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by sumy23 4y ago
What should we be focusing on instead? I remember a story from The Unwomanly Face of War where a woman, so enthralled with Communism, sends her own young daughter to deliver a bomb to a house being used by German officers. She was happy to
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The issue with "dishonest" is that honesty implies intent. A statement has no intent, so it can't be honest or dishonest. A statement can only be right or wrong. An author can be honest or dishonest. An honest author can be w
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I think the right way to look at a block chain is to think about it as a global computer that enables trusted execution on untrusted hardware. At present, this global computer is very weak. Cryptocurrencies are a good first program to imple
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You said it's "dishonest to mention." The author is the mentioner. If the mention is dishonest, then it necessarily follows that the author is dishonest.
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It's dishonest to call the author dishonest for this one sentence. They mention Chia in passing at the end of a paragraph on proof-of-work alternatives.
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The Ship of Theseus is not a parable. It doesn't have a lesson you're supposed to take away from it. There are different of ways of looking at the problem. The "solution" that appeals to you is probably a reflection of h
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You might not be able to tell. Just the existence of an indistinguishable copy could ruin your relationship with this person.
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It's not about the physical material, but rather the history, like the ship of Theseus.
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Part of what makes loved ones special is that they’re unique. We give people names because they’re unique. We don’t name things like bananas because they’re fungible. Perhaps if you had the only one copy of a loved one, you could love that
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What if you could perfectly replicate a loved one. Would you consider the replica equivalent to the original person? At least to me, there is something special and important in knowing that the original person was a part of my personal hist
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The value of gold is detached from its utility, just as the value of tulips during tulip mania were detached from their decorative value. The value of steel, on the other hand, is not detached from its utility value.
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2^x
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Everything is limited by physics. But I think the limit is not close to where we are right now. Consider a smart phone. Physically, what is it? Some silicon, glass, a lithium-ion battery, and some other trace metals. If you were to have the
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Growth is possible by increasing outputs from the same level of inputs. Certain types of growth are unsustainable, yet other types of growth, e.g. productivity growth, is definitely sustainable.
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There is a big difference between a host (GeoCities) and a platform with network effects (TikTok). In the 90's, you could use GeoCities, or use any other host and be on a level playing field. Today, if you don't use TikTok (or You
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https://glitch.com/ is kind of like this. Back in the 90s, however, things were a lot more decentralized. Now people make something in Minecraft or make a video for TikTok when they want to have a little creative expression
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Totally agree. 5% of power plants are responsible for 73% of emissions [0]. That's like 1500 power plants. Rather than fix the emission issue at this small source, many would rather blame the population at large. Rather than fix 1500 b
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Yes, especially because the notable part is that the liquid mixture is acting as a catalyst in the same way that the solid platinum was. "It's kind of like calling sea water "room-temperature liquid sodium chloride".&quo
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I feel like there should be a common etiquette rule on HN where if you don't care about a particular project / technology / initiative that you skip commenting and move on. For example, your comment says that this initiative
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Have you tried using an Apple USB-C cable? They're much higher quality than the random cables you get off Amazon.
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Isn't moving money around with APIs just moving money around by sending messages, which is what we can do already by sending a check in the mail? How many hundreds of billions or even trillions of dollars of market cap is dedicated to
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Cryptocurrencies are programmable money. Can you program traditional fiat currencies? No. Being able to program money should get hackers excited.
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Could you execute those native apps using only a simple URL in a secure environment in under a second without any need for installation or cleanup?
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When has accessibility pushed things forward? In my mind, accessibility is about parity with some existing standard, not about pushing the envelope forward.
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If you look at their ROC-AUC, performance increases dramatically as resolution increases. Do you really think it's impossible to encode any information in 16 pixels?
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1) WebRTC and RTP both have RT in their name. RT stands for real-time. If I recall correctly, the only buffer WebRTC has is the jitter buffer, which is used for packet ordering, not for ensuring that enough has buffered to handle bitrate sp
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The buffer sizes in ffmpeg are more about ensuring that the calculated bitrate is accurate iirc than ensuring smooth streaming (although you need your bitrate enforced to guarantee smooth streaming).
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Why do you want to lug around a 16 inch laptop? Just get a monitor when you need more screen real estate. I have to carry both a MBA and a 16 inch MBP and the MBP just has too big of a footprint. It makes almost any bag bulky.
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1) The point of WebRTC is that it’s real-time. If you buffer then it’s not real-time. 2) Adding key frames increases the bitrate greatly which exacerbates problem 1.
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Having attempted to WebRTC as a generic video transport, I can say that WebRTC has insurmountable problems. The two biggest issues are: 1) Lack of client-side buffering. This is a benefit in real-time communication, but it limits your maxim

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