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There is no ethical dilemma here at all, because these automated killing machines aren't necessary. Borders are defended all over the world by conventional means. Execution by robot is another step towards dystopia, and we should absolutely reject the notion that this is some morally complicated issue.
In apple's case its different, software is bundled "free" when you buy apple's hardware. Lenovo Doesn't make software and forces you to pay for Windows.
Yes, but how do you infer intent from the force put against the actuator? There is no point in using this robot if it doesn't work if people are heavier than some arbitrary value, or if they get released because they bumped against something while being towed...
So, I realize that lots of apocalyptic projections get made about AI that have a habit of not coming true, but this seems like an awful idea. Also, an awfully hard one to resist. If your opponent has fast-as-a-computer-can-pull-the-trigger firepower, it's going to be pretty hard to resist the urge to get your own.

Once you have two sides with automated offensive capability, we are one bug away from the kind of mistakes that, during the Cold War, were intercepted by humans in the loop. I'm not sure how this can NOT end badly.
> Never, ever, try to estimate software projects.

So...just go around telling people you need an indefinite amount of time to do anything at all?
The servers are definitely not in Russia because the team had to leave Russia due to the pressure from the government which outlawed it a few years ago. IIRC it runs on AWS because I remember when Russian government started banning Telegram IP ranges a lot of AWS-based sites became unavailable in Russia as collateral damage
It's a way of accessing liquidity while holding on to your asset's appreciation and avoiding capital gains tax on it. If you're very long on your crypto holdings, but you still need money, that's ideal way of accessing it imo.

But many people confuse borrowing with lending, companies like blockfi offer you both. If you borrow to get yourself into leverage, you're running risk of liquidation. If you're simply lending it, you can make back 3-7% back interest in your crypto and blockfi and other places will provide that crypto as liquidity to institutions (presumably to short-sell).

You can also do it through DeFi protocols, MakerDAO is the most popular, you can see some stats at daistats.com (roughly 3B+$ in collateral and debt). It creates this weird cycle where if the price goes up, you can borrow against your increased collateral value to buy back even more which in turn increases the price further. I suspect there's some things slowing that dynamic at the moment, but it certainly plays some role.

And I should also add that this is a fairly common way for wealthy people to access liquidity while keeping their assets, I believe Larry Ellison is one of the famous example of this[1], but now it's democratized for anyone who has cryptocurrencies.

1: https://www.steubencourier.com/article/20140926/BUSINESS/309...
> Those people also likely believe that the “right communism” just hasn’t been tried yet

Well, it has been tried, in the mid 30s in Spain, and it had worked, and it was called Anarchism.
Anyway one point for you for bringing politics in this thread, another one for generalizing, and one point for me for replying.

Take care
If an employer or coworker doesn’t agree to whatever is your latest demand, “you” would start a campaign to get them fired or contact their customers to try to lose them business. Happens regularly.
Sorry for the delay! I only just saw this question.

We have 6 goats and 13 chickens. We live in a town of 3.5k. It is large enough to have the necessities like grocery and hardware stores. At the same time, there are less than 2 dozen people living within half of a mile of me.

We can get to a town of 11k in 20 minutes and a city of a quarter million in 35, so most everything we would want is accessible, but we need to plan out trips a bit. The only thing I'm really missing is access to a variety of cuisines. There is but one Ethiopian restaurant within a hour, 3 Indian places, and no Burmese. The one Chaat place we knew of closed during the pandemic. But we do have 7 bars serving the same Americana within 10 minutes of us!
There's a funny Asimov short story about improving technology for guided missiles. The solution: put a pilot in each guided missle. The entire story is tongue-in-cheek, but characterizes the ebb and flow between ethics and military technology.
> At the risk of sounding cold...they seriously suspended it because four people showed issues? Out of more than 100k doses? That's microscopic, a rounding error compared to how many people die from covid.

Rounding error compared to the death rate over the course of the entire pandemic in Ireland (92.1 deaths per day per 100k) or rounding error compared to the current Irish COVID death rate (0.334 deaths per day per 100k)?
A shorter version of your last ref.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oc...

"[....]If the dollar is high and therefore buys lots of foreign currency, then imports are cheap. This means that we will buy lots of imports.

"If we have low exports and high imports, then we will have a large trade deficit. End of story. We can train our workers to be more productive, urge our firms to invest more and try to improve our public infrastructure, but realistically, none of these factors can come close to offsetting the impact of a currency that is 20-40% over-valued. A severely over-valued currency virtually guarantees a trade deficit."
>Pre-installing windows, bundling software (including telemetry - long history of this) makes Lenovo money at the time of sale, and afterwards.

