cwkoss

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by cwkoss 4y ago
> As for Twitter the check mark might actually be useful if it disappeared the moment you changed your “display name” but we can’t have that! That would be a very smart policy, but twitter is too afraid of inconveniencing psuedojournalis
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The vitalik spoofing spam bots are such low hanging fruit. They should really just auto shadow ban anyone using his profile picture besides the real vitalik. (And probably elon musk too..) I wonder if its an issue of being tangled up in i
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Also check out Grim Dawn. Feels a bit less cartoony than Torchlight which I appreciated, and has a lot of nice solutions for quality of life problems from D2.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Making a Cast-on-crit automated character that could cause recursive explosions of knives and fireballs as long as it stayed within range of enemies was so satisfying. Theorycrafting is fun. I want a PoE that allows and encourages botting
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think it was less Youtube's ego and more the ego's of its advertiser and IP-hoarding-company patrons
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think "they all were sober within 24 hours" is too strong of a statement - LSD's half life is 3.6 hours, so after 24 hours blood concentration should be reduced to ~1/64th. Sober within 2-3 days is probably accurate,
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by cwkoss 4y ago
idk, the rainbow family (lsd distribution network) requiring inductees to take a thumbprint to test that they aren't cops and see if they can handle the inevitable accidental dosing that can occur when laying blotter makes a lot of se
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I am skeptical, this sounds like 'trickle-down economics' where the theory is internally cohesive but the conclusions don't actually line up with reality. Seems like the page you linked is an anti-trasparency advocacy org, wh
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Would that constituency have the power to block progress on this issue if not for intuit lobbyists? It's crazy that people are still going to jail for grams of weed while people who have wasted billions of dollars of human productivity
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by cwkoss 4y ago
"Sat in a library and did self directed study for 4 years" probably wouldn't be taken seriously on a resume by many employers.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Most major news organizations are driven more by ad sales than seeking truth. They say what their patrons want them to. I don't know if I agree with GP, but I understand where the sentiment is coming from. It's not that Rogan is
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by cwkoss 4y ago
NPR is a federation of smaller public radio stations. The quality of content under the NPR banner is a broad spectrum: they have good stories and they have some that are crap - biased editorials costumed as objective journalism. NPR stori
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'm more excited for this movie than any other for a long while.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
There a probably a lot of people attempting to profit with arbitrage bots as well - I'd imagine that behavior would look a lot like wash trading to this analysis.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
> "More than half of all reported trading volume is likely to be fake or non-economic" I wonder what basis they use to determine "likely to be fake or non-economic". Seems highly unlikely they have any concrete evide
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Interesting, though it has an understandably tedious interface. Does anyone have examples of other (more modern) software in this category of "software built to help the user change the way they think"? What are people trying and
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by cwkoss 4y ago
European indigenous psychoactives were primarily deliriant nightshades and amanita muscaria mushrooms - both of which are very interesting to read about but I've never felt compelled to try. Taking nightshades and "speaking with t
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'll bet $5 the 'niche business' is drop shipping, and the ads are targeting customers already looking for the product who would have found it for cheaper if not for the ad.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Don't all in-app browsers do this? I think I read that instagram does the same.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
2B people intentionally consume terrestrial insects. 99+% of humans incidentally consume terrestrial insects. Food processing is imperfect and insect contaminants are common. "But the FDA allows up to 225 insect fragments per 225 grams
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by cwkoss 4y ago
If only crypto didn't exist there'd be so much more funds we could sink into adtech, maximizing engagement and outrage within propaganda platforms, SEO, email spam, adding subscription billing to software which previously a single
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by cwkoss 4y ago
A friend did an thing where he shadowed a neurologist for a week. He saw the neurologist use cocaine in an arm surgery: its a vasoconstrictor (stops bleeding) and local anesthetic. Dabbed a little on the cut and it stopped bleeding or h
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think a very large proportion of startups overstate societal benefit...
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I would say A TON of money has been poured into Facebook with very little social benefit to show for it. Money attracts sociopaths, who seek positions of power. I don't think crypto is special or unusual in this sense.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
> Any project that financially rewards its creators feels like a cash grab to me. Are all non-crypto startup businesses 'cash grabs' in your opinion? Does that make them scams?
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I would say crypto's largest project is "Bitcoin" and would recommend reading the whitepaper (its surprisingly digestible). It is functioning as designed and successfully working as described for over a decade, so I think
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It's a functional decentralized value transfer system. Computerized systems can create wallets and transact without the consent of a third party. Properly secured cryptocurrency cannot be seized without the consent of the owner. Edit
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Whenever I see these takes, it just reads to me like "I know there are scams in the cryptocurrency world and am too lazy/disinterested to figure out which parts are the scammy parts, so I'm just going to cast the whole space
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Very implausible imo, have you used VR before? Will never be safe to use in public spaces: what and who is around you is unpredictable, so only AR will be viable.
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VR is by its nature immersive. Immersion is inherently at odds with quick and easily digestible. 3d video served by an AR sunglass display is plausible (but probably way overkill for the next decade), but feeling like you're in an ent

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