anthony_barker

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by anthony_barker 2y ago
RAG is dead? Here is an implementation https://github.com/lucidrains/titans-pytorch
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by anthony_barker 4y ago
From an interview with the founder of Wordpress - "NVC - non violent communication". I didn't find a "best" book to describe the basically simple process though. As far as problem solving specifically I enjoyed taki
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by anthony_barker 4y ago
Very nice... Canadian guy with a very level headed interviewing style.
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by anthony_barker 4y ago
I had both at the time... the nokia was more capable. Android kept iterating and copying apple until it was pretty useful.
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by anthony_barker 4y ago
what percent is charged up front?
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by anthony_barker 4y ago
yeah best way is to create a new gmail account for every phone. Or a phone only email which has the associated photos. Other option is a yubikey
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by anthony_barker 4y ago
Couple of questions: 1) Did you pay everything up front or was it a 50% up front and 50% on delivery basis? 2) Did you manage any deliverables on a google sheet (dates, owner etc) or something similar?
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Deaths per mile of bikes is 1/4 that of motorcycles in the UK. https://www.motorbikeclaims.org.uk/blog/these-shocking-accid...
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Tokyo sprawls as do many chinese cities but people bike to the train
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
There was an MIT Phd student thesis I read 20 years ago that electric bikes (escooters) are the future transport for Taiwan. Roll the clock ahead and ebikes (at least here in Paris) are taking over. Dedicated lanes, government subsidies, go
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
No one mentioned that governments benefit it 2 ways. 1) All the unemployed autoworkers who got automated away can move to make something that has had almost no productivity gains 2) Debt payments by government are basically nill. Another vi
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
I would love to use it more but: 1) Has there ever been a full security audit? 2) if not and I run it inside a VPN (wireguard) doesn't that remove most of the benefits?
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Main issue is sending outbound from maybe 50 countries.
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
hard to pay for a apartment in paris in land or olives in Argentina - but I can use bitcoin. Meanwhile it is almost impossible to send out Argentine money without government approval. This is the case for most non OECD countries....
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Mexico and then Canada.
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
hmm japan isn't very west nor is mongolia...
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
I would argue Big Pharma free rides its self on research from universities around the world which are mostly publicly funded and not for profit. The US represents less than 34% of global research. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Have done some apartment renovations recently I find the same thing with architecture, architects. Without a detailed plan a lot of space is wasted and the apartment ends up less nice and you often end up reconstructing stuff (if it is smal
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
More than 50% of the worlds population live in a countries with currency controls(China, India, Angola, Nigeria etc). They have reasons to avoid currency controls. Another less nice example is the guy who had 50 million in BTC who went to g
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
If you purchase the put you can only loose the premium. Naked puts (writing them) are another story
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Like he said it seems to depend. Last week sending Revolut to N26 was instant. N26 to Revolut took 3 days (weekend). There is no sepa rule that requires inst sepa if it is available.
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Its only interesting when compared with the US. Japan put in instant payments in 1973. And Nigeria, Philippines and many other developing countriesall have local instant payment systems. I have been using BRL (a stellar based stable token)
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Normally when you buy a put you are limited to the cost of the option.
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Send money to chile and wise charges 5-8%. They mostly only good in OECD countries. Plus they don't support sending money out of hundreds of countries. I figured that they changed their name to wise as their transfer business was not p
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Maybe Toronto will reach peak crane? https://i1.wp.com/www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021...
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Crane count image is interesting... Toronto has almost as much construction as the rest of north america! https://i1.wp.com/www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2021...
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
Immigration is a myth that real estate agents use to justify prices. Last year there were almost no immigrants and prices went up. Consumer mortgage debt is directly correlated with housing prices in Canada. This plus constraints on permits
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
And go back to most of human existence as hunter gatherers humans were very equal. 10,000 years ago the new technology called Agriculture changed this. Technology has generally always created inequality.
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
https://wallet.tether.to/transparency Tron is growing ... USDC is multichain as well.
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by anthony_barker 5y ago
It used to be.. Tron is almost 50% now of USDT issued. https://wallet.tether.to/transparency Also USDC is on several chains as well including Stellar.

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