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by thingification 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy > In economics, the lump of labour fallacy is the misconception that there is a fixed amount of work—a lump of labour—to be done within an economy which can be di
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by thingification 4y ago
Thread on spectre and capability security (which I gather from a glance here that wasmtime is using on some level https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasmtime/blob/main/docs/... ): https:/&#x2F
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by thingification 4y ago
Idly dreaming here, without enough understanding to even know how much this makes sense in this context, of: - Erlang-style concurrency (which I haven't tried so don't understand but hear good things about always) - With "pla
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by thingification 4y ago
To me (without reading any of their stuff, I don't know if this is what they were shooting at), "lunatic" makes me think "high performance" and "this is a very difficult project with high payoff if we succeed,
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by thingification 4y ago
I can understand that as a heuristic. On the other hand, there are other people who might apply a different heuristic and guess that a project named 'lunatic' is less likely to attract the sort of people who might take, for exampl
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by thingification 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox
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by thingification 4y ago
Another challenge is industry-wide bad security fundamentals. Godspeed to work/people like agoric.com and seL4.
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by thingification 4y ago
In times past, it was obvious that it wasn't an option to avoid pervasive violence (by orders of magnitude compared to today). It was, though.
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by thingification 4y ago
This is to conflate (as so often) the USA's legal/constitutional codes with the principle of free speech. That principle has to do with promoting criticism of ideas, and preventing the suppression of criticism. The US codes ar
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by thingification 4y ago
Not questioning what you're saying, just adding that I think "prejudice" is a better word for this than bigotry? (to be clear: we're discussing here the results of identity-based hiring practices, as opposed to are ther
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by thingification 4y ago
So who has done well on this score in your book? :-)
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by thingification 4y ago
https://nitter.namazso.eu/jeremyphoward/status/1568843940690... > fast.ai > Do that and your life will change Sounds like Emad Mostaque of Stability AI / stable diffusion thinks this course probably won
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by thingification 4y ago
Not claiming that ACLU does nothing useful -- I certainly don't know enough to say -- but what do you think about this (which suggests to me a damaged commitment to civil liberties): https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2022&
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by thingification 4y ago
Unless this sort of thing gets corrected, it will be used in corrupt ways and to enforce tyrannical laws / regimes. Did much of the progress in the past that led us to today's democratic institutions involve law-breaking, strictly
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by thingification 4y ago
> Also, hyping up undetected Linux malware is just silly. Linux emphasized because you think - such Linux malware as there is commonly goes undetected - there is a lot of Linux malware in some sense - it's easy to create Linux mal
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by thingification 4y ago
I'm not thinking of a specific book, but I am thinking of this kind of thing (but I haven't read this specific article in full): https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/ya-twitters-victims-and-c...
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by thingification 4y ago
I honestly don't know the answer to this, but: Has somebody asked the person who got arrested whether the swastika means something closer to "I think nazis are good", or instead something closer to "I think some people i
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by thingification 4y ago
I can't seem to find people in this thread talking about AI/ML, which surprised me. For "enterprise software", I imagine a future of domain experts training/instructing AI minions to do things like process sale orde
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by thingification 4y ago
I don't disagree with you. The post I replied to said "could never be tracked". People using cash can be tracked if it's important to do so. Mass surveillance on cash transactions is trickier (though maybe with machine
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by thingification 4y ago
A surprising experience to me was seeing Saturn through a telescope. Despite working on PhD in physics at the time and being a lab demonstrator for an undergraduate astronomy course, I looked at it and thought "shit, it's real!&q
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by thingification 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki "The city was founded on April 1, 1916." Amagasaki1916
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by thingification 4y ago
Can you explain (rather than state) what readability issue you think exists here? I don't know if you see a real readability issue or not, but I do think it's easy to jump to "hard to read" when that's only true in
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by thingification 4y ago
I think it would be great to address this as you describe, but at the same time as somebody who has dabbled in OCaml but is still very wet behind the ears, I don't understand how this error format requires the type system to be "b
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by thingification 4y ago
I have no insight into what is hard and what is easy to implement here, but might it be feasible to break up the error into parts, the first just as you wrote? Along the lines of: 1. Error: This expression has type ('x -> Result_se
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by thingification 4y ago
And while not disputing any of that, as far as I know, every single transaction I've ever made with cash has not been logged in my name and is not cheaply trackable. That's a good thing because it avoids heavy concentration of po
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by thingification 4y ago
This kind of thing always depends entirely on what ideas people end up believing, and the details of the problem-situation when that comes about. I know: "obviously" people will never take the threat of tyranny and mass surveilla
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by thingification 4y ago
It was never that it was impossible, just that it wasn't cheap enough to allow mass surveillance, right?
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by thingification 4y ago
I haven't studied it, but I believe ZCash https://z.cash/ is not designed to eliminate that record (that's what a blockchain is right?), but to encrypt it and then use zero-knowledge proofs to show the validity of
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by thingification 4y ago
I think these are two distinct things: > The problem isn't that "finding nothing" isn't progress. The problem is that "finding nothing" is terrible progress-per-dollar. > if you go on to argue about how v
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by thingification 4y ago
All of this is not "no such thing as trust". I too dread a little all the mischief that's going to happen while the world learns about this. But people don't have to uncritically believe "the evidence of their own

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