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by voldacar 5y ago
I don't know much at all about Urbit, but this doesn't seem like it was written in good faith tbh. The mention of security holes seems to be the only real serious critique. Hopefully some urbit people could address those, since cl
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by voldacar 5y ago
Thanks for posting something actually written by a lawyer.
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by voldacar 5y ago
> Just don't leave stuff out in the open, lock your stuff and maybe don't drive a prius, people like to steal the catalytic converters. These are not things you should have to do in a sane first-world country
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by voldacar 5y ago
My comment was more referring to cryptocurrency and the blockchain concept in general, I probably should have been more clear. You are right that BTC isn't that useful as cash. I don't think BTC will be dominant forever, there are
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by voldacar 5y ago
Can't we dream bigger though? For instance, I feel like templeOS's command line is unironically conceptually superior than the linux commandline or any other unix. I should be able to mix text with 3d models or images or sound,
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by voldacar 5y ago
It is one thing to say that in hindsight he held a wrong belief, and another thing entirely (especially without knowing his exact arguments and priors) to say that he held a wrong belief at the time and was not only wrong, but also therefor
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by voldacar 5y ago
I agree, but I think there are many ways of arguing that the destruction of Kyoto was justified at the time that do not involve arguing that it would make Japan better off. And like I said, there is more than one theory of morality :)
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by voldacar 5y ago
While you have a point regarding fixed supply, I think bitcoin is more than just a KBC. The ability to do uncensorable (or at least uncensorable without truly absurd computing power) global financial transactions is a really amazing thing
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by voldacar 5y ago
This feels like the computing equivalent of epicycles in medieval physics. Will we ever just admit that the vt100 tty is just no longer suitable as a basic OS abstraction, and needs to be torn out and replaced? Or in 50 years will simple in
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by voldacar 5y ago
You are assuming the point you are trying to prove: that von Neumann was unjustified in advocating for these things. Maybe he was just smarter than you (and me) and just had a really good argument for believing those things, given the state
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by voldacar 5y ago
Fair enough, I was just venting about quanta in general
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by voldacar 5y ago
Totally agreed. I have never actually learned anything from a quanta article. They write articles with headlines like "Mathematicians discover new equation!!!" and then never even state the equation in the article, instead giving
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by voldacar 5y ago
I love it. It's literally just a barrage of math, separated into little bite-sized chunks. Modern textbooks can have a so much fluff with all the flashy pictures and icons and the text on the page being brightly colored or having bubbl
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by voldacar 5y ago
If you havent, make sure you teach your kids proficiency with desktop systems and the command line. That way they will be lords instead of serfs
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by voldacar 5y ago
Thanks for the info! I've visited several ancient Roman port cities around the Mediterranean, but I've never really spent any time in the Balkans unless you count Greece. Dubrovnik is high on my list and Pula looks lovely too.
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by voldacar 5y ago
Thanks so much, that's more than helpful :)
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by voldacar 5y ago
Croatia is a beautiful country and I've always wanted to visit - about what percentage of the population speaks English in your experience?
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by voldacar 5y ago
If you're constantly lethargic and tired, consider seeing an endocrinologist and having some tests done.
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by voldacar 5y ago
Delightful!
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by voldacar 5y ago
NA has more forests than europe, so local lumber supply is generally higher. Also, lumber is way more earthquake-resistant than plain brick or stone, which can be very important depending on where you live
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by voldacar 5y ago
Central banking caused the end of slavery? now that's a hot take
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by voldacar 5y ago
Functional societies existed long before central banking and costless money creation
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by voldacar 5y ago
> So rather than systems with oversight, faces, and names attached to them, you would prefer an entirely programmatic system where all transactions are final and irreversible which is not beholden to any intervention? Yes, correct.
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by voldacar 5y ago
> The government needs to be in control of the money supply. Not interested in bureaucrats determining my purchasing power, sorry
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by voldacar 5y ago
Thank you, I will look into this. I've taken discrete math and some graph theory, but never stats, so all those families of distributions are alien to me :)
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by voldacar 5y ago
I was about to downvote but that first study actually looks legit. Still a mouse model, but maybe worth looking into further.
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by voldacar 5y ago
This result that the number of random reals on the interval (0,1) you need to form a sum > 1 is exactly equal to e is fascinating and beautiful. Does anyone know of an accessible proof of this statement? edit: the tricky part is recogniz
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by voldacar 5y ago
I'm gonna need a source that "cultural fluency" determines your ability to rotate weirdly-shaped little 3d objects around in your head
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by voldacar 5y ago
Denying me the ability to make harmful or foolish choices dehumanizes me.
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by voldacar 5y ago
Do they use GPT3 or their own special version of it? And I havent been following it much so sorry if it's a dumb question, but is it still impossible to get your hands on GPT3 and run it yourself instead of paying ClosedAI?

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