bloomingfractal

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by bloomingfractal 8y ago
I do believe that if there are internal company reports that their activities are causing global warming and the board decides to go with business as usual, it's a criminal activity [1]. It's indeed a blow against property rights,
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by bloomingfractal 8y ago
Agreed. To rephrase, I just think that people spend too much time arguing what they can do on an individual/moral level (i.e. veganism, etc) and too little time discussing political solutions, and I believe this is mostly a political i
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by bloomingfractal 8y ago
IMHO, there's no point in individual action, we need collective political action in the form of massive government intervention, pretty much like in a total war economy. The free market clearly has failed here: - Carbon tax. - Carbon t
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by bloomingfractal 9y ago
Assuming they work correctly the benefits are clear. If they can ever be made secure, it's what I wanted to know from the researchers.
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by bloomingfractal 9y ago
I see the authors are hanging out here so would like to make a question :) Do you believe that with the proper audit systems in place (e.g. open-source, open-hardware, not rolling your own crypto, etc) it would still be possible to have a s
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by bloomingfractal 9y ago
and that's why governments should hire software engineers that can be in the loop and understand not only the technical but the policy side. Hiring an army of contractors earning 300k/year to deliver "something" in the w
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by bloomingfractal 10y ago
On a side note, does anyone know if there's a way to self-host osm? Basically have my own google maps?
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by bloomingfractal 11y ago
I see, Thanks for the insightful answer! Regarding machine learning it would be nice to be able do the training in your desktop/laptop when it's idle or something like that. But it's very good to know this is a technological
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by bloomingfractal 11y ago
People, remember how many successful companies have been founded by immigrants (Sergey Brin comes to mind). This is not a zero-sum game, if innovation doesn't happen here in this country it will happen eventually elsewhere. The US is a
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by bloomingfractal 11y ago
What about doing all processing locally and storing only end-to-end encrypted data in servers?
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by bloomingfractal 11y ago
Hacker news is definitely not the best place to engage in discussions about medical papers.
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by bloomingfractal 11y ago
Do you guys know of any other projects of networks where the infrastructure is owned/crowdsorced by the public?
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by bloomingfractal 11y ago
Thank you, that was incredibly interesting!
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by bloomingfractal 11y ago
For me that kind of story gives extra justification to abolish copyrights in the way they currently are. Our culture is being held hostage by all these games and the real artists get paid very little. Meanwhile, we technologists should just