liamwestray

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by liamwestray 5y ago
Ok, so your solution to inflation is storing value in scarce forms of assets. Natural scarcity in the form of land, gold, etc., or unnatural scarcity in the form of crypto, water rights, futures, stocks. I find your arguments kind of silly
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by liamwestray 5y ago
That “study” is comparing an entire industry including pension plans, atm and card networks, payroll systems, mutual funds, iras/401ks, sarbanes-oxley data retention, etc. etc. to just bitcoin’s network. These systems aren’t replaceabl
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by liamwestray 5y ago
I would like people to be able to do basic math and estimation using publicly available datasets themselves. Get list of 10 largest banks and major credit card companies. Get their ESG reports. Add annual energy and emissions summaries toge
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Yes. It’s actually artificially increasing accuracy.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/bank_branches/ You can go estimate it yourself pretty easily based on number of branches and some average energy use per square foot (pick the US’s commercial average as a
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by liamwestray 5y ago
That was a firmware issue pre 2019 model that was corrected in a few weeks that got overblown. The throttling problem doesn’t exist anymore. The only problem with the first generation framework laptop is intel’s quad core CPU because of th
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Prolonged compiling tasks will thermally throttle the 1185g7 chip long before the M1. It will run circles around the 1185g7 compiling large codebases. Passmarks across hundreds of benches show a 25% single and 40% multithreaded performance
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by liamwestray 5y ago
You realize the framework laptop’s cpus are limited to 4 cores, right? No $2000 laptop in 2020 should have only quad core cpus. The M1 16gb will run circles around the i7-1185g7 (highest spec chip framework sells) compiling llvm with 64gb o
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Piezo-electric affect generates voltage enough for some lcd applications.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Wow, that’s some impressively bad statistical analysis. The author cherry picks 2019 vs 2020 for deaths from natural disaster showing a decline when basically everyone stayed home in the US in 2020. He also uses natural distaster deaths rat
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by liamwestray 5y ago
This is some expansion of toxic community pissing matches where none of the de-googled AOSP communities can seem to stop shit-talking each other. It’s like some non-happy ending version of Dr. Seuss’s butter-side-down people. No one appear
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by liamwestray 5y ago
It’s a substack article… I’ve not seen a single one that was anything other than bad conjecture and an inability to understand logic or reason.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
It’s only controversial if you know it’s the top 3rd of a centerfold photo. It would just be slightly creepy otherwise. To be fair, there are better test images to use and it’s never really been appropriate to use a playboy centerfold ima
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Some of us took ethical stands with professors on far more egregious issues of sexism, bigotry, and bad data analysis without also getting public acknowledgment or the benefits of claiming victimhood. I guess it’s different for those of us
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Legally yes. There’s a tax treaty so you’ll get credit for any taxes paid in another country and only have to pay the difference.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Mid-way through the article: ”I learned this the hard way. For several years, I subscribed to a popular VPN service called Private Internet Access.” Well, yeah, stop buying crappy VPN services built by Mt. Gox cofounder "tech" bro
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by liamwestray 5y ago
The SoC is not available for purchase by any other party than the Pi Foundation. Similar SoCs are available from other vendors such as Odroid, OrangePi, and Pine64. There’s no value in cloning the Pi SoC when similar or better SoCs are avai
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Not 100% sure, most my GUI stuff has been GTK based. This is a Qt framework and OP has more experience than I with Qt from what I could tell from his post.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
"It a desktop application. So I'm not porting it from web app nor I plan to make it a web app any time in the future." Don't use electron. Unless you are making an app that will majorly benefit from JS-based third party
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Ethical considerations. Converting energy into non-productive work for financial speculation used substantially by money laundering activities is in the same category as: Having Goldman Sachs invest my money in coal and diamond mines manage
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Yeah, this is why my comment led with “I trust the author”… I’m surprised you need the full 4 bits to deal with ambiguous bases, but it probably makes sense at some lower level I don’t understand.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
While I trust the author on this, I don’t think DNA datasets and string analysis was a great example. One of the big, big things for improving performance on DNA analysis of ANY kind is converting these large text files into binary (4 lette
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by liamwestray 5y ago
This guy just makes shit up and has for years. Somehow my nephew had Type 1 diabetes from vaccines he received weeks after he stopped producing insulin as an infant according to this author.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Ah yes, the antivaxxer John Bart Classen who previously linked vaccines to autism and type 1 diabetes and publishes in non-peer reviewed journals that only require up-front fees, the equivalent of a tumblr post in science.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
I mean, sure highly dense urban areas at the beginning of the pandemic got hit hard when testing was barely possible. But if you filter data from before June if last year (approx. 90 days from WHO pandemic declaration), the story is very di
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Revenue. Your capital needs are so small that if you truly have 70% of an MVP done it will take less time to get to revenue than secure capital.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
The incident rates of these side effects are lower than OTC pain and cold medication. That’s near zero risk.
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by liamwestray 5y ago
I don’t see how the conclusion is vaccination “risks” may outweigh benefits when there appear to be nearly 0 risks to vaccination and even upon breakthrough incredible benefits of vaccination (stated in his own article). The only logical re
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by liamwestray 5y ago
What essay? My Econ, English, Writing, and policy professors would’ve given me at best a C for that draft. There’s no actual argument, thesis, or contextual background. And yes, the irrelevancy of his department is contextually relevant to
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by liamwestray 5y ago
Oh look, an Econ professor doesn’t understand technology or real markets and can’t even make a point in his essay. Maybe that’s why Clemson’s Econ program isn’t even in the top 50…

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