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by zucker42 5y ago
Protecting investors from being lied to incentivizes investors to spend less resources on discerning whether representations made to them are true. "More investment" isn't a definite good if it leads to investment in the wro
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Based on the blog post's FAQ my impression is you can still do that. My impression is it's only for apps in the play store (and the corresponding export play store AAB to APK feature) that you are required to giving your keys to G
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by zucker42 5y ago
I would use Shamir's Secret Sharing and split it up over multiple different physical and/or digital locations.
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by zucker42 5y ago
So the stated reason for taking these down is they include the IDs of people who agreed to have their IDs shown in the video? Sounds sort of like some overzealous content moderator misapplying rules, though it could be more malicious. It&#x
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by zucker42 5y ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but I think you qualify as a nerd. :)
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by zucker42 5y ago
I don't think NixOS is getting too much credit. This is an accomplishment, even if it was built on the shoulders of giants.
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I disagree that no one is going to commercialize anything without exclusive rights. Most things that are commercialized are done so without exclusive rights. We don't see restaurants patent new dishes, yet they create new dishes noneth
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> The original intent of the patent system was to give inventors a leg up to commercialize their idea before they can be bullied out of the market by large competitors. I disagree that this was originally or should be currently the sole
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by zucker42 5y ago
Our political system is dysfunctional. So even if some people realize problems with the rules, corporations and other entities will lobby so as to continue profiteering. In addition, US culture really values making money and forming profita
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Not to denigrate your work, but if the company failed in retrospect wouldn't it have been better for society if it didn't have the patent? I would think that the situation where the one company with rights to the invention fails t
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by zucker42 5y ago
Maybe if it was easier to unsubscribe (i.e. by making the unsubscribe button prominent) than to report as spam, less people would default to reporting it as spam. But in my experience, the unsubscribe button is quite difficult to find.
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by zucker42 5y ago
With regards to poker, "bet sizing" in the original article is equivalent to "bankroll management" in poker parlance. Bet sizing within individual hands is indeed a matter of game strategy, but the stakes you should play
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by zucker42 5y ago
I wonder how professional gamblers approach bet sizing. It seems to me that for most applications the Kelly Criterion is not the right choice. The utility of money is asymmetric; gaining $25000 is worse than not losing $25000. Relatedly, mo
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by zucker42 5y ago
Over what time period was the 24.85% measured? This seems like it would do better during time periods where stock prices are volatile and/or not increasing, so if the returns were measured over the last year, then results could be misl
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by zucker42 5y ago
The original tweet was from March, when there indeed was a queue.
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I agree with this comment. In my opinion there should be stronger laws regarding the misuse of police power, but those can be implemented at the state level, the extension of the CFAA to that is dangerous. One key point is this document: &g
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by zucker42 5y ago
The parent claimed without proof that California has a huge drug problem. I interpreted this to be part of an argument that this measure would contribute to this purported drug problem. But the first question I asked was "is California
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by zucker42 5y ago
No, the area of the country with the biggest drug problem is Appalachia [1]. California is better than most states in terms of drug overdose deaths. And as others have pointed out, psychedelics aren't really the problematic drugs. [1]
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by zucker42 5y ago
NVIDIA doesn't give a crap about it's driver stack being open source. In fact, they actively want it to be not open. They refuse to even release signed firmware so the community can build an independent driver. Intel's stack
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> Cult of female employment as their main role in society, which, in positions of power, happens to soften the stance towards criminals and deconstruct structures (hierarchies, things that worked to develop our nations, justice system).
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> Just make them slightly cheaper per hash and voila The problem is they want the mining cards to be more expensive per hash.
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by zucker42 5y ago
The used market is huge. Even before the shortage, newer used GPUs were selling for 75% or more of their new price, from my memory.
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by zucker42 5y ago
$20 is a little high. ETH transactions are variable cost; more complex transactions cost more. In order to get the price of a simple transfer you can take the current gas price (for example, from https://ethgasstation.info/i
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by zucker42 5y ago
Doesn't every cyberattack get attention from the U.S. government? After all, carrying out a cyberattack is a federal crime.
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by zucker42 5y ago
What's the evidence that CA's problems are caused by just too many people? Do you think the East Coast (from Boston to DC) is oversaturated?
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People leaving may decrease housing prices but it also increases the cost of public services per capita. It also can lead abandoned areas as in Detroit. On the other hand modest growth accompanied by significant increases in the housing sup
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What's worrying is not the population drop by itself, but the widespread belief that it's caused by ridiculous housing prices that we're not effectively addressing.
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Automotive dependency should be reconsidered.
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The first consumer processors with multiple cores came out around 2005. Before there were multiple cores in consumer machines, there was no reason to implement concurrency in a way that would scale to multiple cores.
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> All this stuff runs in the UI thread. Braindamaged. Calling this "braindamaged" is hardly fair; I'm sure this decision was made ~35 years ago when it made more sense.

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