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by toomim 5y ago
Heh, without reading the article, I thought "correlation isn't causation" and clicked into the comments to see if anyone else who read the article thought so, too. And I see you at the top of the comments. It's nice to
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by toomim 5y ago
Micropayments
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by toomim 5y ago
Hah, I always see my friends when reading the comments section on any "decentralized tech" article. Hi Santi. :)
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by toomim 5y ago
Ok, but: success vs. fail is different than: true vs. false They're both binary , but only one is boolean .
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by toomim 5y ago
And he never spent them. It's the most selfless act I've witnessed in my life.
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by toomim 5y ago
It's no excuse for Gnome's designers to say "you're not my target audience." Linux's default desktop UI should be good for all users. It's possible, and something to strive for.
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by toomim 5y ago
Some people believe that phrase had good intentions. Other people, like the NYTimes, believe it literally means abolish the police: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
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by toomim 5y ago
And how do you feel about it now?
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by toomim 5y ago
You can get the awesome 3M Aura used in hospitals for $2.20. These are great: https://www.ebay.com/itm/224332977653?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DI...
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by toomim 5y ago
I agree this should be looked into, but one issue is that moving water uses energy, since water naturally flows downhill, and pushing it to where it doesn't naturally flow goes against entropy. In California, we already spend 4.2% of t
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by toomim 5y ago
There simply aren't enough consumers with crypto to spend yet. The percentage of consumers with crypto is maybe 1%. The percentage with credit cards is maybe 90%. If OnlyFans moves to crypto, they cut their addressable market by 98%.
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by toomim 5y ago
I think he is talking about mailing list servers. When you email mailman, it'll add a line to the bottom of the email, manipulate some to: and cc: headers, and forward it along. This changes the hash of the email which breaks some cryp
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by toomim 5y ago
The same thing happens on technology subs. I was banned on /r/bitcoin for posting on /r/btc.
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by toomim 5y ago
It could be that media corporations are in cities, which have become strongly leftist in the last few decades. The rural areas simply haven't had the density of human organization to create a reliable corporate media. Another theory i
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by toomim 5y ago
> PBS is consistently rated as a reliable and unbiased source of information. Not quite -- PBS is rated reliable but biased left : https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/
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by toomim 5y ago
Actually, PBS skews left in the adfontes study, which is the most detailed one I know: https://www.adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/
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by toomim 5y ago
Yep! Our next meeting is in two Mondays from now on August 2nd, at 4:00pm Pacific Time. All are welcome: https://braid.org/meeting-16
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by toomim 5y ago
Are you dismissing this argument simply because it is negative towards california?
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by toomim 5y ago
Yes, many scientists have predicted this, but unfortunately the act of articulating a positive effect of CO2 tends to get you labeled "climate denier" and censored from many parts of the media, and thus we aren't very aware o
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by toomim 5y ago
HTTP is actually quite malleable, and adding synchronization is easy. You can add it to your own website with a few simple headers, and a response that stays open (like SSE) to send multiple updates when state changes: https://
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by toomim 5y ago
There's a much better approach than /events or webhooks: add synchronization directly into HTTP itself. The underlying problem is that HTTP is a state transfer protocol, not a state synchronization protocol. HTTP knows how to
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by toomim 5y ago
She was at the BSL4 lab. This is different than the BSL2 lab that was speculated to have leaked covid.
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by toomim 5y ago
This. It's actually very hard to get enough Mg from pills. Your body needs a lot.
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by toomim 5y ago
Aspiring to build a reserve currency? A reserve currency is something for banks to use. Bitcoin's excitement was as a p2p cash that needs no banks and no reserve. A reserve is something held by a political state. Bitcoin is exciting be
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by toomim 5y ago
Good joke. :)
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by toomim 5y ago
A group of us are working on a solution. Here's a reference to a prior comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27297013 The solution is to make peer-review better , rather than remove it entirely. Imagi
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by toomim 5y ago
What path in life led you to write articles like this? If you are still a practicing scientist, do you fear any repercussions to speaking against the community like this?
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by toomim 5y ago
This story is not that far from Steve Jobs'. Steve was also abandoned by his parents; although via a more legit adoption, and it also played a role in how he fueled his success.
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by toomim 5y ago
Dismissing a cheap and obvious solution that can work for a lot of cases because it's not perfect in every case is leaving a lot on the table! Did you realize that we're in a pandemic that's killing millions of people? W
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by toomim 5y ago
No it's not. Open a window and stick a fan in it. Total cost: $20. Consider that during the pandemic, the good N95 masks were not even available for any price, so people were wearing flimsy cotton things that only block 20% of particul

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