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by mchusma 6y ago
Thanks!
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by mchusma 6y ago
Cool tool! A couple of questions: -can you set this to automatically trigger for high risk transactions? -how do you flag the user as "ok" for charges in stripe? -do you need to disclose random charges to the customer? -are these
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by mchusma 6y ago
You should want (good) software in cars. It's one of the core drivers of safety improvements that reduce the rate of fatalities, and the only realistic method of continuing to make cars safer.
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by mchusma 6y ago
I love PGs essays, but his take on Robert George is the opposite of what Robert George was saying. PG: "He's too polite to say so, but of course they wouldn't." Robert George from the quoted tweet: "Of course, this
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by mchusma 6y ago
If you want humans to become a space faring people, you need to accept the idea that there will be at least 1000x more things in space. People's comments here are generally insane to me. Let's go to other planets. Let's build
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by mchusma 6y ago
A good econ talk on why this kind of thing (improving cancer diagnostics) is by far the most promising "cure for cancer". http://www.econtalk.org/azra-raza-on-the-first-cell/ I hope we have many more tests li
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by mchusma 6y ago
Id like to see a concerted effort for America to regain number one status and ensure we stay ahead of China. To do that ideally we need more people. Ideally something like 100M of the brightest in the world. IMO the easiest way to do that i
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by mchusma 6y ago
I'm very locked down, so interesting I volunteered for a challenge study but not this one (as I am unlikely to catch covid so a bad fit). The ideal group here are people at high risk of getting it.
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by mchusma 6y ago
How does this compare to recent YC alum Preflight?
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by mchusma 6y ago
The bigger issue here is how expensive credit card processors are for such little value. The Visa MasterCard Amex oligopoly should be broken up. The value we get from having an additional 2-3% sales tax is very low, and only kept in place b
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by mchusma 6y ago
I suspect this was this person's first chainsaw murder, so that wouldn't have shown up on a background check.
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by mchusma 6y ago
I think UBI is an essential concept and believe will be no way around it in some fashion. That said, "AB testing" it is really hard. The real idea behind UBI (for most advocates) is that it is a living wage granted for a very long
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by mchusma 6y ago
Human challenge studies need to be seriously lined up right now as a part of phase III work. (Human challenge studies mean giving people the full vaccine dose, checking for antibodies, then giving a dose of the actual disease). The consensu
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by mchusma 6y ago
No. This says the vaccine looks pretty good, and with effects we hope will prove better than placebo.
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by mchusma 6y ago
Housing costs are not up because of Airbnb, they are up because of government regulation. If we wanted housing to cost to buy a house in the US to be $100k average, we could do it almost overnight by lifting regulations unrelated to safety.
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by mchusma 6y ago
> Why is that stupid? I own the stock on day X (and ignoring the lock in period), it’s part if my compensation that I could sell and by any other stock. He means that if I offered you stock with a 6 month lockup, or a stock with no locku
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by mchusma 6y ago
I hope Humanity grows many orders of magnitude larger and expands across the galaxy. The universe will be a more interesting place. Some people here are saying this is good for the environment. Having 20% fewer people won't do that. Cl
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by mchusma 6y ago
Good article, but I do feel disagree strongly with this statement: "while I mourn the end of a free and vibrant Hong Kong that I have had the pleasure of visiting on multiple occasions, I am unmoved by complaints about China’s promised
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by mchusma 6y ago
Resuming the lockdown, particularly in such a sudden fashion, is just blow after blow. Such small benefit for such enormous cost. I am not convinced this could get through the legislature. I'm also confused how "emergency powers&q
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by mchusma 6y ago
Tesla really did accelerate renewable energy and battery tech by maybe a decade. I would love to see them raise $20B and just massively move us another decade forward towards a sustainable energy future. But relative to Uber, etc Elon has a
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by mchusma 6y ago
If I were anyone relying on China right now I would diversify to other countries as fast as possible. Everyone should ask: what if I get cut off tomorrow? And have a strategy for that.
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by mchusma 6y ago
Thanks for posting, I also disagree with it. I think using this authors high level stance is that only the human physical experience can lead to general intelligence. By this logic a blind person or quadrapeligic might not be generally inte
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by mchusma 6y ago
If we were going to limit profits, we should target visa/MasterCard/amex instead. They are a true oligopoly taxing the entire economy and have acted in a highly anti-trust fashion. Limiting their fees to something like 0.1% of the
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by mchusma 6y ago
I'm not sure how to best say this within the bounds of Hacker News guidelines, but you come across as Chinese intelligence, posting to reduce fear of China. Or satire? If you have more nuanced discussion of why you turned Maoist, would
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by mchusma 6y ago
EconTalk has many great episodes digging into interesting aspects that are touched on here: why the US healthcare so expensive for so little extra value. This episode about the Oklahoma group that has had low cost & transparent prices f
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by mchusma 6y ago
I hope that he does something great with this - like building an open source medical record system and diagnostic tool that can be used for the global poor for free.
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by mchusma 6y ago
The fact that you could easily earn more on unemployment than not was a bizarre feature of the US COVID response. Most, if not all state unemployment schemes cover part of your wages if unemployed, not more than you made before. It creates
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by mchusma 6y ago
Open source operating system for healthcare (for people to store medical records and diagnosis tools). Medical diagnosis is fundamentally an information problem, which should be both free and open source. But there may be little to no busin
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by mchusma 6y ago
Does anyone know if there have been any serious human challenge proposals considered? Why they aren't being considered is one of the biggest puzzles for me.
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by mchusma 6y ago
+1 for Mercury. My only feature wish is the ability to write paper checks (not send via mail). It comes up occasionally (e.g. in CA need to give paper checks to employees on the spot when terminating). But SO much better than Wells Fargo.

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