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by zaik 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRqKPDJYyLE
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Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators(citationneeded.news)
4 points by zaik 1y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
What part of the study design makes you think that? It doesn't seem to be based on reports.
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by zaik 2y ago
> if you're the Philippines and you're selling fish to Russia, would you rather have Rubles or US dollars? I would have assumed the fisherman in the Philippines would like to be paid in Philippine peso.
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by zaik 2y ago
> Foreign countries buy US dollars so they can trade with other people Who are those other people and why do they want to be paid in USD so badly instead of their own currency in which they presumably pay their employees and taxes? I nev
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by zaik 2y ago
Despite people always complaining about their perceived inefficiencies, standard protocols like IMAP or XMPP always seem to work on a crappy connection, when most of the modern web doesn't.
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by zaik 2y ago
> couldn't be replicated in other languages? All programming languages can do any task. It's about how easy they make that task for you.
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by zaik 2y ago
Also contains some "git = GitHub"
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by zaik 2y ago
Democracy is just a handful of key people following some norms. This can change very quickly once the wrong people are in power. See the timeline of the downfall of the Weimar republic.
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Prosody 13.0.0 Released(blog.prosody.im)
1 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
"A common misunderstanding is that GUIs were invented to give ancient computers enough time for processing by slowing down user input speed. However our research shows that counterintuitively input latency was better at the time when G
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by zaik 2y ago
Not sure about US legislation, but where I live clauses like this are void automatically, even if you agree to the contract.
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Transcript of leaked call with Meteora's Ben Chow(citationneeded.news)
6 points by zaik 2y ago|1 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
A 0.5% fee doesn't seem unusual also for an ETF. Or am I being ripped off?
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by zaik 2y ago
Don't worry, a privately owned monopoly will pick up the slack.
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by zaik 2y ago
Moved my Minecraft license to a new Microsoft account as required. Microsoft account was flagged and blocked when I checked a few days after. And that's how I got scammed out of my Minecraft license.
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by zaik 2y ago
It would be nice if Radicale could serve a FREEBUSY URL which takes contents from a your calendars. Some applications support this format and can help with scheduling meetings. I never got to use it in practice though.
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by zaik 2y ago
1% of iPhone users is a lot of people.
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by zaik 2y ago
It's encrypted by default. I agree that having no option to send unencrypted messages would increase security somewhat, but the unsophisticated user can always be tricked into sending an unencrypted message. They will just use a differ
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by zaik 2y ago
Maybe https://quicksy.im/ would work in that case. Easy to install like Signal, but it uses your phone number as a routable XMPP address. Unsophisticated users get easy onboarding and nobody else gets locked into some walle
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by zaik 2y ago
I helped setting up Conversations / Monal on my grandparents phones and they have no issues sending messages.
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by zaik 2y ago
When Mr. Musk describes X as "the last bastion of free speech" or similar what do you think he refers to?
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by zaik 2y ago
Or don't put gold in your food?
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by zaik 2y ago
No large company will ever consider training a public LLM on all their internal communications.
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It's all neural nets to me [pdf](statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
1 points by zaik 2y ago|0 comments
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by zaik 2y ago
For users in the EU it might soon be possible.
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by zaik 2y ago
Then I wonder who you think does the most efficient innovations. Apparently it's not universities like MIT. It's not big companies with research institutes like Bell Labs. The military? Please don't say VC funded startups.
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by zaik 2y ago
Well if there is a more efficient way, the big companies haven't found it yet. Guess where they hire their research people?
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by zaik 2y ago
Yet, the ideas that have thrown incredible amounts of money against them on the open market all have been developed in academia. The current AI craze, the internet, the physics required for chip production, encryption, etc.
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by zaik 2y ago
Random flight lengths and double digit stroke counts for one hole? Finally a realistic game that matches my experience on the golf course.

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