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by toomim 5y ago
Same here-- not on HN, but in real life. It seemed so obvious from the start that this was airborne and we can stop it with ventilation and masks. I actually helped start a mask distribution non-profit. But it became an uphill battle to edu
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by toomim 5y ago
> If you'd gone a little bit further into the article, you'd have seen why. I went further into the article, and found that every ... single ... example ... was about the political right. > Seriously, what else were they sup
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by toomim 5y ago
I'm building an invisible college in Berkeley and Hawaii, and happen to own the domain name: https://invisible.college . If anyone's interested in putting this domain to better use, please reach out!
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by toomim 5y ago
Yes, I think this would work, and am working on it. Message me if interested.
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by toomim 5y ago
Actually trust is both a symptom and a cause. The causality goes both ways. (1) If you lose trust in someone, you'll be less likely to try to find truth in their statements. Finding truth in someone's statements requires time an
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by toomim 5y ago
Perhaps you're not aware that "fringe idea" is precisely the type of research that can turn out to usurp the mainstream and disrupt old paradigms. The idea that the earth travels around the sun was once a "fringe idea.&q
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by toomim 5y ago
Yes. Here are some stats on the breakdown of trust in society: https://medium.com/@slowerdawn/the-decline-of-trust-in-the-u... This animated gif makes it clear: https://invisible.college/reputation&#x2
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by toomim 5y ago
Great! Thank you for the invitation! :) > The big advances all seem to come from big corporate labs That's an interesting claim, and I'd encourage you to find some statistics to verify this hypothesis, because in my experience
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by toomim 5y ago
Oh hey, Mike Hearn! I've long been a fan of yours in Bitcoin. It's good to see you're interested in 'bad science' lately as well -- this is a topic I've also been working on for the last N years along with Bi
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by toomim 5y ago
> The end result is the exact same as our current system. To say that is to ignore all the progress we've made! In the current system, the elites can literally print free money . But in PoS, all they can do is try to double-spend
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by toomim 5y ago
And to be complete, there are other ways that PoW blockchains can compete on energy efficiency: 1) Inflation rate 2) PoW function 3) Transaction cost after blocksize limit reached The inflation rate determines the incentive given to miner
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by toomim 5y ago
As a Bitcoin miner ( https://toom.im ), while I appreciate the work put into it, this particular metric of "transactions per kW" might not work the way you expect. The main point that you should understand is that a PoW
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by toomim 5y ago
This was Mike Hearn's fear back in 2013: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=333824.0
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by toomim 5y ago
> I like how they are charging 10% more if you pay with Bitcoin than with Monero. Source? How much are they asking for?
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by toomim 5y ago
Just to be pedantic, what happened is the original founder sold it to some skeezy guys who wanted to cash in on the digital currency crazy, and those skeezy guys added XRP as a way to cash in. So it's not quite that the original founde
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by toomim 6y ago
Oh, I've discovered them — they were actually called MGET and MHEAD, and are mentioned here: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/evaluati...
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by toomim 6y ago
A filtration constant can apply to poorly-fitted masks, too. They just have a smaller constant. The filtration constant for a well-sealed N95 can be 99.99%. The filtration constant for a thin cotton "face covering" can be 20%. T
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by toomim 6y ago
Can you provide a link to the MULTIGET or MULTIHEAD proposals? I'm very interested in getting GraphQL features into http and wasn't aware of these prior proposals. A quick web search didn't turn up anything for me on them eit
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by toomim 6y ago
I don't think so. Chromium walked back their plans to deprecate it, and it's not leaving the IETF RFC for HTTP/2, and lots of people still like it.
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by toomim 6y ago
I'm interested, and building something like that in Hawaii.
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by toomim 6y ago
My research area is Human-Computer Interaction, aka "UI Design." It combines Computer Science and Psychology. I am also a practicing designer.
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by toomim 6y ago
> 150k% ... would only be 47k% So in other words, they only got a 3x return on their bitcoin investment.
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by toomim 6y ago
This is so hard to define. On the one hand, hacker news is covered in small-font text, dense with information. On the other hand, there's nothing else on the page. Is that minimal, or info-abundant?
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by toomim 6y ago
Yep. As a designer, it's much easier for me to make a flat rectangle than something photo-realistic. And you know what's even easier? Putting down no rectangle. And if I have an excuse to leave out fine pixel editing -- like be
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by toomim 6y ago
Ok, these are good points. I would love to have less politics involved in my tech discussions and will adjust my own comments as you suggest. Thanks!
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by toomim 6y ago
I'm aware of the paradox, and it's a wonderful idea! It still looks to me that in this case, it's the people calling RMS intolerant that are the intolerant ones. On the contrary, I think RMS actually tolerates a whole lot.
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by toomim 6y ago
The intro lost me: > WordPress powers approximately 41% of the web – and this community can help combat racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and discrimination against those with mental illness with four lines of code:"
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by toomim 6y ago
You sound very intolerant of said "intolerance".
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by toomim 6y ago
Warning: nobody is authoritative on bitcoin. You do not speak for the bitcoin community on who is and is not speaking for bitcoin.
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by toomim 6y ago
Stats: https://www.google.com/searchq=covid+fentanyl+sf

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