Mengkudulangsat

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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
A random cosmic ray burst can't bit-flip a human brain. Software works best supervised in a coddled environment.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
I don't use Discord for gaming, but I do (reluctantly) have to use it for volunteering work. One day I discovered Discord sets my status as "currently playing Game X" for everyone to see, to my horror! What an absurd privacy
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
The reason I'm keen about pseudonyms is because by detaching real-world identities from credit requirements, we can greatly improve access to finance. If new pseudonyms are treated with extreme suspicion then so be it, but there should
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
You know I've been wondering about that! Can an autonomous bot on some smart contract have a credit score? Why is credit a privilege only humans can enjoy? We should be able to spool up a persistent pseudonym that can have a credit sco
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
I met a company once that sells parking lot-sized incinerators [1]. The only market they managed to get traction was the Philippines. I guess proper waste disposal is difficult when you are spread around many islands like that. [1] https:&
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Well of course, but that's not a good reason to prevent them from trading with the US.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
That embargo is always such a mystery to me. Why on earth is it still in place in 2021? Is it because no US politician want to submit a motion for it to be repealed? Or is there a powerful anti-Cuba lobby keeping it there? So much misery ca
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Well, I get the point many things we own in the household are already fire hazards. But at least those are either small enough that we can wait for them to burn out on their own (phone batteries) or we can reasonably put out with a fire ext
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Well, that's a damning rebuke to grid-scale battery storage. Is it wise to have this time bomb (e.g. Tesla powerwall) inside every house?
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Shouldn't we account for both inflation and oil prices changes during the period as well? In any case, it's a fascinating hypothesis.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Aaswath Raman's company [1] https://www.skycoolsystems.com
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Hard work is easy if every step between you and the goal is obvious and definite. You can just autopilot your way to success. Hard work is hard if you are not sure whether the work performed contributes to progress or not.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
FWIW, I don't mind the KYC concern. I even provided my identification documents to facilitate the process. It's the we-only-do-business-with-exchanges angle that irks me.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Yup. As for why they would care, something to do with the recent FATF travel rule I suppose.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
I'm dealing with an American law firm at the moment (Baker McKenzie) that just categorically refuse to deposit BTC into my personal hardware wallet. They require I provide an address tied an account within their "reputable" l
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Wolbachia. That name rings an ominous bell [1] https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Wolbachia
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
A healthy ecosystem in Singapore will be chock-full of mosquitoes and no humans. The island started out as a swamp.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Bypassing Bloomberg paywall is the sole reason I keep Microsoft Edge. Just clear everything upon exit. Works like a charm so far.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Cat is out of the bag I think. Even if you shut down the cashing out infrastructure (exchanges) in the affected countries, it will quickly spring up again in countries belligerent to them. The FATF is the main global body trying to curb thi
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
The DAO fiasco from a few years ago [1] comes to mind. Personally I think capital allocation is way too complex an endeavor to automate. Data annotations maybe... [1] https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-make
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Sounds like a precursor to Distributed Autonomous Organizations. Although previous experiments in these have been disastrous to say the least, I find the idea very appealing.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
This is amazing! Not about the chicken-wing issue per se... but the fact that a local small business has the wherewithal to make a corporate presentation on facebook for their community to judge. That's really sweet.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
Wow. For a service that should have global reach, these are mostly in the US! I'm a lot more excited about LEO broadband compared to 5G. Sounds like a career change worth pursuing, even if you are halfway around the world.
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
I do fantasize about owning property sometimes. This transient lifestyle makes picking up certain hobbies (a big aquarium for example) a non-starter. However if I'm going to spend a big chunk of my net worth on property, I'd rathe
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by Mengkudulangsat 5y ago
I'm a millennial and I plan to rent forever because I value the ability to move out whenever I liked. Even homeowners can't escape that sword of Damocles you describe. IMO as long as you have assets (stocks, cash, etc.) that you c
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by Mengkudulangsat 6y ago
I have to say; the backyard Big Data analyst in me is salivating.
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by Mengkudulangsat 6y ago
A popular newspaper in Malaysia was fined recently because of their readers comments [1]. It is wise for the Inquirer to do this. Newspapers are regulated entities and it is more sustainable for comments to migrate to 3rd party sites like R
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by Mengkudulangsat 6y ago
If Excel can handle >1m rows, all these "Big Data" analysis will just mean a bigger spreadsheet.
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by Mengkudulangsat 6y ago
It's not meant to be specific to the business. People usually contact small businesses for scheduling / rescheduling / cancellations , those kinds of inquiries are "bot-able" to certain extend. The plan is to have a
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by Mengkudulangsat 6y ago
Both B) and C) is because these small businesses, most of them have no website. The barrier to entry for businesses to go online from a resource perspective (time, training, cost etc.) is much, much lower to just have a Whatsapp business ac

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