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by mgamache 5y ago
Mostly good, but Jesús that neck is just waiting to be broken. A Strat is much more robust design.
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by mgamache 5y ago
I don't really get all the "crypto is a Ponzi scheme" responses. This is about one company probably being shady with their books and claims. It's like saying Bernie Madoff built a Ponzi so USD is a Ponzi. Maybe crypto
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by mgamache 5y ago
There are many medical applications. One is remote care and surgical follow-up. In many places getting access to a specialist is difficult (esp for Pediatric and Derm). A nurse would wear Glass and act as a proxy for the remote specialist d
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by mgamache 5y ago
You would think so, but my company (and others) have tried, but no one wants to pay anything reasonable for such a service (with a hardware device). Also, there's an ersatz, by using your phone with facetime. The experience was pretty
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by mgamache 5y ago
I worked at a Glass startup for a while. Explorer Glass was really underpowered. Then Enterprise 1.0 was released, but still ran an old Glass OS (Android 4.4) and overheated (among other issues). The latest Enterprise 2.0 is really pretty g
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by mgamache 5y ago
Network effect, and Google's Ad Monopoly account for 99.9% of the dominance of YouTube. Only Facebook could launch a competing product (maybe Twitter). It would take millions (or Billions) to build a platform just to end up like one of
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by mgamache 5y ago
"Name literally one concrete example of a concrete and specific problem better solved by crypto than a classical solution" Okay it cost hundreds of dollars to send money to my family as part of an estate close. It also took a week
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by mgamache 5y ago
You could replace Crypto with Gold to see your arguments make no sense. Including the energy required to mine. Also many cryptos aren't unlimited (like Ethereum).
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by mgamache 5y ago
Sorry, a vaccine that still allows infection at a significant rate will continue to foster evolution. It may slow the process, but not change the result. There’s just no way the current vaccines stop this.
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by mgamache 5y ago
Sure they do. You think you have free will?
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by mgamache 5y ago
The strong anti-natalism doesn't surprise me. There's a lot of millennials and younger on HN. I wonder how much of that is just a cover for their pessimism about being as economically successful as their parents? There are structu
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by mgamache 5y ago
it's not ego. It's the drive of your genes to get into the future. Helping someone else's genes (that have some overlap with yours) is also adaptive, but not as much as people more closely related to you.
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by mgamache 5y ago
msgpack is near the top for speed and size... Readability is nice. Are there other advantages? https://msgpack.org/index.html
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by mgamache 5y ago
"Conspiracy peddlers" -- IE People with a different standard of evidence than yourself.
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by mgamache 5y ago
"There is little evidence of such analysis being suppressed" Please think about that for a while...
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by mgamache 5y ago
Really meaningless study. The question is, who created the woke (far left) agenda? It is the college educated who manufacture the ideologies for both sides. So it comes from higher ed, there's really no denying that fact. Once the idea
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by mgamache 5y ago
You do realize that currency settlement takes 1-2 days, right? "Spot foreign exchange transactions usually settle two business days after the execution date" https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/settlemen
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by mgamache 5y ago
All traditional methods use gatekeepers that control the flow of money. If you can't do what you want with your money is it really yours? The Trustless nature of BTC involves a seeming waste of energy, but you get a lot in return (like
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by mgamache 5y ago
It’s a proxy for adaptive success. He accumulated lots of resources so we pay attention and emulate him because his strategy has paid off. Not saying it makes sense in a modern context.
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by mgamache 5y ago
“It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love”. – Horace Slughorn, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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by mgamache 5y ago
Not possible to be in complete sync and have ultra low latency. You would have to have a jitter buffer (at least).
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by mgamache 5y ago
I don't see anyone calling BS on this, so I will point out the conflict of interest. This is a startup claiming their solution is better than anything you've seen before using in-house 'research'. FTA: A new study by Wan
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by mgamache 5y ago
There were a number of people that could have stopped the war. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Saddam Hussein to name a few. Powell played a large role to be sure, but imagine Condi Rice in that role. It would have been a harder sell, but give
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by mgamache 5y ago
Good list, Caspar Weinberger stands out as a Washington insider, the exact type that are in the wink wink nudge nudge club. Holdeman, was too toxic to protect.
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by mgamache 5y ago
No one gets prosecuted for lying to Congress.
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by mgamache 5y ago
I think that resources in stable system (for example peacetime) tend to be increasingly horded by successful competitors. When rent seeking from those at the top becomes too expensive there is sometimes a reset that is usually violent. Some
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by mgamache 5y ago
This is embarrassing, so lets pretend it's a crime for the reporter to report the truth. This tactic might work for the NSA, but I hope it doesn't work here.
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by mgamache 5y ago
Between the very top and bottom? Yes. https://voxeu.org/article/europe-s-rich-1300
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by mgamache 5y ago
You could do something like a Zip bomb I guess. YouTube would just have to do some validation of the file before adding to pipeline.
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by mgamache 5y ago
The answer is probably "more gifted programs in low-income neighborhoods". This is of course racist against Asians (they are lumped in with white when it's convenient). They make up 43% of these schools, so whites, and POCs

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