I'd use "spyware" instead of "telemetry" considering the shit Lenovo has done.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenov...
I would have thought that the main reason people ‘shoot to kill’ is in self protection, if more autonomy is introduced then surely lethal force would be required in less situations.
I'd start by making all network protocols stacked flat with metadata about their being joined together, rather than loosely embedded in one another like matryoshka dolls. This can be done using existing protocols by demarcating each stack layer in an existing stream and adding metadata to link the parts together as they are composed. The end result is that the entire network path is preserved and available for inspection at any point along the network path. By using the metadata, each layer can remain private, but also be directly accessed by any network node that has the proper authorization to view it. This solves service routing issues, middleware issues, application-service integration issues, and end to end security issues.

Wrt our current conversation, you could have a network filter which only allows network communications whose packets at a particular layer are authenticated by a particular identity provider, authorized by a particular service provider, encrypted by a particular standard, and pass only a particular set of data using a particular data standard.

But looking further, you could have much bigger impacts. For example, right now we have to use NAT for IPv4 because there's no way for a private network to route directly to public networks and vice versa. But with this new scheme, the route tables, host addresses, the DNS, TCP protocol, service address (the address of the service should not require numbering at all, it should just pass a URI and boxes along the way should translate how to route to it based on that local network's definitions), and the various data payloads and formats, all would be delivered to every hop along the way up to the app server. The server reply would be carried back the same way just by reversing the order of the path. And so you could actually route messages between multiple sets of public and private networks, and those networks would allow the traffic or not based on the authn+z protocols and policies at each segment.

(Particularly, the application on the user's device would be prompted by the OS whether to accept the packets, similar to how the application firewall works. Except it could actually verify that each data payload was not just signed by a key on a random load balancer, but that it's actually been passed by an application with a valid OAuth session (but not OAuth since much better protocols would be used))

None of this assumes backwards compatibility (again, it's a revolution, not an incremental change). But there are some hacks that could be used to implement some of these features with existing protocols, to make transition easier. However, it's been shown time and again that all we really need to implement breaking changes in internet infrastructure is for a sufficiently large company to force it.
> That statement is easily refuted by running it backwards

Operations are not correct based on if they are reversible, nor are economic truths.
The interesting issue here is that the black hole seems to be moving relative to its own galaxy, which is unusual.
You can do this without buying the NFT also.
The list you cite is “corruption perception”, not corruption per se. other lists such as GCI rank Israel (20th) roughly on par with Japan (18th) [0]

The banking regulators in Israel are quite upfront about their objectives of maintaining banking sector stability even at the cost of competition or cost to consumers. They even oversee banking boards.

[0] https://risk-indexes.com/global-corruption-index/
I am inclined to agree with you. Israel is famous for it's beuracracy. It is enormously damaging to the economy and actively aids monopolies. This extends to individuals too, as any unfortunate soul unlucky enough to get lost in an Israeli government office can attest. This means that banks can act with impunity, especially since to transfer larger sums of money, one needs to do so via the bank by law. I suspect theres a large amount of corruption there. I hope this new bank can help a little.
That'd be an explicit war crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...
While possible, sprinkling code with madvise syscalls to release memory doesn't seems like a very realistic proposition. Information on how much stack is actually mapped is not readily (or cheaply) available.

The article says:

> The workload is representative for measuring absolute memory overhead, but is not representative for time overhead.

The workload is definitely not representative of real memory overhead. What's worse, it almost can be, but it is very dependent on the pattern of stack usage and it may not be obvious that you are holding on to large amounts of stack.

Default stack size on linux is 8MB. If you don't use much stack, 10k threads might only need 200M of RAM. Or your threads might touch 2M of stack early in their lifetime, parsing recursive data structures or whatever, and you need 20G of RAM, because you're stacks don't get freed.

Realistically, when using green threading, I wouldn't give much thought before using 10K waiting threads.

With native threading, I would look for other reasonable solutions, because it's not worth the headaches, but in case they do turn out to be the most reasonable solution, I would be sure to appropriately lower the stack size to avoid OOM, budget at least a week for solving gotchas, and forever need to be vigilant about stack usage.
> these online free speech advocates

No, I want to challenge cancel culture and all the other radical activism that’s plaguing the country.

If you want to affect real change let’s reintroduce FCC fairness doctrine and prohibit the Sinclair group from giving talking notes to local media outlets.

