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by SolarNet 7y ago
I think the better framing is the amount of fraud, abuse, and second hand criminal activity this person enabled. His violations of the regulations allowed criminals to piggyback off of that and get away with crimes more easily.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Except that in this case his life is being uprooted due to the power the company wields over his life. Citizenship (or at least a green card) should be his reward.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
It's an important distinction, even in this thread someone has already confused the difference. I have warned people off of bitcoin for years with the specific explanation of the difference, and how no real system is secure (regardless
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Virtual machines perhaps.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
The sad thing is that I don't think it actually did anything to fix any of the child abuse problem tumblr - and all modern social media sties - actually has. Though tumblr dying will prevent their particularly boneheaded abuse problems
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by SolarNet 7y ago
This is why I am generally unimpressed with the state of AI. These techniques are great for things like recognizing images and text. I very much doubt it will be useful for any sort of intelligent action in the near future. On the account,
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by SolarNet 7y ago
No he means "The Chinese". Not the people, the government. He was quite clear about that in the full quote . > The Chinese also do this. (As in, the government seems to encourage it outright.) Way to be outraged through your o
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by SolarNet 7y ago
An out of the box Linux installation with a few changes should be enough. Though you should probably use a hardened distribution. The above poster basically listed the final steps. Go to the kernel and build a white list of valid USB device
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by SolarNet 7y ago
I never said it was fair, just that that was a benefit of it. Also, an alternative is a higher tax rate but use a UBI so poor people always have an effective negative tax rate. Constant offset, multiplicative tax rate. Ensures a floor of in
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Yea which is one benefit of simple tax systems. If the tax rate is 10% across the board, then there is a simple "spirit" there to appeal to.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Ah this actually explains something I have been wondering about. My new computer with firefox sometimes hitches and blacks out all the screens when I start/stop watching certain netflix content. I just realized this must be a DRM thing
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by SolarNet 7y ago
On the other hand it's easier to spot irregularities, the auditing is simpler because there isn't any variance.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
You realize scholarships are way more exclusive than half of all people right? I got a scholarship based off of the street I lived on. I got a scholarship based off of the career choice of my fraternal grandmother (e.g. if she had been my m
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by SolarNet 8y ago
The video in the comment you replied to is excellent I think. And it doesn't involve any sort of hand waviness (theological implications) in the final description. Basically just having machines accurately measuring the photons chang
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by SolarNet 8y ago
In a dynamic language "strong" vs "weak" typing really depends on the standard library. All the examples in the given link - for example - focus on the addition function in the standard library. So here are some counter
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by SolarNet 8y ago
That's because it's a strong type system (as opposed to python's weak one where objects can change their shape anytime). Even calling it dynamic is a sort of lie since the compiler is always able to reason about the types it
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by SolarNet 8y ago
It is a problem, especially given the context of a startup accelerator. The middle class are the core of a modern economy. People with enough money to spend on luxuries. With enough money to support multiple competing luxury products in man
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by SolarNet 8y ago
> Besides, if some particular blockchain succeeds as a currency, it will inevitably host a social networking protocol where the whole network's state (e.g. who follows whom, who likes what posts etc.) is always available to anyone i
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Blockchains have been overloaded by a bunch of people bringing modern technology to ancient industries as a sort of buzzword. So to an extent you are right the author's definition is narrow, and on the other hand the author is right in
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by SolarNet 8y ago
I mean, I would like if they said use a public cryptographic ledger as the no path with another split. But yea pretty much. Unless you are making money, you don't need a block chain, a public cryptographic ledger will do ya just fine.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
But again, what portion of the taxes in question are actually property taxes. I pay lots of business taxes and my business owns no property. You are saying if I bought a piece of property and paid property taxes on it, that all of my busine
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by SolarNet 8y ago
The assessed property tax values of the property. What does that have to do with the actual amount paid? Tax breaks for an entity don't apply to the assessed value of property owned by them...
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by SolarNet 8y ago
> would have to be public data by now Show me the public data source where I could conceivably find that out and I'll do "please provide evidence of the data that has been overlooked". Because I don't think that data
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Gundam continues to mix these gritty realistic space ideas with cool fighting robots. I wish more sci-fi shows would do this.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
I agreed with your conclusion but not your methodology nor terms nor those of the person you were responding to.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
You are mixing multiple interrelated ideas (and to be fair so was the person you are replying to). In most cases the "claim of negation" is the default position (related to the null hypothesis). If I claim there are invisible faer
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by SolarNet 8y ago
I mean I don't think this document is actually taking a stance on things being agile. Just on the detection of things that are actually agile and those that aren't due to the prevalence of the buzzword.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
I mean, in the book, this is post terrorist cells using nuclear weapons and bio weapons, facilitated by technology like the OP, a solution was required. And this one could be non-dystopian, making it better than other solutions.
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Since you are primed on the question. You should read Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge. It's a near-future sci-fi book that tackles these sorts of questions. As a bit of a "spoiler" his solution is a covenant with the citizens. T
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by SolarNet 8y ago
Yes it is specifically the part of their stack that one distributes to customers. It's like if the Java runtime or the DirectX runtime wasn't distributable to cloud machines. Unity had a pretty clear model as providing a software

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