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by maaku 12y ago
GPG still could be much better for those applications. For example, it is still impossible to do GPG multi-sig (e.g. have the application developer and the distribution release manager sign off on the binaries).
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by maaku 12y ago
You can go down to the local diy electronics store and get what you need to demonstrate "spooky action at a distance" in your own garage. Just like how in Einstein's time anyone with decently precise mirrors and measurement a
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by maaku 12y ago
AMD cards are slow, for these sorts of applications.
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by maaku 12y ago
Reasoning from intuition has a terrible track record, I'm afraid.
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by maaku 12y ago
It does not take a lifetime. It took me about 6 months to cover upper-division electricity and magnetism and quantum mechanics, which is probably all that you would need to get the most basic but complete understanding of this paper.
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by maaku 12y ago
Aaaand.. they're gone.
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by maaku 12y ago
Protection of the Church and feudal system?
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by maaku 12y ago
> Not to mention alternative energy sources. If I needed to rebuild civilization, that'd be the last thing on my mind.
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by maaku 12y ago
> The paper you referenced from early 2014 isn't really considered very relevant anymore. Andrew's proof of stake paper was vetted by many core developers and people with a great deal of experience in bitcoin-like consensus sys
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by maaku 12y ago
> YC company or not, taking a lot of equity for a lower salary it's still a gamble. At the end it's a matter of you believing the team you're joining can make it big or not. Thanks to Second Market this is no longer true.
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by maaku 12y ago
As a rule of thumb, you should cut that 1% equity in half for such calculations, due to future dilution, liquidation preference on exit, etc.
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by maaku 12y ago
Cost of living is much less here in SV vs NYC. Still, what you're seeing is a joke. I wouldn't take such a job.
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by maaku 12y ago
I would like to hear the GP's story, but if you've seen The Social Network then you have a reference point for how this could happen (separate classes of stock, dilution protections, etc.).
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by maaku 12y ago
You need a system external to yourself to guide your choices day to day. I recommend reading Getting Things Done by David Allen, and The Now Habit by Neil Fiore. These books might help you develop such a system. (Specifically, Getthing
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by maaku 12y ago
No, the real argument is usually that the executive contracts are constructed such that trying to weasel out of "bonuses" for them probably is ill advised.
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by maaku 12y ago
Do you have a family?
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by maaku 12y ago
Daily use of such substances is abuse, pure and simple. If you can't function without your morning coffee, then your body has adjusted to the presence of caffeine and you are abusing the substance. Doesn't matter if everyone does
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by maaku 12y ago
Have you been to Taiwan? There is a booming economy there.
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by maaku 12y ago
Selection bias.
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by maaku 12y ago
I lose serious productivity at 30hrs. But I manage to fill in the corners with mindless tasks like answering emails. I think 80 hours a week is only achievable with the help of drugs i.e. caffeine
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by maaku 12y ago
Go to Taiwan.
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by maaku 12y ago
> Because I don't actually perceive the green part of the hue, the blue is much stronger for me. Interesting. Yes that's the opposite the effect it has in me. Teal is a washed-out blue... The original/DVD release of the Ma
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by maaku 12y ago
200? no. Try 2,000. That should be representable of a barely usable level of the language. If you are what might be described as fluent, you're probably at >20,000. Take this headline: JACUZZIS FOUND EFFECTIVE IN TREATING PHLEBITIS
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by maaku 12y ago
It requires me to answer the phone.
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by maaku 12y ago
I wish there was a way to send these calls to a specific voicemail message. "You have been sent to voicemail because the number you're calling is not in my contacts list. Please leave a short message telling me whose phone you are
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by maaku 12y ago
What's crappy about iTunes?
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by maaku 12y ago
> Good old-fashioned finding-the-greater-fool doesn't involve any of that. Everyone involves gets to keep all their money. This includes the greatest fool, too. Admittedly this poor soul has since found out that the thing they bough
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by maaku 12y ago
Serious question: how is that different from a Ponzi scheme?
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by maaku 12y ago
Or destroy all mosquitoes.
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by maaku 12y ago
Once you trust the machine to get you back, you can retake those brain cycles previously used to track that information to do something more productive, e.g. think about what you're going to do at the destination, engage in social bant

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