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by max51 4y ago
I don't know how much people is required to run that type of operation, but even 0.5% can pay for a lot of people when you are sitting on a pile of cash worth >20B.
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by max51 4y ago
The difference is that ponzi are normally offering good rate of return on the investment that are difficult/impossible to get consistently. When your company/coin don't offer any interest on the investment, it's very eas
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by max51 4y ago
Maybe he clicked 5x more because he wanted even more information.... or maybe the basic info that he was looking for is now hidden in a very shitty location that was intentionally made hard to find in order to generate more clicks and the
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by max51 4y ago
>I'm sure these bodies can provide evidence that people who have paid their membership dues and been bestowed the title of "engineer" write safer and better code, right? Having an engineering license means that you know th
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by max51 4y ago
You missed the part where after a few years of cheating the metric, getting "above average" satisfaction (4 out of 5) from a client is considered a failure and a manager 3 levels above you will personally come asking what went wro
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by max51 4y ago
> Phones are already touching 1" (almost) They are barely 1/2" in actual size. The iphone 14 pro sensor for example is 9.8x7.3mm. When they call them "1/2 inch" or "3/4 inch", they refer to th
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by max51 4y ago
Is there any cloud that is ad-supported? AFAIK, all of them (including google) is supported by charging directly for it and/or bundling it a different purchase (physical phone, software subscription, etc.)
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by max51 4y ago
> of an assumption that the product is the music whereas in kpop the artist is the product It's not just an assumption, they are open about it. It's not a coincidence that kpop idol are forbidden from dating (they enforce it ve
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by max51 4y ago
> and hydrogen is their answer to help managing the renewable grid. All of the hydrogen right now used for vehicle comes from the oil&gas industry. It costs over an order of magnitude more to extract it from water. The worst part is
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by max51 4y ago
They vaguely list it as a contribution but they have nothing to back it up. On the other hand, you have scientists who ran computer simulations and shaking table experiments proving that passive damper do almost nothing during a seismic eve
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by max51 4y ago
the problem is that they built their "intuition" without ever looking at the code directly. They are always using second and information and those are not always good. My concrete design handbook in college had a corrections on a
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by max51 4y ago
same thing, they take too long to start working. without active sensors/valves, they are useless for seismic and no one yet has been whiling to take the risk on active system. I'm sure we'll see them eventually, it's jus
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by max51 4y ago
Passive mass dampers are used for wind, not earthquakes. their performance for earthquake is so bad that researchers don't even bother studying it. If you use google scholars, the only results you get are researchers mentioning in thei
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by max51 4y ago
At my job I have to deal with the structural design part of the building code for US and Canada (ei. calculating loads on structure). Part of my job is to find the differences in each new version to see if we need to implement anything new
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by max51 4y ago
You know what's better than learning from your own mistake? learning form other people's mistake. If you login during a vacation overseas and get your account locked, they keep everything in it. Doesn't matter if you never d
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by max51 4y ago
The part you got wrong is that you think they care about decentralization. Very few people in the crypto spare actually care about it. They say they do, but that's only a part of the sales pitch for their own crypto that they pre-mine
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by max51 4y ago
>It's basically like that except there is no underlying game to play, Do you think anyone paying >1k for a Pokémon or Magic card is actually using them to play?! That shit is in a sealed case and only sees daylight to impress peo
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by max51 4y ago
>The catch is that people will notice 51% attacks. The thing about crypto is that the majority hashrate/stake gets to decide what is an "attack" and what isn't. This behavior isn't a bug, it's a feature and
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by max51 4y ago
>Apple have provided the ability to disable cellular access from day one. That's not what he's talking about. I can't block a specific app I don't trust without blocking the internet for the entire phone. On Android,
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by max51 4y ago
>It’s a very unethical practice because it ends up hitting businesses at the worst possible time, when the termination or suspension causes a huge financial hit. You forgot the part where Paypal get to keep your money when they close you
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by max51 4y ago
With proof of work, you have to spend your pile of money if you want to influence a vote. Whatever the cost of a 51% "attack" would be, the attacker has to actually spend that money to do it. With proof of stake, having that money
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by max51 4y ago
A lot of them would not have made the switch if the only way to watch your favorite TV show on Netflix was to login at the exact time that it airs every week, and you couldn't watch the old episodes, and they only had a catalog of a fe
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by max51 4y ago
>creators actually receive very little from YouTube Premium subscriptions. They actually receive a lot more cash for per view from YouTube premium viewers compared to free ad-supported users. And it's not even close, we're talk
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by max51 4y ago
>I assumed it's been Internet 101 for several years now. people can be extremely naïve. It has also been a problem with people who make content on platforms like Onlyfans. A lot of them learned a bit too late that it's a bad id
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by max51 4y ago
>Enough people don't have or won't use facebook in 2022. It is top 3 most visited after google and youtube. Literally every other service/website you can imagine is worse in terms or popularity. If >2.5B active monthly
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by max51 4y ago
For most people I know, they stopped posting when the feed started being filled with suggested crap. We didn't want to post on a feed we hated and where our friends would likely miss it anyway amongst all the garbage.
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by max51 4y ago
>No one over 40 would be caught dead of facebook otherwise. Until their HOA or their sports club start using Facebook as their official platform for announcements and communication. I know there are other free platform that could fill th
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by max51 4y ago
>And what does it take to convincingly persuade people, or investors of this As long as their top priority is next quarter's result, you can't. You may get small wins here and there, but nothing fundamental will change unless t
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by max51 4y ago
>It will certainly demotivate many employees who are used to the old way In my experience, what demotivate them is that a lot of the features in the marketing materials for these types of products are lies and they are filled with bugs.
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by max51 4y ago
gyms only force the figure height because people are less likely to screw it up and it's easy to check for far away if it was done correctly Outside climbers and rope-access often use other alternatives like the figure-nine or double b

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