mr_spothawk
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Comment · 9 months ago
I upvoted your comment.
Also, it's a scarcity mindset.
I don't agree that sibling to my comment: "make money by getting papers cited". it is not a long-term solution, much as Ad revenue is broken model for free software, also.
I'm hopeful that we see some vibe-coders get some products out that make money, and then pay to support the system they rely on for creating/maintaining their code.
Not sure what else to hope for, in terms of maintaining the public goods.
Comment · 2 years ago
> highlight that it uses ML running locally
I'd love to know the specifics. if there's an installable, reproducible local build w/ regular model/updates/maintenance that I could subscribe to, I'd be an interested party to a tool like that.
Comment · 2 years ago
Relevant case:
Wickard v. Filburn United States Supreme Court case Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111, is a United States Supreme Court decision that dramatically increased the regulatory power of the federal government. It remains as one of the most important and far-reaching cases concerning the New Deal, and it set a precedent for an expansive reading of the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause for decades to come. The goal of the legal challenge was to end the entire federal crop support program by declaring it unconstitutional. An Ohio farmer, Roscoe Filburn, was growing wheat to feed animals on his own farm. The U.S. government had established limits on wheat production, based on the acreage owned by a farmer, to stabilize wheat prices and supplies. Filburn grew more than was permitted and so was ordered to pay a penalty. In response, he said that because his wheat was not sold, it could not be regulated as commerce, let alone "interstate" commerce. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn)
Comment · 2 years ago
Because you can't yet purchase electricity/internet with bitcoin (directly).
Comment · 2 years ago
here's a fun book called Land of Lisp. It'll give you a reason to work in Emacs, and you can start learning Lisp too.
https://www.amazon.com/Land-Lisp-Learn-Program-Game/dp/15932...
I keep a journal in Org Mode, and that's how I've learned to use emacs.
Comment · 2 years ago
my question was whether or not those 134 had been validated. presumably, it was not the same doctor's office, 134 times.
Comment · 2 years ago
"convinced" is absolutely the word, and my reasoning is posted as a sibling to your message
Comment · 2 years ago
I can highlight text on the application switching screen (swipe up on android, press and hold over text on any of the applications in that view, you can highlight text that's otherwise not highlightable)
Likewise, you can highlight text on screenshots.
Comment · 2 years ago
so, was that 217 unique doctors, then? any effort by the researchers to validate the "official" documentation of shots?
Comment · 2 years ago
* a youthful 8 month old user account has entered the chats *
Comment · 2 years ago
I remain unconvinced that phone manufacturers are unable to read the screen. Username obscurity is neat for p2p privacy, but does nothing against "the cops" if you're doing something they don't want you to.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm slowly migrating a lot of my browsing out of Safari and into LibreWolf, and using the opportunity to document accounts/passwords that i want to keep.
If i were willing to get an iPhone, then i'd be quite happy with Safari (i don't have Chrome installed on my Mac), but I want the ability to have my bookmarks available on multiple phones & computers... so firefox profiles (in LibreWolf) is the mechanism i've decided to use for that (for now)
Comment · 3 years ago
Looks like electric universe to me.
Comment · 4 years ago
> your financial scheme
It's not my financial scheme, it's the social contract.
Comment · 4 years ago
> Unless you mean digitally, but that's just "having accounts".
But you must open an account with a bank, and deposit money before they can process transactions for you.
There's no way to deposit money *into* bitcoin. Bitcoin is money.
> Each transaction has a set of associated addresses.
Yes, and you suggested addresses are the equivalent of accounts. They are not.
> Banks can facilitate transactions between arbitrary whole numbers of accounts also (off the top of my head: 1- paying interest; 2- payment; 3+- escrow)
Accounts, which hold money, are a tool of banks[0]. Bitcoin doesn't have accounts. Bitcoin is not a (limited) bank. It is a distributed digital cash system.
"Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority or banks; managing transactions and the issuing of bitcoins is carried out collectively by the network."[1]
0 - https://www.fdic.gov/about/learn/learning/banks.html 1 - https://bitcoin.org/en/