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by kharak 5y ago
I don't really understand SPACs. Is there a good article explaining what they do and why you take them instead of going public directly. And what happens to those SPAC shares now if you bought some?
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by kharak 5y ago
I know someone who wants to rebuild his one level apartments into a four level apartment block. Good district in Hamburg. Exactly the kind of thing the city needs. More apartments, increased density, private investment. He's trying to
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by kharak 5y ago
I believe this is the major problem. During all times, humanity spends most of it resources to make more of the same. Does this world really need another social network? More movies? Games? Novels? Fashion? More e-commerce that is reselling
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by kharak 5y ago
Is it a strategy if it's inevitable? I have almost no understanding of anything. Everyday I use technology that just works. What happens in the background, I'll never know. I interact with complex social systems without knowing wh
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How the Netherlands Feeds the World(nationalgeographic.com)
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by kharak 5y ago
The most significant gain for animal rights will be the day, when we can produce inexpensive lab-grown meat (including fish) that is indistinguishable from livestock based products. We could also really use a framework for recognizing and c
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by kharak 5y ago
Thanks! That lead me down the rabbit hole. Here is an interesting article with some pictures, demonstrating what Dutch high-tech farming looks like: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...
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by kharak 5y ago
> Basically once I moved my old profile toward doing cool things that I know interest women, my matches skyrocketed basically. It really made me understand why guys don't get swipes. It's literally a resume and you gotta make y
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by kharak 5y ago
What is "Q"? You seem to refer to a model that I haven't heard about and I'm curious about it. (And not sure how to Google this one).
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by kharak 5y ago
Enjoyed reading this. You need to have a specified character to take that level of career / financial risk. He seems to be curiousity driven above all else. Hope he's continuing to do cool stuff after his PhD. From how the field s
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by kharak 5y ago
> That is a necessary but not sufficient condition. You also have to (a) somehow stop the people who like discriminating based on race ("racists"), and (b) do something about the systems that were intentionally setup to discrim
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by kharak 5y ago
I've heard, that people from the USA understand the term 'race' differently than Germans. A direct translation into German would be 'Rasse', a term reserved for dog breeds and history lessons. From how I see the wor
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by kharak 5y ago
I personally rather like the idea of NFTs. NFTs could become gamechangers, in the literal meaning of the word. The project Enjin for instances focuses on NFTs in the gaming world. One selling point is, that you might be able to collect item
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by kharak 5y ago
Almost glad I'm not the only one who feels like this. I always wonder how and why people feel differently. It is obvious, that a good chunk of programmers have no problem being passionate about completely abstract problems. I've a
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by kharak 5y ago
I realized at some point, that I would actually love coding, if it could be physicalized. Like the games Factorio or Satisfactorio. Give me VR/AR and a 3D programming language and I'd get willfully lost for days. But sitting or st
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by kharak 5y ago
You've already got a bunch of replies, still like to add something. I'm in the "I never felt anything towards coding" category. Tried to grow passion for it, just doesn't work. But I'd still be thrilled (and po
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by kharak 5y ago
I personally feel that this embodies the hacker spirit perfectly. Has this service been intended to allow the donor access to his sequencing data? No. Can someone use the systems in place to get this info anyway? Yes, as it shows. The other
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by kharak 5y ago
Same here. I believe watching that video (with follow up discussion about what happened) should be mandatory for getting your driving license.
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by kharak 6y ago
Just a minor addition respectively counter data point for you: I've tried to force myself to invest more time in my tech job and relevant side projects. I didn't care about any of it and couldn't do it. Burned out quickly. On
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by kharak 6y ago
This is a bit off topic, but I like to add an observation. You assume in your post that someone could go all out on something the person doesn't care about. For me, that is not possible. Most likely also not for OP. But the possibility
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by kharak 6y ago
Doesn't relate with me. While not 20 anymore, I live in a solo apartment and Covid has killed all my social life. Still never want to work in an office ever again. And I'm not going to. Despite the commute, everything about office
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by kharak 6y ago
Is there a good podcast or Youtube video for starters? Highly sceptic of the idea and therefore intrigued.
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by kharak 6y ago
I personally absolutely need that piece of information. I have a simple assumption about the material universe. All interactions rely on touch. Atoms or their sub-particles don't magically interact with each other over a distance. That
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by kharak 6y ago
Thank you. Feels like a new phone. Disabled all animations.
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by kharak 6y ago
Concentration seems to be unavoidable. A direct consequence of the power law respectively Matthew principle. I haven't researched the alternative PoS (prof of stake) concept too deeply, but I'd wager it'll end the same way. T
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by kharak 6y ago
Thank you for the explanation. That was highly interesting. Does anyone else know if the human eye does perceive color directly? Is this at all technically possible? And if yes, why aren't we doing it with cameras?
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by kharak 6y ago
If the bank issues credit to customers with that cash, you're right. If it buys stock, it's the same thing.
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by kharak 6y ago
Actually, they do seem to be at their limit. There have been articles about this (which I merely glanced over). Scaling up manufacturing for vaccines, especially new RNA based ones, isn't something that scales infinitely with money. No
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by kharak 6y ago
Isn't the vaccination distribution a zero sum game between nation states? Supply is limited. Some countries will get it sooner than others. Europe lost the bit against several other powers. Not to my surprise, I must say.
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by kharak 6y ago
Your "they care but don't care enough to change habits" take is highly entlightening. This is going to help my perspective on a range of issues where binary thinking invites itselve. Thanks!

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