KVFinn

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by KVFinn 9y ago
>edit: the 2016 990 was just released today. O'Keefe's salary is $317K and the org's revenue increased from 3.7M to 4.8M. Not bad at all. Source of their income here: https://twitter.com/alexkotch/stat
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>I don’t have employees, I don’t cut checks for investment. None of the women who came forward were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers. Sexual Harassment requires that I have such power. Not a great sign to open
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by KVFinn 9y ago
You do need a threshold, but I would argue the main risks to trust beyond that are in mining consolidation into powerful blocks, forks, etc.
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>It's just wasted cycles because of the economics of the damn thing. I think a lot of people miss that mining is zero sum when over the threshold that the network needs. For example if mining hardware costs dropped by one half, peo
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by KVFinn 9y ago
I focus better in the hours after exercise, and better generally while maintaining a regular exercise routine. Any kind of exercise helps some but I find cardio is most impactful in this particular area. It doesn't have to be intense
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>That comment section took an immediate and unexpected turn for the worse. What the heck is going on there?
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by KVFinn 9y ago
Especially in boardgames you often see what looks like a tiny hardly relevant rule tweak produce drastically different player behavior. That's why you playtest early and iterate often.
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>This is a completely unnecessary, uncharitable attack. Yes it is unnecessarily snarky and if I could edit my comment I would remove that line.
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>Every single person who claims they believe global climate change is a very serious, and man-made, problem absolutely should be taking personal steps now to address it. Quit telling _others_ to solve the problems, and start doing it pe
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>That's what humans do: we adapt to our environment. Only in particularly hubristic times (like now) have we expected to adapt our environment to us. Changing emissions profiles IS adapting. We've already done it with smog and
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>It might feel unsavory that those speeches are indeed personal income for the long list of politicians, from both left and right, who have engaged in that practice. But those events aren't about buying influence, they're about
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>Why are people comfortable carrying a $1000 piece of equipment that can be dropped or stolen in an instant in their pocket? My Nexus6p takes great pictures, runs everything smoothly, and I don't have to freak out as much if the $35
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>There's a lot of money that goes into disaster relief and recovery. I think that's great and very worthwhile, thoughts on charity accountability notwithstanding. >What I wonder, though, is if there are any organizations tha
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>To make something that is cheap in X but not on Y cheap in both you must first overcome the entrenched special interests who make money from that thing being expensive in Y. Yes, it's a huge problem. States fight against buying ch
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by KVFinn 9y ago
It's cheap in the places that are windy. One big challenge (mentioned tangentially in the article) is in moving this cheap energy from the windy center of the continent to the populated coasts. I wish this was higher priority, because
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>Lots of coastline is plenty windy. Why isn't there more offshore wind generation in USA like there is in other nations? My impression is that rich people who own land on the coast have no taste and think that offshore wind generati
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>Averages (even with the post's approach) still have the problem of not being "honest" in the game theory sense. For example, if something is rated 4 stars with 100 reviews, a reviewer who believes its true rating should b
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by KVFinn 9y ago
I love the Graydon Saunders books so I'll be sure to checkout the Solar Clipper series! It looks like the author even has free to close to free versions on his website.
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by KVFinn 9y ago
Someone else said they did by using their own courier to bait the bot too deep. Sounded like a harder way to win than this though.
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>your body might not like rapid weightloss, everybody is different. For people doing it for health rather than competition weigh-ins or whatnot, no reason to be rapid and risk negative effects. Slow and steady.
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>HVDC and UHVDC is getting fairly cost effective now, so I don't think we'll need huge government subsidies to see adoption there, and it can be driven by utilities. I've been told by people trying to build these things th
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>Base load power and intermittent (e.g. solar/wind) power are not the same thing, and are not comparable. >Barring some energy storage miracle, we'll eventually end up with ~35% renewables, 15% hydro, 50% natural gas in the
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by KVFinn 9y ago
I really like the most moderate form -- simply eat two meals a day, skipping either your first meal in the day or your last. Everyone 'fasts' for 8 - 12 hours just by sleeping anyway, so simply skipping one meal nearest sleep mean
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>But it does have an impact on the energy use. If the energy efficiency goes up 100x and people aren't using 100x as many machines then the overall energy usage drops. If there really was an overnight 100x improvement there would
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>A cryptocurrency enthusiast would tell you that the energy consumed is not "wasted" because it is necessary to secure the block chain. Note that this is zero-sum. If a device is invented tomorrow that is 100x more efficient pe
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My Kid Learned More from Mario Maker Than I Did from a Marketing Major(medium.com)
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>Well like I said, I haven't played them. Is the shipped emulator not good? Sounds like no: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-21-sega-releases-c...
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>3) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down. Or wear strong blue blocking glasses after the Sun goes down.
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by KVFinn 9y ago
>Ke Jie claimed he would beat AlphaGo [1] He changed his mind after watching just one more match: http://english.donga.com/List/3/all/26/527586/1 >But after watching three matches, he said, “A
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by KVFinn 9y ago
A nice unofficial commentary here as well: https://www.twitch.tv/usgoweb or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNgHXjIJo4

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