macawfish

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by macawfish 5y ago
The title should be something more like "an essay about why it doesn't make sense to trust HR"
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by macawfish 5y ago
The perseverance of scientific obsession must not be underestimated.
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by macawfish 5y ago
Transflective displays are different from e-ink though, I believe the term usually refers to liquid crystal displays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d...
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by macawfish 5y ago
Well and there are large, high resolution full color transflective displays out there! It's really frustrating that these aren't available. My mental health would improve substantially if it were easier to work outside.
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by macawfish 5y ago
Good riddance! Framing the slander and the libel so that there's plausible deniability is all he's good at. One of the most caustic propagandists around right now is James O'Keefe.
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by macawfish 5y ago
"Not only did Facebook temporarily delete the post internally, the company also contacted Zhang’s hosting service and domain registrar and forced her website offline."
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by macawfish 6y ago
The facts of the situation are definitely not that exciting but the significance of the story itself is pretty monumental. Just the fact that such ordinary people are caught up in public uncertainty about the authenticity of media depictin
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by macawfish 6y ago
I looked this up and was not disappointed. Thanks for sharing!
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by macawfish 6y ago
Once vim came along in 1991, everybody just switched to that
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by macawfish 6y ago
There's something about the cardinality of that set
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by macawfish 6y ago
Is this a bug or a feature? Go and read the peer reviewed publications about 5G/6G. Localization, identification and "sensing" are what the whole project is about. There's no requirement that someone have a phone for the
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by macawfish 6y ago
This is anti-scientific gaslighting and it does a disservice to all the people working hard to bring the actual benefits of applied cryptography and distributed tech to the public in ways to that actually provide public good. There are alt
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by macawfish 6y ago
Rent is a losing game. As much rent will be extracted as possible.
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by macawfish 6y ago
tldr: crystal is awesome! I tried crystal recently to dump some data from a GraphQL endpoint into Redisgraph. I had done the same with Rust, but string manipulation was much simpler in Crystal (the string interpolation is amazing!) so it wa
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by macawfish 6y ago
This is an energy efficient alternative to proof of stake blockchains developed by a team led by Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent. The consensus mechanism is similar to proof of work, except that it basically recycles the computational
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by macawfish 6y ago
They already put corn syrup on the roads, mixed with salt.
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by macawfish 6y ago
This has that too, it's called "reddit"
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by macawfish 6y ago
For such small drives, why can't they just splurge a little and put some high endurance SSDs in?
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by macawfish 6y ago
They became spycraft tools right when that research was published. Seeing as how spying is done opportunistically. But yeah go ahead and check out some of these articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
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by macawfish 6y ago
I'm tired right now but here's a link to a previous comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22480444
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by macawfish 6y ago
Just a reminder that the 5G project is a biometric mass surveillance project, if you were missing the context on what that might look like in practice. Source: dozens of published articles about using mm wave antenna arrays to do stuff lik
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by macawfish 6y ago
It's hard to see it as anything but that because cryptocurrency people don't collectively realize the gravity of the PR disaster they have on their hands. Central banks are looking for reasons to shut down the whole cryptocurrenc
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by macawfish 6y ago
It's hard to see it as anything but that because cryptocurrency people don't collectively realize the gravity of the PR disaster they have on their hands. Central banks are looking for reasons to shut down the whole cryptocurrenc
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by macawfish 6y ago
It shouldn't be though, and it's gonna take influential cryptocurrency people wising up fast to divest from btc into those other projects before righteous public sentiment gets used by central banks against all cryptocurrency proj
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by macawfish 6y ago
Thanks for sharing that subreddit, I'd never heard of it before. It reminds me of reading hackernews :D
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Ask HN: Is there a tool that tracks cryptocurrency energy metrics over time?
9 points by macawfish 6y ago|3 comments
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by macawfish 6y ago
This comment will probably get buried but I wish someone would make something like coinmarketcap that showed how much energy was being used to secure each cryptocurrency. If there were solid metrics, it'd help people who want to be mor
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by macawfish 6y ago
Tragedy of the commons
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by macawfish 6y ago
One thought that comes to mind: how do we know this same individual hasn't successfully gotten away with this elsewhere? How long would it take for people to report symptoms?
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by macawfish 6y ago
Mcintosh please, also Braeburn

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