wiggler00m

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by wiggler00m 7y ago
Earplugs solve this for most locations.
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by wiggler00m 7y ago
I use: Apple Books, Kindle, Play Books. Will check out Calibre - thanks.
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Ask HN: How could the login experience be improved?
1 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|1 comments
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Intermittent Fasting: The Science Of Going Without (Canadian Medical Assoc Jrnl)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
3 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|0 comments
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Climate Change: The Facts – Sir David Attenborough (video)(youtube.com)
2 points by wiggler00m 7y ago|0 comments
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
How is the market pricing this if the quantum has not been disclosed?
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Backwards compatibility is a good thing for a technology with (a) potential to dramatically improve an industry and (b) insufficient adoption. For example: Square.
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Renewables already supply a similar amount of power to nuclear, its growth rate is higher, and its cost curve is improving faster. As for plant capacity, the largest power plant in the world is renewable (Hydropower):22.5 GW. Compare that w
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Renewable energy is cheaper than nuclear, or will be imminently. Proponents of nuclear tend to ignore the long-run costs associated with nuclear (eg. waste transport and storage), and the potential for cost blowouts due to acute disasters l
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Scientists etc are probably smart enough to find ways around this (or already have access). For example, there was a Twitter convention to request journal articles, and researchers with free access would retrieve them and send them via emai
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Ask HN: Would you leave your company for a raise of 20%?
32 points by wiggler00m 8y ago|40 comments
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
A startup in Japan is building this.
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Suggestion: require "skin in the game" ie. make predictors risk something of value (with commensurate chance of gain if their prediction manifests). This would likely increase prediction quality/accuracy.
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Sonic the Hedgehog knows what's up.
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Yeah was referring to the slogan. No shade.
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
China now owns the front page of the internet.
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Alternatives to Google Play Store(alternativeto.net)
2 points by wiggler00m 8y ago|0 comments
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
what?
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Kidnappers Demand $10M MONERO (private cryptocurrency) for Tycoon's wife(nytimes.com)
2 points by wiggler00m 8y ago|2 comments
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
We should tip shoppers with Venmo, Cash App, Paypal, etc, when the shopper delivers. Instacart won't see this transaction and therefore won't reduce their wages. Less convenient. But this policy is unfair.
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MIT: new cryptocurrency connects nodes & confirms transactions w/ 99% less data(techxplore.com)
6 points by wiggler00m 8y ago|0 comments
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Build app to receive tips anonymously. Integrate seamlessly into checkout experience (like Affirm does for micro lending). This could prevent Instacart etc from reducing hourly rate based on tips (because they don't have access to that
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
"Hindsight bias, also known as the knew-it-all-along effect or creeping determinism, is the inclination, after an event has occurred, to see the event as having been predictable, despite there having been little or no objective basis f
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Researchers create an application that ensures anonymity and trustworthiness(techxplore.com)
1 points by wiggler00m 8y ago|0 comments
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by wiggler00m 8y ago
Did this guy spend 17 years building a decentralized platform, then launch it on Ethereum (which is centralized), and quit?