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by austinjp 4y ago
Surely Inglorious Basterds?
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by austinjp 4y ago
What jig would be up? Mining as profiteering? For sure, and the end of mining is an inevitability. Bitcoin as currency could continue though, no?
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by austinjp 4y ago
Ehm.... "waste energy"? I'm not sure there is such a thing. If it can be harvested and used, why should it be used for Bitcoin instead of... well, anything else?
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by austinjp 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang)
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by austinjp 4y ago
It's quantifiably different in several dimensions, including access to media and the sophistication with which messages are tailored and targeted.
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by austinjp 4y ago
Not the secrets themselves, but their location, eg /opt/secrets/some-database.sqlite3 I'm not parent commenter, but that's how I've done it before. The file on disk has the appropriate permissions etc. I'm
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by austinjp 5y ago
Debuggable and explainable AI is necessary but not sufficient. The societal implications and questions are profound and may be even harder to solve (see other comments in this thread).
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by austinjp 5y ago
You can forgive (or not) a human when they fuck up. This is a real, meaningful, valuable part of the experience of dealing with injustice, negligence, etc. It's why witness statements are given due weight in courts. We already know how
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by austinjp 5y ago
> yeast extract (vegemite) That's not how you spell Marmite.
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by austinjp 5y ago
It's "immune mediated", meaning that there is indeed a response by the immune system. Unsurprisingly, histamines and other inflammatory markers are detected. Sometimes anti-inflammatories can help. https://en.m.wik
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by austinjp 5y ago
Yep, that's aquagenic pruritis.
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by austinjp 5y ago
> My wife ... is an extremely specialized surgeon and she is horrified by the academic publishing in her area of expertise. It is often utterly wrong and conflicts directly with her experience. Genuine question: how does someone in her p
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by austinjp 5y ago
> often the real answer is: stop working there and find a better job. I don't disagree with your points about leadership, quality, and process. But after many years in many jobs, I've noticed "plus ça change". Sometim
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by austinjp 5y ago
Erm. Well, no. But having an externally-facing mailing list doesn't suggest a lack of internal email. Unless there's something I'm missing?
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by austinjp 5y ago
Does it? I see email subscription at https://opensea.io/about Can you explain a bit more?
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Ask HN: Whose business operates without email?
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by austinjp 5y ago
I didn't know about git delta, thanks for this. Presumably your referring to https://github.com/dandavison/delta ? Does anyone have any tips for integrating it into an emacs workflow? I'm currently doing `git
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by austinjp 5y ago
Yep. Now, tell me how to reliably remotely interact with my MacBook desktop while my partner is logged in to that MacBook and I'm using a separate machine. Note -- and I can't believe this needs spelling out -- I want to see
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by austinjp 5y ago
I honestly don't get the appeal of the Apple ecosystem. Yes, some bits "just work", and yes I wish that parts of the Linux and Windows ecosystems "just worked" too. But.... There are aspects that not only don't
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by austinjp 5y ago
> I'm getting an eternal spinner At first I thought this was some form of existential dread stemming from seeing the date of your death :)
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by austinjp 5y ago
That's fine, but maybe mention US-only in the submission title?
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by austinjp 5y ago
Amazing, I was thinking of this only yesterday. I read it as a child [0], didn't realise it was PKD! [0] Edited to add the book: "Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters", highly recommended. http://www.isfdb.o
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by austinjp 5y ago
On a one-to-one basis, that might be one approach. On a system- or industry-wide basis, this approach fails to address the real issue of the significant time taken for evidence to reach patients. Simply walking away leaves the problem unres
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by austinjp 5y ago
Well, I'm glad we agree on most points, but Germam citizens most definitely will die because of fuel poverty. https://energyindustryreview.com/analysis/energy-poverty-a-t...
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by austinjp 5y ago
Do not breathe pure oxygen unless it's administered by a medical professional for legitimate reasons: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_toxicity There's a story that's relevant to this thread, and I
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by austinjp 5y ago
"Optery only works for U.S. residents at this time". It would be good to have this clearly stated before the user starts the sign-up process. It's a dark pattern to permit account creation if you can't actually provide a
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by austinjp 5y ago
Indeed. One issue we have today is a glut of scientific information, some of which is high quality and some isn't. Also, some will later be shown to be false, and some correct, in any given context. It's not enough to say simply t
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by austinjp 5y ago
Downvoter(s), care to explain?
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by austinjp 5y ago
> Elevator pitch: Bring enough light to simulate daylight into your home and office. This idea has been shared in Less Wrong circles for a couple years. Yudkowsky wrote Inadequate Equilibria in 2017 where he and his wife invented the ide
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by austinjp 5y ago
> You're treating an aggressive war in Europe like a minor calamity I have absolutely no idea why you say this, and I can assure you that I am not doing this. Fuel poverty in Europe and the UK are among many reasons why those nati

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