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·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I'd love to see drug trials funded by tax dollars, ideally informed by a legal prediction market on which trials are likely to succeed or fail. The people betting on pharma stocks would likely prefer betting directly on trials, since stock prices move for all kinds of unrelated reasons -- it'd be a new asset class. I'm skeptical about single payer healthcare though :p
dlss
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
The price of rent roughly tracks the price of a mortgage, and apartments are only about 20% of all homes. If this legislation passes, and home prices go down, then rental prices for homes will go down, and apartment rental prices will need to match those price reductions to attract renters.
dlss
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
D'oh. abolition -> prohibition in the above
dlss
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
My inference from nature supported a non-moral point, namely "[abortion is] going to be with us until the end of time, regardless of law."

As for my moral argument, I invite you to read about the history of abortion, the history of abolition, and/or the history of America's war on drugs. I expect you will find abolition the easiest example to grok, since it's no longer a political issue. Note the moral arguments for abolition still stand, and yet it's no longer law.
dlss
·vor 4 Jahren·discuss
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-bruce-effe...

If animals do it in nature, and humans do it with dangerous methods when denied access to safe methods, it's going to be with us until the end of time, regardless of law.

Let's face it, this is just another drug war. An opportunity for Republicans to deny Americans personal autonomy and liberty. A justification for state aggression against your neighbors and friends. Wake up.
dlss
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Do we agree it's a bad sign when a model treats lived human experience as noise?
dlss
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
> I don't think Tor tries to accomplish the same goal as Orchid

If the goal isn't "Anonymity Online" (taken from torproject.org), what is Orchid's goal?

> afaik Tor still doesn't have a working iOS port

https://onionbrowser.com/

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-heart-onion-browser-and-more...
dlss
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
> our users mostly buy in using "in-app purchases", which has led to use implementing various restrictions on spending them.

Browsing through the code, it looks like Orchid's xdai contract is https://blockscout.com/xdai/mainnet/address/0x6dB8381b2B41b7... -- which shows in-app purchases of bandwidth being a bit less than $75,000 total for the last two years. Is that right, or am I missing something?

> I think most projects that have "roadmaps" in this space are using it to cause people in the ecosystem to speculatively purchase large quantities of what should really be a "utility token".

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/orchid-protocol shows Orchid's trading volume as $22 million for just today...
dlss
·vor 11 Jahren·discuss
> Which will come first, flying cars and vacations to Mars, or a simple acknowledgment that beliefs guide behavior and that certain religious ideas—jihad, martyrdom, blasphemy, apostasy—reliably lead to oppression and murder? It may be true that no faith teaches people to massacre innocents exactly—but innocence, as the President surely knows, is in the eye of the beholder. Are apostates “innocent”? Blasphemers? Polytheists? Islam has the answer, and the answer is “no.”

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/sleepwalking-toward-armag...