markdestouches

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by markdestouches 3y ago
This is the kind of literary nonsense that has annoyed me ever since I turned 20. If you don't have anything to say, no one care if you're human, and no one should. I see zero virtue in making inspired noise, even if you're f
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by markdestouches 3y ago
For now. I really don't like where it's going long term. Right now your worth as a human is in what you are able to do. I am terrified to think of a time when for everything you could ever hope to learn there would be a model that
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by markdestouches 3y ago
This moment will never come if you just sit and wait for it. Practice in writing is just as important as in coding. Unfortunately, as many great arts of the past, writing is dying due to the publics' interest shifting away from reading
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by markdestouches 3y ago
> This same reasoning is why I'm not bullish on AI; what the potential is and what we peasants get to use are vastly different It's not peasants who's gonna use AI, it's the elite. Peasants are gonna get nothing.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
But this isn't just about video conferencing software. I think it's pretty reasonable to assume that Microsoft is going to keep pushing in the same direction
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by markdestouches 4y ago
These tags are useless and have always been.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
>Instagram and Youtube could have grown on their Hadn't they grown on their own before they got bought up?
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by markdestouches 4y ago
It's like banning shovels because someone can get hit with a shovel. It's not a language problem, and it cannot be solved by chopping the language up on the Procrustean bed. All it's going to do is annoy people and rally them
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by markdestouches 4y ago
150 ms is the time it takes for a person to see the input and then do something (like pressing a key or blinking). That's a two way communication with processing (thinking) time included. The actual input reaction, as the time it takes
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by markdestouches 4y ago
I believe I've addressed that saying that some would consciously pick a cigarette. I think it is reasonable to say that such people are a minority.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
There are two different types of "want". You want to live a full and meaningful life. You also want another cigarette if you're addicted to smoking. Sure there are people who would consciously choose a cigarette, but they are
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Then you are arguing for allowing fraud and crime.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
It's not investment when there is no industry behind it. It's called speculation. Or gambling - for some people.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
> Bank runs still happen. I do agree with that. But it has become an extremely rare occurrence that usually indicates some deeper problems. > A lot of banks in Europe during the 2008+ crisis -- which is why "capital controls&quot
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by markdestouches 4y ago
I wonder why rounded corners are somehow more correct than square ones.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
> Crypto is very special in this sense. I noticed crypto's quality of being special is in reverse proportion to the Fed's interest rates. Just an observation. In all seriousness, the are two real drivers here: 1) speculation 2)
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by markdestouches 4y ago
> One benefit is that you can more credibly offer to keep your promises. We are yet to see a working example of that. > Meanwhile, users of FTX depended on government regulation and pinky-swears to keep their money safe, but since SBF
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by markdestouches 4y ago
It's not the type of currency you have that prevents bank runs. There were plenty of bank runs with very real dollars in the beginning of the century. What stopped it was proper regulation. EDIT: I mean the beginning the 20th century,
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by markdestouches 4y ago
>> You're still missing the forest for the trees. All of this was created in the last 2-3 years and already it's replicated most of what's in traditional finance. Making a copy of an existing technology while repeating
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by markdestouches 4y ago
No one claims markets don't adjust. The claim is that unregulated markets often don't adjust for the benefit of the society at large. It weren't as amazing when the GPU prices soared due to mining, was it?
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by markdestouches 4y ago
This is nonsense. First, no one can interact in "arbitrary user-defined ways" with anything. Second, anything you can imagine on the web and more has already been done in games. Please don't tell people that running a 3d stra
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by markdestouches 4y ago
I'm pretty sure there are teams out there that could have developed a successful product for that money, if you don't include the infrastructure costs.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Wasn't stadia absolutely dreadful at release with lags, bugs, stutter and shutdowns?
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by markdestouches 4y ago
This is the opposite of what Valve has always been doing, with one exception being Counter Strike.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
I strongly disagree. First, to adress the grandparent comment, Valve is a private company that is still lead by its founders, so the sentiment does not apply to them. First, Half-Life Alyx, from the technical standpoint, is a more complex p
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by markdestouches 4y ago
You are already eligible for punishment for crimes committed in foreign countries. I don't see how this makes things any different.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
It has been a dumb idea from the start. In a nutshell, making the whole process secure to acceptable levels would slow things down to the point where it's the same time as a regular plane flight. Yet it would cost orders of magnitude m
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Gives you a good perspective on how big google is and how much influence it potentially has.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Everybody can pass calculus. The only way one can fail at math is gaps in knowledge. If you managed to get through something like Kant or Hegel, you can get through any math subject provided you have the necessary prerequisites.
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by markdestouches 4y ago
Yes, you can do that. But the price should be such (say, $30) that people like you would be a very small minority. Of course, there will still be people that could do that. The system does not eliminate such behavior completely, but it redu

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