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by davesque 5y ago
A $250k market cap token goes under and it makes the front page of HN. I think that sheds light on both the bias and extent of knowledge of the average HNer with regard to blockchain tech.
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by davesque 5y ago
Yeah, I hear you on that. Another possibility is that NPR is trying to manufacture a sense of mystery or surprise as journalists often do with science stories. A bit less nefarious but also sort of annoying in its own way.
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by davesque 5y ago
Seems like apples and oranges. What does any country really have to lose by criticizing Myanmar? Not much. On the other hand, criticizing China comes at a cost because they're a powerful country. So countries are probably less willing
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by davesque 5y ago
Not necessarily. The current verification algorithm doesn't have any useful side effects other than verifying that some amount of computing happened. That will even be true for whatever computation happens as part of proof of stake whe
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by davesque 5y ago
Easy: because people know they're getting a bad deal.
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by davesque 5y ago
Completely agree. I will never look at LeBron the same way ever again. I mean I always knew he was a self-centered celebrity like the rest of them. But I never considered that he or any other American celebrity would stoop that low. It&#x27
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by davesque 5y ago
Amazing that the Chinese government in power today is the same as the one that deployed the tanks in that photograph to mow down its own citizens. Even more amazing that American celebrities such as LeBron James and John Cena see it fit to
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by davesque 5y ago
It's not so simple though. Because even trusted curators and media organizations still feel obligated on some level to maximize engagement. To compete with social media, they often end up promoting and peddling similarly terrifying, pe
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by davesque 5y ago
I think this must be happening on every social media platform in some way. The fact is that people seem to love being afraid and anxious. Bad news spreads like wild fire. All that X bad actor has to do is just figure out any worrying take
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by davesque 5y ago
It's a grant though. I assume no strings attached like a VC.
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by davesque 5y ago
Relatedly, I wish there was a way to tell Google I never want to see another PragerU ad ever again.
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by davesque 5y ago
But our "parents" are still largely in control? Wouldn't passing economic reforms probably be easier without a bunch of deluded boomers and gen Xers in Congress?
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by davesque 5y ago
Was gonna say. I feel like I hear the same set of news stories once every 3-5 years.
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by davesque 5y ago
Ah, my mistake.
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by davesque 5y ago
I only skimmed the paper but is this essentially the same thing as Karatsuba multiplication (which I believe also has O(n log n) performance)?
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by davesque 5y ago
I think I've really gotten into the habit of disagreeing with Paul Graham's blogs lately but this one felt different. Felt like a lot of practical, common sense advice that is just barely beyond the horizon that most people consi
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by davesque 5y ago
It's almost as though you're responding to a different statement than the one that I made. What about what I said would have denied that any of those things you mentioned were not also terrible things that are among the worst thin
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by davesque 5y ago
Sorry, but I think I can objectively say that a year in which a global pandemic occurred that took millions of lives and completely upended normal life for the majority of people counts as one of the worst years since 1920. The fact that
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by davesque 5y ago
Lol, really? A pandemic doesn't count?
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by davesque 5y ago
Seems like there are a lot of ways that employers are effectively blaming their employees for COVID. Some of the anecdotes in this article really resonated with me. It does feel "super shitty" when you feel as though you've b
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by davesque 5y ago
It seems people often have a weird "anti-bias" to believe that everything that goes on to be wildly successful was originally dismissed as ridiculous or impossible. First of all, it's not true. There are plenty of examples
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by davesque 5y ago
Just donated. Thanks for this.
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by davesque 5y ago
"You might think that unit testing helps you avoid technical problems, but the fact is that unit testing is more about getting a psychological effect rather than a technical one, it's a way to make you feel better about yourself
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by davesque 6y ago
Maybe? Seems like that's assuming a lot about a person's life.
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by davesque 6y ago
Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this. Pydantic is pretty cool but also kind of a strange bird. It seems to have been originally conceived to do the job of forms in a web app (serialization/deserialization). But then it also has
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by davesque 6y ago
"The LC, short for “low cost,” was designed to get the Mac into more homes than ever before. The Macintosh II line ran circles around it, but it was how many people experienced the Macintosh for the first time." I believe the
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by davesque 6y ago
I think it's worth wondering whether or not he still holds any of the opinions expressed in the article. It looks like it was written over a decade ago.
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by davesque 6y ago
Actually, I think this is almost the perfect response to his article. It's not hard to imagine that a guy who made his fortune off of startups would be biased to think that everyone should create a startup and get rich that way. So,
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by davesque 6y ago
Neat overview of some of the core concepts in Git that often go unnoticed. Although I'll say that the fact that commits are technically not diffs doesn't seem to matter much in day to day use. Git does a decent job of abstractin
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by davesque 6y ago
Not sure if that was hyperbole, but since you ask, yeah I think it could actually bring about the downfall of humanity. For example, what if climate science videos were being significantly brigaded by bots controlled by oil companies? Mig

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