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by vinniejames 7y ago
Why exactly do you need two extra rooms to put a laptop on a table?
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by vinniejames 7y ago
You do by having the majority of the workforce doing so. No one said this would happen overnight
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by vinniejames 7y ago
I would argue a strong case that tutors and social workers don't need to commute to work. What part of their job can't be done online?
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Looks like we've found the solution to global warning. All it took was a government mandate that folks who can and should be working from home do so. Hopefully we all have the common sense to continue this long term, mother earth deser
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by vinniejames 7y ago
China has a much higher rate of smokers, poor air quality, and existing respiratory disease. Do you have any statistics pointing to obesity as an increased risk factor for a respritory disease?
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by vinniejames 7y ago
We could possibly clean up the numbers, assuming the death rate is predictable across regions. Take numbers from a region where testing is frequent, say the death rate is 2%. Then scale the numbers in a region with lack of testing to match
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Cuomo said 24hours ago he would not implement a total shutdown. He changed his mind hours later following California's lead. Being a fast follower is good, but not exemplary
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by vinniejames 7y ago
That didn't take long... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22613426
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Public safety aught to trump HIPPA
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Users didft "loan" their lost ETH, they traded the ETH in as collateral and took out a loan in DAI. This collateral trade was made with full awareness that if the loan became under collateralized the ETH would be liquidated and so
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by vinniejames 7y ago
I've been waiting for Mycroft to release something new, https://mycroft.ai/ Caviat, they keep having delays and may never release v2 imo
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by vinniejames 7y ago
There was nothing unexpected here. Users traded their eth X days ago for dai, with the full intention of adjusting their liquidity characteristics What happened here simply precluded the possibility of the reverse trade when the loan became
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by vinniejames 7y ago
The oracles are decentralized No
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by vinniejames 7y ago
No one lost 100% They lost their collateral and got to keep the loan the took out against it. If I stake $2000 of Ethereum, and in return get $1500 in a stablecoin, when my $2000 in collateral gets liquidated I still have 75% of that in the
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by vinniejames 7y ago
There is an emergency fund, the governance allows the Maker token to be printed and sold to cover losses, diluting existing token holders
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Some folks like to switch off with plausible deniability
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by vinniejames 7y ago
This is pretty incredible both from a product perspective, as well as the potential to push the whole industry towards a race to the bottom. Equilibrium here pushes storage, processing, and availability towards distributed nodes, unless hig
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by vinniejames 7y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if that actually worked to some degree by negative air pressure alone
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Goldman Sachs / Software Dev / NYC / https://GS.com The GS innovation lab, Accelerate, is looking to hire talented developers to help build the future of the alternative investments industry. Frontend, backend, de
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by vinniejames 7y ago
I think you missed the point. This standardizes the process across all browsers and devices, for all applications. Additionally, it allows users to enter payment details only once for use in any application using this API
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by vinniejames 7y ago
How about same sex couples who wish to have offspring without a 3rd party's DNA in the mix?
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by vinniejames 7y ago
I'm sure there's a market of people willing to pay a pretty penny for brand new cloned organs to double their lifespan
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by vinniejames 7y ago
It's a good idea to self-host ALL 3rd party assets. Otherwise you open yourself up to the possibility any one of those contains malicious code. At the very minimum, always check the integrity hash of third party assets
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by vinniejames 7y ago
At least now we have some voices who dont originate from tech or media in the mix, as opposed to almost none
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Ctrl+f
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by vinniejames 7y ago
It's a false assumption. People shouldn't assume anything, there are plenty of places to do legitimate research, political or otherwise, social media isn't one of them
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Because we set our own definition of "smart"
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by vinniejames 7y ago
Scam
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by vinniejames 7y ago
This is how democracy dies. When we, as a society, permit the election outcome to be determined by the executive leadership of a handful of tech companies. "Russia" has absolutely no power compared to the implications of this
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by vinniejames 7y ago
These are not bots, the article doesn't imply they are. They are campaign supporters expressing their support for a candidate, paid or not. How many of these folks do you presume would post the same messages if paid by Trump 2020? I&#x

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