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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Yes. Or even that someone reinvented computing. Or contact from an alien race. Are all more plausible than a deity. For a proof of God I would require something without in which it really is the most likely explanation, like a face appearin
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
If they showed the perfect ad, advertisers would be willing to spend much per view. As an advertiser I might pay some low CPM to blast my ad with poor targeting, but if instead they only showed my ad to exactly the correct people who will c
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Ah that is great actually. You caught me just reading the comment without checking the full source :)
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Yeah, I would have much hear “we have tight access control, logs, and auditing, and can’t access it ourselves without an automated email sent to you.” Right now it sounds even worse than saying nothing at all as it almost implies their are
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
At what price are the RSU’s taxed - at the point they vest, or when initially allocated?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Exactly. “During the test, the robot encouraged some students to continue inflating the balloon before moving on to the next balloon, saying such phrases as, “Why not try one more time?” and “One more pump, please,” and “I think you have ti
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56393944 “Earlier this month, in its annual report on global political rights and liberties, US-based non-profit Freedom House downgraded India from a free democracy to a &quot
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
They have owned both a Guinea Pig and Squirrel, just never an old diseased one.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Yes, this made me laugh. “No, no way there is any issue with decisiveness, identify politics, or generalization of groups. The only issue is in fact with group B.”
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Made by a solo developer. And “made almost $1 million in the last 12 months, 90% from ads” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26769141
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Look at the token standard: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721 Notice the implementation is totally up to you. You can emit events that totally lie about what’s really happening. You can make the transfer function
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Yes, but this is solvable. Look at the addresses initiating the transactions rather than trusting the logged events.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Does anyone have a link to the tweets and shared videos?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
It sounds like your thinking of a live-attenuated vaccine. An mRNA vaccine could not cause this. These is nothing more than a coincidence
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
That’s study says “Immunity elicited by direct vaccination or by maternal vaccination prolongs host survival but does not prevent infection, viral replication or transmission, thus extending the infectious periods of strains otherwise too l
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
To me the exact opposite - it’s seems like a prime candidate to be a third party service. It’s something easy to get wrong, and has a long tail of work which is extremely generic (supporting all the different social logins, two factor authe
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
This seems so silly - is this really how credits work? A fully grown forest won’t be removing any more CO2 (I assume the plant mass doesn’t keep growing without bound). Cutting the pine, replanting it, and using it to build homes and furnit
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
If you can figure out how to align incentives, you can save the world
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Couldn’t someone just break the beeper on their tracker?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Or if you cut the wire to the beeper..
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
It’s sounds like it’s closed loop, and not connected to the internet/WiFi. I would say that makes it thousands of times less likely to be hacked, even if there was some fundamental issue with the encryption.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Where does it say it didn’t have autopilot?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
Nothing, in the same way that there’s nothing stopping me from selling you the Brooklyn bridge.
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
You may like this, one of my favorite short stories: https://templatetraining.princeton.edu/sites/training/files/...
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
A quick reading of Apples own advertising policy gives me deja vu... “Segments We create segments, which are groups of people who share similar characteristics, and use these groups for delivering targeted ads. Information about you may be
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
For sure. Not just the same day, but nearly the exact same time as the IPO. Either sending a signal or hoping for less reporting
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
For the uninformed, what mathematical guarantees does POW have that POS doesn’t?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
How are bank notes more secure than Monero?
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
One company that this reminds me of is Luminati ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hola_(VPN) ) It’s not just your spare compute, but your residential IP address is valuable as an unblockable address for bots and scrapers
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by jtsiskin 6y ago
The article has some good examples: “The volume of goods transported by container shipping each year has quadrupled since 2000, and about 600,000 submarine cables have been laid on the seafloor in that time, which now carry almost all inter

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