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931.
by waps 13y ago
But how you cheat on universal income is to declare having more children than you actually have. Or just actually having them, treating them badly. Or at least, every now and then, there's an article in various European news articles t
932.
by waps 13y ago
And if you're a multinational, you'll have to convert all sorts of currencies in all sorts of other currencies constantly. Companies regularly complains that this costs them 1% or so of revenue.
933.
by waps 13y ago
According to Shamir's paper, that's 95% accurate. Theoretically you're right. Practically, you're wrong.
934.
by waps 13y ago
But the value floor for the USD is effectively the tax obligations denominated in USD, which is 5.5 trillion. Meaning a hell of a lot of powerfull people have a legal obligation to collect -at least- 5.5 trillion USD. This provides a much h
935.
by waps 13y ago
Exactly. For the moment it's mostly cementing USD's position further.
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by waps 13y ago
Yes it does seem like bitcoin is lacking in a few places. You could (try to) add things like * disconnected operation (solve the double spend problem in a disconnected setting) (this would really make something gold-equivalent) * a provably
937.
by waps 13y ago
No, but I imagine coinbase has. As will many other people who accept bitcoin payments.
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by waps 13y ago
Well, read the hippocratic oath. Learn that not everything comes from the bible. The world will make more sense afterwards. And if that doesn't clarify things, read some Greek plays about just how wrong things can go, and you'll u
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by waps 13y ago
They still require to be fed and watered and moved. You could neglect to do that. I do think we should mention that there are definitely 2 cases to consider, maybe 3. First, if that person has made his choice clear. Second if he hasn't
940.
by waps 13y ago
These rules are not actually from the bible, but from the Greeks, who had much stricter rules. 1) no abortion never jamais, under no circumstances. Nor advising women on how to do it themselves. 2) no euthanasia never jamais, under no circu
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by waps 13y ago
This is something that amazes me about the Dutch. I'm working not too far from the Netherlands, and nobody here seems to have mentioned that the Dutch state effectively gives elderly 2 choices : 1) they can choose pain meds overdose an
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by waps 13y ago
This is one concern that can't reasonably be considered. A person should first and foremost be in control of their own life. Only when that is absolutely impossible for an prolonged indeterminite time (ie. not for an hour, not when he
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by waps 13y ago
This is only true if you make the BIG assumption that everyone has valuable contributions to make to the global economy. There's various evidently false things it depends on, like that no-one is both successful and hoards money just fo
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by waps 13y ago
This is an argument that can be leveled against the vast majority of non-exact science experiments. You can make the same argument against all non-theoretical parts of economics, "large scale" physics, climate theory, and all huma
945.
by waps 13y ago
Yes let's turn back the economy to the situation before 1940, when most normal people couldn't get credit. What could go wrong ? The GFC being the a chain reaction started by ~2% less borrowing you say ? Nah, that won't happe
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by waps 13y ago
Isn't that the definition of "positive discrimination" and "affirmative action" ? Both of which are most certainly in wide use today.
947.
by waps 13y ago
What you see in that movie, the uncooked egg pickup, is becoming somewhat of a litmus test. Trying to reliably instruct a robot to put some 20 eggs from one basket into another without breaking any, and without prior knowledge of the positi
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by waps 13y ago
Take it from someone who's tried making it work : grasping is too fucking hard. It looks so simple, a baby could do it. A hand grasping objects. Many things that many people believe robots can do are in this category. The absolute stat
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by waps 13y ago
From the article A handset told him what to collect and put on his trolley. It allotted him a set number of seconds to find each product and counted down. If he made a mistake the scanner beeped." "We are machines, we a
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by waps 13y ago
1) and the atime updates (I am saying this because apache does make sure it updates them, which runs them -at least- 1ms per file they serve, and yes they accumulate these accesses, but they still cause limits and slowness) ? Caching the fi
951.
by waps 13y ago
Not off hand. Hire me and I'll put together a convincing example with whatever qualifiers you want, and document the findings.
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by waps 13y ago
This is the same sort of argument that functional languages keep making. It can work in certain manufactured examples, but in practice it falls on it's face because of the amount of data you need to keep track of, and the features you&
953.
by waps 13y ago
No it won't. There's lots of problems with doing that. 1) you need to -at least- check the disk for updates. On linux, you need to update access time. This will take time. In memory has no such obligations. 2) you still need to co
954.
by waps 13y ago
I don't get this. As fast as static blogging is, in-memory applications: 1) will actually beat static files in speed 2) you lose none of the flexibility of databases. In fact, because your effective query impact is going to be much sma
955.
by waps 13y ago
I don't think so. Brainwallets are generated as a hash. So if the input is secure, the output is secure. It's not possible to generate the input from the output. And frankly the connection between password -> private key and pr
956.
by waps 13y ago
I find it weird how socialists latch on to every source of violence and claim it as their own, even when it's very obvious it's something else. Most leftist terrorism, in Greece for example, was directed and controlled from within
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by waps 13y ago
> It should be pretty obvious by now that capitalism is not sustainable in the long term, because it encourages, or even forces the ever growing consumption of natural resources and the increasing environmental destruction. The same is t
958.
by waps 13y ago
It's not that the atmosphere does not protect us. Just not 100%, which shows just how much energy (a tiny fraction of) these particles have. So yes, you get a few atoms in your body blown off by a cosmic ray once every few months or so
959.
by waps 13y ago
We have melanin in our skin to block radiation from the sun. Now there's a difference. The sun is emitting thermal radiation of about a million degrees celcius. The energy profile of it's radiation is very well studied. It's
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by waps 13y ago
> Even though it is only implied by the article, Microsoft's business model is in jeopardy if the most future-proof method of application development/deployment becomes the web. Luckily, if you compare the life of the article t

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