drewgross · HackerTrans

há 2 mesesdiscuss

It doesn't provide 100% privacy from everyone, but it does provide privacy from the web service: A worker at a physical store checks your ID, and if it says you are 18, they hand you a token with a unique key on it, which they have a stack of behind the counter. You put the unique key into the web service. It's not necessarily one time use, but if you don't want to risk correlation, you can use each one only once. It's just like alcohol sales, and has all the same failure modes as alcohol sales, but if it's good enough for alcohol sales it's good enough for web services.

drewgross

há 3 mesesdiscuss

The problem with insider trading in prediction markets isn't the "prediction" part, it's the "markets" part. Once there is real money changing hands, then the purpose of the prediction market stops being "surface information" and starts being "make money" (POSIWID sense of purpose). Since the money changing hands is a necessary incentive for the insiders to provide the information, the parts cannot be disentangled and the problem is fundamental.

Note also that prediction markets can't be too different from financial markets because prediction markets are in some sense a generalization of financial markets e.g. you can make a prediction market that predicts the price of some stock on some day.

drewgross

há 5 mesesdiscuss

If 20 people take advantage of your buffer, then you are delayed by a distance of 20 vehicle-lengths + 20 follow-distances. This is about 1000 meters, a distance which you can travel in about 45 seconds. So the net effect of all 20 people merging in front of you is less than a minute delay on your trip. Unless there is an almost constant stream of people merging in front of you, this isn't adding up to more than a percentage point of two of your whole trip.

drewgross

há 7 mesesdiscuss

My reading is that this was included in point #7, i.e. access to the customer service is conditional on identity verification.

drewgross

há 2 anosdiscuss

On the contrary, sticking strictly to the lane markers when everyone else is blindly straddling lanes seems the worst of all worlds.

drewgross

há 3 anosdiscuss

If you want to talk about bad faith arguments, calling the AI a "hellsystem" is showing your bias just a bit.

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