Tycho

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by Tycho 5y ago
It is possible to store short messages on the public Bitcoin blockchain. If somebody were to publish extremely sensitive official secrets on the blockchain, would the government be forced to attack the whole network?
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by Tycho 5y ago
That's just the way it works. There's numerous alternative arrangements and arguments in favour and against. You could think about if the owner of a business generously decides to give all his employees a pay rise - the government
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by Tycho 5y ago
You’re not just selling your labour though, you’re cultivating your own career. That’s why people generally advance with more years of experience. You are the 100% majority stake owner in the startup of you.
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by Tycho 5y ago
How does this make sense. It’s “tax deductible” because you are giving the income away instead of keeping it. Of course people would give less if they had to give the government a cut. “I want to give a million pounds to charity.” “That’s
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by Tycho 5y ago
The idea that an author would just sit down and write a novel starting from the first line seems alien. Like a film not getting made because the director obsesses over the opening shot. Seems like a detail that should fall into place only o
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by Tycho 5y ago
I mean, seems pretty obvious, on the face of it, that enshrining a practice like peer review would lead to disingenuous gate-keeping, normalcy bias, intellectual sloppiness, politicisation, cliques, groupthink, obscurantism and nerdificatio
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by Tycho 5y ago
I think if you spend most of your childhood and adolescence in a country, and especially if your parents are from that country, then that would qualify. So Boris Johnson definitely British. Of course, by those terms some people simply will
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by Tycho 5y ago
Because people are interested in what exceptional people a country produced , not which ones it merely imported from elsewhere.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Judges have not prevented our relentless slide into a panopticonal hellscape up til now, I don’t have high hopes for their future guardianship of privacy and freedom.
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by Tycho 5y ago
But it’s the thin end of the wedge. No doubt we will evolve towards blanket tracing of anyone who accesses news stories on a particular topic, creating grounds to investigate or detain people on grounds of “domestic terrorism” or whatever.
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by Tycho 5y ago
I think they meant electronic sources that you can only access if you are a student or faculty member at the university.
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by Tycho 5y ago
I wonder if the mood will eventually swing the other way, with companies preferring remote working arrangements, and then people will recall the quaint oddity of employees demanding the change. Living in a high cost of living city, with a
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by Tycho 5y ago
Isn’t this iron-clad evidence of structural sexism?
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by Tycho 5y ago
Looks cool. But what is the ConvectApp exactly? It's blocked on my work network.
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by Tycho 5y ago
How much has sea level risen in the last 70 years?
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by Tycho 5y ago
Over what sort of time frame do these mass extinctions occur?
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by Tycho 5y ago
So it turns out that the ideal temperature for global civilization is about 13 degrees celsius, and we had that for a long time, but now it might rise by one or two degrees and that would be a terrible temperature for global civilization? P
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by Tycho 5y ago
That’s how it works with literally any other word.
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by Tycho 5y ago
what about the part where Russia decided to continue occupying all the countries they’d fought the Nazis out of?
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by Tycho 5y ago
The weird thing is how it’s all seems so co-ordinated. As if the HR departments of every firm get their marching orders from some central advocacy group.
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by Tycho 5y ago
I heard someone say that to run all the cars in the US on electricity would require building a new nuclear power plant something like every week for the next 10 or 15 years. Is this true? I think this is completely unacceptable. The risks o
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by Tycho 5y ago
I remember thinking circa 2009 that every company was going to eventually need a dedicated cyber security department or pay for equivalent services, and that investing in a portfolio of stocks that can provide software and services would be
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by Tycho 5y ago
And I was decent at programming in BASIC, after many hours of time spent trying to write games on the neighbor’s TRS-80 computer. I bet lots of people have stories like this. Does it still happen? Someone in the neighbourhood has some unu
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by Tycho 5y ago
I love the sour grapes of the conventional investors. It must really grind their gears when BTC hits a new all time high after each of these draw-downs.
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by Tycho 5y ago
Once heard Ram On in a old fashioned, wood-panelled pub in Astoria while the reason best down outside - incredibly atmospheric song.
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by Tycho 5y ago
One of my theories is that older people are just as impulsive as younger people, it's just that they have better impulses owing to a superior understanding of the world and other individuals (gained through experience).
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by Tycho 5y ago
Even if your manager will mostly rely on their own judgement, the write-ups will be the only thing that future managers (at the same org) can rely on to learn about your work, and also for things like promotion, your manager will probably n
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by Tycho 5y ago
Another thing about books is: why take the chance of reading a book that is new? There’s thousands of classics to occupy yourself with as a reader, or even books from 20 years ago that have stood some test of time.
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Civic lead of Scottish Government's Open Data strategy resigns(watty62.co.uk)
3 points by Tycho 5y ago|0 comments
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by Tycho 5y ago
Not exactly sure what their strategy around room discovery is. I can't search all rooms. I can't block key words. Is this just for lack of engineers, or is it some galaxy brain scheme to keep me engaged?

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