yifanl

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by yifanl 5y ago
Being smart doesn't mean anything to the wider market if you aren't loud enough.
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by yifanl 5y ago
The funny thing is that even if you found some magical hardware that was 100x more efficient than the next best thing, the incentives make it so that you don't want to use 0.01X energy to produce Y hashes and mine the same proportion o
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by yifanl 5y ago
This domain is frustrating to talk about as a technical person because success isn't based on technical soundness, but rather popularity. So any argument I could realistically make against $sillyAppThatHasVCBacking will not matter if e
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by yifanl 6y ago
An unlimited print run isn't necessarily feasible for her, given that she isn't a billionaire.
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by yifanl 6y ago
Facebook captured not just internet powerusers, but an entirely new (and eventually, a substantially larger) audience. I would very much doubt there's a larger audience currently offline out there today.
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by yifanl 6y ago
> Mr. Sullivan told us that copying content was a great way to lure people to his sites. (He said he didn’t feel bad about spreading unverified slander. “Teach children not to talk to strangers, then teach them not to believe what they r
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by yifanl 6y ago
The price (and therefore value?) of satoshis rise/fall at the exact same rate as a price of a bitcoin, so I don't see how this invalidates their argument.
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by yifanl 6y ago
Kinda a silly example, but several subreddits that started out with the aim of making fun of some subject (i.e. r/prequelmemes and the Star Wars prequels, or r/the_donald and then Presidential candidate Donald Trump) were quickly
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by yifanl 6y ago
It was done entirely on the whims of a joke 5 years ago when mastodon was at single-server scale: https://mastodon.social/@Hbomberguy/146524
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by yifanl 6y ago
I guess the question is, is quality of life zero-sum? I want to say no because I feel like I can improve my QoL in ways that don't harm others, but all these examples are telling me that its really that I don't (or maybe even choo
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by yifanl 6y ago
Sure, we can sustain ourselves off "one step forwards, one step back still moves us somewhere else", but the average person doesn't see how many steps back we take to make those steps forward and will come to an overly optimi
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by yifanl 6y ago
I will claim that after a certain negative threshold, some things should not be legal to be share in all forums. Accepting that, it becomes a question of where do you draw that line.
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by yifanl 6y ago
Well, unless you hold the opposite position where nothing is bullshit and everything is equally valuable, _somebody_ has to be able to decide.
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by yifanl 6y ago
Kicking the can down the road is a sustainable policy, making the can bigger each time we kick it is not.
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by yifanl 6y ago
I have to ask, what is the point you are trying to argue? That it shouldn't ever be possible to enforce rules on internet communities?
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by yifanl 6y ago
If we, the average user, can only see/use/consume the outputs of one of those halves, then its only worth considering that half as google.
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by yifanl 6y ago
A property's value doubling isn't a one-off event, it'd be widespread and continuous. That cheaper place's value will rise proportionally, and now they've the same problem, except with an overall lower quality of li
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by yifanl 6y ago
Selective indifference is malice.
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by yifanl 6y ago
In a previous post, the author responded to this concern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18808010 It seems like he will include a subset of solutions in a later edition, whenever he has time to publish it.
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by yifanl 6y ago
Its going bankrupt in the medium term if nothing changes, but that ratio of shorts would only make sense if it was going bankrupt in a quarter or two, where Gamestop actually rallied on revenue with the release of the new console generation
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by yifanl 6y ago
Defining a namespace for a problem class isn't the same as giving an answer to why the problem class exists.
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by yifanl 6y ago
In a world where we cannot censor an idea, then there is _no_ difference between a good and a bad idea, the very act of making a value judgment if an idea is good or bad is inherently an act of censorship. Given that, there's clearly a
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by yifanl 6y ago
If the only thing it takes for censorship to not be censorship is that it'd make the lives of those in charge easier, then censorship doesn't exist.
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by yifanl 6y ago
okay, but as wage increases continue to lag behind cost of living, are you just going to ask people to bunk up with more and more roommates in a 2BR?
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by yifanl 6y ago
We have a very well known set of processes to fix the issue of too few emissions, so I'd doubt that'd ever be a concern.
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by yifanl 6y ago
Tell your CEO to do janitorial work for a day and ask them how qualified they felt to do unskilled work.
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by yifanl 6y ago
This isn't a formalized debate forum, a logical fallacy (alone) does not invalidate a commentor's rationalization.
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by yifanl 6y ago
That sounds like a non-trivial technical problem. What someone doesn't want to watch is far too broad, from one of the videos on the liberal profile here, you'd be as likely to be "unrecommended" a right-winger's vl
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by yifanl 6y ago
I can agree that allowing alternate clients is a step further than what Tiktok provides, but alternate clients are still piping your data into their vacuum.
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by yifanl 6y ago
It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with the quote, the concern OP had was that Facebook was refusing to apply its policies against glorifying violence (and the quote absolutely is) to specific individuals. (Certainly the POTUS

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