rabbyte

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by rabbyte 10y ago
> It's literally less than a century That's not how metaphors work. When you're the head of state, you have unique access and influence that others need. You become an unavoidable actor in the networks of power that manage
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by rabbyte 10y ago
8 years is a century to network with the most powerful people in the world.
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by rabbyte 10y ago
In both cases you have the same data loss problem. Without downvotes you can't separate uninteresting from harmful and with downvotes you can't separate harmful from low quality which is why voting etiquette is recommended: > I
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by rabbyte 10y ago
so a mission to make the world more open and connected is being joined with a mission to figure out how the first mission made the world more closed and disconnected. snark aside, it's good to see, but if he's interested there&#x2
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by rabbyte 10y ago
> you alienate a lot of people who might otherwise sympathize with you shading the truth might win people over but only those who are willing to turn their minds off because they were offended, only those more interested in changes that
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by rabbyte 10y ago
I sleep between 3 and 11 hours which sounds strange until I mention I also don't go to sleep every night or live within the confines of any given time zone... wait that still sounds strange. I'm strange.
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by rabbyte 10y ago
hold up, I agree with you but you can't say "for every X there's Y" because that's not at all true. "it happens on both sides" is a far cry from "both sides do this about the same amount" not to
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by rabbyte 10y ago
It's about probability, expectations, and complexity. A status quo candidate with a lifetime of political occupancy and a finely tuned brand of political strategy is simply more predictable; good or bad, the creation of a plan of actio
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by rabbyte 10y ago
ahh, yes, hacker news. so full of curiosity and inviting critique. I'm with you on giving yourselves an island but ya'll would never stay there, the visibility invites the validation you crave.
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by rabbyte 10y ago
I'm not sure if you're responding to me or just adding your perspective but each of those points can be summarized as "not necessarily" and ya, this is complex stuff, lots of possibility.
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by rabbyte 10y ago
I agree with everything except that first point because legitimacy isn't the problem worth solving. Striking the right balance in governing tools and keeping interdependent systems interoperable as they mature are problems worth solvin
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by rabbyte 10y ago
The counterintuitive bit you're pointing out is an artifact of law, not their political opinion. If you don't care about copyright you use a license that protects you from copyright claims while giving rights to others. Companies
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by rabbyte 10y ago
I feel like this is the point that's being lost. It's not that it's AI, it could have been a paint brush, but whatever the tool there needs to be a connection between the artist and their works. The current state of AI largel
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by rabbyte 10y ago
incorrect. the "withdraw" line is not a function, it's an event. the send happens in the conditional.
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by rabbyte 10y ago
privilege and good fortune.
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by rabbyte 10y ago
I'll give you this simplistic example. Proof of Burn in the Bitcoin world means making up an address (such as "1CounterpartyXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX...") which is essentially impossible to ever be associated with an actual key so ther
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by rabbyte 10y ago
You should probably take a look at some charts. Your assumptions are off.
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by rabbyte 10y ago
Why are you worried people will think you're immature for sharing something interesting that has cursing in it? Immaturity is to be distracted by fuck to the point where you take to the comments and only contribute that you empathize b
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by rabbyte 10y ago
my comment was meant to negate the idea that a person can not oppose aspects of something if they at all partake in that something. engaging in capitalism -- creating a product, buying food, owning an iPhone -- is a decent indicator for how
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by rabbyte 10y ago
Comcast Sucks! - Sent from Comcast
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by rabbyte 10y ago
> "Skill in software engineering, like skill in any subject, is not cultivated by limiting yourself to a narrow set of knowledge and challenges." Except you've done exactly this by selecting tree structures, something you
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by rabbyte 11y ago
I mean it as a matter of perspective. As a perfectionist, I find it helpful. Sorry you took it as ignorant cynicism.
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by rabbyte 11y ago
I can only conclude from this that every line of code you write today, no matter how brilliant or beautiful, is an ugly hack.
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by rabbyte 11y ago
I like that right here is the essence of surveillance being slyly dropped to do exactly what we know surveillance does.
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by rabbyte 11y ago
perhaps the problem can be avoided with an alternative approach. maybe a decentralized design that determines a name by algorithm rather than decree, walk the users social graph, let people rename the world in a way that is fixed to their p
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by rabbyte 11y ago
imo the problem stems from reputable authority credentials not keeping up with the rate of change. it's why we have a situation where github is a more reputable authority for what you do than a resume. you could look at this and say th
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by rabbyte 11y ago
I'm okay with tolerating verbal abuse as a gesture of compassion but no fucking way should we characterize this as an ideal. I say it that way to prove I'm not talking about offensive language, if someone said any of my code was b
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by rabbyte 11y ago
This is very true though I'm including the social infrastructure. Silicon Valley, NYC, D.C. will have infrastructural value, trusted pathways, despite what anybody does. It can shrink and grow but unlikely to happen fast as there'
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by rabbyte 11y ago
I would consider WoW gold and Bitcoin to be mere tokens for the virtual economy. You can bind spatial terms to these tokens but those terms can be as optional as they are incidental to the exchange, we generally don't care where an exc
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by rabbyte 11y ago
I do. You can't underestimate the value of existing infrastructure. Which is the same reason I would say the US, China, and others will never be able to compete with the emergent virtual economy. Everyone is expecting the next dominant

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