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by md2020 5y ago
Been said before and should be obvious, but as a Gen Z’er, we’re not all like this.
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by md2020 5y ago
As much as some on HN like to criticize Moxie/Signal for their decisions (Intel SGX debacle), seeing these kinds of sentiments get cheered on in the media makes me really glad they exist. Same for the Tor Project, Matrix.org Foundation
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by md2020 5y ago
What? There’s a finite supply of gold just like there’s a finite supply of Bitcoin. You can mine more Bitcoin just like you can dig up more gold, up until there’s no more to be mined.
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by md2020 5y ago
That’s simplifying it a lot.
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by md2020 5y ago
Another thing that was put in place for corporations with lobbying power and wealthy people is the current US monetary policy of quantitative easing to infinity. This makes the rich richer and decimates the purchasing power of those who hav
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by md2020 5y ago
“crypto consumes more electricity than country X” is such a tired and low-effort talking point. There are things more useless than crypto that consume more energy than certain countries.
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by md2020 5y ago
Since when is regulation of the financial system one-person-one-vote?
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by md2020 5y ago
This trend in combination with the new wave of everything being a subscription really has me worried as a recent college grad who therefore does not own a home or have much in the way of savings. If you don’t own anything and your access to
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by md2020 5y ago
This looks awesome, but as someone who knows nothing about analog computing, what’s a good educational resource to go along with this so that I can use it to actually learn?
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by md2020 5y ago
Agreed. Just waiting on a good BEV that has full openpilot compatibility, maybe Hyundai Ioniq 5. Openpilot has a great community as well.
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by md2020 5y ago
To me this is a naïve and overly-charitable view of the institutions we rely on to tell the truth about things we don’t directly observe. I’m fine leaving this as a disagreement, though, and honestly hope you are right.
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by md2020 5y ago
Users are currently being banned for even asking legitimate questions about the vaccine. Nonsense is nonsense, but labeling anyone who even questions vaccine safety as “promoting vaccine hesitancy” is overreacting and arouses suspicion.
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by md2020 5y ago
Oh of course not. My comment was only meant to say I think they did the right thing in this situation. I’m aware of Reddit’s actions in other situations and agree with you that they are inconsistent.
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by md2020 5y ago
I received the full two doses of an mRNA vaccine and I’ll get a third if it’s recommended. I’m confident it’s safe and effective. I still take issue with your inclusion of “known misinformation” and “known factual information”. Sure, in the
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by md2020 5y ago
Props to Reddit for not caving to this. I really do not understand anyone that calls for this kind of heavy-handed moderation. I certainly understand the impulse to want it, but upon thinking for like, 30 seconds about the precedent it sets
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by md2020 5y ago
I would argue the average human driver is actually a good driver. People argue that Tesla training their system to mimic a human driver is a bad idea because then it will replicate bad human driver behavior, but the fact is that human drive
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by md2020 5y ago
There is in the DIY option, but I agree it’d be nice to have the Linux/no OS option in the pre-built as well.
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by md2020 5y ago
Unrelated to the article, but as a young SWE (finished undergrad in December 2020) who’s always had a side-interest in physics, how do I end up working at a QC company like DWave? Right now I’m working in embedded systems programming at a s
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by md2020 5y ago
No 401k when I was 18, IRAs only at that point. But thanks!
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by md2020 5y ago
As a Gen Z’er that graduated college in December 2020 and was fortunate enough to have (and not lose due to COVID) a full time software engineering job lined up, I’m not sure how much this should worry me. Unlike a lot of US high schoolers,
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by md2020 5y ago
Hello fellow Fairfield County native, there must be literally dozens of us on HN!
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by md2020 5y ago
Could you expand on what you mean by a variation of Signal? To me, Signal’s main feature is just that it’s a reliable E2E encrypted messaging app, implying two ends to communication. A blog post interface implies one-to-anyone communication
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Geometric Unity: Author’s Working Draft v1.0 [pdf](geometricunity.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com)
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by md2020 6y ago
Yeah, I read the article. My question was what really prevents the existence of some cryptographic operation that would allow us to "port" the laws of physics to the digital space, so that when information moves we could enforce t
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by md2020 6y ago
The earlier points in the piece about the distinction between information and physical matter got me thinking. I only have a bachelor's in computer science and not much cryptography knowledge, so please excuse if this question has a si
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by md2020 6y ago
I agree it’s gone downhill, I’m finding it really bizarre and somewhat sad to watch. It seems to me the pillars of legacy media like the NYT realized in the past decade they’re going to be outdone by newer internet-native ways of obtaining
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by md2020 6y ago
I’d point out that child sexual abuse content is not an “easy to solve case”. The extent to which Facebook, Google, and more recently, Zoom look the other way on this issue is horrifying and it seems to be a very hard problem due to the law
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by md2020 6y ago
> The whole point of HIT is that you get all of the cardiovascular benefits of endurance sports without the repetitive stress injuries. And the current evidence is that your maximum exertion is what matters, not time spent exercising. T
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by md2020 6y ago
> devoting instead a portion of my time to non-proliferation work This is very interesting to me, what line of work are you in such that you are able to devote a portion of your time to non-proliferation work? Having previously worked at
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by md2020 6y ago
Not to mention the fact that the government is one of the only funding sources for blue-sky research nowadays. Pretty much the only surviving research institutions that rival Bell Labs are the national laboratories. Getting to work with ins

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