thesausageking

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by thesausageking 2y ago
It's not a "massive blow" at all. Consumers will only vaguely remember this in a month. Netflix got a lot of new signups and got to test out their streaming infrastructure to figure out what needs work. The fight itself was l
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by thesausageking 2y ago
The challenger to these will solve for a different problem. Not every transaction needs complex fraud detection or being able for the customer do to chargebacks. For a 3% discount, would customers agree to use something that worked just lik
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by thesausageking 2y ago
Here's a video w/ Marshall Allen from last year. Amazing what 99 can look like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw-zE7zGEkM
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by thesausageking 2y ago
Have they talked about how local laws and elections will work? The backers are putting up a ton of capital and boot strapping it with $1B+ in community benefits and housing subsidies. When it starts being populated, is it going to be run li
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by thesausageking 2y ago
Key problem is that the average consumer is with their health insurance provider for about 3 years. This means that when you have drugs that provide significant health and cost benefits in the long term, the patient's current insurer p
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by thesausageking 3y ago
I can't think of any important things Mozilla has created since pushing Brendan Eich out 9 years ago. That's almost a decade and billions in revenue they've burned through. There's now almost no programmers on the board
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The likely first longevity drug is based on sketchy science(lesswrong.com)
5 points by thesausageking 3y ago|1 comments
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by thesausageking 3y ago
I don't understand why the author dismisses carbon steel and cast iron pans. They're my favorite. They last forever and cook great. Go into any restaurant and you'll see mostly cheap, carbon steel pans.
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by thesausageking 3y ago
Password manager + MFA is a lot more secure. Password managers aren't impervious to attacks.
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by thesausageking 3y ago
Abstract: "Even prior to producing their first words, infants are developing a sophisticated speech processing system, with robust word recognition present by 4–6 months of age. These emergent linguistic skills, observed with behaviour
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by thesausageking 3y ago
That's a good analysis, but I don't find it convincing. He's trying really hard to disprove Haidt's post by poking holes in many of the studies. If you look at 386 studies in the social sciences, of course you'll fi
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by thesausageking 3y ago
No you can't. Read the linked studies. "correlation doesn't equal causation" isn't a magic spell that disproves all research. For more, here's an open, collaborative review of 386 studies: https://do
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by thesausageking 3y ago
The data is well established that social media use by teens leads to worse mental health outcomes. I'm a parent and as my kids near the age in which social media becomes a thing, I started digging into. I had assumed it would be vague
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Income Inequality in the United States: Using Tax Data to Measure Trends [pdf](davidsplinter.com)
2 points by thesausageking 3y ago|0 comments
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by thesausageking 3y ago
FTX took funds from customers and used them to run a hedge fund. When the fund did poorly, the customers' funds were gone, leaving a $8B hole. And they lied to customers about it. Binance is very different. While it hasn't complie
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by thesausageking 3y ago
The release from the Attorney General has more details and is much better written: https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/united-states-seized-and-... What's most interesting is almost all of the $54m is from how
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by thesausageking 3y ago
He makes money creating content on how to make money by creating content. Ponzi is the wrong word. Pyramid scheme is more accurate.
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by thesausageking 3y ago
That number is way low. I'm guessing it's only looking at indoor lights and not outdoor displays. Holiday lights in the US used 130 TWh in 2016.
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by thesausageking 3y ago
Bitcoin uses less electricity than christmas lights. Are they more "valuable"? How do you decide?
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by thesausageking 3y ago
Most tree planting projects fail to capture the CO2 spent on planting them. There maybe ways to use trees to capture carbon efficiently and at scale, but it's still an unsolved problem.
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by thesausageking 3y ago
The SEC is just the wrong organization to be enforcing laws in crypto. This was a scam that was done out in the open and launched 4 years ago. People conned into buying this have already lost their money and they're not getting it back
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by thesausageking 3y ago
Yeh, I have a lot of problems with Worldcoin but this isn't a great post on it or the issues. You can tell she went in with the intention to write something for an audience that hates crypto and wants to be told they're right. As
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by thesausageking 3y ago
This is a technique that's been known for years and is in PyTorch. It's not widely used because people tried it and, in practice, it doesn't work as well. OP calling it a "bug that's been overlooked for 8+ years&quo
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by thesausageking 3y ago
I don't think the fund level ratings matter anymore. a16z has more than 300 partners managing $35B across separate funds in tech, bio, crypto, cultural leadership, and other areas. The partner(s) you work with matter more than the shin
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by thesausageking 3y ago
Side note: does anyone know why it costs so much to make a donation? I'm an avid Thunderbird user and I like to support the team making it, but drives me crazy that sending them money costs 8%. So if you give them $100, they only get $
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by thesausageking 3y ago
They have multiple of them on board and can swap in a new one if there's an issue. The focus on the controller is misplaced to me. Game controllers are well made and better suited for the job than custom hardware. It's just the as
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by thesausageking 3y ago
You're saying that the SEC knowingly allowed Coinbase to become a public company, have insiders dump billions in stock on the public, and then continue to operate a completely illegal business for another 2 years without taking any act
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by thesausageking 3y ago
If that's true, then why did the SEC approve Coinbase's IPO and not doing anything about it until years later? Even in spite of Coinbase meeting with the SEC hundreds of times and testifying before congress. This is a complete cha
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by thesausageking 3y ago
They're slowing burning through their VC money trying to make a business out of the hobbyist market while Cruise and Waymo have fully autonomous cars deployed in SF and are scaling up.
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by thesausageking 3y ago
For background, "geohot", is George Hotz, who's a known hacker / tech personality[0] This project fits the pattern of his previous projects: he gets excited about the currently hot thing in tech, makes his own knockoff v

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