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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Don was the hardware hacker before Makers became buzz-worthy. The most influential thing he said was that a Hardware Hacker must have a library, he quantified it as at least six feet of books, documentation and literature. Once you got that
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
The Science is clear from the article: "We also know that brain entrainment is a genuine effect that can occur in response to particular rhythmic frequencies perceived by our senses. A deep-pitched musical tone or a lightbulb flickerin
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
"Asymmetry. Convex decision. So long as there is no risk of harm from masks & disinfectants, the decision is wise, in spite of the "absence of evidence"." @nntaleb[1] [1] https://twitter.com/nntaleb&#
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
Based on the limited supply of test kits, and ability to use them in an rapid manner, I believe we are entering a phase where symptoms should warrant an immediate self-quarantine. Waiting for a negative, or declaring that only those that ma
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
"N100 and P100 Masks for Protection against Avian Flu, Swine Flu and Other Diseases The Centers for Disease Control tested N100 and P100 masks for their efficacy against avian flu, swine flu and other contagious diseases and found them
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
I found it in an old browser bookmarks list: "Codecks is a project management tool inspired by collectible card games. [...] Well designed collectible card games provide a great sense of the current state of your game. Let's appl
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Ask HN: What Agile / Kanban / Scrum Tools Use Gamification for the UX?
1 points by tannerbrockwell 7y ago|1 comments
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by tannerbrockwell 7y ago
I'm interested in what anyone else finds. These are projects i'm aware of that are periphery to your request and valuable in their own right. https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs/ http://digitarw
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by tannerbrockwell 8y ago
So good it must be quoted in it's entirety: "I would like 2016 to be the year when people remembered that science is a method of investigation,and NOT a belief system" @JohnCleese [1] 8:10 AM - 3 Jan 2016 [2] [1] https:&#x2F
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by tannerbrockwell 8y ago
When you point to point to your computer, you are confusing a 'Technology' with Science. They are different. As for first principles, starting with Francis Bacon's Baconian method is the investigative method that would benefi
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Anatomy of a Zone (Distributed Proof of Location on Ethereum)(blog.foam.space)
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by tannerbrockwell 8y ago
Forget this. How about some respect for people instead of playing games? I have been in job interviews where the person conducting the interview was not qualified to manage a technical position. I was asked a riddle. It was not relevant, or
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by tannerbrockwell 8y ago
an incredible way to force you to focus. need to dedicate five minutes to breaking through that block here you go!
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Lightning Network powered online collaborative artboard(satoshis.place)
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by tannerbrockwell 8y ago
A film [1] is being released this month based on the event, it is strange but true and if the film is as good as the trailer should be part fight club, meets reservoir dogs... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_
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by tannerbrockwell 8y ago
[the] activation energy required to start a business remains higher than necessary. It feels like standing up a web server in the 90s–lots of tedium and reinventing the wheel that has been done by people before you. This is the motivation b
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Patrick McKenzie (patio11) Talks Working on Atlas at Stripe(softwareengineeringdaily.com)
2 points by tannerbrockwell 8y ago|1 comments
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
Signal is a protocol, there are other implementations of the client, for instance; Silence[1]. Which is a fork of TextSecure (now Signal) that aims to keep the SMS encryption that TextSecure removed for a variety of reasons. "Protect y
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
Pound's ABC of Reading[0] has been popular since its publication. I would inlcude Adler's How to Read a Book[1] as well. While these focus on literature, I think that there is a lot of overlap in technical and CS based writing. Th
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
This is quite damaging for Parity[1]. This combined with the Multi-Sig Wallet debacle[2] will require a lot of effort from Parity to rebuild their reputation. As the valuation of crypto-currencies such as Ethereum increases the ability to t
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
received response from customer service, looks like fallout from the etherkitties. they were helpful and I understand this could be a difficult time to launch a beta product. all in all the gui is quite amazing. I feel there are still some
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
The inside baseball Canadian comedy television series 'Made in Canada' used a Tragically hip song [1] as the intro. [2] The series made fun of 'The Industry' which was how PBS carried the series for American audiences. I
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
Overstock worked earlier on their T0 [1] initiative to support settling equities trades in T=0 Days'. Currently, a stock or equity transfer takes three days. The days of the wild west exchanges is over. While distributed or atomic swap
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
Every bill has a serial number. Social graph exploration of paper currency is possible with bill readers at only a few points in the bill life cycle. If the same nodes repeatedly 'touch' the same serial numbers you can infer a rel
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
Because it is the most efficient way to build a reserve of a limited commodity (bitcoin) that has a much longer exponential curve to expand along. Currently, the Chinese miners are operating as a business to squeeze a margin out of the disc
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
I agree that centralization is antithetical to Bitcoin, game theory says that it is to China's advantage to mine for profit. I believe they will want to mine and hodl, vs sell immediately to cover costs. Think of it as their strategic
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
Dude. The mining rigs are physical. All I said was that China will seize the 'means of production' so they control the manufacture domestically. It's a phrase that was used a lot to describe the basic tenets of different type
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
The miner's mining Rig's are plugged into the state controlled power grid. If China wants to control the means of production, they simply follow the power hogs, remember we're talking about operations that are industrial scal
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
China will nationalize the domestic creation of Bitcoin. This is their sphere of influence. Thus they will control the domestic production of bitcoins. This nationalization will kick off the next leg up of the exponential growth for bitcoin
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by tannerbrockwell 9y ago
China will nationalize the domestic miners and treat Bitcoin as a commodity asset that the state controls. I believe this will immediately cause a constriction in supply as those coins will not be sold at least initially on the open market.

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