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by biztos 5y ago
> revision control of legislation and public caselaw Even in pseudo-democracies, even in many outright autocracies, the information needed to build such a thing exists and is public. I don't know if anyone's built a git repo f
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by biztos 5y ago
> That's the author's point -- his dynamically changing NFT was revoked in this manner. For me the much scarier weaponization is to change the linked content to be something illegal after you buy the NFT. How would you prove
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by biztos 5y ago
During the Cold War, the US government, via the United States Information Agency (USIA)[0] delivered all sorts of propaganda to our ideological adversaries, in particular communist countries. They usually tried to reach the average perso
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by biztos 5y ago
Apologies if someone already made this comment, but if you want your house to last 1000 years I think you ought to start with giving your fellow humans a reason to want that too. Your future self, revived from a frozen brain in your Aucklan
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by biztos 5y ago
1. They can (theoretically) examine the whole ledger. 2. Your possession of the private key “verifies” your public key, if someone takes it they are now you. 3. Depends on the consensus mechanism but in the best case, “everyone” and in the
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by biztos 5y ago
In your #3 you seem to have overlooked the phrase “about Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs,” which is what the eye-roll about conflict of interest pertains to. I get what you misunderstood and I think I now get why, but I disagree that it’s what
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by biztos 5y ago
I disagree. It's a small VC world. I'm not going to assume the author was rooting for the failure of the other four operations. One of them even was interviewed on the A16Z podcast later (the one who tragically died). If you h
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by biztos 5y ago
I did clarify, but I'm curious what specific accusation you read from my comment. I re-read it a few times and I don't see one regarding Theranos other than sloppy writing. My "gut plausibility of a scenario" that the a
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by biztos 5y ago
The article hypes five founders, one definitely was funded by A16Z, the others I think were not but I'm not sure. I don't know anything about the Andreessens' personal investments but just as a general rule you might questi
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by biztos 5y ago
> She only pauses in her work to run — seven miles a day. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, yes that Andreessen, writing in the New York Times Magazine about Visionary Tech Entrepreneurs with, um, no conflict of interest whatsoever I&#x27
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by biztos 5y ago
Just going to leave this description here too: 12-minute Anti-Omnivore propaganda video with some cutesy "animations" and climate change as the reason we should all be vegans, oh and also shilling for some SkillShare class by the
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by biztos 5y ago
> I like good eggs, but I’m not paying $1/egg It looks like Whole Foods charges about half that for fancy organic eggs. However, if you sold them at the Ferry Building in San Francisco and had a good story about why your eggs were s
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by biztos 5y ago
I’m in Bangkok and it seems like contactless payment is way ahead of Europe, which in turn is way ahead of the US. If you have a Thai bank account (I don’t yet) you can pay for street food using a QR code and your banking app. Not all v
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by biztos 5y ago
Last time I entered the EU (fully vaxxed) I had to pay $375 for a 24h PCR test in San Francisco because Portugal, unlike most EU countries, was not yet accepting US proof of vaccination. I was pretty happy to pay “only” 100 EUR for the next
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by biztos 5y ago
I know it's unhealthy, but I harbor a fantasy in which the modest and user-loving folks from SmugMug[0] pivot Flickr into an all-encompassing portal system a la iMode[1] and drive the productivity vampire Slack[2] out of business, idea
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by biztos 5y ago
OK, but then what is the long-term business justification for paying more-experienced staff less than less-experienced staff? I get that the short-term justification is "we can get away with paying the former less because enough of the
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by biztos 5y ago
> My SO has a driving license but only a debit card. I had a credit card but no driving license. Since we were not from the US, they explained, the driver had to have a credit card. Mine wouldn't do. I ran into exactly this problem
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by biztos 5y ago
> Let's say you have a band The band U2 trained its singer, on-the-job style. Worked out pretty well for the business.
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by biztos 5y ago
I just tried a search and indeed I found a bunch of serendipitously interesting stuff! Well done, hope it makes you more some day.
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by biztos 5y ago
> I sell it via agencies What sort of agency do you use? Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I can't wrap my head around this -- are there "sell your web service" agencies or what?
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by biztos 5y ago
> IT and learning go hand in hand. I couldn't agree more. But learning twice as many new frameworks twice as fast is, in my opinion, unlikely to give you a net gain in productivity. Unless your job is to use twice as many framewor
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by biztos 5y ago
Having grown up in America right when soccer was inching towards popularity, and having then lived in Europe for many years, I've always been puzzled by the violence associated with the game. I can easily see it being a class-related t
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by biztos 5y ago
I listened to a news podcast that covered the meeting[0] and it was very interesting to hear the fans chanting "We are Bayern, You are not!" Turns out the club bylaws put sponsorship decisions entirely in the hands of the leadersh
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by biztos 5y ago
I'm not convinced that being "more current more quickly" is going to boost your productivity but it will probably boost your paycheck if you're willing to job-hop.
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by biztos 5y ago
Hi there. I don't do pair programming and I'm pretty wary of it, but I checked out the site and watched the video and I have a suggestion. Suggestion: market this to remote teams regardless of whether they do "pair programmi
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by biztos 5y ago
Agree with both of you, and for the OP: Q1 2022 sounds pretty good in my experience! A team you don't know much about, that has an unknown set of priorities and an unknown backlog of work from your perspective, and which has its own st
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by biztos 5y ago
I would add: 5. Good documentation (and good culture of documentation) Whenever I have to go look up a Go package[0] and figure out how to use it, I am impressed with how good most of the documentation is. Yes, you have to be familiar with
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by biztos 5y ago
I can think of one real-world use-case, though I have never used this product. It's pretty common in larger companies to have legacy products with a couple of very senior (usually overworked) people and a larger number of junior people
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by biztos 5y ago
For plastic bottles at least for the machine you would have to un-crush it, it scans the bottle. For beer bottles, I dunno, try it out and report back?
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by biztos 5y ago
I did something close to this before "fully remote" was popular. This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but it worked for me: Take a non-remote job (as far as possible under Covid conditions) and spend a c

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