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by pattusk 5y ago
I thought tech would lead to much more isolation than it has. By isolation I don't mean lack of socialization of course. There was plenty of socializing back then. But the people I met on Usenet, BBS, IRC and phpBB forums were people l
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by pattusk 5y ago
Fun fact, Korea started to invest in its cultural industries after the president was told that Jurassic Park grossed more money at the box office than the revenue of the entire Korean car industry. So you have dinosaurs to thank for K-POP.
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by pattusk 5y ago
Having lived in the third world, I would say that the American poors are probably the closest you're going to get to "third world poor" anywhere in the developed world. Life expectancy, crime rates, housing quality and diseas
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by pattusk 5y ago
> Most people think of nerds as quiet, diffident people. [...] In fact some nerds are quite fierce. That someone would think nerds are not competitive is, to me, the strangest thing about this article. Perhaps because I'm one, but w
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Popularity at school linked to age position in class – study(theguardian.com)
3 points by pattusk 5y ago|0 comments
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by pattusk 5y ago
I said most because indeed most of the innovation, both technical and cultural originates from Ethereum. But DOGE, XRP, ADA, LTC, BCH, TRON, ETC. EOS, NEO, BSV are all in the top 25 and have nothing to show for it despite being some of the
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by pattusk 5y ago
> 16. And my personal pet peeve is that, by and large, most of crypto actually does want Bitcoin to die. Perhaps not in a "I want Bitcoin to go to zero", but in a, "Bitcoin doesn't do anything and so I want its value
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by pattusk 5y ago
The most famous titles to have good quality English subtitles.
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by pattusk 5y ago
While I understand what you mean by self-referential and it is true that a lot of the economic activity in the crypto space is centered on crypto-assets, it's also becoming more and more connected to the real financial system. Stableco
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by pattusk 5y ago
I'll bite. Here are some things you can currently do with blockchains/crypto currencies that are neither fraud nor scamming people: - Earn yield on stablecoins or cryptoassets by providing liquidity on an automated market maker. T
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by pattusk 5y ago
Potentially silly question: is this trick really as silly as it sounds? If you're writing malware you obviously can't have EULA that your victims would subscribe too. But could placing such a message (or a better worded one forbid
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by pattusk 5y ago
ETFs for retirement fund. And I will likely get downvoted into oblivion like every time I mention crypto on HN, but crypto. It's the only way I've found to hold cash (in stablecoins) and receive above inflation yield.
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by pattusk 5y ago
Expanding the money in circulation may not increase the inflation rate, but I would believe that it does trigger inflation in other asset classes such as stocks and real estate. I'd be happy to be disproven with data, but my anecdotal
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by pattusk 5y ago
I don't think the comparison to junk bounds is fair, and higher yields do not necessarily have to represent higher (objective) risk. The Uniswap USDC-USDT Pool currently has an APY of 8.54%. There are certainly more risks than letting
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by pattusk 5y ago
> For the average currency user, why is it so important to get rid of banks and the government and these suspicious-sounding “third parties?” Yes, we all hate bankers, but is the tyranny of Venmo so oppressive that we should shed the U.S
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by pattusk 6y ago
The article was a few months too early to mention Pyongyang Standard Time, introduced in August 2015 to break away from imperialism by setting all clocks back half an hour. The move has since been reverted in the spirit of national unificat
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by pattusk 6y ago
"Only break the law if it’s really funny so the judge will laugh and go easy on you.” This only works if you are white and relatively affluent looking. Taking the example of the outdoor pooping posted before, this would get you indecen
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by pattusk 6y ago
It's called the two-tier system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-tier_healthcare And it's well-known that private hospitals are better than public ones. They have better cancer survival rates for instance,
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by pattusk 6y ago
The problem is not limited to politicians, a lot of socially useful and traditionally somewhat prestigious jobs suffer from a pay problem. Education is a clear case in point, both at the K-12 and University level. I've seen a lot of br
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by pattusk 6y ago
They are not 10 to 20 years ahead of the curve. The Sampo and Satori generations are very much in the same age bracket as Western millenials. Stagnation and resignation has also been the answer for millenials in the West. If by revolution y
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Renaissance-Era Venetian Beads Found in Alaska Were There Before Columbus(mymodernmet.com)
11 points by pattusk 6y ago|2 comments
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by pattusk 6y ago
I don't know if it's just me and my bias against the current state of the mainstream press but this article read like a pile of unacknowledged contradictions. The author advocates for the people's "right to know", b
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by pattusk 6y ago
Thereafter, we invested an aggregate $1.50 billion in bitcoin under this policy and may acquire and hold digital assets from time to time or longterm. Moreover, we expect to begin accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for our products in t
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Tesla Buys 1.5bn in Bitcoin(twitter.com)
4 points by pattusk 6y ago|3 comments
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Can Online Juries Make Consistent, Repeatable Decisions? [pdf](hci.stanford.edu)
2 points by pattusk 6y ago|0 comments
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by pattusk 6y ago
Why repost this in 2021? This is from 2017 and clearly hasn't aged well.
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by pattusk 6y ago
This is a wonderful quote, thank you for sharing. I particularly like how he had the insight of making the statement true only for "people who write code for money." Growing up in various computing "scenes" (open source,
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by pattusk 6y ago
I find this article naively optimistic (which may be unsurprising given how much Andreessen Horowitz is invested in the crypto space). I don't see how anybody can delude themselves to think that blockchain is about giving control back
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by pattusk 6y ago
Reading through the paper, this reminds me of the close reading/distant reading paradigms in literary studies. They're effectively trying to build a machine learning model to reproduce the task of authorship attribution that analy
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Long Term Impact of Covid-19 on Life Expectancy and Mortality [pdf](nber.org)
1 points by pattusk 6y ago|0 comments

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