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by t_mann 4y ago
Tbh, I find it more shocking that our online identities are at the mercy of Kafkaesque "integrity departments". Some of the decisions those companies are taking feel like decisions that should be up to public entities.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I believed that was actually common practice already, especially near crossings, in order to make the asphalt more elastic, so that it bends under the weight of a standing car and then goes back to its old shape.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Stronger concrete sounds much more interesting than just that less concrete means less CO2. Should open up some design possibilities for architects.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Sounds like a new Orient Express, I wish them all the best. I know several overnight train connections, and I usually use them when they're available. It's nice when you're going on vacation, bit of an experience in itself, a
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by t_mann 4y ago
I believe that in the UK at least, word limits for essays are quite common (as in, I've heard them mentioned by several people who studied there).
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by t_mann 4y ago
Because once you've deployed the smart contract, you don't need to run it anymore, it's just out there for everyone to use. That part is actually interesting about smart contracts (but unclear why it would attract so much VC
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by t_mann 4y ago
Typical DAOs are neither decentralized nor autonomous, but the idea of voting is not as bad as you suggest. In fact, it's the same decision making procedure that corporations use.
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by t_mann 4y ago
empirical mathematic principles I wish this was a joke. How about you try to collect the $1m Millennium price with your proof of the Riemann hypothesis based on "empirical mathematic principles"? To be 100% clear about this: the
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by t_mann 4y ago
This part stands out to me: Deus Finance reacted by halting the redemption process What is decentralized about those projects if a central team can turn off a major element of the protocol or is needed to perform open market operations as
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by t_mann 4y ago
Python vs R is the new Matlab vs R (and soon it may be Julia vs R). My answer is always the same: there are a few excellent and quasi-standard packages/libraries that exist in one of them without fully equivalent analogues in the other
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by t_mann 4y ago
My impression was that the last time I was using R intensively there was a movement back from tidyverse to base R. But that's a few years ago, so you say that's reversed again? I'm not against it at all, in fact I was doing n
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by t_mann 4y ago
Templates generated by ML? Do you have any links to examples/explanations of how that works? I'm incredulous, why would one even think of doing that? The high frequency task is whatever the template is supposed to solve, not creat
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by t_mann 4y ago
I think the problem there is that talking to a human per se doesn't help much, if said human isn't qualified (and that might be for reasons as simple as not speaking/understanding your language sufficiently). I've had in
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by t_mann 4y ago
Sounds like a mundane way of saying "let's create more templates so we can direct customer requests to callcenter agents who don't know anything about the enquiries they're dealing with (and probably even try to replace
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by t_mann 4y ago
It's kind of strange/funny how much trouble too much demand can cause for a company.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Wasn't Agile meant to address exactly the inanity of meetings described here? Interesting that the author doesn't mention it. But I guess the thirst of middle managers in large corporations for Gantt charts just can't be quen
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by t_mann 4y ago
Somewhat strange take on it. Applying the exact same reasoning, any loan is a fraud that lets you pretend you have money that you don't have. Compared to flash loans, a mortgage is a far more serious scheme, because you could end up
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by t_mann 4y ago
What this guy's doing is called 'talking your book'. It's typical behaviour for shortsellers, they find a company that has some problems that the market hasn't realized yet, they quietly build up a short position an
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by t_mann 4y ago
Onyx Boox Note or sth like that, can't remember the exact model name.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Great point. Most profitable companies try to minimize their taxable profits, and the same rules that are in place to counteract that can have the effect of overstating the profitability of other firms.
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by t_mann 4y ago
The hint is in the other part of the paragraph - investors were likely looking for exposure to Bitcoin (implying that they have positive expectations for its price). Some investors are constrained in what kind of assets they can invest in,
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by t_mann 4y ago
I'm very happy with my e-Ink tablet, so this sounds like a very interesting project. The main benefit is that it just feels less distractive and addictive. But it's a far more limited UX than LCD/OLED screens, we have to admi
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by t_mann 4y ago
You seem confused - the it clearly refers to what he said in the previous para, namely that investors haven't been paying attention to what those companies actually do. That rarely ends well indeed, especially during times of rising
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by t_mann 4y ago
I haven't looked into it myself, but I'd do more research than just looking at diffs before buying FAANG stocks now. It's easy to forget that a lot of especially tech stocks were extremely handsomely valued by traditional met
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by t_mann 4y ago
What kind of article is that? A summary of a few Reddit and Twitter posts, almost seems like it's been autogenerated. A human journalist would maybe have thought of including the info by how much fuel costs for combustion engines have
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by t_mann 4y ago
Some of the top-rated comments make me wonder whether the authors have even read the article. This isn't about whether PoW or cryptocurrencies as a whole make sense, but strictly about the economics of mining, and how standard accounti
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by t_mann 4y ago
Even if it's collaterized that's true. Even for overcollateralized ones like Dai? There's an arbitrage mechanism that forces the overall backing to be greater than 150%. Now it may perhaps be somehow conceivable that the va
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by t_mann 4y ago
I like those stories created by MMO players. Eve Online in particular seems to have some incredibly wicked tragedies playing out unbeknownst to me. Is there any good news source for those kind of things?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Human interactions are different from particles. The most successful lobby groups are not the largest or most ubiquitous, but those that have a clear common interest and manage to balance size with willingness to expand resources for the gr
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by t_mann 4y ago
Thanks!

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