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by artfulhippo 5y ago
If your users expect a reasonable level of UX quality, you're likely better off giving a middleman his ounce of flesh. If not, then spend your valuable time hacking together some combo of scripts and open source code to watch your wall
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Interesting piece by W. David Marx that situates NFTs within the category of Status Symbols. Marx is among the most lucid watchers of culture with a focus on Japan, where fashion and futurism converged decades ago.
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Are NFTs Status Symbols?(dirt.substack.com)
38 points by artfulhippo 5y ago|57 comments
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
I love macOS and Linux. Even Windows is acceptable, especially now with WSL. IMO, if it runs emacs, who cares what the OS is? When it comes to hardware, Apple is a few years ahead, however. Battery life and screen technology are quality-of-
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
When I interviewed with Coinbase in 2018, it seemed that their core competency was strong relationships with regulators (not tech). And now they're picking a fight with the SEC? What's going on inside COIN? Office politics must be
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
This is the winner of Twitter’s $3500 bounty [0] to prove that it’s image cropping algo is demographically biased. [0] https://hackerone.com/twitter-algorithmic-bias
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Bias in Twitter’s Image Cropping Algorithm(github.com)
2 points by artfulhippo 5y ago|1 comments
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
> Brilliance and creativity do seem to offer some protection against blankfacedness—possibly because the smarter you are, the harder it is to justify idiotic rules to yourself—but even there, the protection is far from complete. Brillian
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The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea(vice.com)
91 points by artfulhippo 5y ago|56 comments
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
The Verge podcast[0] where Zuck made this comment was quite revealing. Without naming Apple specifically, Zuck managed to communicate an intense fear that Facebook would be locked out of Apple's upcoming AR platform. Is the 'metav
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
On one hand there’s cryptocurrency and the resurgence of Austrian economics. On the other hand, MMT. Mainstream macroeconomics is a zombie. Posts like this, which don’t even address the situation head on, give even more evidence of this dis
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
I posted this as a link to Techmeme because the thread Bloomberg article seems to be hidden. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674598
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Sam Altman Raises $25M for Worldcoin(techmeme.com)
4 points by artfulhippo 5y ago|1 comments
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Is this being censored? I would think this thread would have 1000 comments by now.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
> Keep it short: A pitch is like a joke. The longer it is, the less impact it has. Cut out as many syllables as you can. Uh, are you into standup comedy? One-liners aren’t the be-all-end-all. And seriously, institutional sales cycles at
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A bear case for social audio(elevis.io)
23 points by artfulhippo 5y ago|10 comments
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Internet Computer aka DFINITY is not a scam. The price action is fishy, but when you investigate the project’s vision, the technical architecture, the team behind it, and the community building on it, you’ll discover that it’s perhaps the m
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Clubhouse is a case study on missed opportunities. What were their biggest mistakes? Violating GDPR and common-sense privacy norms by demanding access to users’ contact list? Still not having a content discovery system? Spamming users with
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
In other discussions here, the notion that some jobs are “bullshit jobs”, an ambiguously defined term coined by David Graeber, has been subject of debate. Timnit Gebru had a bullshit job. Indeed, her whole field, AI ethics, is a bullshit fi
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Can you support big numbers? When I input 3^4^5, it outputs infinity.
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
XCode on iPad is a dream come true for me. I love to use my iPad in bed or laying on a couch or reclining in a chair. While iPad may never become the go-to way to write hundreds of loc, it would be fantastic to have the capability to make i
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Bold of Vitalik to mention CryptoKitties for two reasons. Not only did CryptoKitties overload he Ethereum chain in 2017, breaking usability for everyone, the founders of CryptoKitties, Dapper Labs, were forced to make their own blockchain,
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by artfulhippo 5y ago
Why is this important? What does it enable that Erlang and other actor implementations cannot do?
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong about the biophysics of perception, but it seems to me that I register surprising sounds with less latency than unusual sights. Computers definitely have less latency for audio than video, what with audio
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
> [Apple] is seeking a lead engineer to integrate “audio drivers, tuners, speakers, microphones, wired buses, power supplies, wireless communication, and antennas” into autonomous systems. As an outsider to this space, it’s always puzzle
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene.
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
Have you performed any load testing or measured performance and scalability?
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
This is a fine guide for beginner and intermediate self-learners. To extend it, consider how to "go beyond the text". It is not enough to read in order to think better (upgrading mental models). The wise read in order to live bett
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
Keeping him with gen-pop pre-teens is likely more cruel than pushing him to college. I do hope that he doesn’t get overspecialized in STEM though. A well rounded mental diet including arts and humanities and athletics is better preparation
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by artfulhippo 6y ago
If both depositors and borrowers get it — depositors through higher interest rates and borrowers through lower interest rates — then it’s called dual interest rates. If lenders and shareholders get it, then it’s quantitative easing. If the

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