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What about unique patterns of wealth redistribution across the economies they participate in? Surely this is a value to society.

> There is one other use case for identity, and yes, it is decentralized and bottom-up, because it is about dividing into secure, self-sovereign affinity groups, and the reasons fo…

Everything is already automated if you consider the universe’s noise to be an organizing force.

There’s a tragedy of commons problem in engineering. The engineering orgs collective ability to handle complexity is the community resource. Without safeguards in place this resour…

This probably mirrors the concentration of power that’s happening.

The what list?

This makes the whole US a debtors prison of sorts. Not sure if this is a useful way to think about it though.

Does anyone else remember being taught in Econ 101 about globalization and comparative advantage and how great it is? Either the educators didn't know this would happen or it was a…

Strictly focusing on minimizing risk to life imo leads to practices that neglect quality of life. Imagine if keeping your baby isolated at night meant that later in her life she wo…

The constant skin to skin contact between baby and mom from cosleeping and breastfeeding is believed by some psychologists to contribute to baby's healthy psychological development…

Fat vs glucose being the energy source depending on diet? Where can I find more info about this?

My therapy involves periods of getting in touch with my body, e.g. tension in my forehead or tightness in my chest, and then as I focus and try to be present with the sensations, w…

I wonder how long until a critical mass of people get fed up with the resource hogging of the ultra rich. Seems likely to happen at some point if current trends in wealth inequalit…

A lot of journalism is basically PR. I forget who, but someone did a study showing that a large percentage of journalism source material is basically press releases. Edit: typo fix…

Can we keep age discrimination out of this discussion please?

Run the examples to see what it does, try to build something with it to get a deeper understanding of the depth of its capability, then finally dive into the code itself by fixing …

Skycoin is interesting. https://www.skycoin.net/whitepapers/

Maybe this is the "make a favorable impression with rich people at LA parties" PR tactic.

Can you share more about your interest in this? Eg just cryptocurrency or for something larger?

How is the time dimension modeled?

> As an aside, has anyone else noticed how new posters are overwhelmingly pessimistic and reliant on dubious anecdotes? New posters are the next generation of old posters, that is …

The upper middle class is apparently a minority that is politically safe to do economic harm to.

He means speaking commands (to a shell I presume) rather than type them.

You may not know this but a primary purpose of Mensa is to help "smart" people find other "smart" people to socialize with. In that sense it succeeds (I'm a member).