Melting_Harps

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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> For me it is absolutely no choice to be employed or working in larger companies. I want my own freedom :) Living the dream, what are/were a few of them? I still have too much psychological/mental stuff from my Fintech startup
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Can anyone explain what happened in this block of transactions to me? These transactions were sent from a vanity address(es) [1], and in this case they're used to spam the recipient with implied messages, specifically about their
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> I also ate once every 2 days, and it was rice and shitty meat more often than not.I won't say where I am today, but I will say that it all worked out for the both of us. Hope that helps someone. Your story is exactly why I always
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> For me, the last bit about having older and younger friends is something dearly missing from the typical school experience. Regimentation by age is present nowhere else in life, and I think it hinders lots of people straight out of sch
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
John Taylor Gatto's work in this space is also worth noting: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=John+Taylor+Gatto&ref=nb_sb_noss I honestly could not be more happy that COVID is displacing Education once and for all and ma
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
There are a lot of fallacies in this thread, that I could not address even if I wanted to expend the time, as most HN users are convinced of their belief the equates Bitcoin, and perhaps all of Cryptocurrency, to some nefarious end that cha
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
There are several people working in ED-Tech, most of it K-12, on HN; the issue with University level is not access, for example I'm currently enrolled in Master level Supply Chain certification courses at Rutgers and CU Boulder via Cou
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Fascinating article in its own right. Thank you. I would totally read your book or blog. Thanks, Tom! I hear that more and more these days, especially now that I've retired from the Industry for good and have an overall positive
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> It isn't in general, and never was, is my point. Merely fashionable to think of it as so. I disagree, and many chefs in the US have been trying to make significant inroads to that end: some more than others of course. Fashionable
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
It doesn't have to be, is my point. I've done 'New American' at a Farm to Table and we did 20k+ nights 4-5 day days of the week during the peak season.
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Feels familiar... Sadly, very much so as a person who has actually been in the Industry on both Continents. My old teammate and I went to a renown Chef's place near a skiing village to seek other prospects for him and he ordered o
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Wonder how their supply chain worked for all that variety back then. Without reliable refrigeration I'm curious to see how food was preserved. Laboriously, but perhaps far more superior to much of today's 'on-demnad&#x2
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Expect universities to fight this hard. Fees from international students make up a huge portion of their budget. And so begins the inevitable death spiral of Academia as we know it. I'm a big proponent of an International Work fo
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> So had they been complying with govt data requests from Hong Kong up until 5 days ago? I have no idea what China's policies on ex post facto laws are but does this mean there are political dissenters in Hong Kong who will likely
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> “A-blasts will mine ore now inaccessible, and recover oil locked in shale. Subterranean atomic bombs will drive electric power plants. Underground reservoirs dug with nuclear bombs will make deserts bloom. And the atom’s might power wi
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
Bitcoin isn't a currency according FinCen [1], and back then not according the IRS [2], either. Maybe they were just trying to stay under the radar, but that's a lucky guess and again they've been active in the space regardle
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Any underground IDM recommendations? If you're a fan of the 90s-2000 stuff from SF's SomaFM [1] their playlist is always pretty good, I actually ripped their entire station (back in the early 2000s there was only Groove Sala
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
Exactly. I was just about to post that, I'm going to be buying a few discographies tomm. Specifically, Carpenter Brut's stuff who released a really crazy film based [1] on its music video for Turbo Killer [2]. It's worth chec
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Balaji Srinivasan... I'd like to see the evidence of him as well, I was very suspicious of him during 21 as he was simply acting as middleman for traditional VC money (Horowitz?) to buy up Bitcoin via a very lofty mining operation
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> I feel like we need a new way to do peer review, that is more real time - so that papers can be upvoted/downvoted, flaws can be pointed out - and we have some way to assess the truthiness of what the paper is claiming. Your commen
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> Our Quantitative easing and corporate bailouts are in the trillions, why would we not pay out significantly less for people who are struggling to find jobs? Why does the till start counting when its normal people affected? Seriously,
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> I remember thinking at the time how sometimes building an app isn't the solution to a problem. > Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest... I agreed with your reasoning and logic but not your conclusion. And while I'
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> The comment is about Rudolf Steiner and the anthroposophic movement where many of the permaculture (but also a lot of lets say more questionable) ideas have been popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodynamic_a
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> I think that if you would describe the other party here as jingoistic, you're not understanding what they mean. > Their argument is essentially that war is inevitable, and US imperialism is a good way to prevent it. How is that
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> I think the covid crisis aptly showed that the 'plucky outsider that defies a reactionary authority' archetype doesn't actually exist in real life. How so? I think if anything it shows the many flaws of the Nation-State
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
Biochar is very interesting topic I got introduced to by the son of a Biodynamic farmer I worked for in Schwaebisch Gmuend, he had done his last year of undergrad studies for his Ag degree in Africa to try and utilize this method to re-reha
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> This highlights why it was so irresponsible to create CRISPR babies, and why you take things slow in science. Don't let the analogies about bio being programmable just like a computer fool you - it's not that easy or that si
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> England and France famously fought a "Hundred Years' War" in the 14th and 15th centuries over the claim of the English king to the French throne. From that time onwards, neither country ever experienced a Hundred Years&#
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> If the above, abridged history of Rome interests you, check out the podcast The History of Rome by Mike Duncan. Thanks, I'll check it out. I don't have any apple products, so don't have an account on the Apple Store but
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by Melting_Harps 6y ago
> No, we’d probably return to the era of world wars. As opposed to the constant and just as deadly porxy wars fought in placed like Georgia, India, Hong Kong, Syria, Yemen, Somlaia, Tunsia, Libya, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan... That seems

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