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by binalpatel 9y ago
Wow - I never realized the scale of the Mt. Gox one. Wiki says they lost 855,000 BitCoin, which at current prices are around $8.5 billion USD.
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Universe in a Bubble(aeon.co)
1 points by binalpatel 9y ago|0 comments
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by binalpatel 10y ago
Reminds me of a talk I saw by Stephen Boyd from Stanford a few years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqy-og_7SLs (Slides only here: https://www.slideshare.net/0xdata/h2o-world-consensus-optimi... )
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Update: CRISPR(radiolab.org)
171 points by binalpatel 10y ago|78 comments
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by binalpatel 10y ago
It still blows my mind that we can detect planets orbiting an entirely different stars. And more so - that these tiny pixels that we can just barely detect, are full-fledged planets that may have atmospheres, water cycles, and who knows wha
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by binalpatel 10y ago
You work in an industry like healthcare where it's IPSEC or bust for any tunneling.
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I agree with you - coming back and rereading the article, I didn't have nearly the same reaction. Originally I focused exclusively on that single segment, which my fault.
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by binalpatel 10y ago
The glorification of stress in start-ups is an interesting thing. I've always wonder if it's because it's a mental thing. If an industry glorified their employees physically harming themselves, it'd be horrific. It took
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I'd argue this challenge was one of Netflix's better investments. Sure - most of the winning algos never actually got used - but here we are, still talking about this almost 10 years after it's inception.
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I've fallen into the busy trap pretty often lately. Busy to me - paradoxically - is correlated with not getting shit done. It's one thing to have a lot to do, and get 90% of the tasks done, and another to have a lot to do, and get
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I'm in the midst of a light burnout right now - and I realize it's partly my expectations, and partly the expectations of my company. As part of a start-up you're expected to be insanely productive at all times - so much so -
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I completely agree on that - it's exactly like math, the only way to truly learn it is to practice, over and over again, until you've mastered the concept. This is something I'm coming to terms with in my career right now (~3
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by binalpatel 10y ago
This is employer-centric in my opinion - sure you're not paid to write code, and sure you can reuse existing code base in new and exciting ways. But - there's also value in learning new things, in new skills, in new toolsets. Mayb
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by binalpatel 10y ago
On a - I have no idea. On b- Not sure if it's worth $25 billion, but I have noticed that it is the "Facebook" for younger generations, and that when they use it, they use it all the time, not just a few times a day like other
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I'm quite frankly amazed ICQ is still alive, I thought it was one of those things that had just died out some time ago.
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I do quite enjoy that survivorship bias!
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I wax poetic about this pretty often - but it's always been amazing to me that me, and you, and everyone in the world has an unbroken chain of ancestry all the way back to the first spark of life. We're all stupendously lucky in t
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by binalpatel 10y ago
404 Page for me. Though I must say - that might be the coolest 404 page I've ever seen. Edit: The 404 page in question - in case the article actually comes back up :). http://imgur.com/a/cbhS2 Edit2: The actual li
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I think this is an important point - geopolitical issues are part of the equation. When Russia was invading (or liberating, based on your viewpoint) Kiev, energy reliance on Russia did play a key part in some nations willingness/unwill
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by binalpatel 10y ago
Maybe I'm generalizing too much - but couldn't we say that electricity generation is starting to resemble the internet more and more? Servers (generators) that provide content, users (consumers) that want to consume it. As more an
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by binalpatel 10y ago
How would that hypothetical work out? I know that the grids - as they stand right now - must balance generation and consumption. Would a large outage (or large spike) in any given part of the interconnected grids be able to take out all of
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I'm not an expert - so I can't say for sure. The article does mention that Japan apparently runs two different "grids" that are so different, that it's close to impossible to connect the two. I'd imagine that i
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by binalpatel 10y ago
I'm excited for this - being able to test drugs/treatments on human-like brains could be a gigantic boon for research in neurological conditions. I'm also a little wary - there could be a large backlash against this, I could
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'Minibrains' Could Help Drug Discovery for Zika and for Alzheimer's(npr.org)
1 points by binalpatel 10y ago|1 comments
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by binalpatel 10y ago
The article's about two months old - but I thought it was a fascinating idea. I know that one of the challenges of harnessing renewable energy is battery technology not being up to he task (yet), but I'd never thought about creati
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China, Japan, Russia, and South Korea Plan Renewable Energy Super Grid(cleantechnica.com)
112 points by binalpatel 10y ago|49 comments
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by binalpatel 10y ago
That's a reasonable argument, and I'll have to read up more on it. What I posted above was via by economics classes from some time ago, so it may be time to actually take a look at the data. By no means am I for trade restrictions
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by binalpatel 10y ago
With a background in Economics - I've always been inclined to support free trade deals. Granted it's one thing to theoretically say they're great, and another to say it to the face of someone who's lost their job because
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by binalpatel 10y ago
Completely agree - I can't vote (yet!), but I was Democrat leaning. Trump winning was good for me - in that it opened my eyes to another half of America I had quite frankly been ignorant of, as a tech worker that's been doing quit
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by binalpatel 10y ago
It'll be interesting to see whether you see many hate crimes with this - and whether they'll be different than the baseline before Trump was elected. My gut tells me that there won't be a drastic upswing (in the belief of the

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