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by random023987 5y ago
So it's an honest Ponzi scheme?
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by random023987 6y ago
If you're looking for the summary, it's about 1/4 the way in. > Usually, the viruses that humans care about are successful because they shut down both of these signalling programs. The coronavirus is different. “It seems t
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by random023987 7y ago
> any examples of any games [...] that let you meaningfully impact the game world? Dwarf Fortress
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by random023987 7y ago
> and competing directly with well funded companies like Facebook, Google, Telegram, etc. As opposed to competing with well funded companies like Sun, IBM, SGI, and Microsoft? Sometimes producing a better, more open product is more impor
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by random023987 7y ago
Life isn't a poker game. You can't take the same rules from Vegas and apply them to health care and human rights.
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by random023987 7y ago
I think most people would prefer to decide for themselves if that's worth the $40,000/yr that they would have had if wages kept up with productivity.
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by random023987 7y ago
If you want an asymmetric persistence layer where all writes are documents placed in a Kafka topic, and all reads are via relational queries. It's a distributed, eventually consistent, highly available ledger that can be queried with S
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by random023987 7y ago
> I would love is an event store You know you can put a key with a null value onto a topic. If your backend object store gives you data by key, this should give you exactly what you want. Later on, you can put a small subset of the data
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by random023987 7y ago
> This is a strange sentiment to find on a board that is at least a partially targeted at aspiring company founders. It's not inconsistent. Most founders are trying to create companies that provide economic value; one can believe t
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by random023987 7y ago
Assuming a JWT implementation accepts only a fixed header (all header fields must be present and match, no additional fields can be present), are there any other issues with "just use jwt"?
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by random023987 7y ago
> There is if the people in the DOJ suffer from identity theft and get their bank accounts cleaned out because some nefarious people exploited the backdoors People in the DOJ have more options available to them if they choose to try to f
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by random023987 7y ago
I can't wait to see the flood of posts in 12 months about "why I'm leaving substack"
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by random023987 8y ago
> Iron particles [...] Find another solution. Technically, seeding the ocean with iron particles is a suspension, not a solution. Luckily, the common technique is to use Iron(II) sulfate, which mixed with water does create a solution!
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by random023987 8y ago
While the War on (Americans who use (some)) Drugs is a decades-long tragedy whose human costs dwarf most natural disasters, it's pretty clear the goals of US drug policy aren't to reduce criminal activity, but instead explicitly c
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by random023987 9y ago
So you're saying that society as a whole would be better off simply using banks? Given that the external costs of banks have already been paid, and we can save a ton of energy by not flooding the etulip market with speculation.
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by random023987 9y ago
I can detail a process through which bitcoin is used primarily for speculation and criminal activity. Can you detail a feasible process whereby bitcoin gets rid of the aircraft carriers? Or alternatively, can you detail a feasible process w
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by random023987 9y ago
> Do you think banks exist for free? What are the costs of maintaining a system of banks capable of acting as a trusted custodian in such a transaction, covering every jurisdiction the globe over? Have you amortized the cost of aircraft
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by random023987 9y ago
> Real estate is a hard case, but by no means impossible, particularly if a custodian can hold the assets in the transaction. This approach is well understood. So perhaps we could use an entity that is experienced in holding real estate
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by random023987 9y ago
> "Again, the main function of a bitcoin exchange is to get its bitcoins stolen..." > Really? Really. Is there any other reason to open a bitcoin exchange other than to have fools give you eTuplips that you can abscond with
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by random023987 9y ago
Counterpoint, as technical people, we can agree that there is probably a better solution to an impending accident rather than sit still like a deer in the headlights. In fact, this article could start a discussion on if the risks of active
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by random023987 9y ago
> Why do futures exist for something that can be settled in 30 minutes? Because money. Or more specifically, someone is willing to sell these futures to someone who is willing to buy them.
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by random023987 9y ago
> Anything that can be traded on such a scale will undoubtedly be manipulated. Conversely, the efficient markets hypothesis implies that in time, the prices of eTulips will converge on the values of the underlying security. But you'
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by random023987 9y ago
Yes they are. And depending on your political beliefs, taxes are slavery, theft, or violence, and if you're ideological enough, you can see taxes as the moral equivalent of Lenin promising a share of the aristocrat's land.
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by random023987 9y ago
This is why we should reject public education, public libraries, public safety, public unemployment funds, public retirement funds, and public medicine for the elderly. Because you, know, it just doesn't work. And all of the positive e
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by random023987 9y ago
> Usually what happens in these stories is that a kid makes something that is a pale imitation of current standards, and the parents use their industry connections to get a PR blast about their awesome kid, that gets the kid a leg up in
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by random023987 9y ago
> We can't pay Medicare rates because Medicare rates are not high enough to be self-sufficient in the absence of other payers This is incorrect, and you're going to need a better citation than industry self reporting on how the
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by random023987 9y ago
> Awkwardly, it's the other way around. Providers and private insurers would actually love a transparent pricing system. Incorrect. back room deals and discounts is how providers and insurers jockey for advantage. > The entity th
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by random023987 9y ago
> There was nothing in the ACA that tackled healthcare costs, it was only concerned with spreading healthcare costs. That's because it was a political solution. If it tackled healthcare costs, it would have been swiftly killed by th
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by random023987 9y ago
I think you meant: > It will never be necessary to levy taxes to pay for asteroid defense , because I have perfect certainty that no asteroid will ever head toward the earth, so I don't need a moral philosophy that weights taxation
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by random023987 9y ago
> super awesome. This is not super-awesome. Humans have made incredible progress by specializing and optimizing, and this process improves productivity, efficiently, and (most importantly when it comes to medicine) safety. The idea that

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