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by pintxo 5y ago
> I have long lost all hope in politicians. 99% of them are ridiculous creatures without a spine and only interested in their own progress. I posit that any sane and intelligent person would choose NOT to go into politics. Because of the
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by pintxo 5y ago
As I see it Roslings optimism stems from looking at changes over tens of years and the progress that’s visible on these timescales.
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by pintxo 5y ago
Is "it takes more time" a fundamental reason why we could not scale traditional banking to 8b people? I am not convinced.
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by pintxo 5y ago
Doesn't trust here only apply to things happening 100% within the chain? Such that a currency created and traded only on a blockchain is trustworthy because everything is traceable on the chain. A bit like software without IO being qui
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by pintxo 5y ago
Why would traditional banking not scale to 8b people?
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by pintxo 5y ago
I had to tell some support guy my gibberish over the phone to get them to talk to me at all ... what a fun.
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by pintxo 5y ago
Don't they sell the Mercedes E-Class T Model in the US?
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by pintxo 5y ago
Core hypothesis: "Thinner columns help you read faster. Writing speed is dominated by reading speed. If you read faster, you write faster."
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by pintxo 5y ago
Coding is the baseline. Being able to apply it to the problems of an industry helps a lot.
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by pintxo 5y ago
Really interesting, a very similar case has recently been reported in Berlin, Germany [1]. Here the fraudsters tried to get legal ownership of a whole apartment building in Berlin. It seems they nearly made it, but then some insurance compa
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by pintxo 5y ago
Communication is dependent on context. If two people do not share any context, nothing will be unambiguous. As sender it's impossible to know the context off all recipients beforehand.
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by pintxo 5y ago
I was more thinking about the "second screen" multitasking that's quite common. With VR, the second screen is like build-in.
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by pintxo 5y ago
You could multitask in VR, without even anyone noticing?
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by pintxo 5y ago
Isn't the point of most/all big NASA projects to distribute as much money as possible into a specified number of states? Kind a hard then to get political backing to move to a quicker + cheaper project.
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by pintxo 5y ago
And most evidence for failure will quickly remove itself from the surface of the earth. /s
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by pintxo 5y ago
I would be even more concerned about licensing and copyright at this point. We might see some interesting legal discussions around this, given you probably (I did not check the terms) give consent to Github using your code for other purpose
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by pintxo 5y ago
Just another reason to allow easy forking ;-)
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by pintxo 5y ago
Might be the only viable way, as conversion factors are ingredient specific (e.g. Milk/Flour, Cups vs Liter/Grams)
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by pintxo 5y ago
Also, any plans on how to convert between units?
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by pintxo 5y ago
This looks really fantastic. Is anyone working on let's name it CookHub already? So essentially GitHub for receipts. The nerd in me wants to fork receipts and share my small adaptations to the community.
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by pintxo 5y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28962841
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by pintxo 5y ago
A tragedy, and showing a lack of ethics on the company side. But frankly, the bigger problem is not the company ethics - (big) companies rarely have them - but the lack of an employer independent healthcare.
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by pintxo 5y ago
The more interesting problem, how do they handle the 3% who did not consent? - Do they eat in a different hall? - Do they have to wear Harry Potter like cloaking devices? - Or more like Ku Klux Klan hoodies?
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by pintxo 5y ago
Do they use it to record the kids reaction to the food they serve to quickly and automatically rate their output quality and subsequently serve better food the next day? If not, what is the problem with this branch of reality?
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by pintxo 5y ago
Same in Berlin in 2020. What a strange feeling it was to walk through the city almost alone. A big disaster for hotels & business, but a small wonder for the local crowd.
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by pintxo 5y ago
As far as my understanding goes, federation already solves the problem of data leaking, doesn't it? I mean, that's what you are describing, the data does not leave it's source, you (the algorithm) have to move to the data not
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by pintxo 5y ago
Isn‘t the point of Homomorphic Encryption to do it in the cloud? What’s the point of using it in a federated setting?
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by pintxo 5y ago
From the linked wikipedia: > However, enormous 95% confidence intervals (4–520 and 2–336, respectively) implied that specifying any one number is futile.
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by pintxo 5y ago
Not sure the efficacy of mass surveillance can be determined within timespans of less than several decades. As there seem to be two major effects at play, one is the direct usage of information learned from mass surveillance which can be u
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by pintxo 5y ago
Sound like a scheme the German government would be happy to invest into.

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