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by solveit 4y ago
This comment is terrific even though I'm not sure I quite agree with the sentiment. Upvoted.
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by solveit 4y ago
> inexplicably There's a small but significant group of users who would probably quit reddit if old reddit went away. Keeping them around for (what I assume is) minimal cost is just good business.
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by solveit 4y ago
Clearly you've made the right decision for yourself, but this is unironically the dream for some other people (a very specific type of person, I'll admit, but this type happens to include me and half the HN userbase).
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by solveit 4y ago
Without commenting on the likelihood of a tether bank run in general, it seems incredibly unlikely that it'll be catalyzed by an *ism scandal purely based on the general political leanings of crypto whales (hard to pin down on the left
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by solveit 4y ago
Would you be happy with government-designed (so presumably democratic) tests and quotas for which charities get the tax breaks?
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by solveit 4y ago
Now we see the actual DRM wars.
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by solveit 4y ago
As opposed to laws and policies that control the lives of millions? It's not possible for human thought to work at the scale of modern society. Software is not special in that it replaces human thought. Something must 'automate&
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by solveit 4y ago
> This is unique to programming as a discipline - programmers have historically unprecedented power to turn fuzzy, implicit ideas into concrete reality that affects people at massive scale. Politics? Economics? Writing? I don't ne
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by solveit 4y ago
New persons are born every day and financial resources are a bookkeeping tool. If I make something new and you make something new then we can trade our products and we both gained without anyone losing out. It is not true to say the world i
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by solveit 4y ago
A corollary of "13. Be Internally Driven" would be that you should find work that is not just an instrument for supporting your life, but a goal that is meaningful in itself. That is, you should live (at least partially) to work,
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by solveit 4y ago
You are agreeing with me. An attacker that has broken sha-2 would pretend to be a miner, not mint trillions of bitcoin (which is not possible as you say).
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by solveit 4y ago
A smart attacker wouldn't create trillions of bitcoin, they would create a steady trickle of bitcoin indistinguishable from a medium-sized private mining operation that is too small to be noticed for a good while but large enough to ma
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by solveit 4y ago
I did not say that anyone was deliberately infecting anyone. But smallpox doesn't care about your intentions.
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by solveit 4y ago
While this is a technically correct answer, I can't help but think the US isn't at particular risk of being colonised by a militarily overwhelming foreign force that also has smallpox. Indeed, if this were a concern, mere immigrat
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by solveit 4y ago
How does proof of wait deal with sybil attacks?
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by solveit 4y ago
That said, it's clearly a good deal for their shareholders for this very reason, and the board should act in the interests of their shareholders.
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by solveit 4y ago
Yeah, cars are an investment in the sense that people need them to make money (hold down a job).
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by solveit 4y ago
Matt is clearly having the time of his life gawking at the stuff crypto people do.
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by solveit 4y ago
Neither numerals nor configurations of clock hands are numbers and both require a translation step. For what it's worth, time isn't a number either and you translate from a number to a time.
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by solveit 4y ago
Which European cities do you think are good examples of this kind of development where a lot more land is more-or-less equally desirable while the city as a whole stays as desirable as NYC?
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by solveit 4y ago
Thank you! I will now use pbpaste|pbcopy
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by solveit 4y ago
Ah I see, I agree that GAN-generated content has inhuman tells. But I don't think that necessarily speaks to the creativeness of the work.
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by solveit 4y ago
> I don't think it's hard to find flaws with generated content I do wonder if you were to apply the same level of scrutiny to individual humans, you wouldn't also conclude that most people cannot do creative work.
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by solveit 4y ago
This discussion will go nowhere. Clearly the pro-Bitcoin crowd thinks proof of work is the most efficient way to get a permissionless, trustless, decentralised currency. And the anti-Bitcoin crowd either thinks 1. It's not the most e
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by solveit 4y ago
"Priced in" is not explanatory, it is predictive and the prediction is that you cannot consistently beat the market (where you are a generic smart person with no particular reason to have an edge, like most HN commenters).
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by solveit 4y ago
They decided fighting malaria and polio had higher priority?
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by solveit 4y ago
I... do not believe the university is particularly likely to fall down that path.
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by solveit 4y ago
I don't think the academy is failing any more than is the historical norm. The collapsing cultural norms are not centuries old, they are a product of the academic boom of the latter half of the twentieth century, where the first world
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by solveit 4y ago
The academy has also done exceptionally well. Individual institutions like the University of Oxford have unbroken chains of governance going back centuries, and so do scholarly societies. And of course, the institution of (say) science as a
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by solveit 4y ago
Of course. If the college was otherwise doing well, they would be able to get a loan to smooth over a rough patch.

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