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by dcolkitt 5y ago
You’re right. I screwed up by using CFR. Should have said IFR. Mea culpa.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Long influenza absolutely does exist. At least to the same standard of self reported evidence that is being used to report long Covid. [1] https://time.com/5915616/long-flu-1918-pandemic/
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Here's my question. Current CFR for vaccinated individuals is under 0.05%. At that point does it matter if Covid's endemic? I think the problem is we're all anchored to Covid from early 2020, which was definitely a huge dange
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
This isn’t true. With a large enough sample size almost all long-term effects become short-term. Very few long-term diseases are long-term because of a deterministic countdown. Rather, they’re the result of a small but long-lived cumulative
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
I've recently tried Express, Proton and Nord. They all seem to have the same issue. Don't know if anyone has any suggestions of VPNs that don't lead to captcha hell, but I'd appreciate any pointers if there's one ou
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
I’ve been a loyal VPN user for a decade plus. The problem is the web’s becoming increasingly unusable for anyone who comes from a VPN IP. Every single search and website click results in 90 seconds of barely decipherable captcha challenges.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
The gems on Reddit are almost all small subreddits with a community feel. I'd be virtually certain that its high user engagement is primarily driven by users who've matched into smaller subreddits that closely align with their int
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
The biggest problem is that their revenue per user is atrociously low compared to other social platforms. That money should be thrown at poaching as much ads talent as possible from Facebook or Twitter.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
On a visitor perspective, this seems undervalued. This is a 50% or more discount to the market-cap/unique visitor ratio of Twitter, Snap, and Facebook.[1] And all the stats I've seen indicate much higher user engagement and time o
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
> Furthermore, this screenshot shows that the Nostromo has a refinement capacity of “200,000,000 tonnes”, and not the “20,000,000 tons” mentioned in the Foreshadowing Inventory. That’s not just a factor of ten out – it’s also an entirely
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Good question. I'm 90% sure that fallback function is actually implemented in byte code by comparing the byte code against all the method signatures. Then if none match, the assembly jumps to the fallback. So, what you save in 0s in th
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Thanks for the tip. From a 30,000 perspective, it’s crazy that we have to go through the wasteful exercise of shipping gigabytes of video data up and down scarce residential fiber for no other reason than to tick a performative copyright bo
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
For sure. The biggest challenge is once you leave Solidity entirely, it's hard to do anything but very simple operations. And actually, I did essentially do what you mentioning for our "gas refund" contracts. Basically anothe
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
The median income is brought down by two factors: 1) people completely out of the workforce (the labor force non-participation rate is nearly 40%), and 2) single-earner households. Neither of these are relevant to what we'd expect to b
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Funny tangent about the function hash... I can't tell you the number of man-hours I spent brute-forcing random function names to find the lowest value hash. Quick background. Back in the pre Flashbot days, the competitive barrier to fr
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
I like to say that a lot of mediocre managers kludge through with "management-by-osmosis". They kinda just stand around their direct reports, occasionally making chit chat, and hope that's enough to get a sense of what's
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
For all intents and purposes, the US has essentially infinite landfill space. The technology to store solid waste is improving faster than the rate we're generating at. The majority of landfills actually have more capacity today than t
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
My point is that you don't need a lawyer to use crypto. Just the same that you don't need a lawyer to order LSD off the dark net. And 99% of people who do both, do so without a lawyer. The rising price of crypto clearly shows
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
> This, alone, is insufficient. AML duties aren't discharged by an "I promise I'm not a money launderer or tax evader" checkbox. A Maltese company operating a server in Russia is under no obligation to follow US law f
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Except crypto is global, and even easier to move across borders than drugs. Despite the government's sincerest hopes, American laws don't extend to foreign countries. So, yes there will still be tons of VC funded crypto startups,
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Cryptocurrency is extremely resilient to government action. Regardless of what happens with this legislation, I can virtually guarantee you that crypto will still exist in a decade. Obviously the market agrees, as the major coins and tokens
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The response to 1929 wasn’t to functionally outlaw the existence of stocks.
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The term “derivatives” is widely used for financial derivatives like options and swaps. It’s gained such widespread adoption that it by far dwarfs the original meaning of the instantaneous rate of change in calculus. I think the simpler ans
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
If your primary concern is the superfluous waste of energy you should be vehemently opposed to this amendment. It specifically exempts proof-of-work blockchains, while essentially outlawing alternatives. It will drastically slow down inno
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
I’ll also add that many things which seem boring from an abstracted and removed perspective can be quite fascinating when you get into the weeds. I’d say this is because “reality has a surprising amount of detail”[1]. There’s a ton of intri
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
I much prefer a system where connected insiders push through un-replicatable papers in an opaque quid pro quo system so they can pad each others' tenure committee packets!
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
This is just an ancedata, but my 90 year old grandmother smoked like a chimney her whole life. Randomly woke up one morning and had zero desire for a cigarette. She’s been tobacco free for nearly a decade.
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
On a gram for gram basis, legal weed may be more expensive. But most people don’t appreciate that legal weed is significantly more potent. (Not to mention the health benefit of smoking less plant material.) The average THC content in illega
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
Agreed. There are many subtle and complex trade offs that come between PoW, PoS, and alternative consensus mechanisms. But one thing I can say with confidence is that Rob Portman is in no way qualified to understand, let alone make those de
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
You misunderstand, and should actually read the current amendment. Because it actually bans everything but miners. I.e. the electricity guzzling miners would keep running, but all the software devs trying to transition crypto networks to

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