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by reddytowns 10y ago
It's called context. Surely you've said or done something that others disagree with. I don't think Donald Trump left a scar of psychologically traumatized women across the country as the public reaction to that comment seems
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by reddytowns 10y ago
People all over the world struggle to survive. What's sad is that people only care when it becomes visible to them. Plenty of people have awful lives but live out in the country and no one cares.
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by reddytowns 10y ago
Cue the shaming comments of how every company has a moral responsibility to make sure everyone working for them has a good life. At least they are paying these workers something. Where is your contribution to their well being? I mean beside
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by reddytowns 10y ago
> When it's many to one, each member of the mob only has to absorb 1/N of the target's downvotes. For large N, the target will be exhausted before any of their attackers feel a thing. They can do mob-downvotes today, only
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by reddytowns 10y ago
> ... and carries almost no cost/risk for each individual in the lynch mob. I see a big cost if the person downvoted can downvote those of the lynch mob. Sure, the lynch mob could downvote the downvote of the victim but I don't
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by reddytowns 10y ago
True, but there should be some rationale as to why they assume that normalization wrt the cofactors they've chosen are sufficient to provide for their conclusions. Simply seemingly randomly choosing cofactors and then shrugging it off
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by reddytowns 10y ago
But what proof is there that their adjustments covered every possible cause? I would suggest this is by definition impossible, since if we knew every possible cause for dementia, we would not need to do the study.
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by reddytowns 10y ago
One idea I had was to be able to see who downvoted a post and be able to list of the last 50 or so posts a particular user has downvoted. Thus would hopefully shame users who downvote for reasons other then to keep the conversation construc
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by reddytowns 10y ago
What objections? What will occur if PoW fails to overcome them? What is it about, say bitshares, or say, dash which is partially based on dpos, that just hasn't worked out? What vague arguments you have! And on on top of the dubious ar
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by reddytowns 10y ago
That's not an answer. You implied that git and merkle trees can be used for p2p immutable ledgers. You have yet to show how that can happen. > In literally all financial and legal regulations, the ultimate answer is "at some po
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by reddytowns 10y ago
> And that's why we have git. The only good bit is the Merkle trees, which were invented in 1979. Explain this. How can git and merkle trees create an immutable peer-to-peer ledger? How can a peer, given ledgers A and B, know which
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by reddytowns 10y ago
Probably the opposite will happen, actually. Just liked caged animals that don't breed, our habitat will so far be removed from our natural one, our species may die out from lack of ability to form natural male-female relationships any
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by reddytowns 10y ago
Expand that to questioning also whether time exists as we perceive it and you have a real mindfuck there. If you can't even convince yourself that you will experience the future then there is no reason to do anything. Suppose every mom
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by reddytowns 10y ago
The average human driver includes what? Babies? Blind people? Drunks?
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by reddytowns 10y ago
It doesn't logically follow that because we use the inventions of others, that anyone who decides to sit on a couch all day, and stick their hand out is deserving of money of those that choose to work. Modern day liberalism has become
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by reddytowns 10y ago
I've been eating one meal a day for the past 3 years, usually lunch, and occasionally fasting for a day or two. At first, I would be feel very hungry at dinner and breakfast time, and I'd feel starved by lunch. (I kept going becau
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by reddytowns 10y ago
I don't understand Danish, but using Google translate, this looks like straight up communism. Also, from the english translation: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&... "It requires pe
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by reddytowns 10y ago
What coordination problems? Just form a kickstarter. Get all applicants who want to sign up and support each other to sign a 5 year contract, done.
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by reddytowns 10y ago
Exactly. And there is nothing stopping a group of people right now from forming up and, enforced by contract, giving basic income to all members by taxing those that make money. If it were such a great idea for a country, it would have alre
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by reddytowns 10y ago
There is no "underlying cause" that can definitely pointed to, that's just hubris. You can't know that if those things didn't happen he wouldn't have still become someone who would drink themselves to death, or
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by reddytowns 10y ago
I'd say that parent is more accurate and that is the sanitized version...
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by reddytowns 10y ago
I'm not trying to endorse the guy. I agree, a lot of the stuff is kind of wacky or downright weird. He has one on becoming a vampire, and another for becoming a god, for a couple of examples. He has a lot of normal stuff, too, though,
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by reddytowns 10y ago
I believe all emotions are instinct. Rallying against your emotions, trying to elicit one over another by simply attempting to force yourself to believe something is bound to fail, because instincts aren't logical. You have accept you&
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by reddytowns 10y ago
Come on, what's wrong with a little extra depression now and then!
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by reddytowns 10y ago
There are ways to do transactions off chain, increasing the TPS dramatically https://lightning.network/
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by reddytowns 10y ago
I didn't think pearl necklaces were in fashion. Is this a new thing?
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by reddytowns 10y ago
The problem is that this is no dividing line. If after you receive bitcoin, the price of bitcoin goes up, and then you buy something with them, that is a taxable event.
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by reddytowns 10y ago
God, I hope one day the act of regurgitating the script from a vaguely relevant, fictional work is no longer celebrated.
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by reddytowns 10y ago
Wait, they can't just delete the parts they don't like and then claim the data was "personal"? ducks
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by reddytowns 10y ago
Merkle trees can help here. Basically a tree of hashes. If you keep track of the root hash, it's easy to prove any individual leaf has not been altered.

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