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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. Current…

> 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 h…

> 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…

> 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. …

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 prov…

Would it shock you to learn that many politicians are liars?

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.

Most journalists are state lackeys so that doesn't say much. A sane person should recognize the difference between hacking a govt computer for personal gain and hacking in the publ…

Find a better way of guaranteeing trust-less asynchronous consensus then talk.

Math has everything to do with nature.

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.

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 t…

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 dising…

> “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 ac…

> 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 fo…

>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 …

>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 exa…

> China has done far more egregious transgression to be sanctioned for than Russia That was the initial claim.

> tampered with elections By that metric the US is most egregious, so is hypocritical to sanction anyone

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 acc…

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...

I’m confused. Clearly.