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by drcode 7y ago
Yes, for unbanked people who, according to the Facebook FAQ, set up an account using a state-issued ID and jump through a bunch of other hoops that are the same you would need for a bank account.
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by drcode 7y ago
My novice take is that the author is using a low-res RGB texture and then cleverly combining it with some custom GPU code to generate an extremely high-res monochrome texture at the memory cost of the low-res texture.
843.
by drcode 7y ago
Not everybody is going to read that article, so some of the status still remains.
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by drcode 7y ago
What it boils down to is that there used to be a lot of status given to Everest climbers, inducing the same type of awe that we gave people who've landed on the moon or who won an Olympic gold medal. Unfortunately, not all of this reve
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by drcode 7y ago
If this was true, then the oil companies could just build a machine that directly converts hydrocarbons into CO2 underground and extracts the energy in the form of electricity and the hydrocarbons could stay below ground through the entire
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by drcode 7y ago
I have outlined my concrete suggestions elsewhere in this comments section (though they don't carry much weight since I am stumped just as much as everyone else) ...but a specific suggestion for these folks would be to simply not publi
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by drcode 7y ago
You have more authority on this subject than I do, given your background, but I remain convinced that any "solution" in which the oil companies take combustible carbon molecules from "below ground" to "above ground&
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by drcode 7y ago
I claim no expertise on this issue, but it seems pretty obvious to me (perhaps wrongly, I'll admit) that the only reason carbon taxes are popular as a solution is PRECISELY because they don't work- i.e. they allow oil companies to
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by drcode 7y ago
So, I know people that create lists like this think they're helping things, but the people that created this site are basically "think tank" people, and I don't really think they have the expertise to make such precise q
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by drcode 7y ago
I agree that technological solutions are probably the only thing that is viable. my point is mainly to say that these silly half measures such as carbon taxes are a waste of time and are possibly just making the problem even worse. The only
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by drcode 7y ago
You would still allow imports of oil from countries that don't participate in the ban, with high tariffs added. This would still make oil available for medical use cases etc. The bottom line is the only way to prevent oil from being tu
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by drcode 7y ago
...the problem is, I'm not really convinced that we really know of a specific "something" that we can do that wouldn't backfire and make emissions even worse by creating perverse incentives elsewhere in the economy. The
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by drcode 7y ago
Functional programming folks love React- Pretty much every clojure web framework is built on React. But yes, with some effort you can come up with a definition for "functional" which React will fail to meet.
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by drcode 7y ago
I can see your argument... But would you agree that if the tether folks tomorrow say "Sorry, we're bankrupt, your tethers are worthless now LOLZ" that a max of 2.8 billion dollars would be lost by tether holders, i.e. equival
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by drcode 7y ago
I like Preston- It's always good to have thoughtful, polite crypto skeptics around. However, I think by any objective measure his predictions haven't proven to be very accurate. For instance, he congratulates himself on predicting
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by drcode 7y ago
It's a sensible thought, but EMH argues that speculators would have already priced in that future expected value, again leading to a price rise in line with salaries/inflation.
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by drcode 7y ago
LOL the way to convince people the story real is certainly not to say "OK maybe I lied about the details, but trust me that the main part is still true" (though the story still seems plausible enough I'd still give it a ~30%
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by drcode 7y ago
Tracking employee identities in The medical space should be done in a much more rigorous fashion, there are significant benefits in doing this on a public blockchain. Medical records MAY someday end up on a blockchain, but the benefits of t
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by drcode 7y ago
Yeah I used to think this too at one point, but it's much easier to just have multiple companies share a database- the idea that a consortium chain is somehow better than this hasn't born out empirically so far, in my opinion. Thi
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by drcode 7y ago
> How's that working out for you? It's a slow process, for exactly the reasons you describe- in fact, I've quoted that exact same line of reasoning many times myself. The reason to work in this area regardless is because t
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by drcode 7y ago
Why not just store the data privately in a traditional database? A blockchain needs to be public to offer significant benefits compared to databases.
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by drcode 7y ago
As someone who is a CEO of a medical blockchain startup which is trying to find actual meaningful use cases, I agree 100% with the conclusions of this post. (finding actual convincing use cases in the medical space for this tech is hard)
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by drcode 8y ago
Samsung said that the units sent out are the same as the final consumer devices, for what it's worth.
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by drcode 8y ago
I also co-wrote "Bitcoin for the Befuddled" and participated in "Realm of Racket". I am sort of enamoured by other media now (video, animation, interactive web stuff) and if I do anything else it will be in that vein in
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by drcode 8y ago
Yes, drew everything myself, took years of my free time given the size of the book :)
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by drcode 8y ago
I would say "Realm of Racket" is really the second edition to "Land of Lisp"- The fact is that most lisp developers now use either Racket Scheme or Clojure, so those are really the only markets that could support a rewor
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by drcode 8y ago
Author of LOL here, if there are any questions!
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by drcode 8y ago
Galloping Ghost is a treasure! They have TONS of games that are the only exemplar in existence (The world's only genuine Beavis & Butthead prototype arcade cabinet, for instance) and the owners are true gameplay connoisseurs- There
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by drcode 8y ago
I'm a zombie without any consciousness but never realized it until last week. I just go about my day like an automaton without any internal subjective experience and am perfectly happy doing so. I was talking to my friends and they wer
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by drcode 8y ago
For better or worse, the "delta" concept has become to mean "you made a good point on the opposite side that I hadn't considered" and still serves a useful function in that context.

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