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IMHO search, hyper-centralization of content creation, and dopamine addiction to bite-sized content happened. You can no longer see new things you don't know about. You no longer w…

A miner can not tamper with the ledger. A miner can prevent certain transactions from coming through if they are the only miner on the network, but they can't forge transactions.

Which services would you recommend? Last time I searched for free general-purpose website archival sites (for personal bitrot prevention), I could find only archive.is and archive.…

If you are a zebrafish.

What people in this thread seem to be missing is that modeling and decision making do not have to be done simultaneously. You always want the most accurate model of reality as you …

> If you are at 98% accuracy for autonomous driving right now, you are practically nowhere. In 100 seconds of driving, you will crash and possibly die, twice. 98% accuracy, 100 sec…

The reuters article referenced below [1] claims that 58 percent [of adult refugees] had spent 10 years or more at school, and just under a third had attended university or a vocati…

The referenced article doesn't have any figures on crime. A news article from 2017 [1] claims the opposite (refugees commit disproportionately more crime), but adds that just 1 per…

Presumably to not supply them your domain usage stats.

Even if you do not think that, your fellow humans do. If you put power into their hands to decide who should hang, a lot of innocent people will. What you are talking about is comp…

But who do you trust to decide that someone is a Nazi? Should it be Slate, some government bureaucracy, you personally, AirBnB? What if someone labels you a Nazi? Should we just th…

Giving a centralized authority the power to censor whatever someone deems offensive sounds like such a wonderful idea. I especially love the idea of "criminalizing dangerous though…

It wasn't even meant for the entire company. He gave it to a small community of people within Google who later distributed it across the company AFAIU from his interview with Jorda…

https://archive.fo/VCz3I/22b9ae6e1cfad9328490576e8ddb4549f87... Now, I have no idea which one is the original, but AFAIU once you take a jpg and scan it into pdf, it's easy to move…

> you may have clocked that Tuesday's dump was engineered to help the President pin the hacking of his political opponents' email server on the CIA Why does everything have to be a…

Let me use my favourite tool of intellectual terrorism: Just use monads. Ouch, now we have two problems here. :P

That's the thing. There is no argument for one vs the other . There is a statement of the following fact: "It is hard to express heterogeneous array type in most statically typed p…

Wow, if that is so, then I am completely sold on static typing. I do not get how dynamic typing gets into the picture. Having a type system that can catch some errors at compile ti…

Nope. Quote from the article: "the process still requires the transmission of measurement data from one side to the other via classical communication (read: regular, non-instantane…

How do you measure "bestness" exactly? Is it measured in the number of daily GitHub/BitBucket/whatever commits or in the number of stackoverflow answers? Or is it measured in the o…