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by solveit 5y ago
I went through the joint honours degree in mathematics and computer science at Oxford (that's basically a particularly rigid double major for people unfamiliar with the British system). I did not learn C, mostly because I spent a good
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Also overestimates her abilities in a different direction. Becoming a media personality is hard , and takes an entirely different skillset. It just seems easy to people who have an axe to grind against the currently successful crop of pers
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I absolutely disagree but I'm upvoting anyway because it's an argument I haven't seen before with regards to making algorithms public and god knows the discourse could use some variety. That being said. No. This is no more a
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> I think economists neglect to include an obvious factor In general, if you ever find yourself thinking that an entire discipline is neglecting an obvious factor, you should check whether that's actually true. I am pretty sure that
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Some people are healthier in their 80s than others in their 60s. The point is to be healthy for as long as possible.
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> Every bill should have an estimated impact on publicly traded companies I don't think this is feasible. > and politicians with stocks should be forbidden to discuss/mediate the bill, and only vote on it. But I'll go o
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I agree the airlines won't initially do that, but I worry that the government will co-opt their list. I feel this way about any blacklist not subject to transparent review by the judiciary or at least the legislature, the fact that thi
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> If I were to summarize the precedent, it would be a three-prong test: Do you know about the behavior? Do you contribute to it? Do you have the power to stop it? Have you ever voted for any US representative or senator that got elected
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> If one is born in the US, it's quite difficult to leave. Even if you leave, it's a long process to become a citizen elsewhere and give up your US citizenship. If you ever vote for a mainstream candidate, this line of argument
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by solveit 5y ago
The slippery slope is the problem. What starts as a list of drunks will quickly become a list of people named Muhammed.
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Because you don't get taxed until you actually sell the can of soda.
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> How do you think companies decide on budgets? With great effort and generally mediocre results. Figuring out the contribution of an individual project is hard . An individual person even more so. And this isn't because we're
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3. Companies that have technical problems that can easily be solved by typical engineers but not noticed and articulated by typical engineers. Which is most of them. The main value of "special" engineers come from them pointing yo
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The fact that crypto gained any traction at all is a testament to how broken the current system was. The original selling points of crypto were privacy, inflation-resistance, and decentralisation, and that was enough to reach a small critic
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by solveit 5y ago
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. The comments here are about as sophisticated as "Short Tesla and kill Elon. Stock markets are broken QED".
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> immigration being dominated by a few populous countries in absence of country caps. Why is this bad?
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The only systems that have figured out moderation at scale are Wikipedia and StackExchange. But see what HN thinks about that. Nobody wants to admit that the only type of moderation that actually works at scale is an entrenched group of som
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> We wouldn't accept that from a manufacturer of a physical product. Not sure what the correct analog for physical product is, but we accept everything up to and including catastrophic failure resulting in deaths from physical produ
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> This feels like some sort of opportunistic resume-building kind of project, made from the very real deaths of thousands of innocent people. They dislike the current state of the tech industry and cannot stop thinking about it no matter
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Only if you like said country.
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by solveit 5y ago
Well, it's the only way to run a trustless currency that has been tested at scale. I dislike energy waste as much as anyone else, but that's the current state of things. We will eventually move past this phase with PoS or someth
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by solveit 5y ago
Downvoted for snark that doesn't contribute to the discussion. I would like to see less of this on HN.
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by solveit 5y ago
So, you're correct, but the previous poster did that thing we so often do where we go too far to make a correct point. In this case, the correct point is that the waste of energy is to ensure the security of the blockchain (as you corr
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by solveit 5y ago
You're still not printing over 21 million bitcoin though. And you're still not deanonymizing transactions (for properly designed privacy coins). I think monetary policy and privacy were the two main arguments for crypto in the ear
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For the best criminals, you wouldn't even know that there's an unsolved mystery to be solved.
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No, but if you had a banana farm you would be very very wary of pokemon cards turning out to be a ponzi. Bananas are nice and would be worth something regardless, but would they be worth quite as much if people weren't fraudulently pri
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by solveit 5y ago
If people are still working at Amazon, the problem isn't Amazon, the problem is everyone else who isn't offering anything better. Seriously. The workers are working at Amazon because that was the best option they had. And the brig
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> Not sure exactly how to make such a change though, probably hard, just suggesting a solution like was asked for Might I gently point out that the difficulty of the problem is all political. The easiest "solution" is of course
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Indeed. Worker cooperatives don't often take off because they're a bad idea . A company going under can be devastating for your career. If you have a significant stake in your company, you'll be broke as well as unemployed.
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Lol yes, you can tell I'm just so done talking about anything vaguely statistical to people who spend half their working lives thinking about edge cases.

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