drchopchop

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by drchopchop 6y ago
This reads like GPT-2 generated business platitudes. "Data is reasonably structured to allow automated processing.". "Data is made available as quickly as necessary to preserve the value of the data."
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Additionally, Ethereum has positioned itself as a "platform" for all kinds of terrible altcoins, which cleverly makes itself seem more foundational.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
I'm sure they'd also have processes to seize Beanie Babies or Pokemon cards, if they were currently trading for $15,000 per unit on eBay
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by drchopchop 6y ago
You don't necessarily need to plan from scale from the start. Often you just need a few servers, a load balancer, a database, some file storage, internal networking, user permissions, and some level of security/firewall. That is v
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by drchopchop 6y ago
For a lot of companies, 20% is an acceptable markup to pay, in return for not having to deal with hardware failures, delays due to ordering new hardware, not always having instant failovers, over-purchasing for capacity/scale, the extr
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by drchopchop 6y ago
AWS gives you all the things you'd need to scale, without heavy up-front costs. There's a natural path from small instances -> bigger instances -> load balancers/ELB -> reserved instances (or spot if it fits your w
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Why would Substack solve this? It's just a more refined Medium with better monetization opportunities. Being on Substack doesn't mean the author is trustworthy, only that they have content that people will engage with (and potenti
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by drchopchop 6y ago
"Censorship"? Fox News has been pushing it non-stop, every night, on 3+ hours of evening programming. Just because every media outlet in the world isn't pushing this (highly questionable) story doesn't mean it's bei
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Sure, financial primitives that are mainly useful for speculation, very sketchy tokens, and various scams. $14B of FOMO can rapidly turn into $1B or $100M or $1M if/when the bottom falls out.
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US Department of Justice to file antitrust lawsuit against Google(cnbc.com)
35 points by drchopchop 6y ago|1 comments
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Agreed. The end goal is usually to make developers as productive as possible, which means a) giving them large contiguous blocks of coding time, and b) removing roadblocks (i.e. crap) The "crap" can be politics, legal, ancient IT
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by drchopchop 6y ago
It's a nice tool, didn't intend to come off that negatively. More of a thought experience about the limitations of these types of tools. I'm not sure it's quite beginner level, as I don't see anything that shows you
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by drchopchop 6y ago
I do like that you are showing the score, instead of doing some sort of Guitar Hero style / abstract grid. That will definitely help people that want to translate this into reading sheet music. And you may be right in that doing this e
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by drchopchop 6y ago
This may teach you to "play" piano, but the real question is whether this sort of rote memorization will really teach you how music fundamentally works. Seems a bit like re-typing Javascript programs in order to "learn"
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Well, because the below is an incendiary and mostly false statement. Additionally, just because the police in your community are perfect doesn't mean real problems don't exist elsewhere. "when politicians condoned publicly lo
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by drchopchop 6y ago
They can wash the coins via converting to alts and back, especially at shady foreign exchanges that don't care about KYC/AML. I don't see how the FBI has any jurisdiction, or even whether this is big enough potatoes for them
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Huh? "very mainstream, socially conservative but fiscally liberal opinions" - that is not "mainstream" in most parts of the world, including America.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The theme song from Cops ("Bad Boys" by Inner Circle) would have been brilliant, actually
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Basically a human realizes that smart contract X is broken, and tries to enlist others to fix it. However, given the decentralized and generally shady nature of crypto, the process of disclosure also means a bad actor could get wind of the
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Because there is no real formal verification process for smart contracts, it's extremely easy to slip bugs into the contract code, the contract itself is generally immutable (can't fix bugs), and the effects of a breach are genera
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Wikipedia already contains a huge amount of "powerful" tools in the sidebar, that most casual users would never want to interact with. Upload file, recent changes, what links here, etc - pretty much all of these are irrelevant for
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Wait, this graphing tool literally requires you to deploy Neptune, Elasticsearch, ECS, various VPC's/gateways, publish various reports to S3, run Lambda functions, and then after all that the minimum cost is $500+/month? Luck
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Sure, Nike can sell them shoes, but anything which involves free expression is certainly not welcome. So, in practice, many technology and social media companies are effectively banned.
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Europeans are free to say the same, or negotiate acceptable GDPR-style data protection standards with the countries that receive their data (which in many cases has already happened).
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by drchopchop 6y ago
So, if American companies quietly send user data to repressive governments, that's totally fine? What if it was sending voter data to Russian state actors?
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The flaw in your logic is that this is not about competition, it's about the Chinese government having control over the data of mass quantities of American consumers. Picking TikTok as the poster child is a bit arbitrary/capriciou
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by drchopchop 6y ago
In the spectrum of "evil", I'd rather an NSA run by American citizens to have my data than the Chinese government. I can, in theory, at least elect representatives to change the policies of the NSA. I have no such power over
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by drchopchop 6y ago
I can't see how that is even possible at this point. You'd have to remove groups, pages, public profiles, and sharing, which would wreck the advertising and revenue ecosystem. Or, come up with magical AI which could detect politic
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by drchopchop 6y ago
Nah, a lot of people want some combination of a) in-person experiences, b) lots of fancy equipment, c) the relationship/camraderie the class has, d) the psychology of going somewhere besides your house to do something
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by drchopchop 6y ago
The psychology is very important. All the big players in this space employ people with experience designing actual Vegas slot machines, and the goal is to try to replicate it as much as possible. Everything from the line patterns, to the wa

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