spats1990

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by spats1990 6y ago
Thiel recently said something to the effect that it's possible bitcoin could be a tool for China to threaten the stability of the US dollar. Interestingly, he is an investor in a crypto startup[1] that (if its intents are read uncharit
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by spats1990 6y ago
>In reality, once Bitcoin becomes a mechanism for the early adopters to wield wealth over the later adopters, everyone who didn't get rich early on will switch to playing a different game. No reason to go all-in on Bitcoin if the sy
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Covid may have taken 'convoluted path' to Wuhan, WHO team leader says(reuters.com)
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Wearable Thermoelectrics for Personalized Thermoregulation(advances.sciencemag.org)
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by spats1990 6y ago
Samsung's Lee Kun-hee did this as well, in the 90s I think, but he made the factory workers watch while he and the other board members smashed stuff and set it on fire.
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by spats1990 6y ago
The uses I know of are temperature in order to indicate when the bees have started raising brood in late winter/early spring--warmer hive temp=broodraising--and hive scales, which could theoretically tell you when the bees are about to
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by spats1990 6y ago
Older beekeepers in NZ will tell you that until the late 1990s/early 00s, it wasn't even considered commercially viable and was only suitable as winter feed for bees, because all anybody wanted to buy was clover. There was not muc
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by spats1990 6y ago
>And all honey has the same antimicrobial properties -- it has nothing to do with hydrogen peroxide and definitely nothing to do with UMF. The reason honey kills microbes is it has exceptionally low water content. Nah. It's about di
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by spats1990 6y ago
edit: disregard, article pdf available upthread - vox's link to the archived NYT article is broken because most archived NYT stuff is behind the paywall now. if anyone else wants to read the full article, someone has reproduced the ent
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Economics for the Future – Beyond the Superorganism(sciencedirect.com)
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Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America(theatlantic.com)
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by spats1990 6y ago
I'm extremely glad he's back. I'm sure some part of why my brain is the way it is in 2020 is due to reading old collections of Far Side cartoons as a kid. Some of them I didn't understand properly until years later, but
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by spats1990 6y ago
That isn't TLP, it's one of TLP's millennial disciples. They mentioned working as a trainee doc in the ER but TLP was a psychiatrist at a large university hospital. Also I don't think TLP quit because he was doxxed neces
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by spats1990 6y ago
spent half the last decade in seoul, my impression is that it's both far easier and far harder to fully feel like part of the group in korea as a non-korean. the first hurdle, which most foreigners (including me) never fully make it pa
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by spats1990 6y ago
Hard to parse what you mean here. The link is indirectly about the Overton window in US politics wherein views and policies considered centrist or center-left at most in other Western democracies appear "extreme left" in the conte
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by spats1990 6y ago
Locust capitalism might be related to this: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/ As for the pseudo-socialism part, I have no idea what it could mean either.
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by spats1990 6y ago
An alternate approach: the Carrier Bag theory of fiction by Ursula Le Guin, which argues (gently) against "the hero's desires" and the Campbellian monomyth: https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=eJj4RlFKWCoC&amp
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by spats1990 6y ago
I only spent a month and a half in Italy, almost all of it in Milan, but I was around italian families a lot. The north south thing really seemed like a big deal, though obviously for some more of a joke than others, as you say. In at least
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by spats1990 6y ago
Even though this was the GPT-3-generated text that humans most easily identified as machine-written, I still like it a lot: Title: Star’s Tux Promise Draws Megyn Kelly’s Sarcasm Subtitle: Joaquin Phoenix pledged to not change for each award
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by spats1990 6y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23144720
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Twitter adds a warning label fact-checking Trump’s false voting claims(techcrunch.com)
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by spats1990 6y ago
that was really cool. I like the idea of repurposing old office stock. Does anyone else actually prefer the smaller form factor desktop cases? I went for a Fractal Node 202 for current PC build and since then I've taken it in my checke
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by spats1990 6y ago
""The halving is coming"" but markets are anti-inductive. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/h24JGbmweNpWZfBkM/markets-ar... (I think. I can't actually say I fully understand this piece, but
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Leaking into the Future(ribbonfarm.com)
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by spats1990 6y ago
>Back in the day, severance packages for white collar workers were close to one month per year served. in Korea this rule is in actual labour law. One month's salary for each year employed fulltime, for everybody.
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by spats1990 6y ago
>Unsurprisingly, countries (just like neighborhoods that crack down on AirBNB) might want to optimize for people who want to stay long term, adopt their values, become part of the social fabric...not just maximize marginal income from pe
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by spats1990 6y ago
Yeah, for sure. I was including sales tax etc in "what you consume". And there's actually a good argument to be made that countries that are popular digital nomad destinations could benefit greatly from setting up a specific
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by spats1990 6y ago
I have a short story about a guy like this. In the story, he's an independently wealthy Instagram rooftopper type. He gives the impression that he lives off money from streetwear/etc comp deals, but actually makes hardly anything
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by spats1990 6y ago
I'm not the person you're replying to but my personal issue with a lot of "digital nomadism" in Asia specifically is that it depends on lax enforcement of visa laws. A lot of people working remotely in Asian countries ar
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by spats1990 6y ago
Nah, I don't think it's made up; I read the same article. I think you'd agree there is a lot less data available there than there is in other avenues being pursued regarding possible origins. I still don't think that a l

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