The media is far more toxic than social media.
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The key difference is AI curation. What you see here depends on what time things get posted and how many up-votes posts get. FB, twitter, et al, decide what to show you based on what they think you will like using opaque complex software.

If a newspaper publishes a 'letter to the editor' that is libel they are liable because they chose it to publish. that's what the big tech social media do.

If section 230 got repealed it would have effects on sites like HN, but the would be catastrophic for big tech social media.
Yes, but there is a big problem of people other than the artist creating NFTs for other peoples art. There is nothing in the NFT process that guarantees the money is going to the "right" person.
I hit _vouch_ for this article because as much as I think we’re all tired of covid articles, this is really about the topic of censorship, cancel culture, big tech/social media, and the politicization of science and academia. I think these are all topics that have been discussed in other contexts with growing concern over the last 15 years.
NFTs is the unwritten chapter of Infinite Jest that eventually led to DFW committing suicide. Start with something decentralized, layer a bunch of centralized entities on top of it and, Voila, you have, you have no idea what you have.
I follow the vintage Mac community, and there are people there remaking classic Mac PCBs as drop-in replacements with the same chips since so many boards get eaten up by leaking PRAM batteries or old capacitors corroding the traces on the board. Most of the chips on the corroded board are still good (or at least the ones that are custom or no longer made) so you can desolder them from the dead donor board in the machine you bought and pop them in the new one
I'm curious, do you think we'd be having this conversation today if they had released an Android app?

This conversation is inevitable, but would it be happening sooner or later if Android users had access to Clubhouse?
The monetary value of gold emerged organically because it turned out to be the best available option for transactions between untrusted parties. After the emergence of modern states, this use case was restricted to cross-border payments since strong legal protections and centralized banking systems made fiat currencies trustworthy enough for domestic commerce.

But anyways, if one looks at why gold emerged as the preferred money for its time and place, “finiteness” aka non-zero marginal cost of production is certainly a relevant factor.
Absolutely the opposite. Fintech and online-only banks have allowed so much new things to differentiate to the old banks. The concept of privacy.com with securing your online credit card purchase, revolut‘s ability to get rid of money exchange fees or just the many app banks.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_parliament_(expression)
While I understand the sentiment, the problem is that abstaining from weapons research due to moral qualms leads to the least moral being the most well armed.
The control group gets a placebo
I'd be really happy, if you could point out my errors and I could learn.

In fact I don't care very much about what happens in the UK, because I don't live there and I don't see how any points are specific to there.

I indeed have serious doubts that humanity will survive with our current societies, so I'd like to change them - same as you do and I'd really like you to be on my side because you're profile doesn't look like an idiot.

Though honestly you don't seem to be too interested in a logical and coherent discussion on this topic. I just noticed that I only talked to one person (I thought it was two), who first told me (within a short timeframe) that 1) no there's not more children wanting to transition than before and 2) of course nowadays more people transition. If you think that's a coherent worldview: fine, but then you're no better than the heritage foundation OR you seem to have serious problems with your brain (which probably a lot of the heritage foundation people have too).
You can find many without that particular constraint, if history is any evidence.
This is great news! ;)
Or perhaps CockroachDB. I’ll let myself out.
I would suggest looking up what the Dutch did in relation to race equality in history and how we were involved in a lot of slave trade, sometimes even to the US.

I would say you have a point with saying it's performative, and I don't have anything to counter that. However, perhaps your energy could be spent looking for someone that is actually offended by this to counter your own perspective?

Kinda Karl Popper style of disprove your own theory?
i assume gp's talking about double spending
If someone truly understands that the money is coming from crypto speculators, and that the way to make money is to essentially become an NFT influencer, then it's hard to fault them for extracting money from millionaires. But most artists in the space are convinced that the money is coming from real-life art collectors. I've seen multiple people quit their jobs to sell NFTs full-time. They say this is the future of making money as an artist -- that the true value of their art is finally being appreciated. It's hard not to dislike such a misinformation campaign.
Two problems with that:

1. Clearing price assumes efficient markets. My house in my neighborhood is one of maybe three (probably much less judging by the rental units friends of similar means live in) like it that will be available throughout the year.

I don’t agree a fake add will get the clearing price in these conditions.

Even if I put up an ad to rent a room in a student house -one of tens of thousands in a typical college town- the hypothesis fails since students are extremely sensitive to distance to their main building, nearby amenities, availability of parking, etc.

2. Even in the stock market the clearing price is dubious; the market cap of a company is a useful bit of fantasy. By multiplying the clearing price by the outstanding shares there is an implicit and incredible assumption that all the shareholders value the shares equally - which is obviously not true, some share-holders believe the stock has more promise, others are sentimental (the founder’s family members).

