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by andreskytt 5y ago
This absolutely does not stop you from doing what Wise does under the hood: have bank accounts in two countries and settle using comms rather than the banking system. A message comes in “Alice should now be given x amount from the local acc
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by andreskytt 5y ago
What this boils down to is a set of observable factors being multiplied. Probably millions of people got the shot in August. From them, probably tens of thousands were overweight. From them, hundreds had diabetes. Add a few other factors li
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by andreskytt 5y ago
MIT researchers have been able to assign cafeteria bills to individuals with 80% probability. With any identification information as well as timestamps removed. Correlating datasets gets pretty powerful pretty fast. Also, if the data is mad
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Statements like “Schools, as they exist in most Western countries today, do not teach science as such” are wonderfully tautological. Has the author done a study? Are there findings to be shared? What is the definition of “teaching science”?
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Not necessarily true, I think. It’s a mental barrier more, than a physical one. Tell someone you ran 100 m in 12 seconds and they go “meh”. Tell them you did a marathon and they go “i could not do that, awesome, how could you etc.” whereas
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Goodness, indeed. But, in the context of memes, this means ideas no longer have to be beneficial to their human hosts in order to proliferate. It used to be that you’d have to be at least moderately well-to-do (thus, capable financially and
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by andreskytt 5y ago
That said, blockchain-like technologies (ksi, more specifically) can be used to assure the integrity of databases storing the relationship between you and your car.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
In my experience, a broken HR indicates a broken organization. Yes, you can hunker down and focus on your field and move on in a while but I can’t, usually. As to shitty interviews. I was approached by Google for a non-programmer role a few
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Debugging complex systems in production is much easier, if you can rely on certain things. Thus, simple logging to files using known configuration eliminates one variable to debug. With an event bus, there’s always the question of “did the
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Human mind is an emergent behavior of a complex ecosystem of life that we call the human body. Remove everything not genetically human from the body and it no longer functions. Thus, there is an ecosystem and not a single being. As to emerg
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by andreskytt 5y ago
A random dude showing up in a car at the border and just being waved through? Vast majority of the ussr population had not even seen a foreigner up close at that point, there was virtually no tourism and what there was, was focused on big c
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I took up triathlon two years ago. Being in my late forties and never having done any sports in a systematic fashion, I’m certainly not winning any trophies. But being in shape feels great and there’s an insane amount of technique to learn.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
It appears indeed to be the same itch. I know a really good programmer who started doing artisan (hand tools only, fine wood etc) furniture as a hobby and is now apparently accepting orders for his work.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Very interesting! Maybe contrasting these with Kong Fuzi, Armenian and Scandinavian myths and religious texts would be interesting? What I find very curious from the system dynamics standpoint, is how linear the world models are in the west
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by andreskytt 5y ago
The article clearly says, though, that (a) there is a secrecy around what goes on in these clubs and (b) the people running the clubs are activists. This means, that people with unclear qualifications and goals do things with my child nobod
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by andreskytt 5y ago
More importantly, what makes them qualified to do so? How do I know, as a parent, that they are actually making the school a safer place for everyone and not spewing their own ideology?
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by andreskytt 5y ago
The entire concept of talking about gender being “fluid” while proceeding to divide it into an increasingly complex framework of discrete classes is very meta. People are more complex than that, let them be! I do get that young people seek
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by andreskytt 5y ago
AFAIK Indian telecoms are using blockchain tech to maintain a distributed database of do-not-call numbers. Lag of up to 24 hours is ok and the relatively small number of parties is quite trustworthy. Basically they just use the bc for conse
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Speaking as somebody with 20 years of international egov experience. Why is there an egov minister? There is no weird separate “electronic government” that’s somehow distinct from the “real government”. What typically happens in these scena
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by andreskytt 5y ago
There are no saints on this earth. All of us have done or said things we are not proud of and most of our deeds will seem monstrous to the sufficiently distant generations. Newton, for example, was apparently quite a horrible person even by
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by andreskytt 5y ago
This is quite a simplistic view. Slavery in its milder forms (buying and selling people along with land, restrictions on movement etc.) was widespread in Europe up until 19th century. There has not been a homogeneous class of “white people”
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by andreskytt 5y ago
I learned it the hard way at college. The prof just blasting off in a flurry of greek and us trying to keep up. Eventually he resorted to using the gothic alphabet and at that point I gave up. Every single field of math appears to have thei
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Lifting, triathlon, marathon, cycling - any sport, really - with a good trainer. You’ll get fit, you’ll have fun and you’ll gain a sense of accomplishment. Especially the endurance sports also tend to have a strong spiritual impact on peopl
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Claims like “it just works” appear to turn the tables on the anti-vax analogy. There is no need to believe the vaccines work, it can be demonstrated. Here, we are required to believe nft-s work. And they don’t. Given the amount of people se
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Also, come to think of it, a machine cannot (at least for now) be taught about detecting and avoiding feedback loops. Data might suggest an ethnicity A to be more likely to be criminal which leads them to be filtered out for spot checks mor
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by andreskytt 5y ago
The algorithms being only as good as we are has many levels to it. Encoding existing biases is one. But nowadays it’s not existing algorithms but rather data driving the decisions. So the biases in how data might be collected or processed i
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Equal hypocrisy, you say? So what universally accepted scale did you weigh the entirety of US and Russian societies on finding them equal? Maybe it might make sense to look at some metrics with an agreed-upon methodology.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Making definitive claims about plans of intelligence services is not necessarily a very useful endeavor.
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Indeed, why he would say anything about a place where he lives and that provides him with both income and legal protection. Snowden is not my enemy and I’m not spreading propaganda. All I’m saying is that a person under complete control of
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by andreskytt 5y ago
Where is Snowden and who is paying his bills? Russia. Sounds an awful lot like the common whataboutism message Russia is pushing out to justify their media abuses. Yes, western media and US in particular could be much better. No, they are n

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