jamesmurray

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Origin and comments on idea: “Email is where ideas go to die”
2 points by jamesmurray 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: So, what the heck do VPs do?
3 points by jamesmurray 8y ago|2 comments
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Is it legal to use data from data leaks?
5 points by jamesmurray 8y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Can I be “put on a list” for contacting foreign researchers?
15 points by jamesmurray 8y ago|10 comments
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by jamesmurray 9y ago
True, but these aren’t conventionally poor but could basically include you and I (assuming you are in the vast majority of the population who relies on labor income and not tied to the ruling class) if we were wiped out by an economic calam
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Crypto mining of crypto currencies could influence Venezuala economy?
7 points by jamesmurray 9y ago|8 comments
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by jamesmurray 9y ago
If I can stash a small rig somewhere, then I can produce currency. This process doesn't require scale or major investment, so you could mine at a small enough scale to be below notice (See also: black markets). This seems like a viable
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by jamesmurray 9y ago
>What, you mean the simplified world ideologies don't hold up in practice to the real world? What kind of craziness is this? Your derogatory tone is uncalled for, nothing in my comment was pro-crypto. Stashing of small to moderate c
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by jamesmurray 9y ago
Presumably, the cost of electricity for mining is small, and a lot of the value of crypto is amortized from the hardware. Like anything else it can be stolen but, they would need to know about it. If I can stash a small rig somewhere, then
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by jamesmurray 9y ago
Hold on. How can the mafia, or government for that matter, systematically stop people from mining small amounts crypto (possibly arbitraging a huge gulf between electricity prices and USD exchange rates)? Other than the electricity cost how
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by jamesmurray 9y ago
How did you set up your back end here? (what's taking the photos and running the algorithms on them) Is there something off the shelf you've used? Great site by the way, I'm impressed.
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Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talent(nytimes.com)
3 points by jamesmurray 9y ago|0 comments
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by jamesmurray 9y ago
Saying gerrymandering is self-limiting because the party has to choose how to allocate its power is like saying sexual assault is self-limiting because the perpetrator can only use one orifice at a time. Gerrymandering gives an absolute adv
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by jamesmurray 9y ago
I'm using python/notebooks. I'm pretty new to this. There's little auto-complete and the online docs are terse with few or no examples. People say python is easy, but it seems like there's many packages/ways to
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Ask: Anyone feel like programming is Google Golf?
2 points by jamesmurray 9y ago|4 comments