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by heartbeats 3y ago
David Graeber argues in "Debt: The first 5000 years" that trade started out as being based on debt, and then this turned into a medium of exchange. Barter was never widespread.
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by heartbeats 3y ago
Full text of tweet: > Today we filed an official complaint against @henet (Hurricane Electric) with the @AGOWA (Attorney General of Washington State) over their censorship of legal and protected speech. We have also reached out to the @E
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Complaint filed against Hurricane Electric for blocking site(twitter.com)
10 points by heartbeats 3y ago|12 comments
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by heartbeats 3y ago
This article is very strange. It describes CSW as a "polymath," and more or less uncritically gives his side of the story: > Contrary to what the email to Hearn seems to indicate and what the Sourceforge trail appears to show,
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by heartbeats 3y ago
Aligned how? If you download the code, it won't change under your feet.
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by heartbeats 3y ago
Banks are usually liable for that.
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by heartbeats 3y ago
> The country’s two mobile phone networks sent messages to people asking them to change the settings of their clocks to manual instead of automatic in order for the time not to change at midnight, although in many cases the time advanced
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Lebanon split into two time zones in row over daylight saving(theguardian.com)
2 points by heartbeats 3y ago|1 comments
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> No they can't. What do you mean "can't"? My bank certainly has the information, since I can see it online if I log in. Of course they would have to change the law, but this also goes for the digital pound.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> Great, except each country is tiny and cross-border commerce common, so you end up having to implement all of them… Yes, and this can be done by software firms. You don't need to roll your own solution, but taking the payment netw
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Yes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is: "Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more. Second-order thinking is mu
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> Economists would surely love the anonymised spending data, were it to be made available. They could get this from banks already. > Retailers would presumably save by not having to pay fees to Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, etc. These are
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by heartbeats 4y ago
I don't think anyone is that advanced. As long as people watch it, they don't care.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
And yet nobody uses them. I wonder if there's some reason for that?
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> Some central server needs to be the arbiter of randomness What, no? My hash-based system is entirely random. The only issue is that draws are done with replacement, so two players may both have e.g. six of spades in their hand. This is
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by heartbeats 4y ago
SEPA isn't great, but there exist functioning country-wide systems as you mention. > And even if you wanted to implement all these systems, it's so much effort that you're back to relying on payment providers like Stripe,
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> What would be sort of awesome, though, would be a distributed bank (or prediction market, or casino) along these lines I think this is already possible for poker, and will never be possible for prediction markets. Prediction markets re
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by heartbeats 4y ago
It's unlikely that web3 will solve it; cryptocurrency already exists, and its many serious issues are not going to be solved by a fresh coat of paint or "moar adoption". If you want an actual solution, look at FedNow. This wo
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by heartbeats 4y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34182431 "on Suspicion of Human Trafficking" might be relevant to the title, methinks.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Care to elaborate? Do you have any advice?
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by heartbeats 4y ago
According to John J. Ray, the clean-up guy, FTX.us is solvent, or at least more so than the FTX.com silo.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
I don't think you should suggest people are "not even human," even if they're behaving in a deeply unethical fashion.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
A game with whose stakes?
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Altcoin devs are not paid well; Bitcoin devs make entirely normal SWE salaries according to public information, and I can't imagine DogeCoin or whatever is any better. All the big money is in marketing, since that's what creates t
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by heartbeats 4y ago
That would also be the case for just spamming people with "go join our cult" links, and I haven't seen this once. The limits load on other things: - Local presence of the cult - Ability to operationalize victims (convince the
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by heartbeats 4y ago
1. That's not the definition of a coup or a revolution. What happened was an extra-constitutional transition of power, which is a technical term of art, and this is the case regardless of whether its final ends were good or evil. 2. Th
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by heartbeats 4y ago
This isn't likely IMO. It's not like there's a robust API to find "lonely people" in the first place, and the difficulty in creating sympathetic people to talk to for a long period of time without slipping up once
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by heartbeats 4y ago
But for how long? Past year? Ten years? Century?
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by heartbeats 4y ago
That's true, but since the model is bigger than GPT-2, I can basically use it as a query language for a database. If the model is smaller, I still do that, sure, but I can only ask "basic" questions about the English language
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Well, what if I generate some nice GPT-based content on my personal computer, look at it on the screen, and then re-type it by hand on my "protected" smartphone? All you end up doing is implementing another ham-fisted DRM scheme t

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