TheCowboy

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by TheCowboy 5y ago
If your goal is making money, then that's different. I personally don't encourage people to get into the betting aspect unless you don't mind paying my rent, know what I mean? It's one of those "if it was easy every
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
One thing I've done with myself is taken up the hobby of playing prediction markets, and which I now do for a living since the pandemic (though I really want to get back to 'normal' coding job). It involves a wide set of skil
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
I explained in my other comment, but I see no mention any of those aspects of countering a sandwich botter.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
I specifically said "counter" not "prevent". I explained in another post.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
The trading site's performance is quite high latency, and uses a 3rd party endpoint (I forget which one) that doesn't emphasize performance. You reduce the latency of your orders, acquire real-time price information, notification
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
Anecdata about thegraph: There's a blockchain prediction market that relies on thegraph for some functionality in an attempt to make every aspect DeFi, but the performance is just garbage to the point where it should be unacceptable fo
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
If we limit ourselves to Bitcoin then we're at a sliver of the web3 ecosystem everyone is casting their hopes upon. And Bitcoin in its current state still seems more like a blockchain working prototype and isn't 'feature-ful&
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
> Run your own node. This is lazy reporting It isn't practical for the majority of people to run their own node. Even Vitalik Buterin acknowledges[1] this isn't realistic for the current state of things. Last year I was interes
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
You realize it's not simple to just build the chip production facilities to facilitate this? It requires major capital investment and planning. Looks like you also missed that the chip shortage is affecting automobiles. Many articles e
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
This really isn't a great source to support that idea and is quite lacking in details. And it's not hard to find articles suggesting otherwise.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
Cree is a good choice. The 'smart' versions of their bulbs are also convenient for if you want to set it to 'daylight' 5000k during the day---it looks better (IMHO) in a room that gets some natural light during the day--
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
According to what I've found, grow lights can emit enough UV rays to make them (unfortunately) a non-starter for inside your home.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
I take a hobby interest in lighting as design and art, and probably have more lamps than I should have. My personal view is that it's not really an area that is being ignored. There are a lot of companies in this space developing new l
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
You step away from neutral as soon as you introduce "version of quality". There will always be an introduction of bias and judgement calls that need to be made to get useful results, especially because bad actors on the web are pa
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
FileMaker is one product that does these things. It kind of languished while it was owned by Apple, and made some poor decisions. It does seem to have made a change for a better direction and I could see it making a comeback, but entry-leve
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
Local zoning/regulations/politics also play a significant role in limiting types of housing. In general, development projects are going to play it safe to try to get a plan approved.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
This simply isn't true when it comes to the topic of economics, and there are heterodox-y economists (Tyler Cowen for example) who also respect Krugman as an economist even if they don't agree with him on everything. As for paying
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
I realize you're being a bit humorous, but it's true 'the messaging' on this can be muddled. "getting sun is bad" should be strictly "too much UV exposure over a long period of time is bad" which is c
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
I recall a strong strain of activism to get hacking as an interest as socially acceptable, along with opening up compsec to a wider audience, and getting gov/corps to embrace this instead of treating all hackers as criminals. I'm
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
Anyone have a guess about when iOS will support web push notifications? One shouldn't really have to spin up a native app just get this single feature that all other browsers support on every other platform.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
The best piece that one can read on the origin of covid is by Zeynep: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.h... I am still confused how people think that it being an accidental &quo
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
FileMaker flies under the radar and most people haven't even heard of it. It seems like it was neglected over the years as well. They also took some strategic directions that weakened the utility such as lack of interoperability, but i
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
Another interesting (non-fiction) book that flies under the radar is "The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB" (vol 1 of 2). A disillusioned archivist (Mitrokhin) for the KGB kept notes fo
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
While I can understand the point of view, focus on the content not who the writer is, I'm not really a subscriber. I like to have some sense of a person's background on a subject the less I follow it. It also sets a ceiling on the
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
I don't know where you're getting these numbers. They seem way on the low end. If you're going by CDC tracked cases (seems like 12% there, 40m cumulative cases/328m pop=12%?) to infer the total number of people infected
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
That's good for Australia. I'm definitely expressing a US-centric observation here where I'm hoping we can avoid polarizing this.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
Basically trying discredit people who communicate in any way the possibility that covid-19 will be endemic.
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
One of the biggest failures still happening is the lack of communication on this. Many people think we're going to eradicate covid-19. Even before the delta variant that seemed like an impractical longshot, and that it was inevitable t
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
The authors took care to carefully express their intentions, wishes, and argument. I find it disappointing to see many comments like this that want to injure more than discuss. A conversation about the expectations and burdens that people t
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by TheCowboy 5y ago
It's actually the first thing I do because the chances of the lost pet allowing you to approach are usually not great. This gives me a better chance of getting a good shot or two I can post on Nextdoor.

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