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by solveit 4y ago
All parenting advice should say "DEPENDS ON BABY" in big red letters at the beginning.
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by solveit 4y ago
Bitcoin as currency-of-last-resort makes quite some sense to me. More than any other usage for Bitcoin I've seen people selling, anyway.
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by solveit 4y ago
> Is it really impossible to imagine another structure that doesn't involve a CEO or chief? It's quite difficult to imagine one that works for most large companies, at the very least. Name a couple if it's so easy.
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by solveit 4y ago
We have systems log stuff when there's less at stake. You'd have to really go out of your way to make this an unsolvable mystery murder.
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by solveit 4y ago
And the aftermath of a nuclear war. If they're going to count the people who died after the war proper, they should count them in both scenarios.
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by solveit 4y ago
The point of the word "preferable", is that it means something different to the word "good".
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by solveit 4y ago
Also not American, and I will add to the chorus. There is no potential superpower half as palatable as the US and I don't expect one to rise.
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by solveit 4y ago
> I can think of several candidates I would prefer to the US as a world superpower--including no world superpower at all! No, you really really don't want this. I don't know what utopian partnership of nations you have in mind,
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by solveit 4y ago
It's real. https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1567739003650048000?t=x-...
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Quantum Computers: A Brief Assessment of Progress in the Past Decade – Gil Kalai(gilkalai.wordpress.com)
5 points by solveit 4y ago|1 comments
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by solveit 4y ago
The current mainstream view is that QC is a very hard but tractable engineering problem. There is no fundamental reason for quantum error-correction to not work, and a demonstration that it cannot would be a major and surprising breakthroug
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by solveit 4y ago
The optimal number of terms to "formally well define" is pretty damn close to zero in an HN comment. Ignore that guy.
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by solveit 4y ago
4% vacancy is what you get if people live in a house for two years before moving, and it takes a month before a new family moves in. Sounds pretty normal, and with no obvious way of using this idle time to help the homeless.
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by solveit 4y ago
> Building physical houses to sit empty as a financial instrument has to be one of the peaks of capitalist insanity. I quite agree, and I am therefore very suspicious that this is actually happening in significant volume! I have never se
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by solveit 4y ago
Many of these are no longer viable businesses, so they do what any nonviable business does and gradually shut down, liquidating all their assets in the process which in this case happens to include the reputation they've built up when
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by solveit 4y ago
The word "utilitarianism" means so many different things that it usually hurts discussions more than it helps. For some people, utilitarianism is a maximally permissive framework that allows you to discuss any set of preferences f
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by solveit 4y ago
People who know what they're signing up for are signing up because it's their least worst option. Taking that away sounds counterproductive without a way to materialize a better option. And if you could get them a better option, y
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by solveit 4y ago
The mental model many people seem to have is "foreigners will pay us exorbitant amounts of tuition for a prestigious diploma, and education isn't actually valuable so we might as well send them back home". And it's only
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by solveit 4y ago
There's a great deal of difference between "You must hire from this government-operated job training program" and "You must hire this person. No, really, this guy." In any case, this is irrelevant. The linked docume
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by solveit 4y ago
This has been mysterious to me for a long time and it still remains mysterious to me, but I have to accept that people do care. This isn't just limited to NFTs, people buy signed copies of things despite signatures being trivial to for
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by solveit 4y ago
I suppose if anyone could raise VC money for a retirement project it would be Carmack...
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by solveit 4y ago
In some countries they call that Tuesday... And the coups often succeed too, and also have military involvement, and aren't embarrassingly poorly executed. I'm not even talking failed states here, I'm talking about respectabl
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by solveit 4y ago
> continue to engage in serious violation of US security and trading laws So, I think this is an underappreciated point. Coinbase, to the best of my knowledge, does not engage in crimes that would send people behind bars. (edit to clar
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by solveit 4y ago
Bravo.
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by solveit 4y ago
Thank you for fighting the good fight. Words (should) mean things!
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by solveit 4y ago
Putting "up to 20" in the title would work.
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by solveit 4y ago
Ethereum is pseudonymous. Society should be used to pseudonymity by now, it's only been decades since everyone had accounts on everything. It's honestly astonishing how badly people are confused about online identity. (Side remark
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by solveit 4y ago
The correct comparison is "anyone can drop cash (or anything else) in your backpack" and yes, this does make me nervous especially when I'm traveling internationally. Also, it's harder to drop cash in your bag than it is
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by solveit 4y ago
Actually it's good that women go through pregnancy and labour only to have the child die. Every woman should go through that once (or half a dozen times) in their lives. If they get lucky, they could die too!
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by solveit 4y ago
For the same reason that I think it's good for people to live in a different culture for a while, I wish it were possible for people to live in a different era for a while. There was a time when it wasn't smoking and obesity that

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