b1daly

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by b1daly 3y ago
the world is incredibly filled with risk to humans—people in the AI doomer camp are making a claim that AI potentially is a new kind of uncontrollable risk that warrants extraordinary regulation the basis of this claim seems to be a confusi
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by b1daly 3y ago
doesn’t your example make clear the existence and nature of free will? it’s obvious in its absence
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by b1daly 3y ago
this is my pet peeve with discussions of ‘free will’ they have an implicit definition—everything being exactly the same at a different time or place—that is non-sensical as far as we know. I’m still disturbed by peoples confidence in a dete
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by b1daly 3y ago
I’ve never understood his crankiness on this subject: the concept of ‘right to repair’ is entirely synthetic. Government intervention in markets is usually predicated on some kind of ‘market failure’ and I don’t see how that is the case her
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by b1daly 5y ago
Really? Like in the next 200 years? That’s ridiculous. The scenarios from IPCC envision a future of prosperity, albeit at a reduced level than if we could somehow drastically cut carbon emissions.
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by b1daly 5y ago
In the US landlords do have some liability for criminal conduct on their property whether committed by tenants or others. Most web services do have strict restrictions on conduct. This is a far cry from vigilantism. It’s messed up for Cloud
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by b1daly 5y ago
No he is not. The Strike in question is the one run by Jack Maller and the description of using USDT for remittances to ES comes from Miller’s own Medium article. https://jimmymow.medium.com/announcing-strike-global-2392b90.
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by b1daly 5y ago
When have ‘the media’ ever not published lies and ideology? Serious question...
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by b1daly 5y ago
I agree with the thrust of your comment in general. I thought that Trump’s China travel ban was a choice of common sense and the Democrats labeling it as xenophobic was counterproductive. While it certainly was xenophobic in Trump’s hands,
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by b1daly 5y ago
Isn’t this a problem of efficiency and optimization? Running the system lean leads to lower costs, but with risk of occasional shortfalls due to exogenous effects. But to optimize for those relatively infrequent events would increase the co
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by b1daly 5y ago
This argument about code inspection does not make sense to me. The number of people who are going to even have the ability to inspect the code of the applications they use is infitesimal and of that small number the people who have time and
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by b1daly 5y ago
We need protection from which government? All of them? I think that is probably impossible.
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by b1daly 6y ago
This article is an example of the pure propaganda that 'mainstream financial media' participates in on-the-regular. Why that is I don't know. Symbiotic business interests I guess. It's not that the information is incorre
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by b1daly 6y ago
The difference is the moon landing or ‘who shot JFK’ are about subjects that are low stakes, very low. Having millions people believe the Presidential election was corrupt is corrosive to the basic civic foundations of the political process
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by b1daly 6y ago
I believe what they are saying is that if their is a correlation between skin color and vitamin D levels (people with darker skin have less vitamin D) and there is another reason people with darker skin have poor outcomes (let’s say bad hea
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by b1daly 6y ago
You are not acknowledging the core economic problem which is that the productive capacity of the economy is going to be destroyed if this doesn’t end soon. What you are describing is essentially how to ration the dwindling supplies of goods
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by b1daly 7y ago
I like Serum a lot, but it has the same set of issues that make all of these digital synths limited as performance instruments compared to, say, a piano. The issue starts with the low resolution of MIDI. Most instruments implement only velo
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by b1daly 7y ago
I wouldn’t say modern electronic music has a higher level of ‘sonic texture’ than orchestral music, or any music using traditional instruments. The difference is that in modern music ‘sonic texture’ is an explicit mode of “authorial express
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by b1daly 7y ago
That doesn’t require a blockchain based system though. A single entity can secure a crypto currency. You can convert PayPal directly into US dollars at your bank, so I don’t think they would see any benefit to supporting such a distributed
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by b1daly 7y ago
In reality, the attack surface with crypto’s is ever expanding. There’s no free lunch, and the minimal security provided with crypto currencies is provided at a high cost.
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by b1daly 7y ago
But it really depends on being able to transact at one of the very limited set of vendors who would accept crypto, especially overseas. It’s a chicken/egg problem because without an extensive ongoing economy which would allow one to co
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by b1daly 7y ago
I agree with a lot of his points, and I would do well to embrace them. When he gets into diving people into “makers or takers” that’s an arrogant and ugly way to look at the world. Because “taker” has a perjorative element. People are not o
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by b1daly 7y ago
I thought GM did a great job with the Volt. My Dad has one. He usually only drives around town, so he never needs gas. But the car has a range of 400+ miles on a full charge and tank of gas. He says the switch from the electric motor is sea
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by b1daly 7y ago
The middle class enjoy the benefits of subsidies to the oil industry already. They are also getting cheaper prices due to the political resistance of including the costs of atmospheric carbon dioxide to the planet. If the middle class would
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by b1daly 7y ago
Yes it does mean it’s not a monopoly! That’s the literal definition. You could describe it as a duopoly but I think it’s pretty clear that Apple and Google are fierce competitors. And Apple has minority market share by far. Neither company
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by b1daly 7y ago
The Soderberg remake is excellent and adapts the pacing to more familiar levels.
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by b1daly 7y ago
I don't think there's any need to pretend Apple is marketing this simply as a virtuous act. They have competitive advantages in some areas, and not in others. They are taking advantage of such an advantage.
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by b1daly 7y ago
I don't see how any anti-trust laws based on having monopoly-level market control could possibly be applied to Apple. Apple simply does not have a monopoly in any market, from either a narrow "by the book" perspective or in a
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by b1daly 7y ago
Well yeah, but don’t you think this is exceptionally hard with a touch screen? Didn’t microsoft try to do this in Windows 8 with little icons in the corners? The problem is that little icons provide only marginally more information, if at a
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by b1daly 7y ago
I’m not quite following you here. Are you suggesting that there is an alternative to the current system that allows buyers and sellers to opt out of the ~2% fee built into prices to cover the cost of fraud? And that this system is currently

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