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by ericb 5y ago
That sounds amazing! That would get the content separated from the noise. I'd love it. The problem with these meta topics is that they are like the bike shed problem--emotionally driven, easy to get sucked into, everyone has an opinion
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by ericb 5y ago
I haven't used it, but I think the appeal was that by posting to a place with a pre-existing audience, you could catch traffic from an initial audience that you otherwise would not have.
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by ericb 5y ago
Interesting. Do people still associate indoors in large numbers, or is that unchanged as well? As in, could behavioral change be a driver? I also wonder, with far less numerical opportunity to spread and mutate, if the flu wasn't able
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by ericb 5y ago
I was in Florida two weeks ago--Orlando and Sarasota. I'm a Massachusetts resident. In Florida, I observed around 90+% mask usage in grocery stores. In a random ColdStone creamery, I saw maybe 70%, Five guys was probably 80% except whi
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by ericb 5y ago
Covid isn't influenza and these were verified cases. You seem to be working from a position of motivated reasoning, so I'm going to opt out of trying to convince you.
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by ericb 5y ago
Source? Yesterday I met a woman whose husband has lost his sense of smell for 4+ months and still has not regained it. My lungs still hurt sometimes on deep breaths 6 months later.
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by ericb 6y ago
By design, ZK depends on continual network connections and heartbeats and it has to to provide the guarantees it provides. I wonder how much of "it is not rock solid" falls into "network flakiness" ?
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by ericb 6y ago
Mis-remembered. Number of Americans who died in WW2. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/03/9628119...
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by ericb 6y ago
On the one hand, yes, many who ask this seem to have something political in-mind, so on that score, I kind of agree that there's no "there" there. Aside from that, though, we can consider international treaties against gain o
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by ericb 6y ago
> Mostly I’m alarmed that so many parents are happy to put their small children on a lifetime supply of medicine for something that’s not immediately life threatening. I don't think you get it. My son can either be on medicine, or h
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by ericb 6y ago
The US capitol fell to an insurrection. Federal agencies and leaders are now extremely cautious about domestic threats and there are people daft enough to call it a "crumbling narrative?" A man in a yak suit was sitting in the Hou
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by ericb 6y ago
Become a software QA test automation guru. The technology change is slower, and the expectations and problems are more predictable. In the testing world, your skills will stand out more. You won't be expected to reinvent the world, jus
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by ericb 6y ago
When is my work protected? Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Source: https://www.copyrig
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by ericb 6y ago
Wouldn't population growth rate need be massive in order to overcome the large difference in volume that a small increase to the diameter of the sphere causes? Given a quick scan, I don't see anywhere that takes into account popul
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by ericb 6y ago
Yes, and autopsy and anatomical study of cadavers was once considered immoral. Just because our lizard-brain has a "that's gross" reaction, it doesn't mean it's the right reaction. Millions and millions of people
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by ericb 6y ago
Very cool! FYI, I would pay for this, but $8,400/yr. is a killer for a startup. You're leaving what might be a lot money on the table at the bottom that you could scoop up with graduated pricing. This might also protect you from c
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by ericb 6y ago
There certainly is. I can point out that a world without guns would have zero deaths from guns without advocating that the world should be without guns.
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by ericb 6y ago
I'm not sure I see a demand anywhere in that comment?
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by ericb 6y ago
Speaking for myself, I downvoted not because you are factually wrong. I downvoted because your entire argument is whataboutism. It is irrelevant to the topic being discussed, and makes the entire debate worse for its presence.
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by ericb 6y ago
Will TinySeed fund companies that compete directly with each other in different batches?
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by ericb 6y ago
Well, if you tie it to an NFT, you can make it easy to lose or be stolen, which is helpful because...<why again?>
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by ericb 6y ago
I do defend their right to do that, so let me fulfill your wish, friend. I see a massive distinction between "things I don't like" and "things that should be legally compelled." I worry about the authoritarian leani
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by ericb 6y ago
> existence of a book Wait, sorry, is someone confiscating the book? Burning it? Requiring it be burned? Arresting people who have it? Arresting the people who wrote it? Legally compelling the publisher to edit it? Legally compelling dis
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by ericb 6y ago
Free speech is not the right to force others to repeat your speech. It is also not the right to a loudspeaker or megaphone. Free speech gets you the right to say it, but makes no promises about others being forced to listen, forced to sprea
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by ericb 6y ago
Capitol security?
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by ericb 6y ago
It seems relatively peaceful: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace
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by ericb 6y ago
Would these binaries work on Apple Silicon? It seems like no, since it isn't x86? What are the limits to the portability, and is there a path past those limits?
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by ericb 6y ago
Isn't calling currencies that people are already transacting hundreds of millions of dollars in volume on daily "vaporware" a baseless accusation?
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by ericb 6y ago
> PoS is still vaporware - debate me if you want Tezos has a fully working Proof of stake system, and there are others. Feel free to share whatever you're on about, but I have a feeling "the debate" will be an exercise in
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by ericb 6y ago
The difference is that there's an underlying assumption that base reality is analog and perhaps continuous rather than discrete, and definitely not CPU or memory constrained. In the scenario you mention, reality would be a program beca

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