clarkmoody

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by clarkmoody 1y ago
I would pay more for an announcement-free flight. I watch the safety briefing ahead of time, and nobody speaks over the insanely-loud PA system the entire time I'm on the airplane.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
This is about power of the state over the individual. Full stop.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
Start from the assumption of liberty and the freedom of association. Unfortunately, most people don't believe in human liberty and prefer varying degrees of slavery.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
The purpose of a system is what it does.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
And in modern times, we can't forget the concerned citizen calling the police when seeing young kids out on their own. So childhood has become semi-illegal, depending on the mood of the officers on duty.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
Many such cases with crypto. Moderately good idea powered by a token becomes a Ponzi.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
Bitcoin Lightning Network solves the routing payment problem via a series of cascading unlocks of value across the route. Nodes can change their fee policy independent of the network, so the bottleneck node could make more money in your sce
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
Also maps nicely to the Covid experience.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
One thing I've been listening for in the podcasts is a discussion of equity. I'd love to get the company's perspective on equity, options, liquidity, etc. The Silicon Valley Way (tm) of using stock options to "juice&quot
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Bincode 2.0.0(github.com)
2 points by clarkmoody 2y ago|0 comments
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Here's how a printer company could gain massive market share: - Open firmware and interfaces to the hardware - Make a profit on the sale of the printer hardware - Open spec for any ink manufacturer to create cartridges
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Future generations aren't voting in the next election.
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Possible, yes. Probable?
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
The other tradeoff comes with ease of debugging. Compile-time vs runtime errors. Dredging through microservice logs vs stack traces from the monolith.
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Plenty of homework assignments in graduate level aerospace engineering courses that are right up the alley of this paper. Star trackers as backup for GNSS would be of great interest to maritime vessels worried about spoofing. So there are p
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Just imagine how fun life will be when the cop at the end of your street has to enforce the politics of Washington, and then someone you don't like gets into office.
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Previous civilizations were able to own their cultural myths. Modern civilization's cultural myths are controlled by giant faceless corporations with legions of lawyers. No one can tell a new story about Han, Luke, and Leia without per
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Self driving + conversation monitoring => lock the doors and drive you to the nearest reeducation camp for uttering wrongspeak.
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Alternative title idea: "Instead of Reaching for AI, we used Good Old-Fashioned Engineering to Solve a Tough Problem"
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Are you responding to an 8 year old?
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Rest in peace to a true legend.
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
> I don’t see how a government elected by the people can be considered a dictatorship. Have you read any history?
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
This is completely false.
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
If you took time to check out the link, you would see that this post is about the Lightning Network, which can support massive transactional volume.
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
Also from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40584237
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
What's the markup on software?
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by clarkmoody 2y ago
The term "Geometers" makes me think of Neal Stephenson's Anathem , which is just as will, since the article is about advanced orbits.
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by clarkmoody 3y ago
Fool me once...
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by clarkmoody 3y ago
How many drugs had FDA approval that was later retracted after much harm was done?
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by clarkmoody 3y ago
One of my favorite bits of Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky is the use of base-10 time: ksec, Msec, etc. There is a nice time log scale with Earth time to base-10 time conversions.

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