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jabgrabdthrow··on People killed in terrorist attacks in 2017: Europe vs. Africa
Would the parent comments point change if you did anything but the equivalent of statistical gerrymandering for the two continents? You are why people voted Trump
jabgrabdthrow··on Ask HN: What can we do to help Puerto Rico?
Look at yourself:

https://i.imgur.com/kLUVcdp.png

jabgrabdthrow··on Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud
Is this "fake news"?
jabgrabdthrow··on Bitcoin Cash Starts Trading
fuel for the ETH/ETC fire =P
jabgrabdthrow··on Show HN: Unix-like personal webpage
very cool! Can you explain how this relates to Unix at all?

It is very cool for using monospace fonts and green-on-black (not RGB green this has more "taste"). How does this relate to Unix programs?

jabgrabdthrow··on Is neuroenhancement by noninvasive brain stimulation a net zero-sum proposition?
> Which is to say, nothing material is added to the equation, and thus, nothing useful is actually extracted. Conceptually, the idea is to question whether we're really just burning the candle at both ends, to get more light.

We could try adding ATP molecules while decreasing cellular decay, I think that would be great, maybe Karma will Punish us but I bet if we fuck around a bit we can do better. But also I think the biggest challenge is political, arguing against people who feel discomfort by the finite and disappointing abilities of their brain organs, projecting their need for comfort to avoid being left behind

jabgrabdthrow··on Is neuroenhancement by noninvasive brain stimulation a net zero-sum proposition?
I guess this tech will only be used by a strange niche group that wants the average intelligence of the world to decrease then, huh. Oh well!
jabgrabdthrow··on Is neuroenhancement by noninvasive brain stimulation a net zero-sum proposition?
I remember metaphors developed before calorie/$ dropped so much
jabgrabdthrow··on Stablecoins: A Holy Grail in Digital Currency
once you acknowledge this as inevitable it frees you to engineer systems that have failure modes

dollars are stablecoins

jabgrabdthrow··on StarCraft: Remastered to be released Summer 2017
Many of the top competitive games are good by accident, brood war is a classic example. Yes, it should stay bug-compatible, otherwise they can call it starcraft 3.
jabgrabdthrow··on Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots
Can't tell if serious or sophisticated subversive meme magician!

If anyone actually can't tell try this and give an analysis of your experience with the Hateful People of america

jabgrabdthrow··on MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award
Winner will be a sheep

"You are not being nuanced by calling them sheep, consider these perspectives on power structures"

Winner will be a sheep =]

I bet MIT will be very brave and give Swartz and Snowden prizes after they get permission from trump

jabgrabdthrow··on SEC Rejects Rule Change for Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund [pdf]
That's a bummer I always hoped I could invest into an Exchange Traded version of exposure to Bitcoin

ha ha ha, now china gets all the exchange data, morons

jabgrabdthrow··on Ask HN: Am I a software developer?
How can we tell you if you don't post examples? I have met examples of both persons who are bad at whiteboard pressure tests but also brilliant at software development, and other self-professed software developers who were good at Job Interviewing but bad at thinking about software. You just have to ignore your emotions and compare yourself to others objectively!
jabgrabdthrow··on The possibility of remaking the financial system with the blockchain
(disclaimer I have vested interests etc)

I like to present it from the "business process" angle but after you get through the side effects of "protocolizing" things like cash and composable financial instruments, the new things we can do are currently under the umbrella of contract law. One simple example is 2-of-3 multisig for escrows.

jabgrabdthrow··on Public Must Fight against Prism and Tempora Surveillance (2013)
yes they should be - by you
jabgrabdthrow··on Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
> Why would it be more of a problem with refugees than other, paying guests?

How are war refugees different from tourists on vacation. Amazing. You just personally contributed to wearing out the word "racist" and growing the new right wing.

jabgrabdthrow··on Investing Is More Luck Than Talent
You have to quote your sources for the concept of "value investing"? Did I miss a joke?
jabgrabdthrow··on Senegal to Introduce a New Blockchain Based National Digital Currency
http://makerdao.com is one "central bank on blockchain" project, though the stable token it generates still doesn't have the properties you want in a national currency
jabgrabdthrow··on Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
How pathetic
jabgrabdthrow··on Homeopathy 'treatments' must be labelled to say they do not work, US gov orders
Cheaper than water? =]
jabgrabdthrow··on Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
like Correct The Record?

> but not like that

jabgrabdthrow··on Gender pay gap in modeling
haha, oops. Internet
jabgrabdthrow··on Gender pay gap in modeling
Saying "entirely" is not only demonstrably false but ultimately harmful if we are talking about pay gaps and irrelevance of gender for advanced mental work - people get "reactive" once they realize they have been lied to about gender differences.

Some random quotes from the wiki article:

"Several studies have shown the hippocampi of men and women to differ anatomically, neurochemically, and also in degree of long-term potentiation."

"In accordance with the sexual dimorphism of the amygdala, the right VPMC is more dominant in an active limbic system for males while the left is more dominant in females. These differences carry out to a behavioral level."

"Positron emission tomography studies have shown that men and women ranging from the ages of 19 to 32 years old metabolize glucose at significantly different rates in the orbital prefrontal cortex. Infant males who exhibited lesions on their orbital prefrontal cortex struggled with object reversal experiments, but females exhibiting such lesions did not have impaired performance in object reversal."

jabgrabdthrow··on WhatsApp – Opting out of new terms doesn’t stop Facebook taking information
So doesn't that make that position downright dangerous? As a 3rd party to this argument, now I agree with the other guy.

edit: to clarify I mean I should join the opt-out side to help stop it from becoming socially unacceptable

jabgrabdthrow··on The Ethereum Classic Declaration of Independence
What happens when V.B. has too many hard fork decisions to make, or even delegate to his Foundation Lieutenants?

I bet you non-ironically have uttered "just this once" too

jabgrabdthrow··on The Ethereum Classic Declaration of Independence
> The original blockchain was deprecated on 3/14.

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

Ethereum used to be a protocol but now it is an interest group. You said it best, just study the facts.

jabgrabdthrow··on The Ethereum Classic Declaration of Independence
The "vote" is ETC. Your examples make me happy you are not an authority figure and also makes me want to donate to the NRA
jabgrabdthrow··on The Ethereum Classic Declaration of Independence
The answer is that any time there's a proposed fork the one that changes less rules is called "Classic" and the other picks the new name. If there's a truly ambiguous split, one side tactically cedes the name, like "Classic" did with "Ethereum".

Ideally the system would have splits as a first class feature and we could have some kind of versioning system where the more splits a system had the longer its "name" or effective address

jabgrabdthrow··on Simple Contracts are Better Contracts: the Meltdown of the DAO
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