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by ssivark 6y ago
“Fake it till you make it” has finally arrived on the main stage.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Note similarities with the discourse about getting a full night’s sleep, and eating healthier :-) I think all of these sometimes play the role of “premium mediocre” virtue signaling.
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by ssivark 6y ago
I have never seen a convincing argument of the claim that decentralization creates worse outcomes for fighting disinformation. I think decentralization/federation [1] strongly improves systemic stability by enabling diversity and a hea
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by ssivark 6y ago
It might be safer for biodiversity if economists don't think too much about it :P The biggest source of damage might well be "optimizing" with a badly-framed/biased model... while the short-term "value" can be
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by ssivark 6y ago
Stepping away from science (research) for a minute, I think a far more silent “machine” that we implicitly depend on is the idea of industrial organization (a subtle blend of economics & technology) — industrial knowledge production (
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by ssivark 6y ago
The scientific approach to knowledge (everything we know so far) is fundamentally limited in its ability to understand complex systems. Physics & co. are the low hanging fruit (tautologically)... modular systems so it’s very easy to is
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by ssivark 6y ago
Your argument assumes that Uber is hiring contractors and customers interact with Uber... If that were the case, Uber would have to take responsibility for the full transaction towards both drivers and riders (Eg guaranteed payment vs time,
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by ssivark 6y ago
That concern is isolated to your region selection tool, and orthogonal to the undo functionality :-) So, you could select by lines, or intelligently select by parentheses/braces, etc. And ask these are nicely composable, so you could e
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by ssivark 6y ago
Thanks for sharing the setup! The process seems involved enough for non-experts (even with open source tools), and clear enough for y’all who’ve done it, that I wonder whether it might be worth productizing by Element — something to the eff
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Anatomy of a Hit Piece(allenfarrington.medium.com)
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by ssivark 6y ago
A simple and more robust strategy is to force players to open up communication protocols, allowing end-users a variety of (federated) clients to communicate through. Users no more held hostage, that will encourage healthy market mechanisms
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by ssivark 6y ago
More importantly, as computational hardness of mining increases, the energy consumption will increase exponentially. So whatever the absolute consumption now (even if it’s disputed), growth in BTC usage is definitely not sustainable.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Very excited about this project, since I’ve been looking to wet my feet with Elixir and numerics are the perfect niche for me! Here’s something I’m confused about. For fast numerical code, it’s vey important to be disciplined about memory a
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by ssivark 6y ago
To elaborate beyond what @soneca said, how do we know that Federer lost those points because he thought too much? What if, instead, Federer didn’t think enough, and Djokovic just outthought him? That’s why the conclusion is unfalsifiable.
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by ssivark 6y ago
It’s interesting to note that while no single idea is revolutionary, the design choices in putting together this bunch make for a particularly slick interface where the whole is much better than the usual shell. PS: I look forward to trying
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by ssivark 6y ago
Avid book readers might make a similar statement about writing code :-) To be more clear, when a database (with multiple fields, and better workflows) is clearly the right tool, why would you try to implement it one ad-hoc in a simplistic t
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by ssivark 6y ago
Backing the INR with BTC is a moronic idea. Since India doesn’t currently have any significant semiconductor manufacturing facilities nor surplus power to burn on mining BTC (many more important human development use cases), India (and the
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by ssivark 6y ago
If you feel like sharing the ideas, I’m sure many people would be interested in seeing potential example applications where this (abstract and somewhat uncommon, in other languages) capability can be put to good use.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Out of curiosity, are there any reasons to prefer slower settlement? (Since this seems like a no-brainer, but clearly hasn’t happened already)
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by ssivark 6y ago
There’s a very nice documentary movie titled “Being in the world” (available on YouTube and elsewhere) which introduces the Heideggerian perspective. I’ve also heard good things about Hubert Dreyfus’ interpretation/translation of Heide
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by ssivark 6y ago
This paper just validates as “fact” something that I strongly believed by “personal experience” :-D As humans (evolutionarily social creatures), we have a natural empathy that’s hard to circumvent unless the discussion turns into very abstr
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by ssivark 6y ago
Where would you rank the marginal university administrator?
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by ssivark 6y ago
I have no idea whether this is correlated with the other recent de-platforming events, but the rapidly growing list of examples is now getting ridiculous. It’s crazy to imagine that the rug could get pulled out from beneath any of us, any t
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by ssivark 6y ago
Totally. That structure also allows for multiple dispatch, which makes generic programming much much more pleasant than OO (which is basically single dispatch). Eg. See Julia. To elaborate, tying methods with the individual/first argum
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by ssivark 6y ago
The “Fuck yeah SOYENCE” crowd doesn’t realize that science (as a process) can only hope to get to the truth in the asymptotic (infinite) future. The path to getting there is incredibly messy, especially because it is carried out by sacks of
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by ssivark 6y ago
Imho, a lot of the “physics” lies in getting some intuition for the consequences/implications of some mathematical model (or, conversely use the same idea to propose new models). It’s one thing to succinctly write Maxwell’s equations i
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by ssivark 6y ago
Sure, but what about showing you ads for WhatsApp when you’re searching for Signal? Where does contextual advertising/influencing switch from being helpful to being gaslighting?
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by ssivark 6y ago
But they (almost) are! They just have a more involved review process, requiring sign offs from many more people (from a diverse group of representative stakeholders) given what’s at stake. A lot of the process/bureaucracy comes from t
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by ssivark 6y ago
By the same standard of freedom of association, users should have a say over whether Facebook collects any data about them I.e. no shadow profiles, and ability to sever one’s relationship with Facebook and purge all data.
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by ssivark 6y ago
Fair point, but what can Substack actually do about this? Maybe they can forbid insertions from ad networks technically and in their TOS, but at the other extreme end, there’s almost nothing they can do about submarine articles. What if som

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