unknownkadath

Joined 11 years ago

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Comment · 6 years ago
You are assuming that the market place of ideas selects for correctness rather than virality.
Comment · 6 years ago
That would be a bold supposition, I think.
Comment · 6 years ago
I mean, so were pretty much all of the best people in history. That's not a great filter for finding the next hitler, is it?
Comment · 6 years ago
Recognizing that all people are, well, people would be a good first step on the road to ensuring that we dont all not become paperclips, right?
Comment · 6 years ago
Yeah, I immediately started humming along with Johnny Paycheck.

Imagine being a senior researcher at the peak of your career, working for 6 months to a year on a paper, submitting it to a top tier conference, getting accepted, then getting the pointy haired boss do-what-I-said-peasant treatment.

Big nope.

Comment · 6 years ago
It can be used that way, but it doesn't have to;

If I understand correctly, putting the votes on a single blockchain would protect the tally the same way it protects against double-spend attacks.

Comment · 6 years ago
Make it screen-reader friendly. The modern web sucks for the visually impaired!
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes
Comment · 6 years ago
> For instance, I cannot say on reddit that BLM by definition checks off all boxes for a terrorist hate group because I will be banned.

I would suggest that this is not true.

Comment · 6 years ago
Look buddy, it is natural for an NP-Complete problem to be outside of your comfort zone (probably).

e: well? he's polynomial

Comment · 6 years ago
Well, that's not exactly fair; it does make testable predictions, which is nice, and they should be the kind of thing that we would notice anyway (IIUC) as we get bigger and better tools, which makes it cheap to test, which is also nice.

I agree that it's probably not THE ANSWER, though!

Comment · 6 years ago
Whoa, slow down there, Satan.
Comment · 6 years ago
I got a Nokia 8110 4g to use as a secondary phone during not-work times. Can't browse much on a phone with a tabless browser. Also, it is very 90s cool.
Comment · 6 years ago
Seems like that would happen eventually whether or not NYT did anything, if SSC got famous enough. Though, I wouldn't dare to tell him how important the timeline of that is. It is his life, after all.
Comment · 6 years ago
This seems like the kind of thing a father might impose on a teenage child and have backfire hugely, not that this is your situation! Not to mention malicious pranks...

However, if it's just for you, maybe you could make the smart home keee $CONDITION until a particular smart contract on the Etherium blockchain changes state, and have the contract keep some money in escrow until one month has elapsed, at which time it is sent back to your wallet. If you cancel early, then the money goes into, say, the pi-hole donation address.

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