typednothing

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by typednothing 9y ago
It's like demanding that people encrypt their communications with ROT13. That request is fundamentally broken. A system that does not work, and can impossibly work, cannot be part of morality. Hence, it cannot be immoral to dodge such
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by typednothing 9y ago
Could a rule like "Everybody must go up to the 12th floor, jump out of the window, and die." be part of morality? No, because that would be self-defeating. In the same way, demanding that people pay a tax but not fixing at all how
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by typednothing 9y ago
If two parties negotiate a deal, and one of both parties gets to write the contract, then, the other party will pretty much be screwed. That is why the contract must be written by a third party, such as a marketplace.
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by typednothing 9y ago
At some point they'll junk the in-house program and buy something off the shelf.
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by typednothing 9y ago
> There is programming that is hard, it's just that that is not the type of programming most people do, and it's becoming more and more rare. One major difficulty in programming is maintaining consistency and stamping out ambig
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by typednothing 9y ago
Can someone get the imbecile media to shut up about the misnomer "artificial intelligence"? Either an outcome is computable, or else it is not. If it is computable, it is not "artificially intelligent". If it is not comp
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by typednothing 9y ago
> they can go after currency converters Only in their own jurisdiction. The US already goes after those, but it won't help as long as other countries don't. > They can make holding it illegal. Unenforceable. Making the knowl
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by typednothing 9y ago
Users would still need to be able to transfer control over such energy to other users in order to pay them. For bitcoin, you can just use the internet. What is your practical proposal for making the "energy transfer" possible?
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by typednothing 9y ago
> We can hire 'ten for one' in a country A. Rather: 'two for one'.
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by typednothing 9y ago
A web user interface is just a user interface to the actual program, which I always construct as a commandline (cli) program. It should also be easy (or at least doable) to build a mobile and/or desktop user interface for the same back
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by typednothing 9y ago
With IPhone's market share of just 9% in China, WeChat should drop support for the IPhone.