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by sennight 5y ago
I know a couple people in their late 20s who recently enlisted, which is very odd and makes me suspect that recruiters are selling it as a sort of pause button for adult responsibilities. I joined shortly after 9/11 and ended up fighti
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The beginning, like when people were commonly introduced to the concept through the whitepaper and a link to the reference client source? And those people thought "public ledger" meant "governments can’t track how I spend my
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> Cryptocurrencies haven't hit a recession yet, and we're getting close to one. We've been in a recession since Feb 2020...
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Are you assuming that somebody thought that? Or did somebody share that opinion with you? I don't mean some anonymous person you argued with, I'm talking about a real person. Because I was involved back in the single digit days -
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That would be the absolute free market proposed solution for addressing social externalities in the absence of regulation: companies that make employees unhappy are rendered less competitive due to higher churn and a need for above market w
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It sounds like your definition of "cashing out" means "do anything that has historically involved counterparty risk". Unless you really think a warehouse manager would insist on carding you for several pallets of dishwas
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I wonder how much that matters, and how uniformly it applies (primarily on the dimension of industry), when institutional inertia isn't perfectly aligned with employee preference. For example: Microsoft employees... lots of mixed signa
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> Of course they're not much use until I cash out... Or you could use the currency as a currency. Sure, there are a lot more flour suppliers who exclusively accept USD vs ones that take BTC - but compared to the way things were 10 y
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> I feel this is a mentality change, albeit slow, that is starting to happen. Nah, at best it could be a rediscovery that took an inexplicable amount of time in the wake of the UNIX wars and dotcom bubble. If you look at paper titles fro
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So which of those words describes the dissemination of propaganda, "pursuing"? Also, how was the falsifiable anthropological global cooling hypothesis disproven? Careful, you don't want to accidentally disprove global warming
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That is the point. Funny how these things tend to call for the same cure. At least for that one we got a movie narrated by Spock, detailing how we were all going to freeze to death.
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We stopped "global cooling" with very little difficulty in the 70s. Peak oil and overpopulation as well, all we had to do was nothing.
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It would be easier to take that seriously if other predictable consequences the next generation will have to deal with were given a tiny a fraction of that deference. Like a back breaking national debt, the razing of civil liberties, ever d
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> 20 years ahead of the public. When the DoD was deeply involved with SV instead of just purchasing top binned COTS? At that time they basically were operating with hardware that far ahead, but that was always relative to the general con
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I've spent a lot of time reverse engineering long dead hardware (and forgotten protocols), which means I've also spent a lot of time reading ancient papers generated by IBM, Bell, Arpa (so many long gone DoD programs), etc. So I s
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phew, no mention of "solar roadways".
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> behavior choices I really wish this weren't the case, but "choice" isn't a thing - as far as anyone can tell. All the complexity on display in the world appears to be a result of feedback loops, it really doesn&#x27
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Unfortunately things have been structured so that stupid people, in large enough numbers, can reduce your quality of life - and there is nothing you can do to stop it. For example: consider the combined effects of the 401K, disinterested in
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If you like that you'll love the Wikipedia entry for polygraphs :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph#Effectiveness
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It would probably focus on measuring the degree to which individuals differ, assigning explanatory variables, and figuring out the theoretical maximum (as brain chemistry sets a pretty hard limit). But that doesn't really matter, becau
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That could be the most obnoxious nitpick I've ever heard, do you honestly think anybody is worried about Apple doing anything beyond submitting a false report - and that you are being helpful by pointing out that they can only do tha
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> Apple has released fairly detailed technical summaries of their system... ... that don't address implementation details - like what background processes get hooked into for hash generation and under what circumstances. They are al
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Oh, well if Apple says... I'm sure their statement somehow completely aligns with all the potentially conflicting interpretations one can draw from their PR, their stated objectives, and the implementation details observed, and it alwa
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I've never been a customer of Apple but I'll try and imagine the experience... I might trust them to assemble hardware and write software for my consumer needs - but that doesn't mean I trust them to competently reason about
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Sure, but I don't expect it from third party cloud platforms - in the same way I wouldn't expect accountability from a garbage man who reports to the police after finding evidence of crime in my garbage. Apple is, for some insane
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> What more could one ask for? An independent audit for both the secret secondary perceptual hashing algorithm and the chain of custody policies/compliance for the "US db" and the disconcertedly open ended "not yet ch
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> ...if you have CP or photos in a CP database... Which database? I get the impression that people think there is a singular repository for thoroughly vetted and highly controlled CP evidence submission. No such thing exists.
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That number is so absolutely ridiculous that it deserves explicit sourcing. The article sources promotional material from a consulting firm that networks C-level execs, but this time they deigned to address others: "We also polled 1,00
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If you try to talk yourself through how you'd actually accomplish that then you'd quickly see that it is turtles all the way down. Every time you discipline the clock for accuracy you trade some precision to do so - because that i
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At that point the problem isn't the science behind DNA, it is the fact that your freedom depends on a jury understanding statistics. But at least there exists the opportunity to challenge the evidence on objective grounds, that unfortu

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