potamic

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by potamic 2mo ago
Reason #13843 for using an ad blocker.
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by potamic 2mo ago
> he could extract the essential information from the much more confuse sources that were available at his time Wasn't this the case with Einstein's relativity as well? From what I understand the maths for it was already develo
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by potamic 2mo ago
Leading physicists at one time appeared to disagree. Newton and Maxwell do come at #2 and #3 though. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/541840.stm
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by potamic 2mo ago
Adopting a new technology often needs a lot of consideration. People will have a lot of questions, want to understand the implications and discuss with the hive mind. No need to attack them for that, I think.
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by potamic 2mo ago
It does seem to be quite some (very boring) work. I'm curious about your reasons for taking it up. Is it more of a principles kind of a thing or do you see it could make a difference to the project in the end?
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by potamic 2mo ago
It indeed embiggens the spirit very well.
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by potamic 2mo ago
Given git is all over the corporate world, I say this is less of an issue than you make it out to be.
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by potamic 2mo ago
With the butchering of the Correspondent's Dinner last week, it doesn't seem like things will be the way they were.
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by potamic 2mo ago
If you're making a case of this vs what the US has interfered with, it simply does not stack up. Of course it's naive to think they won't start interfering like the US once they gain the leverage, but to a neutral party it li
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by potamic 2mo ago
Not sure what I'm missing. If I click on Madagascar in the left box, the map zooms into Madagascar, but all the other arcs are still visible and not filtered out.
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by potamic 2mo ago
This is fantastic visualization! I couldn't figure out from the UI but is there a way to filter the map? Say, I only want to see things going out of Cusco or I only want to see where things end up in Berlin? It would also be nice to ha
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by potamic 2mo ago
It's funny, you go to the trouble of crafting a nice, easy to remember mnemonic and someone still fudges it up.
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by potamic 2mo ago
With a free service it's given because they have to monetize end of the day. For paid services different businesses will have different strategies. Some have a solid business model and are content with it, some want to differentiate th
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by potamic 2mo ago
> i started taking it like 3 hours before bed, after reading scott alexander's psychiatry website, instead of right beforehand. He seems to suggest something like 7 hours before you go to sleep. Where did you get 3 hours?
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by potamic 3mo ago
The readme is confusing. You say it has bubblewrap, but you also have an FAQ saying why not to use bubblewrap? Another FAQ says why not to use sandbox-exec for mac, yet the link for mac goes to sandbox-exec?
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by potamic 3mo ago
I doubt they are doing it. You just have to get on a VPN to and see yourself being flooded with captchas despite browsing the web like a normal human and solving dozens of captchas along the way.
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by potamic 3mo ago
Wut? This has to be some sort of a scam. There's no way you're going to be reflecting enough light from hundreds of kilometers away.
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by potamic 3mo ago
I wonder if the same can happen from dental implants. While not subject to the same levels of mechanical stress, the mouth can be a very acidic environment which can be corrosive to metals.
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by potamic 3mo ago
I think they're more talking about systemic effects resulting from such a concept. When you have unchecked power concentrated at a single position, that position will inevitably use that power for their own personal gain, which in the
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by potamic 3mo ago
The problems with social networks is pretty widely understood. Simply acknowledging them as problems, with a promise to tackle, is not enough to attract people imo. It would help to go into detail how exactly you propose to solve them, what
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by potamic 3mo ago
In some cases leaving people behind to die as well. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-porter-death-k2-norwegia...
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by potamic 3mo ago
Why content-addressed storage? I'm assuming this is mostly for auditability after the fact? Wouldn't it make sense to use some business identifier to be able to refer it back easily?
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by potamic 3mo ago
Money in this context is just proxy for value. You have exchanged cash for an equal value of stock. After this either could go up or down in value as the market determines. Sometimes the market doesn't like one kind of cash even and th
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by potamic 3mo ago
All these media people who write about markets need to adjust their perspectives on what a sell-off means. A 2% reduction for a market cap of 80 trillion dollars still leaves about 78 trillion dollars in the market. The way the market behav
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by potamic 3mo ago
What parameters were higher than expected? The critical ones, glucose, electrolytes, lipids should stay low when fasting.
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by potamic 3mo ago
I was looking for something like contributoriq but never came across this. Where do you market these mainly?
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by potamic 3mo ago
Astroturfing is the biggest problem for online forums now. Bots can hide behind residential IPs and AI can generate tonnes of innocuous slop to overwhelm all other content. No human moderation will be able to keep up with it. Anyone buildin
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by potamic 4mo ago
Sure, but only to the means where they see a multiple. And sometimes that be at odds with the fundamental value prop of a business.
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by potamic 4mo ago
I think you misread my comment, I might've been lazy in constructing it. I don't mean to mentor anyone, rather I'm putting out my read of the situation so there's a common ground over which to discuss. For me, raising $1
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by potamic 4mo ago
> We don't need venture dollars to continue scaling (indeed the business is healthy) but you know when you don't want to raise $100m? When you really need it! That's a nice narrative but I suspect you're not touching

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