Gradient-Ascent

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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
I have just scraped the comment section of the recent "Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch" announcement: - Aditya and Karan (Warrant) - Anta and Karthik (Inai) - Nishant and Pranav (Nino Foods) - Jan and Anahi (Perfekto) - Bruno and Gu
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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
"No shit" - It's a bit over the top to denounce me here as "Mr. Obvious", but funny, so this shall be forgiven to you. Musk is hot and at the forefront and he said it the other day. There is a lot of running away wi
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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
Populating a place (making babies) is not a problem and if it starts to be one, then something is wrong with the place: If future prospects are very grimm, then people stop having kids. This is something seen across the entire western wor
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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
You make a lot of typical western assumptions here and also assumptions because you have a migration background yourself ("they want to (re)populate the island" - Why would they "want that"? - Edit: Now I got you, but th
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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
> still had a hand written note taped to the side of it, something to the effect of "Please don't turn this computer off." You sound like "nobody has cleaned this piece of paper off [yet]" or "will be cleane
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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
You don't own your bitcoin then (if you are not the only one who has the key) - Elon Musk pointed that out. The custodian owns your Bitcoin (and can run away with them or also lose the key).
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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
Can you just use one dish and then connect everyone to this one dish? Costs 100$ a month divided by all inhabitants. It makes sense to setup one dish and connect a couple of people to it. It does not make sense to setup one dish next to ano
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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
Today's analogy is bitcoin... Will all Bitcoin just be lost one day, because all keys get lost? I am aware that "there are solutions", but are they (really) enough? Isn't "breaking in" required at some point? A
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by Gradient-Ascent 5y ago
Everything is hackable. Connect a computer to the internet and you basically have lost. We know that today, encryption isn't the final solution when there are hackers and social engineering.