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by jboy55 4y ago
And when they lose all their money in crypto, it'll be just like when they walked away from that essential oil company, and that house they were going to flip, and their beany babies, and that .com company and the herbalife in their ga
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by jboy55 4y ago
Of course the treasury rate was much higher as well.
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by jboy55 4y ago
There was a off hand comment in the Big Short book, about a Money Market fund, Reserve Primary Fund, that announced they couldn't pay back all debits, during the worst of the 2008 crisis. It was, "Money Markets weren't cash -
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by jboy55 4y ago
Come on, what percentage of banking activity is money laundering, and what percentage of NFTs sold is money laundering? I think there is an order of magnitude, order of magnitude difference.
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by jboy55 4y ago
Well, the rigorous KYC regulations and policies mean they can ensure every person owns just one wallet... /s
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by jboy55 4y ago
I've realized I have a problem, and the solution might be me cutting off Netflix? The problem? I've slowly accumulated ten streaming subscriptions. Some might be included in cable, some are stand alone and some just house purcha
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by jboy55 4y ago
I've been the victim of this, a producer consumer system with a single index file using some variant of a heap. For each incoming request the producer; locked the file, read the heap from the file, added the value to the heap, then
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by jboy55 5y ago
That image kind of looks like cosmic ray trails in a cloud chamber, I wonder if some of the defects are related.
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by jboy55 5y ago
My point is, Duchamp saw it as art, where the creator of the thing did not. So what was the matrix like for Duchamp? I argue he saw something was art, that was not created to be it.
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by jboy55 5y ago
It occurred to me that in the case where someone created a thing and didn't intend to create art, but you received it as art, that is indeed art. Was the famous urinal 'art' to Duchamp, before Duchamp exhibited it as 'ar
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by jboy55 5y ago
Yes, I think though in your matrix where an Artist has intended a thing to be art, but its not perceived to be it, is mostly a form of communication breakdown. An artist has tried to send a signal, but it hasn't been received. A famous
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by jboy55 5y ago
Very interesting, also it comes before the news that the nuclear pumped X-Ray laser concept came about from misreading the results of a test. Teller used this faulty data to imagine a satellite system that could shoot down 10s of missiles f
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by jboy55 5y ago
There's also those who believe art requires skill, talent and/or craft. There are photographers who believe that Adams is art because of these factors and down play the 'decisive moment' photographers. There are painters
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by jboy55 5y ago
Steve Wozniak mentions this happening to him after a plane crash. Where he had a period where he didn't form permanent memories, and when that passed and he was able to, it was as if he awoke from a coma, even though he was functioning
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by jboy55 5y ago
Same here actually, I was imagining a mosaic of little Piet programs all run in parallel on a GPU. The time I spent with Piet was pretty rewarding. I did a project where I took my company's phone screen interview question and completed
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by jboy55 5y ago
Well one thing is the teen in question probably has little to no exposure to a cohort of humans who have fungal pneumonia to test this on.
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by jboy55 5y ago
I don't think the culture I designed is a 'cargo-cult', but more of the result of a first order solution to designing engineer incentives. "We want to encourage engineers to get better over time, be entrepreneurial and f
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by jboy55 5y ago
My guess, 1 He found/was given an off the shelf fungal sensor designed to detect pneumonia 2 He hooked it up to a raspi 3 He trained a small tensorflow model to give true/false signals based on the input All in all, not that bad
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by jboy55 5y ago
Its not just company greed, you can't get any engineers to agree to maintain a service in Keep the Lights on mode. Its not in their interest, let me explain. First, there's 0 chance at promotion doing maintenance work, so L4 (jr)
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by jboy55 5y ago
Thanks, it was theta, I had it explained to me first as beta, and it stuck in my mind that way.
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by jboy55 5y ago
Just note, the poster most probably did not actually 'short' facebook, the poster used options to do this. Its pretty simple for the buy case. Options have a strike price and an expiration date. You buy a CALL option, with a strik
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by jboy55 5y ago
The parent post contains a scenario where a bank has 1 T out in loans. If they make 50b (5%) in profit, they can withstand 4% of those loans going default. If profit goes up, and they can have more go default, and, get this, they charge mor
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by jboy55 5y ago
One of the biggest issues I have with this is, I don't want you to see my friend list. I don't want you to see my wall, I don't want you to glean my interests by reading the public ledger. If you say, well, all of that is sto
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by jboy55 5y ago
Its all the dependencies, security updates and keeping all of them up to date and in check. One word, Log4j.
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by jboy55 5y ago
Though things are never cheaper to maintain than at the beginning of a tech bloom. Its only going to get more expensive to create and maintain as the node and the APIs get more complex.
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by jboy55 5y ago
Is there any market pressure that will demand a change to the cryptographic hash? Is any of the current speculation concerned in any way about the content hosted at the URL, or just the current value of the NFT and what you can sell it for.
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by jboy55 5y ago
I think what you are missing is that for NFT adherents, they don't care about the original content, just the NFT. btw, I own an NFT that represents all natural numbers, therefore all possible NFTs.
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by jboy55 5y ago
You bought a NFT on some blockchain that exists now, you didn't buy the number. I can sell that same number to someone else, and I could print a big picture of it on fancy paper in a nice frame and afix a hologram seal of authenticity.
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by jboy55 5y ago
Baseball cards now have value, in the period of 1990 to 2000 they were pretty worthless after the bubble of the late 80s crashed. They retain value though nostalgia, as soon as they become an investment again, and speculation starts, a new
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by jboy55 5y ago
People made good money selling Beanie Babies, Baseball Cards and other fads... at the beginning of those.

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