Malarkey73

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'Mining’ Bitcoin takes more energy than mining gold(nature.com)
4 points by Malarkey73 8y ago|0 comments
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
It's just really difficult to understand what this means. The first big caveat is that 1990s to 2010s stops at the financial crisis. Due to austerity the UK has since then seen the greatest period of wage stagnation of all the advanced
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
The article uses the same "tone" that we regularly use to write about the Romans - who crucified people, ritually strangled prisoners during their triumphs, kept slaves, and made people fight to death for their fun. That said I&#x
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Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to 'weaponise' data, court case alleges(theguardian.com)
221 points by Malarkey73 8y ago|26 comments
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
I'm sure there are plenty of bad actors who will keep spamming regardless. Thankfully those ones seldom get through my spam filter - so barely trouble my consciousness.
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
Indeed. I was reading a tragic article about the energy cost of bitcoin and I started to wonder how much energy, bandwidth,HD space is totally wasted on sending everybody spam, junk, messages every day that they will never read. And keeping
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
Here in UK I have been receiving about 5-10 emails a day from various companies - most of whom I don't remember - telling me I need to sign up again so they can keep my details and keep spamming me. Fantastic.
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
Hear hear...
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
ditto the UK. Took virtually no refugees but rents still increasing ... hmmm something wrong with this theory? Seriously though in the UK we have had immigration over the last 20 years and that must have led to higher demand and prices. Bes
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
I'm honestly more tired of essays about p-values than p-values. It's true that like all metrics if it becomes a target then it maybe abused (Goodharts Law). However if you abolished p-values people would start hacking or misunders
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
Nope that's not my claim. Try reading what I wrote.
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
If I understand you correctly. Nobody had run a 4 minute mile before Roger Bannister. Now lots of people have so standards must have dropped.
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
1. I don't mention nor advocate social justice. 2. I don't anywhere imply everyone should be average. 3. I don't say ability is random among the population but I don't actually understand what you are getting at here? 4.
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
That presumes That the top 3.4% really were just the smartest - not the also the wealthiest and best connected. There is probably both some dilution of talent and also more competition from all levels of society. And as to point 1. In the U
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
"He attributes the earnings reversal overwhelmingly to one factor: education. For every two guys who graduate from college or get a higher degree, three women do." It's interesting itself that more women graduate than men. Bu
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
I'm in the UK not US so I'm n to totally sure what sort of fake news US electors get. However during Brexit and UK elections I get political ads and memes via FB. Google don't push that stuff at me. Google if it (rarely) push
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by Malarkey73 8y ago
I know Google is profiling me and harvesting my data. But it's not using me to harvest my friends information. I know Google is targeting ads at me - and they maybe AB tested. But those ads are from real companies or organisations - th
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Cambridge Analytica worked with hackers who stole emails from two heads of state(theguardian.com)
3 points by Malarkey73 8y ago|0 comments
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Loved that.
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New bill lets drug companies submit summary data to FDA instead of raw data?(vox.com)
1 points by Malarkey73 10y ago|0 comments
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Stanford, the White House, and Tech Bigwigs Will Host a Summit on Poverty(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by Malarkey73 10y ago|0 comments
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
If they have such cheap power (nearly free minus maintenance and capital) from hydrothermal - why can't they convert it to electricity to power lamps? It's economic for Marijuana producers even in countries with high energy costs
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
I think he is being disingenuous. Maybe he started it as an experiment but it's obviously been all about the Benjamins for a long time (20-25 writers? $10000-30000 a month?).
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
I've always thought of it in the way that if you went to an area like Yosemite or Font (bouldering) - then for every 100 people messing about, then 10 of them would be able to climb (5.12, Font 7a+) and 1 of them would be climbing (5.1
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
"Epistemology" is probably the best word.
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
Yeah - but they weren't votes from "real Americans" ;)
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
The first thing I want to know from an "everything you want to know about all-hands" article is : What is an 'all hands'?
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
I think it's possible to create a hybrid whereby your personal AI - has access to those external systems to check public (maps, search) and cloud data (calendar, mail). But it stores the private data about your location, your searches,
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
(IMHO) Absolutely everything in that response is completely wrong: 1. Railways are a real and concrete example of wrongheaded privatisation. 2. More congested roads are not an alternative to efficient rail services. 3. The greatest technolo
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by Malarkey73 10y ago
The EU commission are judge jury and executioner because Eire are cheating the rest of the EU by being a tax haven. They are booking sales made throughout the EU in Eire purely artificially and Apple paying v little tax on them. The EU are

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