andrewla

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by andrewla 5y ago
I've never used Pandora in a paid mode, so I can't speak to that. Spotify has some features that map to this, but is way more artist focused than album focused. When you click on an artist, you get the artist's page, and navi
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by andrewla 5y ago
Google Play Music was extremely album-focused, but their move over to YouTube Music has basically scrapped that. GPM even let you modify the metadata for albums; I had used this to strip out things like "(2020 Remaster Special Gold Edi
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by andrewla 5y ago
You are correct; buying a stock with cash is impractical but not illegal or impossible. You cannot transact with an exchange, you cannot transact with a broker or a broker/dealer, using cash -- your cash must be deposited somewhere in
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by andrewla 5y ago
If anything, I think stablecoins are way more dangerous than the author indicates. People talk about things like Bitcoin as a threat to sovereign currencies, and they are, as competitors, of sorts. But stablecoins are another matter entirel
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by andrewla 5y ago
The fungibility of cash is what makes it hard, although likely law enforcement will be able to trace many of these. For example, you take your ill-gotten gains and just randomly send $1 to a million different addresses, some owned by you, s
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by andrewla 5y ago
Exactly -- "except crime". Practically speaking these can just be anything from conflicting jurisdictions (buying weed in a state where it's legal but the Federal government is skeptical), to "crimes" like circumven
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by andrewla 5y ago
First of all, what you're talking about more resembles a Merkle Tree rather than a blockchain, because the "chaining" property is really useless in this scenario. Each election can publish the Merkle Tree of its results and y
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by andrewla 5y ago
Very much this -- it will unfortunately have a horizontal bias if done naively, but I've been exploring the space of doing lossy preprocessing to improve image compression, but the layered heuristics in png make this difficult. This fo
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by andrewla 5y ago
For a while I had a wrapper script around nvm (that I called "nvm-shell") that let me swap in a shell that was aware of nvm: exec $BASH --init-file <(echo '. ~/.bashrc; . $NVM_DIR/nvm.sh; PS1="<nvm&gt
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by andrewla 5y ago
I'll throw nave ( https://github.com/isaacs/nave ) in there as well. I'm leery of things that globally mess with my environment. When I run "nave use latest" or "nave auto" (for predictable
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by andrewla 5y ago
Neat -- turns out that for sodium chloride there is extensive literature on this. Ethanol is apparently effective as an anti-solvent, but various dimethylisopropylamine compounds appear to be more effective and are used in industrial settin
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by andrewla 5y ago
My reply was glib but I think in principle correct. The idea of a strictly controlled system in the NISQ domain to validate quantum supremacy in theory is an interesting approach, but it feel deceptive to me because this 127-qubit computer
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by andrewla 5y ago
Basically little more than having a bathtub and claiming you've built a computer that does 600e23 node fluid dynamic calculations. But a lot more expensive.
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by andrewla 5y ago
There's a strong argument that the nature of "civil society" is how far removed from that threat of violence we live. That is, people obey "the law" because it's the right thing to do and they don't do tha
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by andrewla 5y ago
Oddly enough, I'm a "crypto" person myself -- I've been active in the Bitcoin community since forever, basically. I still think cryptocurrencies are an enormously powerful concept, but we can't blind ourselves to th
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by andrewla 5y ago
> Ownership is always based on social constructs I mean, no? Ownership is always based on societal constructs; in the useful sense it means that the state is enforcing it. If someone takes it you can use violence or the threat of violenc
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by andrewla 5y ago
The "Evil person" and the "Pirate Bay owners" are the same people. The ads are not fraudulent per se -- real humans are seeing the ads and interacting with them.
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by andrewla 5y ago
In Philadelphia driving this is called the "New Jersey" problem -- you miss your turn or your exit and all of a sudden you're on a bridge heading to New Jersey with no real idea of how you got there.
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by andrewla 5y ago
Don't get me wrong, if I were Assange I would fight this extradition to the bitter end. Pretrial detention alone is an incredibly harsh punishment (and why he won the first extradition case). Despite the US's vengefulness, Chelsea
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by andrewla 5y ago
From the perspective of freedom of the press in the United States, the best way for Assange's case to help journalism and journalists exposing state secrets would be for him to be successfully extradited and to be acquitted at trial fo
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by andrewla 5y ago
> The Jeffrey Epstein story is so deep and disturbing, but no one in media will touch it in any depth. Or even do anything more than superficially acknowledge it. It's claims like this that alienate me from conspiracy theories like
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by andrewla 5y ago
It's worse, not on a "debasement of the currency" basis, but on a surveillance and censorship basis. On a systemic basis it is slightly more dangerous than cash just because it reinforces the notion that bank deposits are val
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by andrewla 5y ago
Was that the whole point? "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" is to me more germane. Not allowing the state to issue money at will is more of a core tenet. I think the a lot of the dream from there is to make it poss
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by andrewla 5y ago
> the US never had gold reserves that matched the dollars in circulation. Not once. Ever. This cuts both ways. Proponents of "sound money" and the gold standard ignore this unwinding of the relationship. So pointing to the roar
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by andrewla 5y ago
This is a very important point. I live in NYC; our older child went through the DoE Pre-K program. The teachers were great and fun, but there was so much emphasis on things like "pre-literacy" and attempts to make it into a curric
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by andrewla 5y ago
Cartoon idea: Man walks into WorldCoin center with a bag of human eyeballs -- "where are my free coins?"
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by andrewla 5y ago
For sure! Another comment noted that this might be a sign of a dysfunctional organization, and I think there's a lot of truth there -- where systems have grown to such complexity that people involved in a larger project can't keep
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by andrewla 5y ago
This has happened to me frequently at my current company. I get pulled into a meeting about something that I have no context on because it touches my area of expertise, and the discussions have apparently been stalling out. I brace myself t
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Not entirely true -- Bell Atlantic became Verizon after it ate most of the baby bells in the Northeast.
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by andrewla 5y ago
No, it was from 1997 [1], not the Great Depression. It was intended to allow the minting of smaller denomination coins, but did not specify that in the text, so a textual reading will not forbid this usage. [1] https://www.congre

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