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by solveit 8y ago
Fuck those. We wish we hadn't been so mindblowingly stupid as to put ourselves through those.
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by solveit 8y ago
The most obvious example is academic research. Many engineers, doctors, lawyers, and economists take massive pay cuts to work in an academic environment.
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by solveit 8y ago
I think we're both completely correct. Some things need power from below, but those things are almost never the most efficient things to be working on precisely because they're so outside the political mainstream. This is also the
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by solveit 8y ago
Grassroots activism is great, but I think it's pretty clear that a single person at an elite think tank is more impactful than a single grassroot. Now, if you think you can pull a Nelson Mandela, go for the activist approach, but most
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by solveit 8y ago
That works until the big users hard fork and take away your ether on their fork. It's pretty much a failsafe that always works at the cost of possibly destroying all trust in the network.
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by solveit 8y ago
But most of the energy consumption is in the work, not the proof.
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by solveit 8y ago
>I wish people would look at less energy consuming proofs of work that still allow us real world evidence of decentralization. Are there any candidates for this? I can't imagine a PoW problem where you can't get ahead by throwi
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by solveit 8y ago
You can always buy them out. But honestly, a 51% attack seems like a much less likely way for ethereum to fail compared to it just not living up to the hype.
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by solveit 8y ago
Yeah no, you don't get to say students should care more about learning than grades when jobs, opportunities, and scholarships given by the very university that claims learning is more important are riding on grades. It is the profess
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by solveit 8y ago
Yes, between legacy software (powering expensive and irreplaceable legacy hardware), and a userbase that doesn't care so much about learning the fancy newer tools as long as they can do their experiments, I think it's still standa
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by solveit 8y ago
I mean, people shouldn't be reversing strings by hand, but being unable to do so is also very worrying. Not because manual string reversal is an everyday problem, but because you need to do similarly complicated things all the time
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by solveit 8y ago
I can't wait until we get fully self-driving cars that we can treat like moving workspaces.
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by solveit 8y ago
I hate it when smart, competent people become famous, and a few years later they become total loons. Happens way too often.
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by solveit 8y ago
How do you distinguish between addicted, and depressed and coping? Because nobody seems to be trying too hard to distinguish the two, and a lot of the time classify the latter as a subset of the former, which might be reasonable except that
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by solveit 8y ago
That is not true (or true in only a very restricted sense that barely ever applies). Positive-sum games do actually exist. See: literally everything around you that wasn't around before people decided to make stuff. Even if we're
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by solveit 8y ago
Or, you know, being 12 years older and realizing he hasn't turned into a stodgy old man who refuses to use anything but Fortran.
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by solveit 8y ago
People would be happy to throw money at the problem if they were convinced it would work.
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by solveit 8y ago
Yes, but you're cherrypicking changes based on what feels like should be relevant. A good deal has changed in the last 50 years, we can't (and don't want to) roll everything back, and it's unclear what should be roll
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by solveit 8y ago
I don't know enough about diabetes to conclusively respond one way or another, but my understanding is that while being diabetic means that overconsuming sugar will be bad because your body can't regulate blood sugar, a non-diab
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by solveit 8y ago
Sugar consumption is a driver of obesity. It's very unclear how much it contributes because epidemiology is ridiculously hard. The British Diabetes Association specifically states that sugar does not directly cause diabetes. It's
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by solveit 8y ago
The link I included specifically says: > With Type 2 diabetes, though we know sugar doesn’t directly cause Type 2 diabetes, you are more likely to get it if you are overweight. You gain weight when you take in more calories than your bod
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by solveit 8y ago
The article, while making copious allusions to damning research, is light on actual damning research and heavy on rhetoric. The linked website ( http://sugarscience.ucsf.edu ) is also full of references to studies that are suggest
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by solveit 8y ago
Are you saying that categorising things into categories familiar to devs might be lossy?
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by solveit 8y ago
Re: your last paragraph But if everyone thinks that (and most people who think crypto isn't all shit do think that), the bottom will be a lot softer than what you describe (modulo people going to jail, I think this is mostly independ
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by solveit 8y ago
That's a bad TLDR, mostly because that's not nearly what the report or the linked article says, but also because it's completely and utterly wrong.
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by solveit 8y ago
That's... possibly the best excuse I've ever heard for a car catching fire.
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by solveit 8y ago
If you could actually show examples at reasonable scale, I would be very impressed and maybe even go anti-capitalism.
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by solveit 8y ago
I'm a junior SWE at a mid-sized AI startup. The article is pretty much spot on, but I'm not sure that the romantic view of data science the article argues against is actually that prevalent. It seems like you would need a very spe
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by solveit 8y ago
Certainly it's true everywhere. It's also not necessary in most places (including many places in SV). But you still want to convince the company that you can learn quickly and well enough to be worth it. If you don't have any
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by solveit 8y ago
Yes, but notice how the threshold of reaching legal adulthood is that something everyone is guaranteed to eventually meet (barring early death). Restricting rights is a lot less* problematic if it's guaranteed to be temporary and appli

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