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by leashless 2y ago
Take 40% and raise capital for the VC operations as a separate transaction than from the LPs, of course. Efficient markets.
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by leashless 2y ago
Remember: if VCs believed in what they were doing they would not take a 2% annual management fee and 20% of the upside. They’d take 40% of the upside and live on ramen noodles. VCs make money by raising money from LPs. They spend this money
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by leashless 2y ago
"speed and coordination" Meth. https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/
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by leashless 2y ago
The article asks that question
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by leashless 2y ago
The title summarizes the key facts of the article without adding editorial.
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Bird flu in Texas: many human cases, no certainty about human to human spread?(science.org)
5 points by leashless 2y ago|12 comments
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by leashless 2y ago
“But Russo and many other vets have heard anecdotes about workers who have pink eye and other symptoms—including fever, cough, and lethargy—and do not want to be tested or seen by doctors. James Lowe, a researcher who specializes in pig inf
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by leashless 3y ago
And remind me where that works again?
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by leashless 3y ago
Lot cheaper than bank wires! Vastly faster too.
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by leashless 3y ago
Think in terms of antimonopoly — VISA charges outrageous fees for decades because they’re the hub through which all payments go.
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by leashless 3y ago
Yeah that was great :-) how unexpectly refreshing.
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by leashless 3y ago
I have always felt the MP3 format would have been better if they had used a really high entropy test track with a lot of distorted guitars and synth noises.
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by leashless 3y ago
So the argument is twofold. 1) governments didn’t get to print money at will until they went off the gold standard, and the financial regime we have now is worse than the gold era. (Highly dubious, I don’t buy this entirely) 2) blockchain d
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by leashless 3y ago
7. The blockchain is now at a stage in its development equivalent to where the internet was in or around 1995. The internet was unstoppable in 1995 and blockchain technology is unstoppable now. It will become ubiquitous in all major industr
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by leashless 3y ago
A more recent work in the field: https://kk.org/books/what-technology-wants "By mapping the behavior of life, we paradoxically get a glimpse at where technology is headed-or “what it wants.” Kevin Kelly offers a d
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by leashless 3y ago
Italian love of calamari.
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by leashless 3y ago
Most of the people who have died in this conflict are Russian soldiers aren't they?
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by leashless 3y ago
The nuclear family is a catastrophe all of its own. Most older cultures would consider two parents and two children in a house on their own far away from relatives a recipe for insanity in all parties, as it has been proven to be!
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by leashless 3y ago
The crux of it is that the weapons have improved very fast (range and energy density and targeting and rate of fire and other functionality all improving very fast) but protective systems like armour are not nearly keeping pace. It's l
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by leashless 3y ago
Let us not forget: before this war, Russians went on holiday in Odesa. Ukrainians went on holiday in St. Petersburg. It's not a genocidal war of annihilation. It's not WW2 redux. It's not Holodomor 2.0. I do not think everybo
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by leashless 3y ago
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/jet-fighter-costs-a-comple... In 20 years they'll manufacture just one plane, and it'll cost a trillion dollars, if current trends continue to hold. Also it'll the weight of
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by leashless 3y ago
Came here to say this. And to add: we don't know to what degree human behaviour is regular. It could be that in practice an AI can't really generalise well to All People compared to humans, because the humans are so diverse and th
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by leashless 3y ago
English isn't an ideal language to describe what kinds of "charisma" an AI could have, but I don't think it's at all foolish or improbable to say than an AI system could have profound and indeed superhuman charism
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by leashless 3y ago
I have heard it takes roughly ten years of practice of tai chi to be able to fight reasonably effectively using tai chi principles, assuming you have a very workable base of kung fu or something equivalent established (say ten years) before
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by leashless 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc3Q6vqvemA this is pretty much what high level skills in Tai Chi look like. You can see that it's mainly very, very secure footwork and explosive coordinated force delivered when the op
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by leashless 3y ago
Here is a pretty good example of a very large trained fighter and a very excellent and much smaller tai chi guy going at it reasonably hard (like maybe one of them walks away with a concussion type hard). https://www.youtube.com&
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by leashless 3y ago
"Fighting" Tai Chi was traditionally taught to people who were already very adept at Kung Fu. If you can already fight the form trains a bunch of clever footwork and a few other things at a really high level; it's _clever_. B
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by leashless 3y ago
I don't think even SoftBank would go for that. But... if... run multiple cities off the waste heat from the compute. Easy to see the chain of logic which runs from there to the Dyson sphere made of computronium. We live in interesting
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by leashless 3y ago
Been hearing it for 30 years. Finally?
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by leashless 3y ago
"Eventual consistency" 1) there is a network 2) on each block, a leader is selected to make the next block on the basis of a lottery -- each lottery ticket is a unit of computing done ("proof of work") 3) if the network

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