swalsh

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by swalsh 4y ago
A digital car... yeah. The more i've tried to hack with smart contracts for physical stuff, the more I realize that's not what it's good for. But if you stop thinking of the physical world, and only think of the digital worl
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by swalsh 4y ago
.eth is a TLD for crypto addresses (the system is called ENS). Instead of saying, send it to 0x827DCAB38F00624466A99211e9c5a48b9D6Ec14D or whatever I can say "send it to myname.eth". The ENS is an NFT, so all the NFT infrastruct
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by swalsh 4y ago
I don't think it's a "convenient for the sake of gaining/maintaining power". I think we're in the middle of a political realignment, and the new primary divide comes down to how much you "trust" the
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by swalsh 5y ago
I hear what you're saying, and I agree given your framework of constraints its true. I'd argue the constraints are wrong on chain. If you're engineering a "system" you're thinking like a corporation. The magi
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by swalsh 5y ago
Frankly I haven't seen a DAO that operates the way I'd assume a DAO should operate. Today they seem like little developer collectives. It doesn't surprise me that it's less effecient. I think I explained in my previou
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by swalsh 5y ago
Credit cards cost 3% + $.25 per transation (doing this from memory, but I think i'm in the ballpark here). USDC to USD costs .20% + $.50 (and that's per payout, you could aggregate transactions to pay only one fee). If you use a
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by swalsh 5y ago
I could see smart contracts revolutionizing PBM's. There's so much infrastructure around looking for violations, auditing dumb contracts, and executing them etc. If the contract was a smart contract that the manufacturer, and pa
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by swalsh 5y ago
I won't attempt to enumerate the ways that crypto is useful. But i'll tell you how I want to use it. But first, it's important to understand this. The actual foundations for what crypto can enable is still being built, so i
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by swalsh 5y ago
You say you've done research, i'm curious how you did the research? The standard go to reference from people who don't like crypto is now is a 2 hour video that makes zero effort to look for any good. It's not alone, t
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by swalsh 5y ago
You're only a people if you have a blue checkmark.
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by swalsh 5y ago
There are many different systems. I'd agree with you that once per second is also a bad system. Just as an alternative example. I had this idea for a community seed box, take a penny leave a penny type thing. The issue with these t
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by swalsh 5y ago
"crypto people are dead-set on explaining everything except how this works as a currency." I consider myself a "crypo-person". In that I see a vision of the future where crypto is a major part of it. But I don't p
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by swalsh 5y ago
Unit testing is a tool, you don't need a 100% test coverage. But sometimes it's the right tool for the job. Sometimes it's not. If I have a piece of code... usually an algorithm that handles a handful of different use case
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by swalsh 5y ago
I call it negotiating
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by swalsh 5y ago
Do you think some of these techniques could be slightly modified, and applied to DNA sequences?
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by swalsh 5y ago
A new Twitter cannot pop up in a month. A site with all of twitters functionality could. But the value is not in the site, it's in the adoption.
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by swalsh 5y ago
I have wifi 6, it took quite a bit of fiddling before I got the good results I wanted. But a good first thing to check is that your network adapter had 802.11 AX enabled (on Windows, my experience is it is not enabled by default.)
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by swalsh 5y ago
I got a really weird call yesterday from some place claiming to be the medical center where I was a patient 5 years ago (I go to a new place today). I was a bit suspicious simply because it's been years since I've been a patient
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DIY Laser Lithography: Micron Resolution(youtube.com)
19 points by swalsh 5y ago|1 comments
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by swalsh 5y ago
I've been working from home for a bit over 5 years now. Before Covid, we used to have quarterly meetings where all of us full time WFH people went into the office for a day of in-person meetings. We'd get A BUNCH of work done, t
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by swalsh 5y ago
You don't need a single payer system for this. We have a solution today via quality metrics. There are a number of quality metrics from places such as NCQA. They attach performance in these metrics to payments (or penalties). ACO&#
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by swalsh 5y ago
That's a very shortsighted view.
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by swalsh 5y ago
I'm not surprised that there is so much pessimism about this topic, but i'm slightly surprised to see so much here. I'd expect more than a few Hacker News readers to be enthusiastic about an idea like this. If we do nothing
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by swalsh 5y ago
"The fact that they aren't using this adaptation (or some other one) means that probably photosynthesis speed is already being traded off against some other factor in their communities" What's best for the tree might not
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by swalsh 5y ago
Have the Russians proven they are weak? Certainly the war in the northeast has proven incompetent, but the war in the south seems like a far more solid military operation. It's also the more important operation, Odessa for example is
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by swalsh 5y ago
My ability to read a long article notably dropped after Tik Tok. That app in particular is one of the worst.
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by swalsh 5y ago
Thats a good point, up until now I've assumed this is an issue of willpower. But the app is a consumer too, if I can cutoff its food supply, it'll be much weaker.
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by swalsh 5y ago
A printer has never made my entire system unable to boot. I've experienced an issue where gnome just grey screens and it takes me hours to diagnose and fix.
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Tips for defending against Russian cyber ops(threadreaderapp.com)
5 points by swalsh 5y ago|0 comments
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by swalsh 5y ago
Depends on your product. If you're radio shack, sure, always be closing. If you're selling me an essential component of my business, and I expect to have a long term relationship with you... concentrate on the relationship and t

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