TekMol

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by TekMol 4y ago
You bring up the question of how the debt is settled. That is out of the scope of my question. The debt could be settled in any number of ways. For example, Alice could give Bob the $100 she owes him. Or not be settled at all. Or Alice coul
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by TekMol 4y ago
But Charles will say he can’t take a debt as payment unless it is done through a party his bank trusts Charles just takes an "Bob owes you $50" as payment. Just like Bob took an "Alice owes you $100" from A
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by TekMol 4y ago
Yet B has to pay taxes for it. The government will say "Oh, there is $100 more on your books! You have to pay us $25.". If that $100 in the books is not money, what is it?
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by TekMol 4y ago
They're the only participants who are allowed to loan out an unlimited amount of money I'm not talking about loaning. I'm talking about "A and B agree that A owes B $100".
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by TekMol 4y ago
The economy wide sum might be zero. But still the $100 have been created, right? Imagine an economy where there is no money at all. Nobody can buy anything. Now Alice and Bob agree that Alice owes Bob $100. Now Bob has $100 in his books. Bo
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by TekMol 4y ago
Can everybody create money? If Alice and Bob agree that Alice owes Bob $100, Bob will have show this $100 in his books and pay taxes on it. Does this mean Alice and Bob have created $100? Are there other players, who can create money that i
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by TekMol 4y ago
If the web was not a giant shift, then I don't know what is. If mobile was not a giant shift, then I don't know what is. The web created a searchable, worldwide instant knowledge base in which mankind shares what it knows. Mobile
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by TekMol 4y ago
We are talking about how long back in time we can go and still find a Youtube video of a car driving itself as well as they do now. The video you posted is two weeks old.
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by TekMol 4y ago
I said "20 years", not "less than a decade". When has there been some truly "giant shift" Some examples: Cars replaced horses. Email replaced letters. Phones replaced desktops. Phones
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by TekMol 4y ago
That is a hand-selected collection of seconds long snippets. By the manufacturer. That does not give me any sense of how well this car can drive itself.
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by TekMol 4y ago
How does Tesla not have something to back up their claim that self driving is coming? This was certainly not possbile 10 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9XyHHTTQI How long back in time can we go and still find
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by TekMol 4y ago
When I came here 10 minutes ago, this was the top comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34335123 Calling the article "complete horseshit". That sounds hateful to me.
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by TekMol 4y ago
For some reason, a large part of HN users seem to hate every fundamentally new technology. It seems the majority here thinks the next 20 years will be like the last 20 years, with only minor, gradial improvements. And every idea of a bigger
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by TekMol 4y ago
The main usage of computers even before mobile phones was to browse the web, read and write emails and play games. Web and mail is mostly done on phones now. Not sure about games. The use cases you mention are much smaller. Steve Jobs had
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by TekMol 4y ago
I'm not an AI researcher, so Tensorflow and TPUs are not my area of expertise. But I have an opinion on Google translate. From my experience, it is not clearly leading in comparison to other tools by smaller companies. If Google is lea
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by TekMol 4y ago
I have not used any of those. Waymo, ok, I don't live in that area. How can I try any of the other projects you listed?
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by TekMol 4y ago
Tablets replaced computers for the most part. They are just a good bit smaller than we expected and have the capability to do phone calls. Mobile is a much bigger market than Desktop these days.
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by TekMol 4y ago
How does it matter if a company buys or builds new projects? Betting on the right things is a hugely valuable skill. See Android, Youtube, Instagram, Tesla ... All projects that someone believed in, bought them, put money in, and then they
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by TekMol 4y ago
Does anybody else have the feeling "Microsoft is back"? With GitHub and OpenAI the have put their finger on two pretty significant new projects. What new things has Google come up with over the last 5 years?
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by TekMol 4y ago
The protocol itself? Why do you think so?
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by TekMol 4y ago
But giving the tens of millions of Coinbase users a way to do cheap and fast microtransactions could change that. "Oh, you also have a lightning app? Cool, I'll send you the money this way."
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by TekMol 4y ago
It is strange, that so far Coinbase has not took any steps towards supporting the Lightning Network. If the Coinbase app supported it, that would allow all of the Coinbase users to do real decentralized micropayments. Any theories, why they
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by TekMol 4y ago
DO app platform is rather new. It will probably be in flux for the forseeable future. And then you have to dabble with changes. With barebones LAMP you can be a happy camper.
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by TekMol 4y ago
I have the feeling the meaning turned from "PHP" to "PHP or some other interpreted language like Python, Perl, Ruby or JavaScript" over time. That's why I said "for example".
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by TekMol 4y ago
Since we are on Hacker News (which was Startup News back in the day): I think for starting a startup, a simple LAMP+Framework setup is still the best approach. For example Debian+Apache+MySql+Python+Django. Although I would use SQLite these
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by TekMol 4y ago
Yes, I have one terminal window in which I run / use the code. I start it like this: docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/some/where debian:11 Most of the time I don't use plain Debian, but an image based on Debian which I hav
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by TekMol 4y ago
I do debugging inside the container with pudb.
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by TekMol 4y ago
In Germany, Mercedes has a license to sell full self driving cars (the driver can write emails, watch movies, do whatever they like) that are allowed to enable FSD mode while on the highway and driving up to 60 km/h.
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by TekMol 4y ago
You make it sound like you have to edit your code inside the container. I don't do that. I edit it on the host OS. I just run the code inside the container.
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by TekMol 4y ago
I have no experience with that as I use pudb for debugging, which I simply run inside the container.

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