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by bgroat 5y ago
I'm reminded of the wonderful book "Blindsight" which features vampire astronauts because they can put themselves into states of suspended animation
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Ask HN: Open-Source Medical School
1 points by bgroat 5y ago|2 comments
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by bgroat 5y ago
Sorry if my parent comment came of antagonistic. I was really just asking. Either way there must be advantages in multiple backups: - DNA - Digital sequence - Crystals - Stone etching Even with different decay rates they won't all
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by bgroat 5y ago
Do we know the half-life of a digital record?
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by bgroat 5y ago
I still regularly go to a library and take random books off the shelf and read them in the branch. It's silly and paranoid, but I want to know some things without a record existing. No web browser, or online payments. It doesn't e
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by bgroat 5y ago
This. If you're sending 250,000 double opt-in SMS messages and can't cover $0.007/message you've got a serious pricing problem
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by bgroat 5y ago
When I was in high school I attempted to code a "Fog-of-War" chess where different pieces had different sight ranges. The King had no sight individually, but their range was the sight-range of all pieces within one piece from them
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by bgroat 5y ago
My comment was unclear, I don't really buy that. I just mean that it's a bad argument.
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by bgroat 5y ago
I've heard this argument in response to sugar. Sugar can't be as addictive as heroin! People give blowjobs to get more heroin, no one gives a blowjob for a chocolate bar. But that has nothing to do with addictiveness. I don't
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by bgroat 5y ago
I think you and u/rreo8 have it. It's away to suggest control even in a loss
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by bgroat 5y ago
Not relevant to this discussion. But has anyone noticed that we only ever say "correction" to mean "going down". Has their been a period or an asset class in recent history where informed individuals said something to th
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by bgroat 5y ago
"Problematic" as a word has become a red flag for me. Many social justice initiatives are important and worth talking about (I'm a BIPOC), so I get it. But an essay on taking umbridge with the Jedi sees like a waste of time t
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by bgroat 5y ago
Not even. It just needs to be a profit objective that isn't a DIRECTLY from mining revenue. A well funded actor could 51% attack BTC, and short at several times leverage and make their money there. Or double-spend and make money there.
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by bgroat 5y ago
Love Mr. Robot, but Elliot is a social/political actor. I’m looking for a Walter White money fiend
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by bgroat 5y ago
I'm holding out for a Breaking Bad style show about a software consultant who realizes how much money they can make by pivoting to running a malware ransom ring
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by bgroat 5y ago
Drops in hash rate make a 51% attack easier which compromises the stability of the network
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by bgroat 5y ago
And I do want to take power from my rivals..
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by bgroat 5y ago
There's a video that's being going around HN lately about civilization collapsing and the loss of the ability to maintain robust systems. Now that I'm looking for it I see it everywhere.
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by bgroat 5y ago
This has been my stance for a few years. "Okay, we trust 90%+ of all transactions. Is there a way we can allocate $1T dollars to get that up to 99% without consuming more electricity than many countries?" It costs civilization 1&#
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by bgroat 5y ago
Jonathan remains in my mind the most perfect version of a "smart person" in media. Deep domain expertise, with plodding, methodical deliberative thinking until he finds a solution. No flashy mental superpowers, just patience, tria
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by bgroat 5y ago
Upvoting this because I agree with you. Edited the parent comment to provide some more context
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by bgroat 5y ago
I'm going to edit my parent comment for more context, because I realize my initial comment was unclear
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by bgroat 5y ago
I'm a Canadian, but I often watch American rallies on the news. I always laugh when some American protestors say they're being oppressed/the current regime is fascistic. I mean, you're gathered, in a crowd, often armed,
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by bgroat 5y ago
There's a wonderful British television story called "Jonathan Creek" were the eponymous Johnathan is a stage-hand and magic trick developer who helps a reporter solve locked-room mysteries. In the pilot episode he says someth
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by bgroat 5y ago
I was waiting for someone to bring up human brains. I'm reading Dune now, and much of the HN-crowd that in the Duniverse they don't have computers because of a past AI war. What's a little bit less known is that one of the fa
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by bgroat 5y ago
Every time I hear a libertarian say "taxation is theft" I counter with, "No, it's vendor lock-in!"
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by bgroat 5y ago
Several of these sound exactly like twitter accounts I've seen in the wild
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by bgroat 5y ago
In terms of ease of hosting? I'm considering migrating to Phoenix and my biggest concern is ease of deployment
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by bgroat 5y ago
I, the OP used the phrase "almost by definition". And this has no quantitative backing, just my proselytizing. The child comment about The President doesn't use the phrase "by definition" at all
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by bgroat 5y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he coined it. Admittedly, I'm a Buffet fan, so I think he can do anything. But he is pretty famously a bit of a wordsmith

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