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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i haven’t kept up with ENS to this deal. they moved from a multisig to a DAO. as GP claims, they also restricted the set of actions available to governance before this move. on the face of it then, it doesn’t look unlikely that the DAO will
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
so your argument against consortiums (bluetooth) is that they work?… but at a higher cost (lengthy specs)? the historic alternative is a slightly lower cost (most of BT complexity is of the plumbing type, not the PhD type) and much more s
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i think the bit about old paradigm vs new paradigm tenure application bias overlooks a few things. this bias doesn’t just affect the proportion of admissions across paradigms, it’s a selection filter that allows only the best of the new
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i always assumed ethanol production was encouraged by the govt precisely to spur excess production of corn so as to make our food production more robust. i.e. during a bad year of food production, halt ethanol production and redirect that e
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
the book was Walkaway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkaway_(Doctorow_novel) the only reason i didn't name it before is that i couldn't recall the name off-hand.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> In 2019, TSMC spent $14.9 billion on capital expenses while it generated $34.6 billion in revenues mostly from investments in prior nodes; in 2020, the foundry spent $30 billion in 2021 and generated $56.8 billion revenues. having trou
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> why pay the huge transaction costs and help the current crypto-rich get richer, instead of making purpose-built chains for your future applications? the most convincing arguments i’ve heard for reusing an existing chain is 1) easier ac
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
if you can recall the author/title i’d love to look at it! i’m curious how the story deals with the disjointed sensory input in the “revived” agent. e.g. does Grandma experience sight/sound/touch/feel? if not, how does s
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i think the point is to benchmark the “what if i did invest in FileCoin” v.s. the “what of i didn’t invest in FileCoin” case. where would your $ be if you didn’t invest in FileCoin? for a lot of people actually making that decision, the def
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
if you have a high-uptime PC, you can find USB-enabled SDS011 sensors for $30 on Amazon or anywhere else, and free software that creates a web dashboard that shows VOC count by time. can’t remember if these devices measure CO2/NO2 spec
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
stove/oven UX has been shit ever since they were first digitized. my first home had an analog-controlled electric oven: turn the dial to the temperature you want. every oven i’ve owned since uses up/down touch buttons to adjust th
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> that gives you a real incentive to take care of your local community. This in turn improves the stability of the society as a whole, since the large group of homeowners is not in favor of any real upheaval which might threaten the stat
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
the job market is a matching market. my desires vary from my ex-coworkers’ desires. out of every 10 companies, there are 9 that i won’t tolerate working for. fortunately, my favorite options probably vary from that of my ex-coworkers’, so t
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
we’re dealing in counterfactuals here, so we’ll never truly know. one possibility is that vaccine mandates brought a large portion of those on-the-fence in to get a vaccine sooner than later, at the cost of pushing others on-the-fence way
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
dunno where we’re at today with newer captcha models, but for old-style static image captchas there used to be browser extensions where you could solve (say) 100 captchas in one sitting and then navigate the web freely and the next NN captc
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
yeah, kind of confusing. “omicron at 100% prevalence, Colorado” is easily mistaken as “100% of the population of Colorado has/had omicron”.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
it’s nice to believe, but a lot of our ability to return to normal requires these bureaucracies to be on board. it doesn’t matter that you individually are comfortable sending your kid to school, that school’s not going to be open if the co
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> you should be thanking hiring managers who turn down candidates who have no regrets about past work at toxic companies "no regrets" is an important part of this. though it's not quite the precise word i'd like, sinc
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
the job market ( especially if you’re an engineer considering Norton) is so flush right now, you could choose a hundred other positions with similar workload and benefits. when you choose to work for a shitty company under such circumstanc
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> It makes me wonder why we don't have more bands of underhoused Millenials going off into the wilderness to found new cities. the young people i know come to cities in an attempt to establish themselves socially (i.e. to explore
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> You, as a neighbor, get nothing. Meanwhile, you have to deal with additional traffic in the neighborhood; cars parked on the street; more people (quite possibly of a different socioeconomic strata) coming and going; construction noise;
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i’m also worried about how they calculate this rent-to-income ratio. > Monroe County in Florida, where the median market rate rent consumes 62.9 percent of the area’s median household income. at this point, if they’re using the IRS defin
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> That would reduce the value of their real estate assets in places like SF and LA. does it actually work that way? a large part of land value seems to come from network effects: the more densely populated a region, the more valuable eac
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
see: > i agree with the sentiment, however, it’s wishful thinking. if you’re trying to persuade me that i shouldn’t use SN as an unwilling test subject, save your breath: i’m not engaged in any effort to de-anonymize him. his project is
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
i agree with the sentiment, however, it’s wishful thinking. Bitcoin exists in a space within game theory where everyone is in a constant adversarial relation with everyone else. it’s an explicit design, and that relationship is the only way
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
the closest anagram i can make from “antonomasias” is: Satosi nanamo seems like a stretch, unless there’s more that i’m missing.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
these are available in the US. they retail for $20-30 for a pair. they were easy to get from October-ish through mid December and now they’re sold out everywhere because of people testing for holiday gatherings.
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
well, build a whitelist of the conditions you are interested in knowing. then just run the report through a sed filter so that it strips out all the information you’re not interested in. destroy the original report. problem solved: infohaz
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
what are more interesting blogs you’d recommend that touch similar-ish topics to Lyn’s?
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by wallacoloo 5y ago
> Basically anything that is a part of the cpi basket is an inflation hedge. (Insert used car meme.) much of the CPI are depreciatory or non-durable goods. i can’t hedge against multi-year inflation by purchasing meat and dairy. if i buy

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