komaromy

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by komaromy 9y ago
> this kind of attitude is exactly what got Trump elected Not really seeing the connection here
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by komaromy 9y ago
> China’s president Xi Jinping recently said the country is “taking a driving seat” in fighting climate change One of the only things giving me hope right now.
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by komaromy 9y ago
I don't think it's an unreasonable decision to make. It's just one of the least productive things you can do if trying to save money. I'm paying $1400/month for a 17.5'x10' room in a popular part of the ci
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by komaromy 9y ago
If the goal is saving money in your 20s, having a 1BR is kind of absurd. You can live in a multi-bedroom apartment/house in SF for much less than that.
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by komaromy 9y ago
> Try critical thinking, highly recommended. This seems unnecessarily combative.
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by komaromy 9y ago
What's better? Hashcash is interesting, but it's probably not applicable to every scenario and it hasn't seen much adoption. There might even be a bit of a stigma now around proof-of-work algorithms because of cryptocurrency
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by komaromy 9y ago
Additionally, we have absurd amounts of information baked into our genes that give us big head starts on network architectures, motion, vision, etc.
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by komaromy 9y ago
I don't see how you can possibly construe Kalanick's firing as a result of 'trimming the fat'. He generated controversies for years and he was finally taken out in the face of massive public backlash.
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by komaromy 9y ago
> and without destructive side-effects You can mess up your serotonin levels for an extended period of time through MDMA abuse. I guess that might be a direct effect rather than a side effect, but that doesn't seem to be your point.
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by komaromy 9y ago
How far does that go? If an Uber driver goes over the speed limit on the highway, are they not honest?
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by komaromy 9y ago
> The supermajority of Americans would decrease or keep the same the level of legal immigration Evidence?
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by komaromy 9y ago
Maybe not the next big advance, but I'll be truly impressed when an AI system with no game-specific prior knowledge is able to complete a game of Pokémon Yellow within a reasonable amount of game time. It requires: - Natural language u
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by komaromy 9y ago
> Remember that porn sites are always the front line of innovation on the web Often stated, rarely with any actual support.
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by komaromy 9y ago
Maybe if it was millions, but thousands of birds is a rounding error.
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by komaromy 9y ago
I'm not so much sad about it as scared that it's going to cause a near-extinction of humanity. I'm confident that the biodiversity of the planet will recover in the long term.
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by komaromy 9y ago
Could be! We'll need a volunteer comfortable with having their neuronal weights experimented on.
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by komaromy 9y ago
> Computers understand things as well as us, perhaps better. If this was limited to chess, I would unquestionably agree. If it was limited to image recognition, I would tentatively agree, although things like [0] make me cautious (admitt
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by komaromy 9y ago
The Ethereum white paper was published in 2013. The events surrounding TheDAO, which the annotations mention, occurred in 2016. I'm not sure where the 2015 in the HN title is coming from.
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by komaromy 9y ago
Shapeshift is very convenient but the fees are exorbitant compared to other platforms.
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by komaromy 9y ago
It seems like you should take into account the cut that a hotel chain extracts from each franchise to make a fair comparison. I don't have a good sense of how much that is.
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by komaromy 9y ago
Regardless of your opinions about Ethereum, its origins were decidedly non-corporate.
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by komaromy 9y ago
https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/886400133667201024 Serpent is outdated; Viper is an up-and-coming replacement.
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by komaromy 9y ago
http://thehill.com/policy/international/asia-pacific/323205-... First link I found.
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by komaromy 9y ago
Personally, I think that the United States has systematically mistreated black people for centuries and not acknowledging that such problems still exist is willful ignorance.
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by komaromy 9y ago
His treatment of the press corps has been more or less abysmal, but he does seem to be one of the less destructive cabinet members.
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by komaromy 9y ago
Also, this is very impressive for someone who finished his PhD less than two years ago.
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by komaromy 9y ago
I imagine Pieter Abbeel and the rest of the gang will be able to carry on in his absence.
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by komaromy 9y ago
Interesting, to move from an Elon-Musk-chaired non-profit to an Elon-Musk-owned for-profit.
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by komaromy 9y ago
https://medium.com/@AugurProject/augur-master-plan-42dda65a3...
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by komaromy 9y ago
Hundreds? I'd struggle to name twenty and I consider myself reasonably knowledgeable about the scene.

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