Taek

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841.
by Taek 6y ago
The price increases would be offset by the UBI. It's zero sum at an aggregate level.
842.
by Taek 6y ago
I'm guessing your win rate estimations are super low. For a game with this much depth, the gap between the best players and optimal play is absolutely massive. For intuition around this, look at how much chess has evolved over the past
843.
by Taek 6y ago
Where does that immutability come from? If you have a centralized service controlling the flow of knowledge, this could have its own consequences. Maybe some sort of CRDT + gossip network? But at that point you are quite close to a blockcha
844.
by Taek 6y ago
Presumably no way that's cheaper than just getting it from shipwrecks. Doesn't seem like there's a huge demand, so old shipwrecks for the time being have enough supply.
845.
by Taek 6y ago
You can do this on a technical level but on a practical one it creates pathways for abuse which defeat much of the purpose of using crypto in the first place. And attackers like the one in the twitter attack would just choose to use cryptoc
846.
by Taek 6y ago
As someone who is actively looking for a sperm storage solution, the name didn't resonate with me, either positively or negatively. In fact, I forgot the name already once today and had to check my messages to find the link (told a fri
847.
by Taek 6y ago
What happens to the sperm if the company goes out of business? What are the privacy protections around DNA and other personal information inherent to sperm collection and storage? Do you offer jurisdiction options?
848.
by Taek 6y ago
For Fibonacci, recursion is not the best or most efficient way to approach the problem, but I like using it as a recursion problem (artificially constrain the candidate to using recursion) because Fibonacci is so simple that you get to spen
849.
by Taek 6y ago
Technically, Fib(n) at unbounded sizes is at least linear to compute. This is because the output of Fib(n) has O(n) bits in it. So even if the computation is free, it's still O(n) just to print the result. That's not the type of t
850.
by Taek 6y ago
Talking about code that someone has already written is missing the element of productivity. Since we pay you by the week and only get so many hours a week out of you, we need some way before we hire you to understand what type of output we
851.
by Taek 6y ago
Really it's about this type of discussion. Already with your 'but then' you are showing that you know your way around a program. I'd still have you write the full thing out, but I'm guessing you'd do just fine.
852.
by Taek 6y ago
We always tell our candidates in advance what algorithms we'll be quizzing them on. And it's pretty much always: + fibbonacci + a sort + a linked list I like having candidates write out these problems on paper because it shows tha
853.
by Taek 6y ago
> they fully believe Elon will solve world hunger and invent FTL space travel Well, maybe not fully believe, but certainly believe that Elon will move the needle materially in the right direction. I'd much rather spend my money on
854.
by Taek 6y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/418878main_FSWC_Final_Report.pdf NASA averages something like 0.1 bugs per 1,000 lines of code, industry average is closer to 15. Surely there are other factors, like testing, linting, and lang
855.
by Taek 6y ago
Bitcoin can be sent and received anywhere in the world needing no than a raspi's worth of computing power. Not many banking hoops to jump through, sanctions aren't at play, very difficult / impossible for a non-superpower cou
856.
by Taek 6y ago
One of the things that makes Bitcoin so interesting is that you don't actually need that much sophistication to keep it going. In theory you should be able to run all of Bitcoin on a bunch of raspi's connected to HAM radio towers.
857.
by Taek 6y ago
Can corroborate, 2012 is when I stopped using Tor for anonymity because a lot of busts happened all in a row. Every bust had some sort of Silk Road style clearnet mistake associated with it, but parallel construction felt like the real answ
858.
by Taek 6y ago
I think a big part of it is being stubborn about rejecting things that aren't good enough. Steve Jobs and Elon Musk both also have a reputation of perfectionism, and lots of stories of telling their employees to start over because they
859.
by Taek 6y ago
"Paypal has awful security" -> it is easy and low risk to walk away with a bunch of cash if you get access to a Paypal account. I'll try to re-word the GP, thanks for highlighting your confusion.
860.
by Taek 6y ago
The bill to pay off the card goes to the original cardholder. Then the mob bills him for his purchase (this is where the mob makes money), and then the mob gives him 40% cash back.
861.
by Taek 6y ago
One of the biggest takeaways from this for me is that PayPal has awful security when it comes to compromised accounts. The only reason compromised accounts would trade for prices that high is because hackers have a high success rate of stea
862.
by Taek 6y ago
Ego is important because it allows you to seriously attempt problems that many people would consider beyond them. If you genuinely believe that you can achieve something, you might be willing to sink many months of nonstop work into it desp
863.
by Taek 6y ago
Eventual consistency and ACID are not at odds, you can have one or the other or neither or both.
864.
by Taek 6y ago
Fragmented because nobody seems to have found a winning UX yet. Once there is a strong and growing set of users that are happily paying for content on a small set of websites, I believe we will see more consolidation.
865.
by Taek 6y ago
A̶s̶ ̶f̶a̶r̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶I̶'̶m̶ ̶a̶w̶a̶r̶e̶,̶ ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶l̶y̶ ̶o̶p̶e̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶r̶c̶e̶ ̶d̶e̶s̶i̶g̶n̶s̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶R̶I̶S̶C̶-̶V̶ ̶C̶P̶U̶. While the instruction set of RISC-V itself is unpatented and open sourc
866.
by Taek 6y ago
https://siastats.info/storage_pricing Current rates on the network are $0.70 per TB, cloud to user. Many of the nodes are serving bandwidth from unlimited connections, either at home or from cloud providers like Hetzner.
867.
by Taek 6y ago
Everything comes down to UX. If you don't have a strong UX, you aren't going to be able to accumulate users. A webpage pointing to a list of torrent files is mechanically sufficient, but isn't going to be able to accumulate u
868.
by Taek 6y ago
Sia is able to load files over a peer-to-peer network in under 200ms, and has streaming solutions built in which allow for super smooth playback. A lot of people have this bias that p2p networks cannot be fast, but those days are behind us.
869.
by Taek 6y ago
Working on an infrastructure layer project to address this called Skynet - https://siasky.net Data storage costs at around $1/TB/Mo raw ($3 for 3x redundancy), bandwidth costs at around $1 / TB egress. Pricing com
870.
by Taek 6y ago
A big part of the "black magic" really comes down to insufficient tooling. And at least in hardware, insufficient tooling comes down to the fact that everything is open source and trade secret, and teams pretty much refuse to shar

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