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by tnzm 5y ago
Two QR codes: one of the ticket's public key, and one of your public key. Their infrastructure verifies that you're the current owner and you're in. Or just have your phone broadcast the public keys via radio to a turnstile.
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by tnzm 5y ago
>I don't know why but the whole cryptocurrency space feels like a philosophical parody of the real world. Money without people. Contracts without enforcement. Ownership without property. The common denominator between these being: p
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by tnzm 5y ago
Because the galaxy is a lot bigger than that subdivision, too.
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by tnzm 5y ago
What if meaningless busy-work is qualified professionals getting paid to leave meaningful problems alone because solving them is bad for the racket?
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by tnzm 5y ago
Let's face it, powerful forces in our society discourage self-control and critical reflection, and culture encourages people to have children regardless of whether they have learned those skills
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by tnzm 5y ago
Royalties, man, yeah.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Why not?
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by tnzm 5y ago
I can, but that's ugly - it violates standard semantics and generally introduces a new thing to know about.
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by tnzm 5y ago
This is also why I advocate for JS as a scripting language (if it's already a part of your stack, anyway). Curiously, every time I mention it HN gets mad at me.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Class static blocks are weird. Give me async constructors already!
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by tnzm 5y ago
Well put. Personal story: moved into a EU country and tried to import my car tax-free as personal property. Went to a customs agency because apparently you don't talk to customs directly, you go through one of those. They had me collec
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by tnzm 5y ago
Wow, thanks! That's a wonderfully succinct way of putting it.
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by tnzm 5y ago
You asked what was the difference between my statement (that genetics is not more special than other causes of being more or less skilled at something) and the statement that "all is one, separateness is an illusion". I answered t
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by tnzm 5y ago
That's why I brought up metaphysics and e-prime actually. We can't resolve societal contradictions in a fundamental way if we do not have the tools to reason about them, and the main tool we have for that, human language, can at t
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by tnzm 5y ago
You now seem to be talking about something else entirely.
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by tnzm 5y ago
In the current state of the world, most scientific research will be co-opted by some violent apparatus or another. Does that mean we should lose hope and stop doing any research altogether?
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by tnzm 5y ago
Saying "there is no essential difference between genetics and other causative factors" is arbitrarily different from saying "all is one, separateness is an illusion". That is, it differs in connotations and not in the es
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by tnzm 5y ago
Arbitrarily.
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by tnzm 5y ago
You're not supposed to be able to refer to other.#value, though, isn't that the entire point of a private field?
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by tnzm 5y ago
Fair enough. I still believe that tiptoeing around these issues gives power to those who consciously perpetrate and benefit from institutionalized violence. Like another commenter said, operating with a comfortably skewed mental model doesn
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by tnzm 5y ago
"Nature vs nurture" in the hairless ape presupposes free will, which is a linguistic universal but a metaphysical unprovable. Look closely enough and there is no essential difference between genetics and other causative factors. O
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by tnzm 5y ago
I know they're not, that's why I'm objecting to them in principle (even though I use them and they're quite handy). JavaScript already has a solution - just put the private fields in the parent closure where they can&#x2
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by tnzm 5y ago
So, this, but with more steps? function Foo () { var x = 1 // "static initialization block" return { y: 2, z: function () { return x + y } } } const foo = Foo() There&#x
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by tnzm 5y ago
Three words: embrace, extend, extinguish.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Hierarchy overrides reason.
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by tnzm 5y ago
Exactly. Plenty of risks involved - they could just fail like Microsoft did, or if they pull it off it could seriously upset the balance in the ecosystem. Better reach a mutually beneficial agreement with everyone's "favorite&quot
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by tnzm 5y ago
I'd imagine with $15B Apple could bootstrap its own search engine.
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by tnzm 5y ago
My two cents: Identity is a socially constructed fiction that we are bound to via continuous environmental reinforcement. We impose identities on each other as a fundamental precept of social reality. It's somewhere in the middle of ou
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by tnzm 5y ago
It may be well known, but is it true? "Corruption" implies there's a previously established social order to corrupt. But in developing nations this social order is not something that existed and is now being undermined; it&#x
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by tnzm 5y ago
Introverts are "naturally" underrepresented in normative discourse.

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