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by me_again 3y ago
Wow, I didn't see that twist coming either. A sad reminder that conspiracy thinking can strike even people who are otherwise seemingly very rational.
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by me_again 3y ago
He had a real gift for making theoretical topics interesting. I read his book The New Turing Omnibus ( https://archive.org/details/newturingomnibus0000dewd_q3p6 ) as a teenager, and credit it with a decent part of gettin
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by me_again 3y ago
The worst case scenario is something like Kessler Syndrome for information.
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by me_again 3y ago
Luminous, Chaff, Axiomatic, Learning to be Me, The Cutie, The Moat. The Best of Greg Egan is a perfectly respectable place to start.
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by me_again 3y ago
I think it's just cheaper to use public domain illustrations than to hire an artist.
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by me_again 3y ago
Cool! I didn't totally follow the issues with keeping the data in memory, and it sounds like it is solved now - but you could probably use a cardinality estimation algorithm to estimate the number of unique beacon IDs while only using
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by me_again 3y ago
I don't think that makes any sense.
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by me_again 3y ago
I raised an eyebrow at "This was a group of idealists... all in pursuit of a higher mission." It's buying into the whole "SBF was just a crazy kid with big dreams who wasn't too great at counting the money" myt
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by me_again 3y ago
I think that's a different issue. Amazon has thorny problems with takedowns. Company A trying to get rival company B's listing taken down probably happens 100's of times a day. I believe Amazon uses "proof of purchase&qu
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by me_again 3y ago
This may seem like quibbling, but I think when large companies do this kind of thing, "greed" is the wrong kind of explanation. Greed is an emotion, or moral failing if you will, humans have. A company like DC is a complex, non-se
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by me_again 3y ago
But why not take the extra 30 seconds to link (what you consider to be) an unbiased source?
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by me_again 3y ago
Feel free to provide examples of companies which a) are not 'in the crypto business' (ie they sell widgets, or software, not NFTs) b) obtain the majority of their revenue via crypto. Crypto is closer to autogyro than automobile in
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by me_again 3y ago
He doesn't even provide any evidence beyond anecdote that there is a 10x demise.
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by me_again 3y ago
It's interesting to me how deeply politics gets into everything. You like Twitter more because "it was unbalanced to the left" and now reflects your political views better. My experience is that the first 100 replies to every
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by me_again 3y ago
Maybe... but I doubt Spotify will exist in its current form in a generation's time.
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by me_again 3y ago
I don't know any hoarders personally myself, so I many be off-base. But it doesn't seem that they are unable to make any decisions - they are quite able to buy new items without agonizing over (say) which brand of polyurethane t
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by me_again 3y ago
I'm saying "it is harder to consume good libraries in C, because it is harder to find them & harder to build them; and once you have done both, you find that good library A and good library B work in very different ways, so yo
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by me_again 3y ago
I think it comes down to ecosystem fragmentation. A lot of languages now have common tooling (cargo for rust, pip for python, etc) which makes it easier to find and incorporate the libraries you want. Apparently there are tools like https:
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The .zip TLD sucks(financialstatement.zip)
610 points by me_again 3y ago|318 comments
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by me_again 3y ago
Kind of an inflammatory page, but the .zip TLD doesn't seem like a great idea.
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by me_again 4y ago
I guess you could change the wifi password after if you're worried the TV is secretly keeping the connection after you disconnect it.
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by me_again 4y ago
Interesting, perhaps this isn't the best one. It's more the exercise of trying to tweak revenue and spending that I am recommending than this particular site. Otherwise people seem to imagine that the problem is much easier than i
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by me_again 4y ago
I wouldn't claim the US is some miracle of innocence. You said "countries that depeg". Pegging, in the context of cryptocurrencies and regular ones, means something specific: ensuring that the exchange rate between the 2 is f
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by me_again 4y ago
Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_fixed_exch... the only African country with a currency pegged to the dollar is Eritrea. Not really seeing it.
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by me_again 4y ago
What countries peg to the dollar that you think are in danger of being invaded?
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by me_again 4y ago
It's interesting to play out what it means in more detail. Try one of the many online 'balance the budget" games like https://us.abalancingact.com/2022-federal-budget . Total federal outlays in 1989 were $1,1
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by me_again 4y ago
If Microsoft has made any statement at all, it's not linked or quoted in the article. Also this incident occurred next to a 4-lane public street, not exactly a workplace environment - Microsoft's campus is not a secluded enclave.
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by me_again 4y ago
Most likely nobody looked at it. As an interviewer I'll scan someone's GitHub or project if linked on their resume but won't generally do an extensive search for their online presence.
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by me_again 4y ago
Theoretically yes, but the amount in circulation is in the billions so it doesn't make an appreciable difference.
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by me_again 4y ago
The more cynical view: many people had no technical need for a chain whatever, but wanted to “rub some crypto” on their project to get some hype-driven cash.

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