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by noch 2y ago
> Her entire persona and relevance revolves around being anti-crypto. Of course she's heavily biased; this isn't even a remotely controversial claim. As a generation, we really need to learn how to say: "I don't like
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by noch 2y ago
Oh gosh. > So it's just a really stupid inefficient form of charity? Charity is efficient? Thanks for informing me. I didn't know that. > You realize you can donate to people without cryptocurrency being involved right? Oh g
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Downloading VMware Fusion and Workstation Free for Personal Use(mikeroysoft.com)
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by noch 2y ago
> Can you point to an airdrop connected to a single legitimate (non-gambling) economic activity? In the thread above, we discussed airdrops to opensource contributors. Writing code isn't generally considered gambling. Rewarding such
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by noch 2y ago
> They're all scams. Interesting. Please link to your investigation of all the airdrops. We've had a decade of them and I think everyone would find such investigations useful. Presumably you've also informed law enforcemen
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by noch 2y ago
> I really don’t understand why they do such airdrops. I got $300 from Starknet for doing nothing […] The airdrops are mainly to: - Distribute ownership of the token (where distribution is eventually a measure of fairness of launch e.g.
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by noch 2y ago
> the SEC is going to get involved? The SEC exists to protect US citizens. They are only relevant as far as a company serving Americans wants to issue securities/tokens to US citizens. This is also why decentralization is desirable
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by noch 2y ago
> their money as opposed to making you to look for some another early adopter to sell those cryptocoins to. It is true that distributing one's own token is in the effort of bootstrapping their network. But people tend not to value w
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by noch 2y ago
> If they wanted to give me money, their email shouldn't have set off Gmail's spam filter... they could have also converted their scamcoin themsevles and donated to my patreon. False positives in spam filters notwithstanding, t
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by noch 2y ago
> “We will define one person of compute as 20 PFLOPS” > Why? That's Kurweil's (1999) estimate for the human brain: https://aiimpacts.org/brain-performance-in-flops/
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A Person of Compute(geohot.github.io)
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The Complete History of Brian Moriarty's `Trinity`(computerenhance.com)
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Hire on Merit(meritocracy.com)
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by noch 2y ago
Is this yet another essay about software development that does not offer: - Testable hypotheses - Reproducible experiments - Data to support its arguments?
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Ray Tracing in One Weekend Series(raytracing.github.io)
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by noch 2y ago
Post-mortem on the attack: https://collective.flashbots.net/t/post-mortem-april-3rd-202...
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by noch 2y ago
> This doesn't sit right with me. Agreed. They likely stepped on the wrong person's toes because this kind of stuff is the bread and butter of on-chain hedge funds.
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Attacking Ethereum and Stealing $25M(justice.gov)
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Making a Chrome Extension to Skip Video Ads on YouTube(medium.com)
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The Virtual Civil War(gurwinder.blog)
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The Biosingularity Is Near(nooceleration.com)
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Become a Successful Scientist(theintrinsicperspective.com)
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Modernity's Monoculture Mistake(quillette.com)
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by noch 3y ago
The words `debug` or `debugging` don't appear in the article. How easy is it to attach gdb and step through Rust async stuff?
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Computational limits to the legibility of the imaged human brain(sciencedirect.com)
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by noch 3y ago
> This over-simplification and misapplication of this quote has reached catastrophic levels. Which you haven't clarified nor corrected. Would you care to do so?
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How to send progress updates(spakhm.com)
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The True Cost of the Churchgoing Bust(theatlantic.com)
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by noch 3y ago
> I do love AMD because its drivers are open source as opposed to nVidia. AMD's drivers are not really more open that Nvidia's. Similar to Nvidia's Open GPU Kernel Module's[0], AMD's opensource drivers are mostly
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by noch 3y ago
No. AMD isn't going to do the right thing and will not open source firmware. What a wasted opportunity by Team Red. https://twitter.com/__tinygrad__/status/1775264921468764205

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