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by sealeck 4y ago
Except that it's not quite so trivial to open an account at a new bank (especially if everyone decides to do it at the same time) and move US$15 billion dollars by the end of Monday.
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Marginalia Search(search.marginalia.nu)
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Obsidian(obsidian.md)
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Standard Notes(standardnotes.com)
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Logical Time and Deterministic Execution(concerningquality.com)
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Teaching (Mathematical) Implication Better(buttondown.email)
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by sealeck 4y ago
(cc @dang)
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High [Public Transport] Costs Are Not About Precarity(pedestrianobservations.com)
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by sealeck 4y ago
Are you a lawyer? :D
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by sealeck 4y ago
Distance is relative; for an aircraft about to take off, moving at 50m/s means that 1000ft is a short distance - obviously for a human walking it feels much further. See e.g. stopping distances for car drivers at different speeds.
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by sealeck 4y ago
Probably because the value proposition was that Stadia would run the games on very fast (tm) servers in a datacentre.
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by sealeck 4y ago
> But I know GCHQ is watching But we also know that they're watching everyone else (i.e. not in the UK) as well.
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by sealeck 4y ago
Well Corbyn is also a completely hopeless politician. They really should have kept him safely tucked away in Islington north. It's not his political ideology which was the problem, it's that he (not to put too fine a point on it)
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by sealeck 4y ago
I personally think that the problem is that our political class consists almost entirely of humanities-educated politicians. People (who presumably have humanities degrees) will say things like "politicians don't need to be expert
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by sealeck 4y ago
> I think it's also important to note the discrepancy in transparency. Yes, FTX was just a centralized exchange that had little to do with the blockchain, but you were still be able to see some of FTXs balance movements on-chain, si
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by sealeck 4y ago
> I also imagine the people that may be most likely to take their capital to another country aren't worried about capital controls like this. Surely they have much better ways of transferring their wealth than 10K cash payments at a
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by sealeck 4y ago
> The taxed and the prosecuted. You said this before but which taxed people and which prosecuted are you thinking of? > Taxes aren’t an inherent ethical imperative Even if this is not true, there are certainly a number of pragmatic re
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by sealeck 4y ago
No it really is not. E2E encryption requires this property because everything happens over a channel which everyone (or, a lot of people) can listen into and the protocol is not really based on trust. Meanwhile the financial system is entir
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by sealeck 4y ago
> The tax-man and the police state are the oppressors The oppressors _of whom_? For example taxing billionaires is not "oppression". I completely agree that modern tax policy is much too burdensome on relatively poor individual
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by sealeck 4y ago
You have to analyse at the population here; capital controls are useful for preventing people who have accumulated sizeable asset holdings in country X from moving them to a jurisdiction Y where there are effectively no taxes. Of course thi
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by sealeck 4y ago
> it’s probably true that CSAM has some value I think you're conflating financial value and social value (CSAM may have some financial value, but highly negative social value). I really struggle to see how you could (even theoretica
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by sealeck 4y ago
Sure, in the same way that if you take a flight from Australia to London which stops in Singapore and Frankfurt, then you are technically travelling from Germany to the UK.
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by sealeck 4y ago
Have _you_ ever been there? I've never seen that and I would not say London is a shithole (try walking around central London, e.g. Regent's Park, Hyde Park and surrounding area).
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by sealeck 4y ago
The comment is also _completely_ without any substantial basis. Sure, London provides financial services, but there's no data provided to suggest that a substantial portion of London's economic activity is generated by providing s
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by sealeck 4y ago
Because those people are not originally from _western_ Europe.
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by sealeck 4y ago
https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
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by sealeck 4y ago
That's effectively a substack rather than a book though, and incentivises unfortunate habits (only providing morsels of information in each installment to encourage people to buy more, and dragging the book out).
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by sealeck 4y ago
Well they didn't buy it for US$20 billion for fun.
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by sealeck 4y ago
Rewriting TypeScript code in Rust (or writing what would have been TypeScript in Rust instead) is in no way morally analagous to Therac-25. This is the kind of claim that Haskell programmers make on the basis that they believe Haskell preve
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by sealeck 4y ago
In which case you can call the get method (which returns an Option - i.e. either the value or null) rather than indexing and return an error value.

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