, though, that by rigorously labeling all offensive content, you give ai a huge boost in creating it with perfect fidelity. Which inspires another really weird, super uncomfortable thought. If
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by pksebben 4y ago
... which is totally in keeping with the war on drugs' track record. Efficacy was never quite their strong suit.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I've watched this happen to human minds. there are entire industries predicated on making it happen. Advertising comes to mind.
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by pksebben 4y ago
it might. It might, if we didn't split votes by district, then by county, then by state, and bundle them. It might if our representation weren't purposefully skewed to favor states with let populations. It might if there were runo
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by pksebben 4y ago
to paraphrase the post for others: institutional positions like "director of the CDC" or "the website that always shows up first when searching for medical stuff" are subject to systemic (largely cultural) pressures that
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by pksebben 4y ago
iirc the term incel was actually coined as part of a support group for folks that struggled to date; I have a vague memory of an interview with the lady who's credited with it's Genesis, and how she was shocked at where it ended u
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by pksebben 4y ago
can confirm. 4chan was full of the stuff way before it became remotely politicized.
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by pksebben 4y ago
because they're all people who signed up for okcupid, who were actively using okcupid to date at the time . the amount of pressure this puts on the sampling is hard to understate. not only are you looking at a highly truncated set of
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by pksebben 4y ago
whether it's a survey or not is a straw man, and you know it. it's bad faith to argue along these lines given that the primary criticism leveled was regarding sampling. if you want to back up your point, speak to that. how does th
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by pksebben 4y ago
I would add to this; that a certain amount of bad abstractions are preferable to underdoing it. The learning from failure (when there's sufficient investment in the outcome) is far more valuable than avoiding inefficiency. Learning bet
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by pksebben 4y ago
may we all age so gracefully. perhaps part of the secret is to work like Don.
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by pksebben 4y ago
it's the Little structural things like loose connective tissue and mild centralization that guided me to what I currently use. At the moment, I recommend it. I keep a daily journal / log thing. it's really just a monolithic t
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by pksebben 4y ago
I'm not sure what a handmade program on windows looks like, so I could be wrong here, but writing shell scripts to do work takes a matter of minutes and creates composable, reliable stuff that vastly reduces the time to do other work.
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by pksebben 4y ago
I'm with you. We're driving into the world of Snow Crash like Tina Belcher, and all I hear when folks talk about how marginally better for browsing these devices are is: "ehhhhhhhhhhhhh". On a more specific (read: parano
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by pksebben 4y ago
I'd just like to put a vote of confidence in for That Guy, I think we should absolutely have an option for them. Which is a roundabout way of saying; it's critically important that we don't over-optimize for the central, happ
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by pksebben 4y ago
I feel like I'm missing some information here. Is it the engineering team that kills projects? I would think whoever's controlling the funding has their hand on the plug...
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by pksebben 4y ago
if there's an exception that proves this rule, it's gotta be top gear. I know plenty who have watched every episode with the Clarkson gang and not sat through a whole episode of the American port.
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by pksebben 4y ago
any sales-based industry is suspect in this way, though.
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https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/modulus/text/features/p...
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by pksebben 4y ago
This wasn't the impression I got from op. It's perfectly valid to point out that the u.s. is also guilty of the things it imposes sanctions on other countries for - I don't believe that the argument is being made that Cuba is

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