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by _9omd 2y ago
This is pretty similar to the argument for why humanoid robots will be a big deal. The physical world is also built mostly for humans, so having an autonomous agent that can interact with it is huge.
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Ask HN: How can I automate my bedtime
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by _9omd 2y ago
Just got the latest Apple Watch, so also glad to hear they perform better on HRV. It seems they get a lot of the little details better than competitors in the wearables space. I read previously about how they likely had the most accurate sl
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by _9omd 2y ago
Yes, I think you're spot on. They showed a video of a robot arm cleaning the car's inside, and it appears the vertical opening doors make that kind of access easier. The car will also have wireless charging, which makes that easie
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by _9omd 2y ago
They're going for lowest cost per mile. Most rides have 2 or less people, this will address that huge market in a very efficient way.
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by _9omd 2y ago
A similar thing happens with stock and crypto traders. They do a ton of trading during a bull market and feel like a genius, because they bagged a few big wins, but they downplay all their big losses. At the end of the year and once short t
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by _9omd 3y ago
Once again, I never claimed this was a scam. I'm simply pointing out that the system has an inherent flaw regarding account selling, which makes it not sybil resistant, as claimed by the founders. I usually give projects the benefit of
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by _9omd 3y ago
I’m not saying it’s a scam, just that it seems their system isn’t really Sybil resistant due to the issue of account selling. And if that’s the case they either didn’t think this would be an issue, or they expected it but don’t really care,
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by _9omd 3y ago
I can’t imagine how naive you have to be to not see account selling as a massive problem. Especially when your plan is to first onboard users in poor countries. Why would these people do anything other than signup and immediately sell their
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by _9omd 3y ago
Remember, Sam Altman is the guy who made open AI into closed AI, and he’s the cofounder of this. If you think he has any intent of making this an open decentralized system that benefits people you’re likely mistaken.
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by _9omd 3y ago
I think fake iris scanning is the least of the concerns here. The big problem, and likely reason this will fail, is there’s nothing preventing you from selling your account for a small fee after getting your initial scan to set it up. And t
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by _9omd 3y ago
And these people don’t give two shits about world coin, they just want the free money the company is throwing at them. This things is doomed to fail, because the biometrics are only authenticated when you setup your account initially like i
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by _9omd 3y ago
I think this type of course should come very early in a CS program. Yes, many students learn these things on their own, but many don’t, and it’s a good idea to put them on equal footing. Being able to efficiently use common software tools a
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by _9omd 3y ago
Honestly using an off the shelf gaming controller isn’t crazy, even military subs have used them for certain applications. But why on earth would you chose this controller when you can get a much more reliable wired Xbox controller for 80 b
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by _9omd 3y ago
The killer app is financial freedom. If people chose to use that to commit crimes then that only proves they are criminals. Any sufficiently powerful tool can be used for good or evil.
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by _9omd 3y ago
But it’s still a store of value. No store of value is perfect, USD will lose value over time to inflation, stock indices are subject to volatility, gold is subject to theft and volatility, other foreign currencies are subject to government
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by _9omd 3y ago
Exactly. Anyone who’s ever done something good for someone else partly did it because it felt good. This is what drives humans to help others, and society would fall apart without this basic urge to help others.
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by _9omd 3y ago
But if he’s honest in telling his origin story about figuring out how to optimally drive engagement, doesn’t that actually make him genuine? There’s no lie here. He’s upfront about how he’s optimizing content for views and using profits to
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by _9omd 3y ago
Oh for sure, the gov is willfully looking the other way on this one. Increasing home prices drives up tax revenues.
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by _9omd 3y ago
1) The US isn’t the entire world, and crypto is a very global thing since it’s essentially borderless finance (outside of exchanges anyway) 2) Crypto cannot be killed due to its decentralized nature and every attempt makes it more clear how
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by _9omd 3y ago
Wow, those captchas almost look like satire. On a side note, what the hell is up with branding for HBO streaming? They’ve gone from HBO GO to HBO Now to HBO Max. And now, according to ads I recently saw, it’s just Max. Talk about whiplash.
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by _9omd 4y ago
I think friction is a big part. I’ve never paid for a website subscription but I have several subscription apps on my iphone because the payment (and cancellation) process is streamlined.
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by _9omd 4y ago
This is inspiring. I think I’ll pickup your book. I used to be on the lower tech path in the early smart phones days. I remember I refused to have data service on my phones for years, but sadly I caved eventually and here I am now phone add
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by _9omd 4y ago
Okay, but then what causes depression? It seems more likely that a range of environmental, lifestyle, and genetic factors cause both depression and mitochondrial damage.
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by _9omd 4y ago
Chamath talked about manager bloat on a recent All-in podcast in a way that seemed to make sense. Basically there is pressure to grow your career by moving from being an IC to a manager and once a manager there are incentives to grow your n
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by _9omd 4y ago
It really depends on your height and preferred wheel height setting. I'm tall and in some cars the wheel obscures a good portion of the insturments.
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by _9omd 4y ago
Spot on. I think part of the problem is in the common framing of cryptocurrencies as trustless. At the end of the day there is trust in every human made system, blockchain or not. With Bitcoin, you're still trusting that all of the dev
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by _9omd 4y ago
I think the confusion is the parent is talking about an implementation detail (blockchain), rather than the main problem cryptocurrency actually solves. Cryptocurrency solves for internet based financial sovereignty. Whether or not you thin
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by _9omd 4y ago
> the killer feature is actually permissionless composability This right here is it! Everyone is always focused on the main feature being decentralization, but decentralization isn't a feature, it's an implementation detail. De
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by _9omd 4y ago
It just occurred to me, there may be a reason they don't tell you that I hadn't considered before. If they tell you exactly what income they do know about, then they're implicitly providing information about your income they

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