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by jpmattia 6y ago
"Number Go Up" It's a meme among speculators and others who don't see bitcoin as providing an actual value proposition.
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by jpmattia 6y ago
The first thing that occurred to me when I read the title: Tonsillectomies used to be very common when I was growing up, and eventually that stopped. See eg: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5883156&#x
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by jpmattia 6y ago
In the middle of the rant on burnout, he says: > I'm sick of everyone being on Adderall. Is that really a thing? ie What proportion of software folks are using it?
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by jpmattia 6y ago
They won't even try to crack it!
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by jpmattia 6y ago
First: Do you understand that the subpoena preceded lawsuit discovery?
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by jpmattia 6y ago
You're asking a number of questions that have no bearing on whether they've produced financial information for the balance sheet. We can get to those issues, but first I want to make sure you understand the difference between law
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by jpmattia 6y ago
First: You understand that your comment was about discovery (from the lawsuit) and mine was about the subpoena before the lawsuit? > They haven't produced the information that would allow NYAG to establish the state of their balanc
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by jpmattia 6y ago
I was talking about the initial subpoena, not discovery. (Discovery occurs during the lawsuit, which happened later on.) The initial subpoena has not been quashed afaik, and would be pretty obvious grounds to stop issuance if it had yielded
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> Really wonder why HN community nowdays completely ignores tether discussion everytime a bitcoin thread comes. Because it's not an issue? The NY AG issued the subpoena roughly 3 years ago. If tether were fraudulently unbacked,
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> Well I meant the IP was enough for getting a warrant. That makes more sense, but I suppose you can still frame somebody for the warrant only and make their life miserable. (Rebekah's computers were confiscated, as an example.)
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> Server logs with an IP address would hold up in court. TIL I can frame somebody by breaking their wifi password and doing some crimes. Cool.
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> In dissecting the exaggerated New York accents of Bugs Bunny When I was a little kid in the 60s, I remember someone interviewing Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs). He couldn’t decide whether a Bronx or Brooklyn accent sounded tougher, so he
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> it was the maker space par excellence long before the term came into being. Just to provide an example: I made a keyer in the 70s. The way to make a PCB was to get a 3x4 copper-coated board from Radio Shack, use a sharpie to draw yo
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by jpmattia 6y ago
I was a little surprised that there was no mention of mental illness. A human/reptile hybrid race is secretly controlling us all to serve an unknown agenda? I know that could be used for humor, but really it's just sad.
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> People realised that you maximize the throughput of the raw medium if you push it hard enough it has a high error rate When? FEC has been used in optical systems for decades. The undersea fiber guys have been using it in production
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by jpmattia 6y ago
> and it’s not uncommon for systems to have pre-FEC BER 1e-3. Old guy here: I'm wondering when that changed. Early OC-768 requirements were 10^-12 BER preFEC (e: at least in short-haul), which was down from 10^-9 for OC-192.
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by jpmattia 7y ago
That looks like all kinds of fun! Thanks for the links.
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> by about 50 nanoradians for every meter you move vertically in the lab. Holy moly. Just what kind of measurements are you doing in your lab?
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by jpmattia 7y ago
MOVPE is more of a self-assembly process than 3D printing, and it has been around for decades. BTW It is worth noting from your link that the silicon is being grown on a GaAs substrate, so to be useful they would have to figure out how to g
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> Modern transistors, which function as a computer’s brain cells, are only a few atoms long. If they are packed too tightly, that can cause all sorts of problems: electron traffic jams, overheating, and strange quantum effects. One solu
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> Case in point: as of March 17, only 17 people of those who died in Italy were under the age of 50. Worth pointing out that the available life-saving equipment is being given to young people there, which complicates the simple statist
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by jpmattia 7y ago
If only I could figure out a way of scribbling with the iPadPro pen and get it into org mode.
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> Much of those gains came from GE Capital Worth noting: The only reason GE did not go bankrupt in 2008 was because the government bailed out GE Capital. It's doubtful that GE Capital's risks were being properly accounted f
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by jpmattia 7y ago
For fans of Physics Today, they have put up a link to articles authored by Dyson over the years: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/action/doSearch?AllField=...
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> Counter to what the author is saying, you do need a degree or some level of measurable expertise to start a hard startup, because not only do you need the expertise, you also need the credibility to get people to work with you and you
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> but from a moral standpoint, I don't think I could bring myself to do it. I've been in a similar situation, and I think there is something important to think about: Assuming you'd be working for the defense of a count
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by jpmattia 7y ago
I've had a peripheral interest in virtual sets and real-time compositing by way of a colleague from grad school. A quick visual summary of this tech: http://www.lightcrafttech.com/portfolio/beauty-beast/ This
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by jpmattia 7y ago
FWIW, I think the reason it does not show up on the "Bose-Einstein statistics" page: The zeta function is not so relevant to describing how the bosons populate states at particular energies, but zeta is relevant once you start sum
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> The page on Bose-Einstein statistics[1] doesn't seem to include it at all. Unless I'm mistaken, it [e: meaning the page on condensates] does: Look at the "Derivation" section, and you'll see that g_3/2(
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by jpmattia 7y ago
> I created an iPhone app called MyHumans that takes the opposite approach with a whitelist using your phone contacts. iOS 13 now does this: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/06/ios-13-silence-unknown-...

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