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by zajio1am 4y ago
You can communicate through space but not through time (from future to past).
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Is this relevant? AFAIK, all these crypto tokens run on Ethereum blockchain, which recently switched to proof-of-stake.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> 8 GB is more than enough for the majority of people. I have 8 GB RAM (with no swap) and just using browser with few tabs and several times a week system get out of memory (due to Firefox eating most of it), ending with either system th
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Perhaps crypto-exchange could be transparent to third-parties through blockchain(s)? It should not be hard to declare all account numbers, so whole crypto-balance could be online validated.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Relevant Scott's comment on the article: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6797#comment-1943706
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> It's the same idea. Illegal abortion threatens society. While i am for unlimited legal on-demand abortions, this statement is obviously counter-factual. Most european countries have significantly restricted abortions relative to R
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> He totally ignores the actual events that transpired and instead focuses on Sam's purported ideals, This argument about tone-deafness is kind of collectivist rally against individual conversation. There is no need for everyone to
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> From an EA perspective, SBF made a morally correct gamble since his intent was to donate all the winnings. EA perspective is not limited to one specific moral foundation (in this case act utilitarianism), it is a general idea that if y
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Here is a detailed description: https://www.coppolacomment.com/2022/11/the-ftx-alameda-nexus...
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by zajio1am 4y ago
People individually choose to buy these 'useless cheap low quality gadgets and services' and work full-time until retirement instead of living frugally and limiting work time (like advocates of FIRE movement). Who are we do prescr
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> Are they going to increase pay to hire more nurses? No. Capitalism for me but not for thee. UK has public healthcare. The primary mechanism how public healthcare keeps costs low is to use its monopsonistic market power to keep prices (
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by zajio1am 4y ago
The meaning depends on context. In hardware, it is common to depend on 'undefined', but stable and predictable behavior. In case of C standard, there is separate 'undefined' and 'unspecified' (and also 'im
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Economic upheaval in UK is not because 'free market policies', but because of Liz Truss's irresponsible fiscal policy during inflation times, which shows her (and her chancellor's) basic macroeconomic incompetence.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> For example, you can't run 16bit Windows programs at all on Windows. Isn't that architecture limit? AFAIK 64-bit mode on x86_64 machines does not support vm86 mode, so 16-bit code cannot run directly on 64-bit OS. That is why
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Because there is no reason to do so? Providing e-mail address is service successfully provided by private sector, no need to use public money to destroy competition in private sector and centralise a service to one provider. Most of EU enga
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Like no regular people use e-mail nor phones/SMS.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
To avoid seasonal effects.
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The main difference is that Adam Smith wrote about real land, i.e. natural resource, while current discourse about rent is focused on buildings/apartments - human produced capital.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
The IP addresses are assigned to organizations (ISPs), not countries, so if you are the same ISP, it does not really matter which country held the territory. The article is more about risk of ukrainian ISPs on occupied territories being for
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Fast local network is useful even without fast uplink, e.g. for accessing data on local server. 1 Gbps is still several times slower than disk speeds, so going to 10 Gbps seems like reasonable future-proof config.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
I would say 'orthogonal' is used for conceptually independent, not causally independent nor statistically independent (uncorrelated). So i would say that sex and gender are conceptually independent, although in reality statistical
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Well, US constitution is still more amendable than EU constitutional treaties, which require unanimous agreement of all states.
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Legitimacy of EU laws is based on international treaty establishing EU, so it depends on how international treaties are handled in constitutions of each country to see which level of legal power is assigned to them. See also: https:/&
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by zajio1am 4y ago
1) cat feels like text/line oriented program. It is not obvious that it is even supposed to work efficiently on binary data. 2) (GNU) dd has support for progress bar and even if not enabled, one can get statistics by sending USR1 signa
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> But isn’t this only true if you want to profit from the property? You have implicit profit living in your property through imputed rent.
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> By shifting the discussion away from turnkey tyranny, we're admitting, at least for the moment, a defeat in that argument. I would think it is the opposite. Focusing on turnkey tyranny puts focus away from the more fundamental poi
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by zajio1am 4y ago
In EU, tradesman with licence in one state could offer services (with some exceptions with special rules like healthcare or finance) in any other states, while it is required just to notify authorities of other states. So it is surprising t
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by zajio1am 4y ago
> In many European countries, sending SMS was quite expensive, leading to early and very wide adoption of WhatsApp. Yes, but data tariffs were also expensive, while you can send SMS with regular (no-data) tariff.
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- i install your app on my phone if you install my daemon on your servers
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by zajio1am 4y ago
Pretty much same argument could be said against checklists ('paper controlling humans is a violation of basic human dignity'), but it is a thing that consistently improves outcomes in medicine. In general, it is restricting autono

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