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by pcmonk 7y ago
> the area with the color they can't see gets a lot darker Interestingly, for me (deuteranomolous) the colors I can't see often seem lighter. For example, green traffic lights appear white. I assumed this is because I can sti
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Facebook Sued for Trademark Infringement over Libra Logo Design(cointelegraph.com)
2 points by pcmonk 7y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 7y ago
I'm generally opposed to accelerationism because it's too black-and-white. When there's some good to preserve, that's usually worth preserving. However, in this case I think we're already at the bottom since these
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by pcmonk 7y ago
I hate tracking pixels, read receipts, and all similar stuff. The only thing worse than lack of privacy, though, is privacy theater, and that's what we've had. It's a good thing for more people to realize that this stuff ha
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by pcmonk 7y ago
This has been the case since always. It just wasn't as obvious to users because consumer-oriented mail software didn't include it.
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by pcmonk 7y ago
Not having Android support is frustrating, for sure. However, I've come to appreciate the flow of only being able to really manage email on my laptop. I use the gmail app on Android so I get notifications and can send off a quick res
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How to Find Frontiers(pcmonk.me)
1 points by pcmonk 8y ago|0 comments
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Startup Failure Post-Mortems(cbinsights.com)
9 points by pcmonk 8y ago|1 comments
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by pcmonk 8y ago
It's not the ordering that matters, it's simply that the odds of boy-and-girl are twice the odds of boy-and-boy.
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by pcmonk 8y ago
That's equivalent to saying that buying a stock doesn't move the price up because you'll have to sell it eventually. A lot of people in long positions means a lot of buys that haven't been re-sold. A lot of people in s
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by pcmonk 8y ago
How do you do this with kids? Suppose you're taking three kids to an event or a climbing gym or whatever and it's further than walking distance. Can biking be made safe enough, or if it's further, is it reasonable for them
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by pcmonk 8y ago
Just click the Keybase link next to the username, and you can verify each of the connections yourself.
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by pcmonk 8y ago
This is wonderful! One thing: It looks like it shows the DNS badges on Twitter but not HN.
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Startup Failure Post-Mortems(cbinsights.com)
4 points by pcmonk 8y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 8y ago
That's correct, you can transfer off Cash app. However, you can't deposit BTC to your Cash app.
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The Effete Rebellion of Bitcoin(epsilontheory.com)
3 points by pcmonk 8y ago|0 comments
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Manifold Destiny: A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it (2006)(newyorker.com)
21 points by pcmonk 9y ago|2 comments
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by pcmonk 9y ago
They could definitely use a unique salt if they just check for matches on registration, login, or password change (when they have it in plain text). Still insecure because then you have the info that two different salted passwords have the
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Arizona Could Allow People to Pay Taxes in Cryptocurrencies(usethebitcoin.com)
1 points by pcmonk 9y ago|0 comments
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Quantitative Analysis and Machine learning for fun and profit(medium.com)
1 points by pcmonk 9y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Yes, in the last section: > Roughly speaking, it’s rational to be surprised by an event if and only if that event requires investigation and explanation.
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by pcmonk 9y ago
He addresses this in the article if you read a little further down. Briefly, any sequence of 1 million coin flips is equally unlikely, so why are most of them not surprising?
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by pcmonk 9y ago
"Surprising" is fine. The title isn't "Why you're not surprised at throwing 92 heads in a row". There's no agent in the title, so he's referring to an objective idea of an event being surprising. I
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by pcmonk 9y ago
The article is very misleading here. The cease-and-desist letter is clearer[0]. They intended to raise $15 million, but the SEC stopped them within a day of their ICO launch, when they had only raised about $60,000 [0] https://
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by pcmonk 9y ago
Basically, our purpose for the API changed. The old stack was created first as an MVP, then evolved a lot over time. We decided to make our API useful not just for our front end, but also for developers. The mongo "schema" was a m
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by pcmonk 9y ago
We're in the final stretch of migrating our old node/mongo/REST stack to elixir/postgres/graphql (with Absinthe), and I'm absolutely loving it so far. Elixir is a great language, and Absinthe is very easy to us
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Numerai's roadmap and master plan(medium.com)
2 points by pcmonk 9y ago|0 comments
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by pcmonk 9y ago
From the second link: > FLP and the Two Generals Problem are not design complexities, they are impossibility results. Two generals, in its impossible form, isn't applicable here. For example, this proof[0] depends on the determin
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by pcmonk 9y ago
There are about 5 billion adults[0], and they don't all need separate planets. Married couples, for example, may not. That's beside the point, though. Using scarcity to create value is not "extremely unconventional"; i
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by pcmonk 9y ago
> not all of the last 30 odd years of systems and programming research was pointless. Indeed, which is why it's a shame our primary server OSes (Unix-likes) can't incorporate them. Urbit can. As for what are the approaches dif

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