light_cone

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by light_cone 5mo ago
I use two text manipulation plugins in sublime text all the time. I did not manage to have the functionality in zed, which made be renounce to use it: - Evaluate, a plugin that evaluates the selections as python expressions and replaces the
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by light_cone 2y ago
Moreover, the law literally says that contracts are considered as laws but only applicable to co-contractants (at least in France it's written like that). So it's the same thing, just with a different scope and precedence on the h
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by light_cone 3y ago
I have some of these usb keys, and I remember having remounted the device rw on linux, and the device failed with an io error when I attempted to write. So if I'm correct, the driver was configured as if the key was rw, but it failed b
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by light_cone 3y ago
When you imprison someone until they become a spy in the company you're trying to buy, do you really think there is no outcome where you might gain leverage?
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by light_cone 3y ago
I would not know how that works, but I can recall a "strange" order of judicial events in the Alstom buyout by General Electric. Frédéric Pierucci was incarcerated for some weird foreign bribery charges, refused to be an FBI infor
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by light_cone 4y ago
I am using it, and I find it provides good services overall. Much more flexible than traditional banks. I contacted the customer service once and it responded. I have not used the API, but I looked at it at some point and it seemed capable
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by light_cone 4y ago
No sorry, I went on a tangent and generalized without stating it clearly. I just wanted to argue that by my definition, we are already in a tranhumanistic (and eugenistic) society, so we should not spare ourselves these debates instead of b
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by light_cone 4y ago
I get that, I understand very well it's a slippery slope. For me it's just a cursor, whereas I think that people pretend there is no cursor, only absolute values. I guess it's a question of semantics. Because by reading you,
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by light_cone 4y ago
I don't know why, but the word 'eugenics' is enough to trigger a thought-terminating cliché. Maybe the GP was being tongue-in-cheek, maybe not, but it's always a strong reaction to this word. I understand it was used as
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by light_cone 4y ago
I think it has meaning after all. I would rewrite as this: "HEX directly targeted investors globally, using advertisements placed in football stadiums (especially those involved in the English premier league). These ads boasted about a
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by light_cone 4y ago
I think you are enamoured with the idea of being neutral, like a pure-wisdom spirit above the melee, wisely noticing the hypocrisy of the west and reminding us the right for any people to live as they see fit. Well I think this is just your
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by light_cone 4y ago
Yes, I think it's a fair assumption unfortunately.
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by light_cone 4y ago
"Honey, you are so important to me that I decided to dump you." If you tried adapt the corporate wording in your everyday life, you'd be judged by everyone as one of the biggest a-hole there is, and rightly so. I wonder the p
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by light_cone 4y ago
Indeed, thank you, I was not aware of this example.
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by light_cone 4y ago
If I did start an open source project, I think I would do a very simple licensing that I have never encountered, like: "Dual licensing: Paid software now, and GPL starting 2032". I guess in the oss monetization list it is covered
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by light_cone 4y ago
First of all, _most_ services is not _all_ services, so you have a use case here. Also, you could make FIDO keys that support restoring but not backing up. If you could set up a FIDO with custom random seed _as an expert option_, then you c
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by light_cone 4y ago
> But none of those drugs will result in the long-term change that you’re looking for. Sorry to be blunt, but this is clearly the morally infused cliché of "healthy people do not take drugs because drugs are bad mkay.". Cliché
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by light_cone 5y ago
Exactly, you can search "motus france 2" on youtube and you'll see the tv show that existed for decades in france.
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by light_cone 5y ago
I have a similar problem, and when I finally allocate bandwidth for a project, I can't find relevant objects when I need them. So I bought a commercial label printer, I made a web app with a database representing a tree of objects&#x2F
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by light_cone 5y ago
Well, adding "obviously" to an argument does not add anything to the argument. I can see how you _might_ think this some type of mental health issue, but seeing a behavior that is weird from your point of view does not make it a m
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by light_cone 5y ago
It is sad that you would rather believe the parent has mental health issues, rather than entertain the possibility that yes, someone is actually doing something effective against powerful corrupt people, and that requires creative thinking.
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by light_cone 5y ago
Obligatory meta TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o Personally the TED talk I liked the most. It's funny but I actually find it interesting, showing that appearance of meaning is not actual meaning.
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by light_cone 5y ago
If you happen to compare what are (argued as) early weak signals, with the morality of the nazi holocaust in its last stage, then sure it's disrespectful. But this a kind of a strawman argument. Alerting the possible bad outcome much l
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by light_cone 5y ago
All that website inspires me is the American Psycho business card scene. Sometime reality is stranger than fiction.
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by light_cone 5y ago
I think you basically ask the right questions. But when you have progressed in your understanding, and you're confronted with the next problem caused by PoS, you seem to assume that PoS is flawed, because you can't immediately thi
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by light_cone 5y ago
With VDF you cannot rebuild the 100 minutes worth of blocks in less than 100 minutes, because with the VDF logging, you just proved that you would need at least 100 minutes to go from block n to n+(100 minutes). You can check in 10 seconds,
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by light_cone 5y ago
It's incredible how people who read a few articles think they have found the smoking gun, against a technology on which a lot of crypto researchers devote years of their time to make and analyze. They must think themselves are geniuses
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by light_cone 5y ago
The clock issue is an excellent point, but the ethereum PoS have a nano scale PoW mechanism for this exact problem. Look at VFD "Verifiable Delay Functions" [1]. In short: If you take the pbkdf2 key derivation function: its job is
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by light_cone 5y ago
I agree, that is exactly what I think people always misunderstand about tolerance: You cannot tolerate something you agree with. That is called agreeing, not tolerance, by definition. Tolerance is the wise behavior you should have, reserved
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by light_cone 5y ago
Of course, no one has ever felt to be the intolerant one in the story.

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