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by toolz 6y ago
45 billion market cap is "research phase"? Exactly what would make it move out of "research phase" then?
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by toolz 6y ago
no it's not, where would you even come up with the idea that it was?
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by toolz 6y ago
cardano is completely distributed PoS 46 billion market cap (5th largest crypto) - I'm not sure what you mean by "yet to be proven" it also theoretically supports 1MM tx/second - to put that into perspective VISA does so
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by toolz 6y ago
the way I see it is that anyone who contributes to open source likely utilizes open source. Think of the market value for some of the open tools you use and how much they would cost you that you instead get for free. To me, that's the
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by toolz 6y ago
it is definitely a problem, not with all research, but there is plenty of high profile research that has never released their data. The UA study that gets cited so much for showing the U.S. has effectively the highest mass gun killing event
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by toolz 6y ago
At this point is there anybody who reads this journal or watches the news regularly who doesn't have an opinion on the situation? I really dislike how it feels scientists are positioning themselves into politics more and more. I have
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by toolz 6y ago
huh, apparently price went up $150 since I bought it https://www.newegg.com/lenovo-flex-5-15alc05-82hv0000us-grap... edit: wow price went way up actually - I paid $790 https://i.imgur.com/aBamY5l.png
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by toolz 6y ago
I recently bought a lenovo ideapad (ultrabook form factor) for under $900USD with a 5700u 16GB ram 512 nvme https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Apple-M1-8-Core-3200-MH... I'd say AMD is really blowing the M1 lapt
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by toolz 6y ago
faults are attributable to individuals, trends are attributable to groups
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by toolz 6y ago
Sure, but you're missing the whole point - it's not a web framework and it's never marketed itself as one to my knowledge.
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by toolz 6y ago
"the rich" are not a single entity, nor are "the poor" - there's a wide spectrum of individuals that would do well to be treated as such in each category.
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by toolz 6y ago
Tax revenue has outpaced median wages by a long shot. I'm not sure I can relate to the argument that increased taxes is what is needed to close the wage gap as the tax collector's have done nothing to prove they will do any bette
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by toolz 6y ago
You'll just create a self fulfilling prophecy with that mindset. Why would the rich be prosocial if they're treated as antisocial regardless. They might as well behave nefariously and reap those rewards if people are going to tr
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by toolz 6y ago
sqlalchemy is an ORM - I'm not sure it can be compared against a web framework, but my experience with phoenix vs python web frameworks is that phoenix is easily faster even for single-threaded web requests (which of course will utiliz
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by toolz 6y ago
I find elixir and supporting libraries to be the best general web-dev experience of any language. Optional typing, first class documentation, ecto as a library for validations is far more successful at encouraging separation of concerns th
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by toolz 6y ago
I've seen multiple published (not peer reviewed) rebuttals published in academic papers within a week or two during this pandemic. Not everything published needs to be peer reviewed before going before a wider audience - twitter simpl
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by toolz 6y ago
picking one of the hardest hit areas in the world doesn't set a lower boundary on IFR.
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by toolz 6y ago
I'd personally be extremely cautious of a rebuttal in a twitter thread rather than a professional rebuttal which is how these sorts of things should be sorted out in the scientific world. A twitter thread to rebut a peer reviewed pape
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by toolz 6y ago
I've seen numbers from germany that suggest across all vaccines manufactured the risk is roughly 1/8500 (~0.00011) for severe adverse events, while Ioannidis somewhat recently published a systematic review finding the global IFR r
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by toolz 6y ago
you're all over the place, first it's crypto that's easy to steal now it's the goods you buy with crypto or the fiat you have to convert into. If the vulnerability is when you buy goods or hold fiat then crypto isn'
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by toolz 6y ago
I'm not going to go into my background as if that were some added credibility like you seem to think your background is. A point stands on its own, not based on the authority of the person making the point. > if there's no pro
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by toolz 6y ago
I think you're really taking for granted that a trustless system means I don't need to consult some greedy central power to ask them permission to send funds to my family in a restricted country. If your family was barely survivin
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by toolz 6y ago
I use crypto as money _frequently_ - so it did and is panning out. You may as well be trying to convince me the sky isn't blue while I'm looking up.
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by toolz 6y ago
maybe for developed nations - that doesn't represent much of the world
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by toolz 6y ago
globally recognized stores of wealth that can be transferred instantly makes no sense to you? Have you ever tried to trade with someone outside of your country, it's not easy or cheap. If fiat money is a bad thing, then I guess we&#x27
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by toolz 6y ago
great read, I learned a lot and I especially enjoyed the writings from Nadine Strossen, she seems to touch on what may be a core reason for a lot of my frustration with todays political landscape.
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by toolz 6y ago
look at any objective statistical trends worldwide and you'd likely come to the same conclusions I've come to. violence trends down life expectancy trends up poverty and hunger trends down child labor is in decline leisure time is
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by toolz 6y ago
my ignorant hypothesis is that being too far from average decreases your chances of having a healthy social life and being highly social would be the underlying factor in predicting health both physically and mentally.
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by toolz 6y ago
There seems to be some implication here that you believe joining mensa means you associate with people only for their high IQ. Just because that's the entrance criteria doesn't mean you hang out with some subset of those members
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by toolz 6y ago
I don't intend to portray anger as I couldn't be farther from angry. I just think solutions are easier to find when you tackle problems directly rather than assume malice exists lurking in the shadows every time a situation presen

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