lowracle

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by lowracle 6y ago
People who aren't self obsessed are becoming rare. It's an interesting development. I guess it must be hard to find a friend who listens and give feedback instead of talking about themselves.
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by lowracle 6y ago
That is so bizarre for me to read this: "83% said they'd spent zero time just thinking" I struggle to turn down my inner dialogue, because I enjoy being in my head juggling with ideas, and I thought I was the weird one for d
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by lowracle 6y ago
I think this is confusing efficiency with overfitting. A lot of the problems described in the article arise due to overfitting models to the historical data. We overfited supply chain management because covid doesn't happen often, we o
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by lowracle 7y ago
That doesn't solve the big part of the problem which is the co-ownership of competing companies. A blackrock manager voting for you or you voting doesn't change anything. Through the fund, you co-own multiple competing companies,
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by lowracle 7y ago
Why not establish a trading firm in an offshore country with no capital gain tax ? The bookkeeping of crypto txs is hell
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by lowracle 7y ago
I have been working on such a system and it is NOT a huge loss of your time. I've learned so much things in the past year, in market microstructure, in networking (infrastructure, protocols), cloud computing, cloud management (docker s
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by lowracle 7y ago
The only times I click on ads is to see what competing businesses are doing / offering. I am pretty sure they would actually save money by stopping showing me ads.
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by lowracle 7y ago
Is it a project that hasn't been released yet ? Or by "clearing layer that can be settled with crypto" you simply mean route ILP payments between two currencies with crypto in the middle ?
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by lowracle 7y ago
I am glad to read this, because it really sounds weird to me that so much people blame AI for not being able to do causal reasoning, while us human don't even do in my sense "strict" causal reasoning. I feel like we just lear
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by lowracle 7y ago
The article seems to indicate that those gains are all paper money due to the huge inflation in the stock market. On paper they look richer, but they can't do much with their "money" anyway. I think a more rational measure of
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by lowracle 7y ago
It is now pretty clear that those financial institution joined Libra only because they saw it as a threatening competitor in the space. Now that they think that the project is unlikely to be implemented due to strong opposition from govt, t
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by lowracle 7y ago
MakerDAO is not decentralised, simply because the ETH/USD price feed isn't decentralised. If the servers providing the feed get hacked, say goodbye to your ETH collateral.
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by lowracle 7y ago
When I was a kid, I learned so much about programming by doing those kinds of "illegal" activities. When you are young you are reckless, adventurous, you want to cheat the system. My first introduction to programming was through a
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by lowracle 8y ago
It's crazy how sociologist and psychologist are trying to find a reason why we do something we were originally built to do.
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by lowracle 8y ago
Given that a 1 square meter solar panel produces 200W, and the energy efficiency of an Ebit E10 ASIC miner is 11100 * 10^6 hash per J, you can compute 200 * 11100 * 10^6 hash per second so no, in an apocalyptic event, the hash rate will har
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by lowracle 8y ago
It strikes me how uneducated people on hacker news still are about bitcoin. In 10 years, people didn't even take the time to inform themselves before posting wrong facts. >Bitcoin is completely dependent on the availability of lots
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by lowracle 8y ago
>But at the world level, it's just some of us choosing to consume more than we produce right now, and others of us choosing to consume less than we produce right now. Isn't it the actual problem though ? When a small portion of
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by lowracle 8y ago
I can say from my personal experience that the moments that felt the most lonely in my life were the days I spent going to the university library working on projects / thesis, seeing hundreds of people around me, but not being able to
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by lowracle 8y ago
The problem as mentioned in [1], is that banks don't necessarily do productive credit creation. They can create money just for people to buy assets, and not to invest in research and development. I think that it is the main idea behind
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by lowracle 8y ago
He is talking about short selling bitcoin, not selling swap contracts. You don't have to borrow bitcoin to sell swap contracts 100x leveraged. However, to short sell bitcoin 100x leveraged, you would need to borrow 100 times more bitco
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by lowracle 9y ago
How far fetched would it be to assume that in the future, facebook would start building a neural network for each of its users, training it to like the same content as you ? With the amount of data generated by the endless scrolling, you co
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by lowracle 9y ago
If we are talking about the same thing, Socrates actually said that writing an argumentation was bad because words are fixed and your adversary can give them interpretations that don't fit what you had in mind. I don't think he wa
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by lowracle 9y ago
I'm sorry you are getting downvoted, maybe it is because of your tone, but coming from someone with an impartial and uneducated view about the subject, it seems like you made a pretty good point.
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by lowracle 9y ago
I wonder why use a screen/QR code to send back the signed transaction. What could an attacker do with a signed transaction you wouldn't want him to do ? It would be more user friendly to send back the transaction to the phone usin
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Coinbase pledges to fight IRS request in court(blog.coinbase.com)
4 points by lowracle 10y ago|1 comments