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by beambot 5y ago
Super-useful creature. "Horseshoe crab blood: The micracle vaccine ingredient that's saved millions of lives." https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/horseshoe-crab-blood-miracle-...
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by beambot 5y ago
I'm confused. Are you being facetious about crypto having adverse uses too, or are you saying we should ban rocketry (another technology with good & bad uses), or something else entirely?
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by beambot 5y ago
Payment processing trivially invalidates your premise: I can walk into a Ford dealership and buy any vehicle using any source of cash-like funds I'd like -- I don't have to use Ford's preferred lender.
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by beambot 5y ago
The MFN applies to other SAFEs too. YC will get the "best" price during the priced conversion. If you took other money at a lower SAFE, that would peg the "best" price in the conversion -- and thus, that's what YC
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by beambot 5y ago
Hence the need for good managers to set expectations and manage timelines.
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by beambot 5y ago
Race was definitely a bit of a side tangent, but you're absolutely correct. Let me share an interesting anecdote... I live in a small community on the SFBA peninsula. Our property's original CC&R's (Covenants, Conditions
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by beambot 5y ago
I love the irony in SFBA of major tech companies building their new HQs right on the water's edge. They'll be the first to acknowledge anthropogenic climate change, yet I've never been able to get a satisfactory justificatio
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by beambot 5y ago
And eating persimmons alongside dairy (milk or yogurt) carries health risks too.
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by beambot 5y ago
I found it ironic that this initial quote seemed to be the intent of the article... which then goes on to display charts and equations that are unlikely to jive with a six year old.
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by beambot 5y ago
I wouldn't classify myself as someone particularly "skilled in the art", though I've definitely built audio DSP solutions. I can think of 2-3 ways to achieve "wireless control system and protocol for multiple speak
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by beambot 5y ago
Related article from yesterday that specifically calls out urea: "Global farmers facing fertiliser sticker shock may cut use, raising food security risks" https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/globa
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by beambot 5y ago
Highly recommend reading about "Structured Procrastination": http://structuredprocrastination.com/
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by beambot 5y ago
Still a core staple of my consumption (e.g. Newsblur), but it really does feel like Google Reader's sunsetting inadvertently killed RSS feeds.
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by beambot 5y ago
Would be interesting to know if it's contingency or if there's some outside bankroll.
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by beambot 5y ago
Can move != Does move. All this talk, but not a single customer mention. Seems like Boston Dynamics' MO: Flashy demos, YouTube videos, great R&D, lots of PR, but light on the customer testimonials.
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by beambot 5y ago
As someone who worked on a midwestern farm as a child, I will respectfully disagree with your assessment -- farm labor is significantly more harmful to your body than working at a computer.
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by beambot 5y ago
Generally refers to decentralized technologies that somehow benefit from blockchain-like data structures. For example, you can compost these three technologies to build a decentralized webserver. - Filecoin & AR Weave: decentralized fil
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by beambot 5y ago
This feels like a "let them eat cake" reply when compared to agrarian labor...
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by beambot 5y ago
It's true, the nordic countries do well on Social Mobility [1] (measure of intergenerational economic mobility). However, I think we can all agree that they're fairly homogenous ethnically & culturally (e.g. as measured by Fe
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by beambot 5y ago
Hijinks & satire akin to Cards Against Humanity in the non-crypto world?
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by beambot 5y ago
To be fair... CERT has affiliations with the US government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERT_Coordination_Center > The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) is the coordination center of the computer emergency r
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by beambot 5y ago
Crypto transactions featured heavily in Stross' Neptune's Brood for synchronizing transactions over interstellar distances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune%27s_Brood Money was split into slow, medium,
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by beambot 5y ago
Surimi already exists & is quite common for ground fish
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by beambot 5y ago
It's not as bad as some other options -- eg extravagant consumption with huge carbon footprint or digging shiney metals & stones out of the ground.
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by beambot 5y ago
I assume Christopher Hitchens is someone of note within some atheist circles(?), but regardless: name dropping for credibility by association in the same paragraph as lamenting "thought clergy" is ironic.
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by beambot 5y ago
Stripe's Atlas program seems to be available in Brazil? https://stripe.com/atlas
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by beambot 5y ago
> 'theoretically possible but never seen in a lab' Not unlike gravitational waves and the Higgs Boson up until relatively recently...
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by beambot 5y ago
> But we do need rules like if I give you money for something and then you tell me to get lost... That would be "larceny", and there are lots of rules prohibiting it & court systems to recoup damages. Credit card companies
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by beambot 5y ago
You can take this a step further and make the telecom as a service entirely decentralized: Earn "tokens" by providing wireless area coverage & data backhaul, spend "tokens" to transmit data. This is exactly what the
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by beambot 5y ago
> What is useful about Bitcoin? No quasi-governmental agency can unilaterally decide to print gobs more of it & drive inflation through the roof... https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1

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