waffle_maniac

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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
I’ve donated my earned BAT to NPR, Wikipedia, and GitHub users. You’ve heard of Wikipedia?
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Emulator?
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Leah Labs, a YC company, is using CAR-T therapy for B-cell lymphoma cancer in dogs. They're currently raising if anyone is interested.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
The automated ssl cert generation is pretty cool. Although certbot works just as well honestly. I'm going to give fly.io a try soon.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Low horsepower vehicles feel downright dangerous. Especially in the third world where executing moves quickly is very important. I suppose there is a way of driving that takes this into account but it feels so unnatural to me.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
It looks like most of their cars have ~110 horsepower? Seems weak.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
If only because they have faster dynos? It's way easier to get started on Heroku than any other cloud service thing. Even AWS Beanstalk is just horrible. You're constantly fucking around with configuration. Also, get rid of Webpac
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
“I would be shocked if we do not achieve Full Self-Driving safer than human this year. I would be shocked.” -- Elon Musk He set the milestone.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Tesla has really fallen behind. I think Karpathy will be fired this year if his team can't achieve at least L4.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
> current FSD beta's intervention rate is more like one per 10 miles Maybe in rural areas? The videos on YouTube are far more than one per 10 miles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTybjJj0ptw
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Ah, so you're an abrasive jerk. Noted.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
> King Homophobe Uhhh… Your HN profile says: “serious discussions only”
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
> Also, their creator compensation program is quite terrible, which Tom Scott has documented quite thoroughly. It's all designed to feed back into Brave's cut, slowly siphoning your ad money to line their own pockets. Creators
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Are you referring to 1) sponsorships or 2) creators verifying to receive donated BAT? Either way, donations and marketing are hardly evil.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
> But the mis-aligned incentives are there for Brave just as much as they are for Google. Machine learning is local; can't be evil. They are committed to not going public. I suggest doing some more research before making assumptions
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
> That cannot be true; brave cannot block first party ads. Not true. Brave blocks YouTube ads.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
I use 100% of my earnings to donate creators (mostly YouTube and Github). I'm very generous and very cool.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
He made a donation. How is that refusing to back down? False narrative.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Plenty of users in /r/BATProject fighting to get their $2/month earnings into their bank accounts. Average person thinks passive income, $5 or $10, is pretty cool. It buys a coffee or tea. I think it's 8M+ users that hav
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
> you know they’re at least paying YouTubers to use and promote the browser without any disclosure How do you know that? You sound jealous.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
A substantial number of those critical of Brave haven't put in the time to understand how Brave works. Example: David Gerard doesn't know the difference between a link and an address bar.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
wefunder.com
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
> eBay dealer of ancient Roman coins The article says she had a coin hobby.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
It won’t effect them much. L2 solutions will make a bigger impact.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/08/buffett-says-ibms-watson-wil... Imagine missing all the successful tech companies and then investing in this!
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
We print a lot of Amazon return forms, church newsletter crap, and live in a rural area. Although frankly, I would do anything to not add another item to my errand list when I'm in town.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
> WhatsApp is also pretty good at that job Definitely not. And the US does have pretty decent mobile internet. > Also, who still prefers to make a call in this day and age? People who have their social anxiety under control. When I wa
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
You can walk out of your house and the call seamlessly switches from WiFi to cellular. Try doing that with WhatsApp or Signal.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Printer head cleaning can burn through quite a bit of ink if the printer hasn’t been used in a while. And sometimes my parents go long stretches without using the printer.
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by waffle_maniac 5y ago
Certainly. And those people are free to chime in as well. But people put up with a lot of bad shit to experience something. I know I have.

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