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by derivagral 5y ago
If we're talking that long of a timescale, how long does your typical book these days actually last? I'm no expert, but it makes me wonder how long consumer paper actually lasts. Reasonable(?) search result below. https:/&#x
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by derivagral 5y ago
Started playing shareware games in late elementary school/highschool (win 2k/95/98 era). Kazaa and ilk were fun, though I had to debug a couple viruses with windows/AOL support since my grandparents weren't very tec
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by derivagral 5y ago
I had a project in college (~2007-2008) for this! My project partner and I set up a sharded filesystem using gmail account storage, storing metadata in the title and splitting encoded chunks across emails and accounts. The storage limit per
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by derivagral 5y ago
Take time to recover and re-orient. If you're sick of work and have savings, evaluate how long you can take a break. Length of break depends on a bunch of stuff, but don't forget that a job search can take 1-3 months. (Probably fa
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by derivagral 5y ago
I'd thought that FB and the rest wanted to know everything about you so that when a certain leading % of your cohort (however you create and group them, I'm no expert here) changed behavior, they can sell higher-converting, relate
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by derivagral 5y ago
Is that described here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
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by derivagral 5y ago
I appreciate the response and some of the numbers. That makes sense, and to back up your theory I can confirm that nobody around me got sick that I knew of. We did travel from Beijing but I don't think that's relevant given the re
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by derivagral 5y ago
Consensus appears to be that the mistakes are part of the funnel. You aren't the target! https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nigerian-scam-emails-are...
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by derivagral 5y ago
As someone who returned from Shanghai in mid-November with a light cough that worsened into a diagnosed "upper-respiratory viral infection" for ~3 weeks of misery on the couch... I wish I could confirm one way or the other!
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by derivagral 5y ago
Anecdotally, the "price" is closer to 50+ mil, not 1 bil. Hopefully that will change for the better in my lifetime.
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by derivagral 5y ago
The above basically arbitrages long-term vs short-term capgains for the price of 1 APY cycle, right? That's ~23% for short in the USA, and up to income-level (37%?) for short-term. Quite a big difference for a 2-5% APY loan that you cl
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by derivagral 5y ago
I'll second Frankl. I enjoyed his (other) books around love and searching for meaning, drawing from his experience. I'll have to check that one out as well. Very humbling stuff.
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by derivagral 5y ago
Personally, I found the "high authority vs low authority" juxtaposition by Altemeyer better for understanding these dynamics. https://theauthoritarians.org/options-for-getting-the-book/
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by derivagral 5y ago
How would you say this differs from the communist-era stuff that the USA went through? I suppose the new wave of social media isn't (?) as existential to USA security, but the fear tactics and other-ing mechanisms seem quite similar.
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by derivagral 5y ago
I don't work at the top consulting firms (of which McKinsey is one) but the first year or 2 at any major financial or consulting institution is a bit of a meme as to what they go through in hopes of making it. The 80+ hour weeks workin
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by derivagral 5y ago
IMDB is owned by Amazon. I would assume that's why nobody else has something similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb
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by derivagral 5y ago
I was on a trip in 2019 where some members of the group were stopped at the airport terminal to pay minor traffic fines (crosswalk stuff, iirc). They weren't allowed to depart until they paid.
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by derivagral 5y ago
There's an assumption here that you can get out in time. What if you can't tell when and you miss conversions due to any number of reasons (congestion, availability, liquidity, counterparty risk in defi, etc) I ask because I don&#
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by derivagral 5y ago
> Susan Mauldin For anyone as confused as I was, this is probably referring to the Equifax security officer. My local search engine mostly brought up a murder case.
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by derivagral 5y ago
Tail risk as I understand it is going to be fun. If your staked nodes lose connectivity (or your pool's) the network can penalize them by slashing the ETH and the stake, right? So after everyone centralizes on a few nodes in the main p
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by derivagral 5y ago
Personally, I wonder if your argument changes if the thing in question is not a toaster but something the public wouldn't want to wait 15 years for. Medical vaccine, groundbreaking software, or an improved biological process using less
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by derivagral 5y ago
I took the risk and posted the (relevant) text of this comment and one of the replies. Someone's gotta at least try to bring this to the official sources, right?
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by derivagral 5y ago
To support this point, we're discovering today that perhaps some of that was not localized at all. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/nuclear-fallout-show...
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by derivagral 5y ago
In my region of the US, sports were literally subsidized by the cable bill. You paid an extra itemized fee for the privilege of regional sports programming even if you never turned your TV on. This is part of why I ended up going full inter
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by derivagral 5y ago
Maybe a stupid question: PoS means mining will make 0 money instead of a little less, right? Maybe you meant the pruning update, but I'm curious about later this summer. They're turning a 3-body problem of stakeholders (owners, us
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by derivagral 5y ago
Depends on you, the professor, the college, and the rules as to how you might interpret "individual" homework assignments and study "groups", particularly if you're led to believe you'll get removed from the pr
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by derivagral 5y ago
A top 10 MBA program my partner went through had several people cheating in the program. I'll give you some anecdotal notes. Some cheaters get discovered and "outed" (esp those the group didn't like) when they brag durin
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by derivagral 5y ago
Is it just this publication, or is the "read a highlight on the web, buy our dead tree product to read it all!" the way these outlets are moving nowadays? Reader mode before the JS hid the page could only last so long, I suppose.
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by derivagral 5y ago
You'd claim that the tooling used and thus the evidence is unreliable. Not because of yourself or anybody targeting yourself, but due to other actors attacking Cellebrite and leaving you as collateral damage. You'd base this on te
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by derivagral 5y ago
Yes, if it isn't referring to food then spicy usually means excitement in a positive way.

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