rspeele

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by rspeele 5y ago
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter felt similar to me.
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I like it. With advanced enough technology we may be able to completely automate the process of driving customer engagement and the process of being an engaged customer. That writhing ouroboros could generate trillions of dollars in prete
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This post might have been less profoundly slimy had it not proudly reeled off emails from customers who actually did take time out of their day to write their replies, thinking that some form of person-to-person communication had already
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Well said, especially this line: > I think that "if we were honest about this, customers wouldn't like it" is a good litmus test for whether you're doing an ethical thing or not.
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I had to be logged in for it to work.
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C#, GoLang, Javascript, Python, and Ruby are several. Python and Ruby even overload *, for the dubiously useful construction: "hello" * 3 == "hellohellohello"
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Well, that might be an example of how my perception is swayed by these recommendations. There are probably plenty of people out there making YouTube videos purely advocating for equal treatment in things like the draft, or allocation of chi
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I know what you mean. Tangentially, I also liked the experience of gaming (FPS) more when you would choose a server from a list, which was hosted by some person or group other than the game company, and you played with whoever else happened
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Perhaps I misunderstand your idea, but this clustering sounds like exactly the thing to drive polarization. Put me in my comfortable bubble where I only see content and comments from like-minded people, and I'll be increasingly unable
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I don't know, but I'll sell you a synthetic asset that mimics epoxy brands, tracking their prices using an oracle[0]. Instead of buying, say, a tube of JB Weld, you can buy 2 $JBW[1] and take out an overcollateralized loan to get
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by rspeele 5y ago
Crypto democratizes and decentralizes finance, banking the unbanked, debanking the overbanked, and rebanking the debanked. Using lightning network crypto eliminates middlemen and the annoying experience of transacting money between business
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It would depend strongly on whether the phone is analyzing the data from the mic and reporting to a server "possible gunshot heard, GPS coords X,Y, volume-level 60%, gunshot-like-score 75%" or whether the phone is sending raw reco
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I can't read the whole article due to a paywall. But I would be curious to know how the author addresses that the winner of the mayoral election was also the FPTP winner. > The victor in that 16-way race was Jacob Frey, who prevaile
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> But think for a minute that I can just email you a wallet and the coins just changed hands without putting anything on the ledger. I won't trust that you destroyed your own copies of the keys, so I'll want to transfer the coi
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If I trust that Schneier actually wrote that post, and I'm wrong, no big deal. If I trust that my choice of cryptocurrency software (or hardware wallet) is legit, and I'm wrong, I lose all the savings I put into crypto, with zero
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> China as of 2019 was ~39,000 TWh That's more than the whole world (per your own numbers, 110 / 0.0055 = 20,000). I am seeing more like 7,500 TWh for 2019.[0] Also, 1.4 billion people live in China and they make a huge amount
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Imagine my surprise to learn that this is Good For Bitcoin.
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What if they were though? There are 6.25 apples farmed every 10 minutes. Adding more orchards does not produce more apples or make the apples better, but whoever builds the biggest orchard has the highest chance of getting the 6.25 apples t
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> The cheaper your electricity, the higher your margins. Isn't that true for every user of electricity?
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The work isn't what makes Bitcoins valuable though. I could create a new PoW cryptocurrency with twice the mining difficulty of Bitcoin, and it wouldn't be worth as much as Bitcoin, let alone twice as much. The labor theory of val
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> You cannot just create a crypto out of thin air and expect it to have value Counterpoint: every crypto? Doesn't make sense to me either.
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Really I don't think there is an objective definition of a term like "plain text" and it's even context sensitive. If I tell somebody my software can be configured with a JSON file, and they ask "what's a JSON
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Putting your money in one of these smart contracts is like getting on a fully autonomous plane, with no pilot. And you get a refund for your plane ticket if you reach your destination, but if you don't, whoever figured out the trick to
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by rspeele 5y ago
Per the article (1200 hospitalizations, 150 deaths) 12.5% is the death rate among vaccinated people who were hospitalized for COVID, not who got COVID. So you're missing an extra probability multiplication to account for what perce
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It can be true that hard work is the optimal strategy for an individual to improve (or maintain) their living situation, while also being true that hard work is rewarded inconsistently and unevenly and many very successful people worked a l
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It's objectively a privileged position to be able to do that and not become homeless, but I wouldn't wish for it. Have you ever had a day at work or during your schooling where, due to burnout, depression, anxiety, lack of directi
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Have you? Currency is just an abstraction layer over "stuff". Land, buildings, cars, food, whatever. If some other country has a bigger, meaner military and can roll over you and take your stuff, it doesn't really matter how
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People are always spreading FUD like this about the military industrial complex but you have to keep in mind, it emits less than 2% of all the carbon in the known universe. So it's actually pretty green when you look at it like that. A
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The main impact is still Bitcoin price. Anything that makes Bitcoin's price go up makes the mining energy usage go up too. The fees are just a bonus. But anyway: 1. A transaction creating a channel factory for 6.4 million different key
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Many things in the world use a lot of energy, even inefficiently. But it's hard for me to think of another thing that makes a worldwide competition for who can waste the most energy, with a massive crowdfunded prize every 10 minutes, a

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