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by tnzm 5y ago
CommonJS is a great module system if you're using JS for scripting Unix (which it excels at). Is there a good reason to use ESM though? I've been half-joking that it's the "extinguish" phase of Microsoft's EEE
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by tnzm 5y ago
This is a social problem around the shared use of a technological resource. I'm reminded of the old saying, "computers can only solve problems that are created with computers". But then again you can view _all_ solutions to s
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by tnzm 5y ago
Right now, certain media outlets have been promoting a "debate about sex work". As usual, this is meant to shutdown any productive debate on the subject. You seem to start with a preconceived notion that "sex work" is ha
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by tnzm 5y ago
A study of privacy preferences within a Chinese walled garden? Talk about selling refrigerators to the Inuit...
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by tnzm 5y ago
That's what you need true believers for: cannon fodder. Unlikely for someone to chicken out if they're already heavily emotionally invested in the idea of achieving spontaneous unity with God by blowing themselves to bits.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Yes.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Chimps practice filial cannibalism too. Unless someone proves that the principles behind politics are inherent to the universe at large, I guess I'll keep my hope for transcendence. Hadn't read that book but I'll check it out
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by tnzm 5y ago
I was thinking along the lines of: * Officials accepting bribes to approve unsustainable (and sometimes directly deadly) projects, so that they can fund their kids' education * Regular folks not speaking up against injustice because &q
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by tnzm 5y ago
New lives are not inherently more valuable than old lives. You can already see this reflected in contemporary morality and the discourse around preventing human lives. After all, a life not lived is a life free from suffering. A lot of th
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by tnzm 5y ago
Why? Does it threaten your sensibilities?
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by tnzm 5y ago
>pawn shop vs porn shop That one has happened to me IRL.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Real talk.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Your boot, sir.
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by tnzm 5y ago
No, sadly mine is the case of "bouncing off rock bottom". But I believe that our society claims the responsibility of helping its most vulnerable members to their feet? If that's the case I'm pretty sure someone would
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by tnzm 5y ago
"You're always in control" means "others will always hold you responsible, no matter whether you're in control or not". This model is called "virtue ethics" and I consider it disconnected from reality
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by tnzm 5y ago
Damn, have you considered social experience could be the reason someone ended like that? It's a feedback loop and the less in control you are, the less in control you are. Until you hit rock bottom. Which might not happen, and where yo
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by tnzm 5y ago
Yep just kill him and then there's nobody to have that problem. /s
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by tnzm 5y ago
I agree with your overall sentiment but it is a polarizing comment and it does not propose an alternative. If the group with worse values is better at normalizing their values, no progress is made.
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by tnzm 5y ago
The keyword here is consensus . Using an append-only distributed public ledger to record your governance decisions (and be held accountable for them) is a lot like using a memory-safe language when programming. It induces non-negligible ov
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by tnzm 5y ago
To add, it's also completely legal for the powers that be to treat you like an animal if you try to make yourself independent of them. Unlike the existing system of governance, a blockchain doesn't have the mandate to beat up peop
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by tnzm 5y ago
Speaking as an engineer, that's what's wrong with diplomacy and politics! EDIT: I define "reneging on the deal" as "acting as if the deal never happened". The more governance decisions are recorded on the publi
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by tnzm 5y ago
You're correct that hard AI would be necessary for the blockchain to perform autonomous arbitration in cases where human discretion is necessary. In practice, this is solved by giving the contract the capability to query an external sy
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by tnzm 5y ago
The big problem, in my opinion, is that a lot of people think we'd inevitably be beating each other up like animals, if it wasn't for the powers that be, who kindly protect us from ourselves. And it is already legal to beat up a
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by tnzm 5y ago
>they care for what they think is the truth, and what support their opinions. I'd take this one step further and say that the majority of people don't have consistent opinions about what the truth is, they only care for receivi
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by tnzm 5y ago
> Works as well as anything. Which is to say, just barely well enough to keep going. And then there's the whole thing with how its scaling issues are mitigated via the platform dependency on the state's monopoly on violent enfo
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by tnzm 5y ago
>but, from what I understand, when you have supply chain trust issues, they don't look like "oh gee someone edited a database record", they look more like https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2
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by tnzm 5y ago
Governments A and B meet and discuss some deal. Their agreement is recorded on a public append-only ledger, which is hosted by participants worldwide. If any party reneges on the deal, that's remembered by the public record too, where
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by tnzm 5y ago
They invest on behalf of the house.
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by tnzm 5y ago
To add to the sibling comments, and with the risk of sounding cheesy - at least prisoners are aware that they are unfree: they are physically confined against their will by a well-defined entity for a clearly stated reason and duration. T
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by tnzm 5y ago
Yep, you're alright. I like that you talk like a person and not like a copywriter. The lack of creative (or just non-dogmatic) thinking in this place is something else though. At times it feels like there's no human in the loop, w

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