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by thebeastie 4y ago
you only need to look at the effect this is having on politics to see that it can drag us towards a miserable equilibrium where cheating happens because it gives an advantage even though the outcome is worse for everyone.
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by thebeastie 4y ago
Interesting thread, many insights on a topic where wisdom is hard won. That said, I read OPs complaints about polarization and taxes, and I wonder if Latin America might address some of these issues? (Slightly tongue in cheek) Your status a
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by thebeastie 4y ago
It sounds more like Rust gave you that choice, because it would have been just as good if the rust code transpiled to JS. I’m not knocking WASM just pointing out that you’re not praising any particular qualities of WASM, but of Rust.
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by thebeastie 4y ago
Isn’t the story here that they are _renting_ you the heated seat? It’s not like there is any additional service burden on their end that justifies renting it. It’s obviously disgusting, rent seeking practice. But we’re used to manufacturers
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by thebeastie 4y ago
I personally am curious to find out if what you are doing might amount to a generally useful paradigm, but you’re understandably getting some criticism because your work seems a little unconcerned about connecting with the rest of the world
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by thebeastie 4y ago
There are, they are called “landraces”, but you have the problem of replicating the original genetics with a dwindling / deteriorating supply of old seeds. Or if it’s not that, trusting that what you are buying is actually what it adve
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by thebeastie 4y ago
I had a look at the platform democracy page and I couldn’t see any explanation of how the process avoids capture by particular interest groups.
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by thebeastie 4y ago
So, I assume before you accept one of these things you should validate that it actually contains funds somehow ?
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by thebeastie 4y ago
Well, they’re kind of limited in what they can do with it because of the requirement to make a profit in an atomic transaction. But I think the conversation we should be having is, do we want to move towards more resilient markets, given th
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by thebeastie 4y ago
I don’t know why you think that. As soon as it is viable, some unscrupulous actor will surely program an AI with the goal of “make money and give it to me”, and if that AI is able to self modify, well that’s all that’s required for that exp
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by thebeastie 4y ago
The announcements have to live somewhere and the idea is to use a shared ledger ie a blockchain.
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by thebeastie 4y ago
The sad thing about this post is that there are much better developed visions of using blockchain as an index for internet routing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240595952... https:&#x2F
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by thebeastie 5y ago
As a programmer, I need to understand this better.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
This “you can fix it yourself” argument is really tiring sometimes. For a project like nautilus, there are very few people with the resources and motivation to fix anything. So we end up with underdeveloped open source products. Maybe we sh
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by thebeastie 5y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk... Musk one step ahead.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
I wouldn’t, because he’s not actually telepathic, nor has such a thing ever been proven to exist. It’s mind guessing / leading rather than reading.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
He seems to be playing with fire, they could ban him and that would seriously damage him.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
It’s possible that Wolfram has some latent narcissism, and this is what people don’t enjoy. Perhaps they are even jealous. I don’t make that speculation based on any “petty” aspects of his personality or communication, but rather the sweepi
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by thebeastie 5y ago
Well there’s https://openinsulin.org/
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by thebeastie 5y ago
Thanks. That was terrifying.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
I very much like my Lenovo thinkpad laptop keyboard. I like the compact layout, proportion and sturdiness of it. Do you think I’d be happy with the Keychron?
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by thebeastie 5y ago
They’re not, while Europe keeps buying their energy.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
Well, block intervals will be affected until the difficulty parameter adjusts. But not the end of the world.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
I’d love to see it.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
Someone like pitts may have needed a story to give himself some kind of existential validity in the world, and to give the world meaning (see also Neitsche). People in this position are prone to attaching themselves to grandiose ideas. Stil
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by thebeastie 5y ago
I saw someone here comment that eating only sweet potatoes produced similar results to fasting.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
What kind of beans, baked beans? Fava?
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by thebeastie 5y ago
Tell us more about the home sensors why ir? And what is the fft data for?
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by thebeastie 5y ago
I think the way this works is having the code to execute an ssl session encoded in a zkSnark. One of the zkSnark based blockchains is doing it.
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by thebeastie 5y ago
Actually I have an idea for you: i think you can use cryptography to prove that an SSL session really happened. So you could prove indexing of HTTPS sites.

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