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Comment · 3 years ago
Not enough street music, the extinction of street music.
Comment · 3 years ago
I enjoyed all the Jewish tidbits sprinkled through the the book.
Comment · 4 years ago
What would one do with a mass-produced model and accompanying mass-produced NFT? What could the relationship possibly be between an action figure and a unique number?

This is NFT in the guise of a collectible's CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY. And maybe also in the function of a KEY to access fungible digital assets.

In either case, the NFT is an object that must be indefinitely maintained: there is a cost-of-upkeep in the form of network transaction costs. A certificate or a key also have associated cost-of-upkeep, however this cost is not fixed and falls quickly. Is this a wise trade-off, profit-wise?

Comment · 4 years ago
I agree that there is no such thing as objective interpretation. The interpretation is always biased by the interpreter. But truth comes before interpretation, not after. Truth exists independently of the observer's bias.

A bridge is either sound or unsound, engineering-wise. It is irrelevant whether any person judges the bridge to be sound or unsound--the soundness is tested by reality, and reality is mapped 1-to-1 to truth. Reality is truth.

Your math statements are true in the context of the ternary and quaternary systems. However, if you led the project to engineer and build the bridge under one of those systems, i feel confident that the bridge would fail. Because your ' true statements' would meet the reality of an engineering and implementation world that does not use those systems. Your argument that they are true would be completely irrelevant in the practical domain of modern construction. Your statements are not sound enough to build a bridge upon because the building project lives in reality instead of possibility.

One cannot argue for subjective truth because the nature of truth lies in its objectivity. Anyone who argues for subjective truth is in fact arguing for the non-existence of truth, which is foolishness.

Comment · 4 years ago
It's a waste of time to argue with people who believe there's only subjective truth. The whole of the world and existence reminds one constantly of objective truths--material or otherwise. These people are arguing ideology while ignoring fundamental ways that they (in reality) make decisions.
Comment · 4 years ago
Go build a bridge with that math, and we'll see if it objectively lasts...
Comment · 4 years ago
What place on the Internet isn’t a Market? Even hacker news is a Market of ideas. (The speech recognition automatically capitalized market)

How will we be immunized against this influx of cheaply generated rhetoric? What is the paradigm, what are the tools – technical or otherwise – that will act as white blood cells defending against infection.?

Comment · 4 years ago
I attended a reform school in Baja Mexico when I was a teenager. The food we were served was the best food I have eaten consistently in my life. The food was not delivered by sysco or parentheses ( {Open parentheses} some other stores distribution service end parentheses) {Close parentheses} Everything was made from scratch more or less – – – {double dash} fresh salsa, salsas, salsa‘s, it produced a few hours prior tortillas in huge stacks wrapped in brown paper fresh from the factory., Delete back up return space

New line {Newline newline} Thank you Four recognizing that

Steak, fish, mayonnaise salads at superior quality, hot dogs accompanied by a Thanksgiving-worthy spread of heaping bowls of condiments,…

We ate raisin bran every single morning almost without fail, although there were a few frosted flakes mixed in mixed in the selection of cereals I guess for competitive incentive.

//Composed using an iPhone speech recognition stock and followed By heavy editing Asterix Asterix sigh sigh Asterix Asterix Asterix symbol Asterix actress actor Asterix Asterix!

//does anybody know how to delete a Miss spoken word in this interface?

Comment · 4 years ago
Your username is “pirate”… why would a businessman care what you and yours want? You’re on different teams.
Comment · 4 years ago
“music playback app”?

YouTube is at least as good as the vinyl record player. It is also the sole location for countless live audio/video recordings of musical performance. It works fine as a “music playback app” and is, to emphasize, an _awesome_ and convenient resource of live music performance.

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