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by roymurdock 7y ago
Cars are a device of personal freedom that you can own and operate yourself Facial recognition tech is a device of surveillance owned by governments and large corporations that do not enable greater individual freedom, at best a few conveni
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Check out this article on Malta doing a pay-for-EU citizenship scheme: "Critics charge that the program undermines the concept of European citizenship, potentially poses security risks and provides a possible backdoor for Russians seek
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Lightning is for continuous or repeated transactions between two parties because it doesn’t settle immediately/at end of day like the vast majority of one off transactions conducted in the world Ultimately using lightning, “Bitcoin ban
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by roymurdock 7y ago
Blockchain is in 99.9% of cases a solution looking for a problem It is hard to grasp for non technical/economics minded folk so it is easy to exploit as a magic snake oil solution for hard problems I’ve had very painful conversations w
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by roymurdock 8y ago
They A/B tested the headline with and without “elite” and the headline including “elite” got more clicks. Then they ran that headline and got you to click on it/comment on it/engage with it.
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by roymurdock 8y ago
Jeff mills spinning tomorrow at E1 in London. Need to go after reading this interview
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by roymurdock 8y ago
Thanks for the list, great taste
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by roymurdock 8y ago
yea there are other ways to increase labor bargaining power too i just listed the most common off the top of my head
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by roymurdock 8y ago
there are 2 inputs to the classical production function (e.g. the 2 things businesses need to purchase/obtain in order to stay in business) - labor and capital if labor is continuing to improve its value (through education, training bu
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by roymurdock 8y ago
It seems like the main point of this redesign is modularity for security's sake. Curious to hear who is asking for this OS, where Google will use it, and what type of system any of the HN crowd would consider putting Fuchsia OS into. C
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by roymurdock 8y ago
What type of device would you use this in?
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Is Analog Signal Processing the Future of AI?(eetimes.com)
3 points by roymurdock 8y ago|0 comments
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by roymurdock 8y ago
nobody who goes through the process believes it to be a true meritocracy colleges make it very clear that there are certain factors that weigh heavily. one of the legal factors is race. one of the unspoken factors is having donor parents&#x
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by roymurdock 8y ago
seems pretty malicious why not just ask them to pay you for your time, or else say sorry you need to hire a professional instead of giving them more grief
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by roymurdock 8y ago
you're on to something, but are missing an important part of the equation instagram influencing is now a business. it's advertising without the clear disclaimers or statements for who is paying for that advertising and why a lot o
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by roymurdock 8y ago
of course i use a real bank for a long term savings and checkings account i use transferwise for converting money quickly at the market rate plus a small markup rather than the higher fees and longer wait times to wire money across "re
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by roymurdock 8y ago
i use transferwise which i trust more to be around in 10 years and not doing anything idiotic with my money and bank account details any company with roots/ties in the cryptocurrency scene is waving a giant red flag to users, as confir
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by roymurdock 8y ago
Necessity is the mother of invention and memory/resource scarcity is the mother of quality code A lot of junk and spaghetti code gets written (or copied/pasted together) today because there are few hardware-based constraints in mu
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by roymurdock 8y ago
It’s an approximation that needs to be imputed, and can’t be measured directly. It doesn’t need units to be a useful measure against itself at different periods, to measure the rate of change of how environmental variables effect a nation o
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by roymurdock 8y ago
This isn’t true, the study of applied economics (new Keynsian) saved the US in 2008 when the Fed decided to shore up liquidity and helped bail out industry in concert with the government. Austrian policy would’ve let the entire system colla
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by roymurdock 8y ago
natural has a completely different definition for different groups of people. was it “natural” for european settlers in America to have slaves up until the 18th century? was it “natural” for native Americans to live communally and without t
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by roymurdock 8y ago
The design construction operation and regulation of commercial aircraft is the peak of safe and effective infrastructure technology it’s truly spectacular
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by roymurdock 8y ago
the main issue is transparency fuckjerry was involved in marketing the failed festival, then also involved in creating an "objective" documentary on the whole fiasco obviously they have large incentives to cover up the extent of t
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by roymurdock 8y ago
This is the first line in the Myth gameplay Wikipedia: All three Myth games play very similarly. They are real-time tactics games, and as such, unlike the gameplay in real-time strategy games, the player does not engage in resource microman
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by roymurdock 8y ago
sounds a lot like Eve online set in medieval times. Guild Wars had a similar system where you could choose a faction and battle other factions to win reputation etc but was nowhere as dynamic as you're describing. also kind of sounds l
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by roymurdock 8y ago
you're right, 4 races for WC3. switched into SC2 thinking for a moment
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by roymurdock 8y ago
per my comment below > it's pretty amazing how well designed and entertaining the game is 15 years on with the 3 unique race systems, beautiful tilesets/models, fantastic music, etc. add to that: great lore borrowed from mythol
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by roymurdock 8y ago
my game of choice was WC3, i still watch it played at high levels and it's pretty amazing how well designed and entertaining the game is 15 years on with the 3 unique race systems, beautiful tilesets/models, fantastic music, etc.
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by roymurdock 8y ago
the games industry is shifting to the casino whale poaching mindset, and taking advantage of borderline gambling addiction through loot boxes/crates to get kids to (steal their parent's money sometimes) and buy shit in the places
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by roymurdock 8y ago
microsoft did it pretty easily, albeit 4 years later than amazon, which is partially why they're playing catch up. microsoft didn't have any "industrial warehouse buying" expertise and was a lot more familiar with server

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