Mattasher

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by Mattasher 6y ago
Put another way, almost free speech works great for those with power, and badly for everyone else. When people advocate censorship of any kind, they're really saying, "I have the correct views held by the establishment, so I'
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by Mattasher 6y ago
Many, many links in that article, but in the only study I see, this is not an experiment, it's observational study. There are lots of reasons to believe wearing masks might be correlated with other mitigating behaviours (hand washing,
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Show HN: A podcast for those who enjoy The Portal or Radiolab(thefilter.org)
1 points by Mattasher 6y ago|0 comments
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by Mattasher 6y ago
Yes. Typo :(
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Ask HN: I need to plan and execute a highly coplex set of steps. Suggestions?
1 points by Mattasher 6y ago|2 comments
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by Mattasher 6y ago
Quarantine for the sick is an age-old method. Lockdowns of entire populations for extended periods is a massive experiment, and the closest analogy we have is the wholesale internment of Japanese Americans in WWII, based on the idea that so
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by Mattasher 6y ago
Based on an earlier discussion here on HN about Zoom burnout and latency I recorded a cast episode about that very subject: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/3-is-latency-killing-o...
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by Mattasher 6y ago
I worked for a company that was on the vanguard of trying to make ICOs legal and mainstream. Among other problems, there were tensions between trying to achieve regulatory compliance, transparency, and privacy of trades. I worked on a poten
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by Mattasher 7y ago
YKYZ | Toronto | Remote | Long-term contract | React & UI ykyz.com is a small but fast growing (check our Alexa numbers) website that provides a forum for audio conversation and short form podcasting (microcasting). Our tech stack is Re
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Show HN: A Platform for Audio AMA's(ykyz.com)
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by Mattasher 7y ago
I often use this as an example of an "unknown known" for most English speakers. We know how to order these things, but we don't know about the specific rules that govern their ordering and that we have (implicitly) mastered t
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by Mattasher 7y ago
This is a major source of dissatisfaction for me as well. Especially latency related to keyboard input and program startup. Are there any resources out there specifically intended to help you speed up your (Mac) with these things?
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by Mattasher 7y ago
You have to wonder, when you see these stories, whether the engineers in charge of these programs spent much time driving around, trying to see the road like an AI might. In my experience, driving in the city, it's rare that I can go m
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by Mattasher 7y ago
Small sample sizes are much more likely to produce extreme results, because it's easier to get an extreme result by chance. In the US, the highest rates of cancer occur in the most rural counties. So do the lowest rates of cancer. Thin
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by Mattasher 7y ago
A few more details: The microcast channel of ykyz lets you record episodes of up to 90 seconds long, and automatically generates an iTunes compatible RSS feed from those episodes. Only episodes posted to the special microcast channel ( http
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Show HN: Micro Podcasting Made Easy(ykyz.com)
17 points by Mattasher 7y ago|26 comments
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by Mattasher 7y ago
How about our ability to echo-locate, given enough practice? That seems like yet another sense that goes beyond just hearing, and is probably linked to our proprioception skills.
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by Mattasher 7y ago
Current user don't need it, but I'm wondering if the benefits will be a strong draw for users dissatisfied with the current oligopoly of gatekeepers in community and social publishing.
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by Mattasher 7y ago
Thanks. I'm trying to gauge whether people think decentralization (and censorship/deplatforming resistance) will be a strong draw in an era of dissatisfaction with dominant social media and community sites. I'll take that as
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by Mattasher 7y ago
How so? To give more detail about the system, users generate private keys client side, which are used to sign their requests. Providing an email address is optional, and even (initial) usernames are randomly generated.
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by Mattasher 7y ago
* All content mirrored on IPFS or Storj or whatever * All transactions on the content made available and properly structured into a DAG of signed documents * Make the API public and open source so people can run their own peers (basically,
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Ask HN: Should I bother decentralizing my website?
5 points by Mattasher 7y ago|12 comments
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by Mattasher 7y ago
Another major issue, beyond the comment in the article about how people may have shifted around usage temporarily to take advantage of the service, is the all-you-can eat effect. Compare how much you eat and drink your first few days at an
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by Mattasher 7y ago
Sort of. The result is even stronger though. For one, the probability of the event can be tending to zero. So the thing you are multiplying together (in the negative case) gets closer and closer to one. For another, it states that not only
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by Mattasher 7y ago
It's even worse. The second Borel–Cantelli lemma shows that if the marginal risk of an event (per time unit) doesn't decrease to zero at a fast enough rate, there's absolute certainty it will occur. (strictly speaking, an inf
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by Mattasher 7y ago
One of the first websites I built (and one of the few sites left untouched for 20yrs) was a design experiment: http://lyca.com/
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by Mattasher 7y ago
I wrapped a probability distribution around this very phenomenon a few years back: https://statisticsblog.com/2013/05/30/uncovering-the-unrelia... The expected duration converges to exactly double your wait t
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by Mattasher 7y ago
We've had mathematical models of change for over two thousand years. We have reliable, precise ones for astrological changes. As far as I know, we have none related to ecology or other complex systems that have proven capable of making
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by Mattasher 7y ago
Outside of astronomy, I don't think there's any history of reliable 80+ year scientific forecasts that predict specific changes to our world.
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by Mattasher 7y ago
True still in many places. Though in some countries you can be arrested for "hateful" posts or acts even if they are non-violet. You can also be kicked off Facebook, Twitter, Patreon, LinkedIn, Paypal, Youtube, the app stores, and

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