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by markwkw 5y ago
Isn’t it the case that when you’re an undergraduate you do the grunt work and collect and process all the base data, and the risk is actually on the side of the supervisor?
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by markwkw 5y ago
As usual when attempting perfect op-sec, this probably works 364 days of the year and then someone does the equivalent of taking a selfie with a sensitive object in the background and shares it on instagram
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by markwkw 5y ago
It's like that with me and having a phone number. Day to day I hate it. 95% of time I get scam calls from the "IRS" - actively harmful. Another 4% is marketing - unwanted, wasteful. Only the last 1% is potentially useful. Is
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by markwkw 5y ago
Do you know how they deal with DNA? Does it fit in a single voxel? (Probably no). Are strands of DNA and RNA treated in chunks in a chain of voxels? Does the simulation perform transcription?
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by markwkw 5y ago
One possibility seems to be: your manager and the boss had some issues recently. The boss is unhappy with your manager, something has been brewing between them. Your project may or may not be directly related to this tension. The boss wante
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by markwkw 5y ago
How would an interviewer verify how much code you have delivered? And what quality that code was? I'm not trying to sound like a smartass. This is a real problem. I've been bitten before by candidates with big stories to tell abo
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by markwkw 5y ago
Your comment reminded me of 'fin de siecle' mood of the end of 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fin_de_si%C3%A8cle The triggers were different then perhaps (rapid industrialization, urbanization?)
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by markwkw 5y ago
Games mimic life. Some players like the ability to pursue luxury, express themselves and display status. Now Valve as an established player; market operator and sort of a financial institution of the "tradable hats" world plays co
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by markwkw 5y ago
Another bias: we cherry picked the country which became the world dominating super power. How would a similar calculation look like for countries like UK or France, which used to be close to the top in early 20th century, but did not achie
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by markwkw 5y ago
Exactly, from technical perspective it's a nothing story. It's interesting, though, how strong of a reaction general public had to this. The story must have strongly resonated with what some folks were already feeling. When you sq
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by markwkw 5y ago
It's interesting and often missed that this strategy implies a view of human collaboration and organization. Note that the memo says: 'All teams... Teams must... ...another team’s data store...'. It seems that someone figured
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by markwkw 5y ago
Regarding Unique owner: is this the same as with other crypto? That is, you are the owner when you know the crypto key. But if you unwittingly leak you keys (or use a proxy holder - an exchange) then the uniqueness becomes problematic?
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by markwkw 5y ago
Could you explain this example a bit more? US and Iran meet and discuss some deal? And then the want to pay each other some amount as proof of reaching the deal? Could they do it in public and invite various journalists to witness the post-
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by markwkw 5y ago
I’m not sure any of this is obvious. I have observed my relatives leave reviews just like the one you described as fraudulent. They are older folks who don’t get what the point of reviews is. Sometimes they will leave reviews like: „cheap a
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by markwkw 5y ago
Is bitcoin tumbling feasible anymore? First problem: transaction fees are currently over $10 per transaction. Second problem: max transactions per block (2k?). Wouldn’t a single tumbling instance of 100k pieces completely fill 50 bitcoin bl
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by markwkw 6y ago
From what i read now, this free money in the experiment had a built-in mechanism to prevent hoarding, therefore being quite the opposite to bitcoin in that aspect.
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by markwkw 6y ago
We know the mortality rate to a degree. Mortality rate is number of deaths over the number of instances. If you have limits on the accuracy of the denominator you have limits on the accuracy of mortality rate. Sero studies like this one sug
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by markwkw 6y ago
I don’t think it’s a problem of articles. It’s a problem of reality, of emerging american culture. Majority of people are eating burgers, chicken and pizza plus perhaps some common mexican dishes. If you asked random people in the street: w
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by markwkw 6y ago
I would claim that if something requires 8 man years, that it will most definitely take more than a year to develop with 8 people. Communication takes time, coordination takes time, there is an incremental cost to each news person added t
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by markwkw 6y ago
And some of the adds are of the “this stock will be 35 times bigger than amazon” kind. Adding to the irony
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by markwkw 6y ago
Real example: my family could not afford a car when I was a kid. We used 2 options: cycling (with all the gear, picnic blanket etc) or a regular bus. There were also organized summer outings in a chartered bus. Later we I also managed to go
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by markwkw 6y ago
Some tongue-in-cheek ideas: Stockpile of synthetic diamonds A few cemeteries could make for curious fossils Mines - some caves survived for 200+ million years. Conceivably a part of a mine somewhere could survive, with concrete structural r
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by markwkw 6y ago
This is a brilliant idea! Thank you so much. This sounds similar to approaching worldbuilding as a first and foremost fun activity for the DM, not as something to impress the players with. Your idea, including dice rolling for yourself, sou
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by markwkw 6y ago
Is it easy to tell what technology gwern uses for his website? I'm not web-savvy, but it looks html looks like it's not generated, but hand crafted. Is is a static website?
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by markwkw 7y ago
How would one prevent the cloud of sunshades from clumping together due to gravitation? The effect on a single disk on the outskirt of the cloud should be equivalent to the attraction of a 16 million ton mass at the center of mass of the cl
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by markwkw 7y ago
Following your logic: 100 drives - failure every 10,000 hours 10 drives - failure every 100,000 hours 1 drive - failure every 1,000,000 hours... How is this not expected lifetime? [edit: split lines]
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by markwkw 7y ago
Sounds like a refreshingly simple method. Why did you stop?
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by markwkw 7y ago
I will not argue with physical fields (like gymnastics) However, the lack of chess GMs who started at 25 could be explained with very few 25 year olds attempting to become a GM starting at this age. At this age, capable people are busy with
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by markwkw 7y ago
The root of Sussman's claim is that Amazon was hiding some expenses to _pretend_ that they were cash flow positive. (since being cash flow positive strongly suggests that there is no predatory pricing) <quote>However, Sussman ass
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by markwkw 7y ago
Interesting piece from the article: "Sussman points to evidence that Amazon has already flipped the switch, moving from dominating the market by undercutting rivals to reaping the profits from that dominance." So according to Suss

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