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by qez 5y ago
It's not even the prisoner's dilemma. It's just two actors with different incentives.
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by qez 6y ago
Felleisen taught the first CS class I ever took. I think part of the point of the class was to mess with people who think they know what to do because they've coded before, when in actually they are now on even footing with everyone
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by qez 6y ago
So this is just the author's personal gripes? "proof of state is against social justice," and "I like the non-rivalry of Internet art." No one if forcing you to use crypto art. > Cryptoart lets a few artist early
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by qez 6y ago
> AWS has alternatives Yes, but we are seeing collusion > It's not a free speech issue at all Yes, it is. > Free speech means you can't be jailed or persecuted by the government for your speech. This is incorrect. You are
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by qez 6y ago
> Silicon Valley wants to use its power to make it harder for people with those views to meet, organize and share their views? Crack on. No, they should not be doing that. It shouldn't even be legal for Silicon Valley to do that. I
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by qez 6y ago
The term healthy is doing a lot of work for you. If you mean signal/noise ratio, then yes, and HN truly optimizes for that, so it makes sense that you're here. But HN doesn't optimize for total amount of signal, for example,
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by qez 6y ago
What did he do to deserve a ban?
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by qez 7y ago
This article seems to make a lot of mistakes, which is unfortunate, because they are very interesting thinkers. I can mostly speak to Thiel's views. I will spell them out, if anyone is interested. 1. Peter Thiel strongly values timing.
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by qez 7y ago
> Do you have to come up with elaborate verbal descriptions of abstract concepts in your head before you can think about them? I am very unusual, but for me, yes.
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by qez 7y ago
I don't think "this isn't new" is a legitimate criticism. Discovery is all about finding interesting iterations or elaborations on previous discoveries. I'll give them their self-entitled diatribes if they will stay