cryptoz

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by cryptoz 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Persson#Controversy He's said some truly awful things. It's too bad people are downvoting you - this is part of the story of gamedev. Carmack would never say these kinds o
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I spent .2btc to buy a $50 domain name at one point around 2013, that I only used for a year or something. Woooops. But hey, I figured, the future of money, let's do it! Oh well.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> If it was a real insurrection What's a "real" insurrection? An insurrection is "a violent uprising against an authority or government." Jan 6 fits the bill perfectly. > it would have been significantly bette
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Well, Exxon knew about CO2 emissions from its products (and that they were causing global catastrophic climate change) but pretended they didn't know anything - they played dumb for decades while they cooked the world. Worse, while pla
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I repeated "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" blindly for years without really thinking about it much. I thought it was clever. But now I've come to realize I don't agree with it
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Seems a bit early to call that. 10 years of social media not enough for real death results, especially when comparing to tobacco.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
The new tobacco industry...of decades ago. A long time ago we banned advertising smoking to children (or at least, tried to) but the beforetimes of that decision were rough. Kids commercials for smoking, toy cigarettes, etc. Facebook is act
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by cryptoz 5y ago
This is the original plot of The Matrix
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Is this true? Do you have a source? I have a hard time believing that lots of planes flying today are from the 1950s. That's 60-70 years ago. I did some searching but didn't find anything that would indicate there are any commerci
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by cryptoz 5y ago
It seems like the answer is actually yes, then? Seems like it would be expensive but that is no issue with this thought experiment. OP didn't require High-res or directly-overhead, some caveats you added which constrain the problem mor
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Tesla isn't a car company, though. They even removed "Motors" from their name years ago - showing wider interest, and not just batteries. Solar roofing as well, and others. I don't hold TSLA right now, regretfully, I ent
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I love Red Mars. The whole series is good but Red Mars itself is fantastic, one of my favorite books. You practically get an undergrad in areology reading it. Super curious to see how our reality lines up with the timelines in the book.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
> Basically, the constellation's effect on the night sky is proportional to the number of launches in the last month, not the total number in orbit. For the major brightness issues sure, but they are not invisible or undetectable wh
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SpaceX Starship SN15 flight test live stream [video](youtube.com)
45 points by cryptoz 5y ago|9 comments
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by cryptoz 5y ago
The cost of not doing stimulus is much much higher than the cost of doing it, though.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Not OP, but, the troubling parts for me are 1) the tone of the post, and 2) the larger-than-SO issue of the gap in understanding copy+paste for the average user. 1) The post says "unfortunately" they cannot tie logged-out users to
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I don't know, but there's only one way to find out! Lots of people told me that there was no use at all in measuring air pressure on scales smaller than the US already does with official measurements. But years later, there are mu
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I haven't studied the data that comes from crowdsourced phone magnetometers yet, but I expect it would follow some properties of other data I've studied, which is - There are vastly more of these sensors and they are located in pl
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by cryptoz 5y ago
I'm working on using smartphone sensors to detect anything they can relating to weather, including space weather - magnetic storms. I've been fascinated with crowdsourcing mobile sensor data for like 10 years now and it's onl
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by cryptoz 5y ago
This is unethical psychological research against non-consenting adults and children that likely caused real harm. From a paper cited below, > This Facebook study was conducted without consent and without appropriate oversight, and may ha
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Article published 2014 not 2012 I think, btw. Event happened in 2012.
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Yes, they published the paper and publicly bragged about how successful they were in making hundreds of thousands of people feel sad. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/111/24/8788.full.pdf Edit: And it i
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by cryptoz 5y ago
There is no excuse for this. This was a morally bankrupt and exceedingly awful thing to do. I was absolutely furious when this happened and made it a life mission to help other people know this was going on. 99% of people don't know
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by cryptoz 5y ago
Oh? I didnt mean to do that. I'm all about the Mars trips themselves and not the stock, for what it's worth. I look forward to both because both are signs of a strong future for the civilizations on Mars.
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Whoops, that's what I meant! Thanks!
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by cryptoz 6y ago
There's a new render of Starship on Moon (edit), I guess from the presentation happening now. https://twitter.com/nextspaceflight/status/13831508679482613...
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Last I heard, SpaceX will IPO once there are regular trips to Mars with Starship. Looking forward to it to say the least. Edit: Not sure why all the downvotes, so here is a citation. If someone has newer information about it, please post. &
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by cryptoz 6y ago
The interesting take I've seen about this is that disinformation and lies are free to consume en masse, but current events and real facts cost money. I understand Reuters' need to make money, but with all the quality journalism an
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by cryptoz 6y ago
I used to read Coding Horror but stopped paying attention to Jeff Atwood after his anti-coding rant. He repeatedly insisted that "learning to code" is a really dumb thing to do unless you intend to make a career out of it. A reall
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by cryptoz 6y ago
Nobody uses us-east-1 anymore. It's too crowded.

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