MichaelBosworth

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by MichaelBosworth 6mo ago
Why do you think that, per the article, one million cattle are wearing these collars?
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by MichaelBosworth 11mo ago
That he viewed a review on Goodreads as the reviewer’s intellectual property hadn’t occurred to me. I see why, in aggregate, many such opinions become valuable, but the whole is more than the sum of its parts. So does it feel to you guys li
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by MichaelBosworth 11mo ago
What expectation of confidentiality are you ascribing to people having posted publicly accessible opinions on the internet? Out of curiosity, is your point about TOS out of concern for the poster or for Goodreads?
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by MichaelBosworth 1y ago
It happens to me often enough. Might be a matter of taste in movies?
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by MichaelBosworth 1y ago
Sounds like the article isn’t incorrect? The first two criteria depend on which community is doing the judging. New Yorkers will have à different norm than people from say a quaint 5k-person town where there’s an 8:1 church:supermarket rati
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by MichaelBosworth 1y ago
He did check that out. His test results ruled it out.
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by MichaelBosworth 1y ago
Excited to try this. I like the look of that TUI.
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by MichaelBosworth 2y ago
“Extremely” is a bit extreme for something that takes 100,000 times longer than a Venmo payment. Or, intercontinentally, a stablecoin transfer
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by MichaelBosworth 2y ago
I find this only to be true when used on the same iPhone where NFCTools was used. If you try to have another iPhone detect the badge, it appears not to work - unless you use NFCTools on that iPhone, too. I don't have conclusive proof b
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by MichaelBosworth 2y ago
New England has no death penalty. California does. What is the crap you are referring to that makes California stink?
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by MichaelBosworth 3y ago
Would be curious to hear an elaboration on this perspective. In your opinion, on which measures of intelligence would GPT-4 fail to out-perform a human with an IQ of 80? Conversely, on which measures do you imagine it would succeed at doing
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by MichaelBosworth 3y ago
This is cool. I’m curious to see how the results of instructing GPT via Jargon compare with those of telling it what to do using natural language.
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by MichaelBosworth 4y ago
I would just point out zero-knowledge proofs. Magically enough, no, that's not a necessary feature of blockchains. Zcash allows an independent observer to verify that a transaction was authorized and completed. It does this without rev
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by MichaelBosworth 4y ago
For those who believe that decentralization matters, Worldcoin targets an important obstacle: the obstacle that prevents democratization of dapps. (Decentralized apps.) For example, say you want a cryptocurrency designed with universal basi
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by MichaelBosworth 4y ago
https://archive.ph/4x3je Without the paywall
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by MichaelBosworth 5y ago
> The article draws up comparison to defining "wealthy" as "People get rich because they take in more money than they spend." But that's actually a perfectly fine definition of wealthy which explains what it is.
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by MichaelBosworth 6y ago
Why was the CTO move a mistake? The biggest mistake of your life, at that.
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by MichaelBosworth 6y ago
I think you may be overstating how much they're overstating. The bill creates a group of anti-E2E-encryption folks with the power to smack down an online company when it suits them, who won't need congressional approval when decid
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by MichaelBosworth 7y ago
Neat! Thank you.
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by MichaelBosworth 7y ago
Le sigh. This sort of thing is why I made phitbone.com
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Overcoming the anonymity bottleneck: SMS verification(medium.com)
3 points by MichaelBosworth 8y ago|0 comments
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by MichaelBosworth 8y ago
SMS was proving to be an anonymity bottleneck, and SMS with physical / non-virtual numbers in particular. So I made a thing. Hope it helps.
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Show HN: anonymous SMS with physical numbers and Zcoin(phitbone.com)
4 points by MichaelBosworth 8y ago|1 comments
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by MichaelBosworth 8y ago
If you're doing something shitty with your life, this kind of thinking is a good way to continue doing it well. I doubt that's a good thing, net, unless you really truly don't have any options.
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by MichaelBosworth 8y ago
Cons: If you're an engineer in demand, and your startup exits nicely, your equity is still less than the market rate you would've gotten over the years. Less than your 3rd-best offer, for that matter. Often you can't even kno
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by MichaelBosworth 9y ago
But the author's manager gave him very high ratings.
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by MichaelBosworth 9y ago
Relative to the number of violent crimes committed... according to whom? The cops who fired?
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by MichaelBosworth 10y ago
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web
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by MichaelBosworth 10y ago
Over-engineering? Possibly, but we don't know what was in place before. Given the cost of data centers, I'm not sure why we should assume it was naive - or less than state-of-the-art, for that matter. State-of-the-art, that is, un