sjeohp

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by sjeohp 3y ago
Location: NZ. Remote: yes Willing to relocate: depends Tech: rust, bitcoin, c, everything. Email: sjeohp@gmail.com Background in iOS and crypto. Formerly Accedo and Parity. Currently building a web gaming platform with money in it.
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by sjeohp 7y ago
> fake news propaganda leads to world wars and butchery of millions of innocent people. What are you referring to here? Wars and butchery have been reliably championed throughout history by regular news propaganda.
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by sjeohp 7y ago
> There is little indication that the "slippery slope" is more than a fallacy. If the slippery slope were real and the control of information successful, you might still think this.
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by sjeohp 7y ago
> Productivity gains help the world by allowing more services and products to be provided at cheaper rates. That can be true and still not ease the pain inflicted by unemployment. The poster is confronting the consequences of their work
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by sjeohp 7y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong but doesn't that inherently favour the side claiming "there is no problem because you can't prove there's a problem." Until by the time someone can prove there's a problem
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by sjeohp 7y ago
Would it shock you to learn that many politicians are liars?
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by sjeohp 7y ago
Not sure what you are hoping for beyond the self-evident unwillingness of most journalists to challenge state enthusiasm for the Foreign Intervention of the Month.
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by sjeohp 8y ago
Find a better way of guaranteeing trust-less asynchronous consensus then talk.
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by sjeohp 8y ago
Math has everything to do with nature.
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by sjeohp 8y ago
Mining gold gets harder over time. If you want more gold that's the price you pay. Trust-less consensus may be the same. Nature doesn't care either way.
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by sjeohp 8y ago
That's like saying space travel is a stupid waste of energy because it costs more than driving. Some things are expensive, sometimes they get cheaper. In the meantime if you want to get to Mars you either buy the proven rocket or the
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by sjeohp 8y ago
Nano claims to do it in action. So do others. Some of them might even be proven right, the vast majority will not, so acting like it's some kind of trivial solved problem is disingenuous. Ethereum's PoS has been in development
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by sjeohp 8y ago
> “However, it's possible to solve without using a country's-worth of energy to support a pathetic ~10 transactions per second.” Great! I look forward to seeing your solution in action.
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by sjeohp 8y ago
> You're literally killing the planet This kind of hyperbole suggests you didn’t read the person’s comment very closely. How is using X joules mining bitcoin worse than using it for anything else? Eg. mining gold? If the energy gri
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by sjeohp 8y ago
>But, it's also important to note that we don't have to answer the "how" question in order to identify halting oracles as a viable explanation. We often identify new phenomena and anomalies without being able to expla
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by sjeohp 8y ago
>Hence, a halting oracle is the best explanation for the human mind What does it explain though? That the human brain has a black box capable of solving certain problems... how exactly?
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by sjeohp 8y ago
> China has done far more egregious transgression to be sanctioned for than Russia That was the initial claim.
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by sjeohp 8y ago
> tampered with elections By that metric the US is most egregious, so is hypocritical to sanction anyone
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by sjeohp 8y ago
The assumptions are: 1) third party fact-checkers (eg. snopes) are credible and reliable. 2) the third party "Botometer" (machine-learning model) is valid and was trained on an accurately classified corpus. This type of study alwa
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by sjeohp 8y ago
They controlled for that using transparent glass with real ants on the other side. https://www.udocz.com/read/are-ants-capable-of-self-recognit...
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by sjeohp 8y ago
"I would like to pay/donate to an organization even though no major credit card will let me."
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by sjeohp 9y ago
I wasn't really making an argument, just alluding to the fact that western governments/media have a history of undermining/overthrowing democratic left wing leaders in the region, so mocking the idea as you did was disingenuo
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by sjeohp 9y ago
> Of course, this could all be a plot of the evil Imperialist western capitalist powers to strangle the last peoples' stronghold. /s From your sarcasm I take it you're unaware of the history of leftist governments in Centr
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by sjeohp 9y ago
> an utterly bankrupt (morally and politically) government How so? My understanding is that they just won regional elections praised by international observers as free and transparent[0]. Interestingly, western governments/media &a
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by sjeohp 9y ago
..... wow you're adorable. Try the past two decades of Venezuelan politics just for an appetizer.
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by sjeohp 9y ago
Absolutely. Such institutions have never abused such power in the past and surely never will. They would never use fear to manipulate public discourse for example.
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by sjeohp 9y ago
> potentially hazardous messages THOUGHTCRIME ALERT Must protect fragile minds from dangerous messages...
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by sjeohp 9y ago
> The icon would provide users an assessment of the news outlet's ratio of fact versus fiction and reporting versus opinion. Yes, we should always trust powerful institutions to tell us what the truth is...
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by sjeohp 9y ago
No. the universe isn't math. The universe is matter. Math is a part of the universe. Therefore math is simply material. Nothing more, nothing less.
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by sjeohp 9y ago
And no evidence against it. I believe it was intended as a hypothesis.

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