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quinndupont
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- quinndupont parentSO MANY ADVERTISEMENTS. Tis a shame everything has to be fluffed up and sold
- To what degree is marginalism dependent on price as the active force? How can marginal utility be realized without all goods having a market price? What happens when goods are difficult or impossible to price?
- Vanity is contextual. Everything is vanity from some ultimate perspective.
- Representing the alphabetic orthography for Hello World is obviously impossible in a written script lacking letters, revealing the folly implicit in the exercise.
- There’s a long history of attempts at artificial speech that take this approach, recreating mouth parts and vibrating air. They are all pretty silly, like this work, which fails to understand how writing isn’t just a derivative of speech.
- Y’all need to learn about the history and development of spoken language and writing. Writing isn’t just a copy or derivation of writing. LLMs work because of the conceptual characteristics of writing (consider the distinctions between ideographic, logographic, alphabetical…). What a sloppy mess!
Read some Wittgenstein and Goodman, but especially Derrida who calls this logocentrism.
- pictograms ≠ alphabetic symbols
- Corporate capture of payment rails, masquerading as open payments.
- The hardware is UGLY.
- Thanks for the feedback! Making sure the issuer is legit is basically an oracle challenge that needs off chain coordination.
- This short article offers wild opinions with no understanding of history or any meaningful analysis. The authors also clearly have an ideological axe to grind (I mean, come on… the CATO Institute?)
If there were any facts presented I’d say they lie, but since they’re just talking about a made up fairy tale, it’s only a silly piece of fiction. I feel stupid leaving a comment warning others.
- I use Libib as well. It has a blazing fast barcode scanner, though manual entry is a bit cumbersome. They seem like a good company, though longevity might be a concern. There is an easy export option, anyways.
- Is nobody going to mention how beautifully it was written? Surprising erudition and style.
- Seems to me that the real story here isn’t Amazon but the heartbreaking frequency of vehicular crashes. Always fun to pick on Amazon though.
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- Agreed. While I find minimum price thresholds and sin taxes personally annoying, there's lots of good research associating ease of access and low prices with alcoholism, which has high costs in terms of healthcare and individual suffering.
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- Naive question: are these sorts of advertising/documentary things common in open source programming languages? Open source software more generally?
I watched the documentary and I found it to be compelling and well produced while also informative.
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- Not to turn HN into ebay, but if anyone wants to buy my Freewrite (modern version of AlphaSmart, as the developers point out below), hit me up: iqdupont.com
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- That's the curious thing: to an academic there's no such thing as "extremely boring Latin", especially when it comes to the Voynich. Why we're only given a tantalizing line is odd. Perhaps there is no single "universal" solution? Perhaps this is just a guess that happens to roughly work for a single line, but nothing else?
- Agreed. It's a super strange article (sure, written like an academic, but even most don't bury the lede that badly!)
From the article it isn't clear if all or just a portion of the text is decipherable using the implied logic (ligatures of abbreviations of medicinal items).
- Bitcoin wants to be money, but it really isn't. It fails the traditional account (originally from Jevons); see Kubát 2015 [1]; Mandjee 2015 [2]. More obviously, it is far too volatile to function like money in a normal sense, see Golumbia 2017 [3]
[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212567115... [2] https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.com/webcd/app?actio... [3] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwwv83/cryptocurr...
- If I recall the gist of the Rogaway article, from memory, (again, it's an important enough article that it really does merit serious attention):
he argues 1) cryptographers (and computer scientists in general) should be more political (good!), 2) cryptography needs a new framing (good!), 3) privacy and exception from government search is an unalloyed right (not so good), 4) better crypto will solve privacy issues (not so good).
In sum, the article does a lot of good work, and more than anything, it contains some important and refreshing rethinking of the field of crypto. This is all very important. Nonetheless, it ends up taking for granted a number of political positions that should, I think, also be contested (Rogaway takes the first step!). More crypto does not equal a better world.
- Author here: I've never enjoyed the basic premise of the Rogaway article, but that would require its own engagement to properly discuss. That said, I had forgotten about his engagement with Alice and Bob, so I ought to include it. His argument against cutesiness, however, misses the deeper political point, and unfortunately comes off as politically superficial.
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- Oodles of "actual" net art from back in the 1990s and early 2000s. Jodi is especially famous/good: http://www.net-art.org/jodi