And that ‘price*shares == company worth’ is not true is evident in mergers and acquisitions which can be very acrimonious events. If the clearing price times the outstanding shares were a fair measure of the market cap, why would rational investors care about a merger except for the costs associated w/ closing?

But bringing this all back to the OP. Housing cost for the majority of the middle class is not meaningfully included in the CPI, except with a flawed metric.
Maybe "incredibly easy" isn't the right term for _stealing_ it - but once it's stolen it's easy to get away with it. This is especially true if you're managing your own wallet/private keys/etc.

If you're not careful with your machine, all it takes is some piece of malware lurking in the background to keylog your password, decrypt your wallet's private key, get the funds transferred from your wallet to the hacker's, and poof all your crypto is gone. That's game over. It's gone. No court or government can get it back for you unless they send a SWAT team to go steal the private key from the people who stole it from you.

If you're relying on Coinbase or another exchange to host your wallet for you, that's a different story, but at that point they're fulfilling a similar role that a bank does for you.. which to some is entirely what they're trying to get away from by using Bitcoin and such.
We're using two different definitions of "hoarding" wealth here.

The people you're disagreeing with consider buying up real-estate and company stock to be "hoarding" wealth because those assets could otherwise be put to productive use by someone else. People could otherwise live in those houses and become home-owners. Or the companies in question could get re-structured into smaller more efficient organizations during bankruptcy. It's hard for me to see the value of a real-estate investor buying his millionth acre of land when in earlier times multiple families could live on that land and call it home.

In contrast, you're assuming that any money being loaned to anyone is put to "productive use." And the flip-side of that is that the loan will come due some day. So accumulated wealth is used to accumulate more wealth from people who don't have any to begin with. In other words, the hoard of money is being used to extract rent and to hoard even more money. It's hard for me to see the value of that kind of system. It seems to lead to a continual serfdom as most people become renters of everything in their life.
"It should go without saying that everyone should be able to freely choose the operating system to run on their personal computers"

I think this is an antiquated idea that presupposes that the definition of the product you are buying from a company is a "general purpose computing device".

The overwhelming majority of users of devices just want the value that a product maker offers. We're now completely surrounded by devices that offer no such freedoms, and we're completely reliant on networked services where we also have no choice in the matter.

Should I be able to sue google for including chrome os on chromebooks? Apple for preinstalling osx? Android? Ios? What about the os for my cars' display, or my smart tv?

This feels like trying to force a company to offer a product that somebody wishes they offered.
> During the day curtains and blinds should be closed to maintain the same level of lighting

Can't you recalibrate after every N frames, utilizing the fact that daytime lighting changes are only gradual?
This is the classical distributed consensus fallacy. Law is only law if there's consensus around it. The "original" law still lives on in the form of ETC, but it happens that the other one generates way more consensus around itself, and thus that's the more valuable one. Distributed consensus means no one can change the rules unless there's a "majority" defined by PoW, PoS, PoA, or something else, that chooses to change the rules. And there's nothing preventing anyone from proposing any kind of change and trying to get a majority behind it.
Yeah, I get it. It is a necessary change just so you take this of the table and not deal with the sporadic complaints that would come. Keeping the 'master' or 'master-slave' (in context of HA) terms just isn't worth potentially offending someone, or losing a sale, or getting bad press. We changed our verbage a couple years in our product as well just for that reason (Master-Slave to Primary-Secondary). The previous company I worked at (circa 2006) did the same as well after a complaint, so this nomenclature change was happening for a few years now. Meh, whatever.

It would be nice if that was the end of it, but it feels like we're now just looking for things to be offended by. For example, I have to admit that the terms 'whitelist'/'blacklist' being labeled as not 'inclusive' caught me by surprise because my brain didn't even make that connection ... at all. I wish we, the global community, didn't all have to pay for America's internal cultural hangups.
We will end up with nuclear, we can take as many different path as we wish. Any nation which goes full nuclear first will reap the benefits.
Right, better shoot them instead. Maybe we just need a new convention on AI weaponry.
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You're talking about the ones that can't fly and can't be manufactured by the millions by anyone with the right amount of money?
The actual reason for this aside, I would be much more interested in using CrabHouse than ClubHouse, entirely based on the description of the two and my experience with internet communities.
Oh no, who will be brave enough to take a stand against the all-powerful anti-murder lobby!
Fungible debt is a money substitute. The strictest definition of money would require that it has no counterparty.