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The Church of Artificial Superintelligence(churchofai.webzum.com)
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by billions 4y ago
Agreed. ProtoBufs slows code iteration velocity tremendously. Saving 100 milliseconds on page load while reducing developer efficiency by 30% = a net worse product for end users.
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by billions 4y ago
By your logic an unqualified person could attain the CEO job. The CEO is picked by the shareholders to maximize shareholder value. The top boss is extremely well vetted to make sure they make good decisions to protect shareholders' m
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by billions 4y ago
The higher up the hierarchy, the more accountable they are to the customer. If management doesn't increase sales by providing an offering at a competitive price, sales will slump and someone will get fired. This is the opposite of un
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by billions 4y ago
"No longer can management kick the can down the road on things that many of us wanted to directly address." so you choose to prioritize your desires over customer needs? what if end users preferred to keep their cash instead of p
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by billions 4y ago
My bet is HN will downvote this post because HN fights hard to "conserve" against alternate viewpoints such as those of the author
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by billions 4y ago
Bitcoin is the real stable coin. Everything else is fluctuating in price discovery until hyperbitcoinization completes.
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by billions 5y ago
Can you expand on "Lightning seems like a joke compared to the types of efforts happening on Ethereum" ? I was just in El Salvador and Lightning was a faster and more convenient experience than credit cards...
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by billions 6y ago
Coffee increases heart rate. Heart failure is a leading cause of death and caffeine could be a contributor at scale.
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by billions 6y ago
Hubble was funded in the 1970s with a proposed launch in 1983, but the project was beset by technical delays, budget problems, and the 1986 Challenger disaster. It was finally launched by Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990, but its main mirror
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by billions 6y ago
When doing a home remodel and the contractor breaks something they either return the money or fix it. Blame the CDC for not vetting the work and enforcing contracts.
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by billions 6y ago
The last time the US government made something to be proud of was 50 years ago with the Apollo program. Counter examples welcome!
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by billions 6y ago
Can you be more creative than having one single entity make the decision for every single person? How about we leverage multiple brains from many walks of life come up with ideas, you know, like in this forum
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by billions 6y ago
What do you trust then? Asset inflation is -25% YTD
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by billions 6y ago
https://sneezemap.com Crowdsourced COVID-19 symptoms map
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by billions 6y ago
React Native seems to be quickly becoming the standard for fast development coupled with native integration
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by billions 6y ago
Your thoughts on this @dang?
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by billions 6y ago
This is the first honest explanation I've received - thank you. SneezeMap has had hundreds of upvotes on reddit, been praised by industry leaders like Balaji Srinivasan, received free sponsorship from Facebook, and been approached by
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by billions 6y ago
I built https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOlszNi4zODU5MTI3NzI4... . - a crowdsourced Covid-19 symptoms tracker & forecasting system with over 15000 participants. 100% anonymous from day 1.
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by billions 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. While there are likely be a few people behind VPNs and people who misreport symptoms, statistically they are insignificant. For location, you would expect multiple reports in a central hub's location - there
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by billions 6y ago
I built https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOlszNi4zODU5MTI3NzI4... - a crowdsourced Covid-19 symptoms tracker & forecasting system with over 15000 participants. 100% anonymous from day 1.
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by billions 6y ago
Have a look at SneezeMap.com - a crowdsourced Covid-19 symptoms map with more than 15000 volunteers and growing. I am the dev & happy to answer questions.
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by billions 7y ago
It's likely more people will die from economic hardship than the virus
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by billions 7y ago
Here's the links that didn't turn out in the description: https://SneezeMap.com/ US: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOlszOC41ODI1MjYxNTkz... Europe: https://sneezemap.com/?
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Show HN: Waze for Coronavirus
4 points by billions 7y ago|1 comments
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by billions 7y ago
I built Sneezemaps.com to correlate symptoms & confirmed cases US: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOls0MC4yNzk1MjU2Njg4... Europe: https://sneezemap.com/?zone=eyJjZW50ZXIiOls0Ny42NjUzODczNTYz...
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by billions 7y ago
It’s not just for hospitals. Regular people practice social distancing with up to date infection data. See South Korea’s data transparency. Exponential growth means 10x change from one day to the next, making live reporting crucial for s
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by billions 7y ago
How about updating it when the data comes in? How about calling all hospitals? How about setting up a website for doctors to log in to? It is life-or-death data, isn't it?
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by billions 7y ago
Awesome!
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by billions 7y ago
Show me another website that is this incompetent when lives are on the line

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