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by drcode 7y ago
Or, maybe there are just lots of inefficiencies in the banking sector, and more efficient/affordable banking is good for almost everybody, especially for the demographics of people who are currently underbanked.
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by drcode 7y ago
Maybe physiologist...
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by drcode 7y ago
> Don't talk authoritatively about subjects you don't understand No one is allowed to have an opinion unless they're an "expert" (Sarcasm)
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by drcode 7y ago
Yeah, instead of getting my lender to give me a better interest rate or a discount on fees, I'm going to instead use my negotiating leverage to make sure Equifax makes $20 less revenue.
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by drcode 7y ago
A "database" is a tool for storing data, which is a concept that completely orthogonal to the question of how a piece of data is encrypted or who is in possession of the decryption keys.
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by drcode 7y ago
It's a cool project, but I mad the judgement that it was too risky as a dependency for my game.
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by drcode 7y ago
I'm not familiar with that book, but I can say that Dr. Carroll's book is far better than any previous book on the subject I've read, in terms of getting rid of the confusion inherent in QM.
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by drcode 7y ago
Using Clojure CLR would make the build process simple, at the cost of some complexity and likely a performance penalty in the deployed application. On the other hand, my strategy makes the final deployed application dead simple and fast, bu
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by drcode 7y ago
Sean Carroll's new book on quantum physics that came out yesterday is the clearest laymen's exposition of quantum physics I have ever read: https://www.audible.com/pd/Something-Deeply-Hidden-Audiobook...
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by drcode 7y ago
I'm struggling with the same problem: I'm a Lisp programmer who's writing a commercial game, in my case a Unity engine game, which requires C#. I've opted for a less elegant, but technically simple strategy: I'm wri
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by drcode 7y ago
What I wonder is: In what way is chess different from sudoku that it is not a DOS?
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by drcode 7y ago
I'm not sure losing control of a subordinate counts as "saving face"
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by drcode 7y ago
This article doesn't address obvious questions, such as "How hard was the text to decipher?" or "How similar is it to known Chinese scripts?"
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by drcode 7y ago
I sort of agree with your skepticism, but you gotta admit that some of the things the ML folks are doing are uncanny in terms of how they seem to model the human visual system and perform other human-like tasks. Additionally, we already hav
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by drcode 7y ago
Yeah, unfortunately those are all good points...
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by drcode 7y ago
I agree that synergy is an important element, but to me a study like this could make sense even without synergy: To me, it seems better to have 4x the statistical data on 4 drugs at once than just running the individual studies, given how l
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by drcode 7y ago
I agree with you mostly, but if we can establish with enough certainty that the benefits of something like this are far greater than the costs, it seems unwise to let "perfect" treatment be the enemy of "good" treatment.
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by drcode 7y ago
A read through of the methodology makes it sounds like they took solid precautions to prevent biases that could taint the results- As an MD, I'm impressed by the design of this study, and the promising results. This may be what more st
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by drcode 7y ago
Why don't they just breed cows that are more spherical, to maximize the volume-to-surface-area ratio?
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by drcode 7y ago
I wasn't replying to the article, I was responding to your claim that this change (as already exists in non-US cities) would lead to better results. I support decriminalization on purely moral grounds, but am skeptical this will lead t
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by drcode 7y ago
If you think there is more drug-related crime and public heroin injections in "puritan" US cities like Seattle vs European cities like Frankfurt or Amsterdam... you must not travel very much.
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by drcode 7y ago
This is a circular argument, as the earliest uses of jewelery was likely as a store of value (your tribe could trade jewelery for food with a neighboring tribe in emergencies) There exists no objective argument that gold is somehow more bea
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by drcode 7y ago
tldr; cell membranes won't get destroyed by ocean salt if there are amino acids around to protect them.
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by drcode 7y ago
VDFs don't replace proof of work. In essence, POW is a lottery where everyone gets their own random lottery ticket and the lowest number wins. VDFs, instead, allow a large group of people to all share a SINGLE ticket, which simply spit
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by drcode 7y ago
I think 90% of the work is the design effort for each sign, a vinyl plotter won't make that faster. Also, a vinyl plotter and computer take up space and need a secure room.
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by drcode 7y ago
I assume though if there was less poverty in Hong Kong, more space wouldn't suddenly appear... the existing small spaces would just become nicer but more expensive.
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by drcode 7y ago
Unfortunately I already have too much work remaining on my existing projects to take this on, but maybe in a year or two if no one else has done it by then.
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by drcode 7y ago
Yeah, I think someone should develop a replacement for Pioneer that mostly does away with the prizes and VC enticements & instead just focuses on peer feedback and the progress update system.
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by drcode 7y ago
I started entering a Pioneer project because I liked the idea that many projects start as "small ideas" and some of those ideas may have more potential if the creators receive the right type of positive feedback from others early
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by drcode 7y ago
If anyone finds this interesting, I highly recommend this lecture series: https://www.audible.com/pd/A-New-History-of-Life-Audiobook/1... It covers the great oxidation event in some detail, and covers all of the s

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