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by tal8d 6y ago
I'll go ahead and skip addressing the weird meta-analysis, aside from recognizing it - and calling it weird. As far as taking exception with the language used to describe the rioting, well that is just more of the same - the desperatio
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by tal8d 6y ago
I have a fantasy about the linguists returning to place formal logic back where it belongs - towering over the collapsed heap of probabilistic-blackbox-cat-picture-classifiers. A constrained natural language system would then be loosed on t
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by tal8d 6y ago
One thing only lightly hinted on is how sccs was designed to tightly couple the source files to the output object files. Imagine super fine grain symbol versioning + loads of metadata for large project management tools. There was also stuff
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by tal8d 6y ago
> It's because the price of the average house is due to the cost of urban/suburban land... That maybe true, but it would be unrelated to my observations. > ...rises steeply with median incomes... Whoops! For that to be true
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by tal8d 6y ago
This reminds me of a supplier that was notorious in the security industry for stacking the sales dept with very friendly but otherwise unqualified "closers". I can't imagine that sales strategy is working so well right now.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Well that is a major mischaracterization of my views on the US government. It is funny that you mention Snowden, because many of us were called paranoid conspiracy nuts for using the exact same logic I just demonstrated to warn about dragne
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by tal8d 6y ago
> Healthcare, for one - there are lifesaving treatments... The correct metric would be life expectancy, as it sidesteps the zero priors problem. Using that, the healthcare you are talking about looks a lot more like the diminishing retur
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by tal8d 6y ago
The very public shuttering of facilities, the absence of military doctrine, etc. Yes, there could be secret congressional funding for a secret research lab serving a secret component of the military that secretly maintains readiness to do s
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by tal8d 6y ago
That sort of vindictive obsession seems to pop up a lot in the media. I remember that time that Newsweek published photos of some old guy's house and declared to the world that he was the secret bitcoin billionaire Satoshi Nakamoto. Hi
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by tal8d 6y ago
It is an absolutely braindead thing for a nuclear power to do - bio/chem weapon R&D. The reason why the US abandoned that course so long ago had nothing to do with morality - somebody in the DoD simply realized that they were furth
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by tal8d 6y ago
I wrote a curses scheduling application for warehouse managers and essentially just set it as their login shell to a machine that only did timesheet stuff. No complaints and no problems for all the years it ran. Of course... they were alrea
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by tal8d 6y ago
okbye, good luck with the word blindness.
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by tal8d 6y ago
> If you don't like the term, why did you use it in the first place? I do like it, I like it a lot - it perfectly represents the manipulative nature of the situation. "...both scientific consensus and political will have come a
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by tal8d 6y ago
> There was no scientific consensus in favor of global cooling. Define "scientific consensus", and then step back and ask yourself why anyone would elect to corrupt the scientific process with something so easily gamed. I alrea
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by tal8d 6y ago
I prefer the more mean spirited "aggressively stupid", but I don't want to tempt a splintering of the "Hanlon's razor" people - I'm quite happy with the mental image I have of them already.
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by tal8d 6y ago
A company can damage an open source project in a number of creative ways that have nothing to do with file formats. One word: Oracle. OpenOffice vs LibreOffice is a pretty good example of plausibly deniable sabotage that would enjoy a bonus
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by tal8d 6y ago
> ...it'll likely lead to governments delaying doing anything. You have a much higher opinion of the world's governments than I do. They seem very eager to establish extra-national governance, and climate change has provided th
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by tal8d 6y ago
Sarcasm failed to translate, "scientific consensus" is a goofy euphemism for a messaging campaign that has nothing to do with science. You are completely right about the disagreement between scientists at the time, with many point
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by tal8d 6y ago
There are over 30 million BTC addresses with a balance. So if everyone used "online wallets", they'd either have to be intentionally leaving dust in their exchange wallets, or there is some Superman 3 salami slicing going on
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by tal8d 6y ago
lol, it is oddly comforting to take a break for a few years and then come back to find that ripple is still the Wile E. Coyote of the space. Fingers crossed for some kind of Frankenstein ZuckBuck.
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by tal8d 6y ago
> To be completely clear, not all of today’s cryptocurrencies will be supported on our network ... What are we looking for? > ...privacy and security of consumers’ information — the same level of security people have come to expect in
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by tal8d 6y ago
Full disclosure: I didn't read the entire paper, I just know where the landmines are in these "Better than POW with no downside!1!!" altcoin papers - as they've been around for a long time. After the 5th or 6th time scru
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by tal8d 6y ago
Lets just take the shortcut: Who assigns the the proofing unit? The metric doesn't even matter, it is a question of who. Now, who controls that? Once you figure that out you'll realize that you are trusting parties that you either
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by tal8d 6y ago
Step one, don't do this: "BOINC superblocks fetch a participant’s BOINC recent average credit, also called researcher RAC. RAC is based on a participant’s earned BOINC credits. !!!>>>* Credits and RAC are defined by BOINC
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by tal8d 6y ago
Yeah, that is basically a science themed chucky cheese token - not an independent currency.
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by tal8d 6y ago
Which is the worst thing you could possibly use to secure anything.
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by tal8d 6y ago
> Can you actually point out the misinformation? Yes. I submit to you this article. Consider the framing of bitcoin's utility and the immovability of the status quo. > This article is not proposing to 'waste energy' on
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by tal8d 6y ago
You couldn't be more wrong, even the people complain about this made up problem will admit it when pressed. Follow the link and see for yourself.
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by tal8d 6y ago
The whole "Cryptographically securing your currency is wasteful, you should fold proteins!" talking point has popped up several times over the years, despite the fact that it is silly to complain about when considered in relation
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by tal8d 6y ago
> > BTC is a pump and dump play. > > ..."bitcoin evangelists" and are recruiting more people into the network to get the price to go up. Classic Ponzi scheme. > > ...this doesn't perfectly fit with existing

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