artfulhippo

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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Supporters and resistors of the utilitarian framing of benefits of (sub)urbanity are both being over-simplistic. Of course we make decisions on balance of their expected outcomes. The problem is that we can't in general predict outcome
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
How can you resist the dominant ideology without valuing freedom? How can you challenge the norms set by the elite without asserting your right as an individual to take a non-conforming stance? Even if you argue that society would be more h
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
> Consider the average "big block chain" - very high block frequency, very high block size, many thousands of transactions per second, but also highly centralized: because the blocks are so big, only a few dozen or few hundred
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Money spent on luxuries/social status signaling is money not given to reduce suffering. If you have any sense of empathy for the billions of people living with low incomes, it's obvious that luxury spending is resource misallocati
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Verified Users get a separate priority queue; the real benefit of being a Blue Check is that other Blue Checks will see when you mention them.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Is Twitter a platform or a publisher? If Twitter is a platform, it might make sense to charge the most prominent users the most. But if Twitter is thought of as a publisher, it makes sense for Twitter to pay its top creators big bucks. Free
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Assuming that you "work on Twitter", ie, your career is in part built on Twitter, what do you think the value of a Blue Check is? I would bet it's worth more than $1000/yr to the average person in the "Twitter Middl
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Twitter's success derives from how well it serves the people who work on Twitter. Think politicians, business leaders, investors, celebrities, influencers, tech workers, journalists. People who work on Twitter, who have built a large f
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
I see. Could you say more about meta-meaning?
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
You're right, but you may want to consider that highly monotone communicators may not actually notice most of the non-literal signals that get passed in typical social situations. Models be built from something, something related to th
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
This thread, and the author's blog which I've but skimmed, are to me a microcosm of the clash between 2 archetypes that roughly correspond to Science and the Liberal Arts; let's call them Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 aims to for
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
I get what you mean, but I do see a difference between scaling strategies. Imagine if Facebook adopted multi-layer scaling, like Bitcoin and Ethereum are doing. Students and alumni of elite universities would have access to Facebook Layer 1
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Good question. I don't have the answer, but maybe it has to do with the market game theory? I mean, there's easier ways to make money. Like, copypasta smart contracts from Ethereum to EVM-compatible chains. But, to fork Solana or
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Gas fees have been too high since Cryptokitties in 2017. Actually, even before Ethereum launched, anyone with a calculator could have predicted the scaling issues. After all, bitcoin was never built for millions of consumers to transact onc
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Totally agree. I use a Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB ram daily. CPU is only a bottleneck when compiling, but with just browser and terminal I regularly break 4GB ram usage.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
tldr: "fake it til you make it" — even if you never make it you can still become a billionaire if you fake it charismatically.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Controversial take: as an insider, you are in a strong position to determine the value of the options. Is your company under- or overvalued? Is your product better or worse than people think? Is the company culture and morale greater or les
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Yes, but those games are made to distract you, the opposite of mindfulness, ie being present in the now.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
A "perfectly shaped avatar" could be used by a young woman, or by an old man. So, in a way it's leveling. But that's also what makes it worse for people who are physically attractive. And what's more, having a &quot
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Interesting, and news to me, thanks. Is this a business for these streamers, a way to make money from male fans? Or are girls using an anime avatar just to hang out with their friends?
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
I think there's a big gender and culture gap in the VR/AR debate. People who place significant value in their physical appearance (eg most young women) are not in a rush to replace their bodies with an avatar. And we know that men
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
You can't actually be a Master of only 1 language. This applies to human and computational languages. Consider that English derives from French, German, Latin, Greek, etc. Without knowledge of the root languages, you can't actuall
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Dude this is Hacker News. I'm surprised when I meet an engineer who doesn't have a maxed out laptop.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
On the day that Apple takes their next step forward, this announcement is effusive over a 2560x1600 screen? Am I reading this right?
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Not paranoid. There are many undocumented binary blobs. I wouldn't touch this project. Not worth he risk.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Looking thru the source, there are many binary blobs. So no, this is not safe, or auditable without extensive reverse engineering.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Seems like a good ELI5 (or 75) to me.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
There were 3 different responses that read your post similarly, as though the higher levels of obesity among Hispanic and Black people are unrelated to American culture, as though it doesn't matter what the rates of obesity are among p
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
You may want to edit this comment. It reads as though you don't think Hispanics or Blacks count as American. I don't think you intend to express this racist sentiment, but it's easily inferred from the text as written.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
I acknowledge that BTCPayServer works smoothly for BTC. What about ETH? Looking at their documentation, it seems like a kludge: https://docs.btcpayserver.org/FAQ/Altcoin/

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