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by drcode 5y ago
all good points
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by drcode 5y ago
Just want to point out it's not quite that easy: If you convert 1.24 (or whatever) bitcoins into zcash/monero/etc and then 1.24 right back into bitcoins, everyone will know those transactions were likely connected.
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by drcode 5y ago
Agree with all of this, except that I don't think these folks are currently reporting their holdings, as there is currently no requirement to do this.
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by drcode 5y ago
Money laundering is when you make it look like illicit money derived from a legitimate income stream, paying the taxes that result from such income.
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by drcode 5y ago
Sure, if you don't use mixers
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by drcode 5y ago
It seems rather unprecedented that there are currently US citizens who are billionaires because of their crypto holdings, without the government having any insight into precisely who these people are. It seems like eventually the government
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by drcode 5y ago
The argument that middlemen are parasites who provide no value is a claim with a pretty dark history.
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by drcode 5y ago
He must not have had much experience with quant desks at trading firms.
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by drcode 5y ago
I find wearing a VR helmet for a significant period of time to be mood-depressing. I think with AR the problem would go away, but I find it unlikely that passthrough AR will be much better than VR. I will try these new demos when I have a c
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by drcode 5y ago
I 100% agree your point is valid. The counterargument is "Yes, people can do bad things with protein data, just as they can do bad things with a telephone, like use it to discuss a bank robbery."
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by drcode 5y ago
If we want to cure more cancers, we will eventually have to target drugs at the level of individual patient. Traditional animal models aren't going to work there. If medical ethicists in the US insist on requiring animal models into th
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by drcode 5y ago
...and many doctors will use it to attach pharmaceuticals to receptor sites of particular cancers.
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by drcode 5y ago
Imagine you have a pouch with a red and a blue marble in it, then take out a marble without looking at it and hand the pouch to a friend. Later, if you look at your marble, you instantly have information about the other marble at a speed gr
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by drcode 5y ago
Ethereum has had a couple of reversible payment systems built over the years, but nobody used them. Non-reversible, immediate, guaranteed transactions are just more convenient outside of a few edge cases
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by drcode 5y ago
Yes you can, but they are a bit constrained in what they can do. For instance, it's easy to write a debug macro that prints the intermediate value of b+c: (let [a #d (+ b c)] ...) So the #d reader macro has access to the following form
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by drcode 5y ago
We could get away with more user-friendly programming languages over the years because Moore's law kept giving us more opportunities to sacrifice raw performance for more developer-friendly tools. But I'm worried these kinds of AI
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by drcode 5y ago
Do you really think there is a single human being that reads HN and thinks "UFO" means 100% aliens? I sorta doubt anyone here needs such a reminder.
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by drcode 5y ago
I figure the reason Amazon and Microsoft a ganging up in this way is precisely to address this issue: They want vendors to support a more portable mechanism for purchases that isn't tied to the Google silo.
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by drcode 5y ago
...he also protected people from computer viruses.
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by drcode 5y ago
Love that movie
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by drcode 5y ago
I have been taking metformin for anti-aging purposes for about 6 months now. I decided to take it mainly because the risks are small, and I wanted to counter the natural bias on these sorts of things, which always leans towards "doing
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by drcode 5y ago
Sure, if businesses collude to undertake user hostile actions, they could get this experiment to fail. Let's hope the incentives lead them to treat their customers better.
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by drcode 5y ago
I assume we'll see some optimized version of this for NPCs in video games soon.
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by drcode 5y ago
Not the minimum jail sentences: The government will then just keep watering down the definition of "ransomware hacker" until all of us are technically eligible for 100 years of prison because of that one time we used an incognito
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by drcode 5y ago
A Modigliani recently sold for $162 mil at auction, more than twice the beeple NFT price. Guess how many news stories there were for this sale, compared to the beeple. What else would you attribute this difference to, other than controversy
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by drcode 5y ago
Everyone posting anti-nft comments here: You do realize that the NFT markets are fuelled by controversy, right? Stop giving the NFT concept more attention if you truly want it to fail. Nobody is forcing you to buy an NFT, you have nothing t
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by drcode 5y ago
Obviously the "first" NFT of any type is more collectible (i.e. first NYT column NFT, first major artist NFT, first Webster's dictionary NFT, etc.) It's only logical that the second NFT from the New York Times (or whomev
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by drcode 5y ago
If the CIA ever released an incontrovertible UFO video (i.e. the UFO landing, aliens stepping out and doing a hula dance, all at 8K video resolution) along with multiple sober military officials saying they saw the whole scene transpire wit
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by drcode 5y ago
By that logic, nobody should ever attempt to ever disrupt anything- the existing interests could use it as an excuse to do bad things.
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by drcode 5y ago
I find it rather annoying how the word "ponzi" is being redefined to just mean "shady business". Tether is definitely shady af, but I don't understand the obsession people have for calling anything they don't l

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