dorgo

27 ms·

301.
by dorgo 7y ago
The place I work allows to work one day a week from home. In my team of six only one person takes advantage of this policy (not I). The others don't - or only occasionlly. So, I don't really expect anything to change even if the p
302.
by dorgo 7y ago
>How does an unbanked get their paper money into their cryptocurrency account without trusting a third party? Mining perhaps?
303.
by dorgo 7y ago
>If I want do something shady, I'd have the problem of onramp KYC etc. Is it still possible to circumwent KYC by mining? Or is it too expensive? Sounds like an advantage of PoW over PoS
304.
by dorgo 7y ago
Centralized alternatives work perfectly well until they fail (corruption, mismanagement, war, police state .. ). And when this happens there will be decentralized alternatives ready.
305.
by dorgo 7y ago
care to elaborate? Afaik, oracles are used to synchronize the blockchain to the real world and there are sophisticated mechanisms to keep them honest.
306.
by dorgo 7y ago
>but games would require remote execution which can't be copied. Next HN headline: Machine Learning algorithm reverse engineers a Stadia game.
307.
by dorgo 7y ago
>Sure. It might even be good enough that you want to have a copy of your own that you know you'll be able to watch at any point in the future. Is this not possible with Stadia?
308.
by dorgo 7y ago
>The ß even has a proper capital these days: ẞ Really? I need to fix all my regular expressions..
309.
by dorgo 7y ago
>and disregarding the very real cost that other people shoulder for a minority driving. 1.1 mio cars in Berlin * ( 1.8 = size of household ) = 2 mio households own a car. I think everybody would appreciate a city without cars as long as
310.
by dorgo 7y ago
How does a 0-conf transaction work? I mean, without confirmations the transaction is not on the blockchain. It basically doesn't exist. Is it just a promise that I will pay a bitcoin in the future?
311.
by dorgo 7y ago
>more cost effective is to just fake it I struggle to see the distinction. Isn't the turing test defined as 'faking humans (or human's intelligence) convincingly enough'? There is a saying: The benefit to be smart is
312.
by dorgo 7y ago
>Even if 90% of users use the centralized service, the protocol being open gives enormous value to the remaining 10% It's more than that. The 90% benefit greatly from the openess too. All the @gmail.com can talk to @yahoo.com or @ho
313.
by dorgo 7y ago
volatility is just a risk, a possibilty to loose money/value. Or even to gain. Transaction costs, on the other hand, are a certainty.
314.
by dorgo 7y ago
BAT is etherium based. If you happen to own some Ether it should be possible to buy BAt without (additional) KYC striptease.
315.
by dorgo 7y ago
>If those same persons would each own their small family shops and serve the same amount of customers Prices would increase (no economies of scale). 100 persons would have to deal with 99 problems (accounting, supply, marketing, ...) the
316.
by dorgo 7y ago
>(i.e. users were already heading to that site, the ad was just there as google tax)? I saw research which indicates that it is a good idea to pay the google tax. Users heading to your site may get distracted by your competitors or other
317.
by dorgo 7y ago
I think it's not about whether algorithms are better than humans. It's about whose profits these algorithms optimize. Google's algorithms tend to optimize Google's profits. Advertisers utilize algorithms too. But it gets
318.
by dorgo 7y ago
>I know dislike Google results UI I use DDG as a default search engine for a while, but fell back to google search often, because I felt that Google results are better. At some point i enabled a stylesheet which made DDG results look lik
319.
by dorgo 7y ago
Why not use an addon? My addon removes all search results for facebook, pinterest
320.
by dorgo 7y ago
You don't have a copy of wikipedia on your phone?
321.
by dorgo 7y ago
100 / 70 - 100 / 85 = .25 = 15 minutes.
322.
by dorgo 7y ago
I agree, but I think the discussion is not about luck vs skill. Imagine a poker tournament. The winner is determined by a combination of luck and skill. But somebody who didn't play had no chance to win.
323.
by dorgo 7y ago
>2-4 are great examples of survivorship bias. >For every success story with those traits are thousands of failures. I guess that is the reason why 2-4 start with "luck from...". I read it like this: from the ones who do&#x2F
324.
by dorgo 7y ago
>I challenge anyone to give me such a definition. If the balance of a department is positive then its a profit center. It's a matter of income attribution inside of a company and can be manipulated by people in charge.
325.
by dorgo 7y ago
>Note the distinction between accessibility and mobile--mobile was market-driven Yes, the incentives differ. Its just that if I imagne a more accessible web and try to reverse engineer the way how it come to be I end up with ranking algo
326.
by dorgo 7y ago
> it really is just setting tab indexes in correct order, as well as making sure items have alt and title tags Sounds like it could be part of SEO effort. If it can be checked programmatically then search engines should add accessibilty
327.
by dorgo 7y ago
>The question was answered in the comments It's lucky that the person who answered had enough carma to write comments. SO's job seems to be to prevent users from answering questions.
328.
by dorgo 7y ago
fun fact: it's illegal to wear a ski mask if a demonstration is planned that day. Otherwise it is of no concern.
329.
by dorgo 7y ago
> What if you're 99% sure someone doesn't know what they're talking about I hate this. I can't convince colleagues that they are wrong. And I can't push too hard as long as I'm not 100% sure. So I have to m
330.
by dorgo 7y ago
> Some studies also show that without meat and dairy consumption, global farmland use could be reduced by over 75% But reducing farmland by over 75% is not enough by itself to counter climate change. And, if we can plant enough trees out

More ›