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by drumdance 13d ago
When was this? I lived in Denver 2015-2021 and the DMV was always quick when I went.
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by drumdance 3mo ago
And government in general. Populist demagogues capitalize on the misperception that one man can just make all the "easy" fixes. DOGE was a good example of that.
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by drumdance 3mo ago
From my perspective, there is such a thing as "too much democracy." I don't know how to quantify the exact right amount for a given situation. In the case of companies, a benevolent dictatorship is fine because employees, cus
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by drumdance 4mo ago
For give my naiveté, but who pays for the training of these models?
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by drumdance 5mo ago
The spam results dominating Google, runaway popups... ugh
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by drumdance 5mo ago
Wow, this brings back memories. Way back in the 2000 I worked on a concept to charge “postage“ to big senders and remit payments to receivers (hosts, not end users). I also looked at hashcash. I ultimately abandoned the project because I re
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by drumdance 6mo ago
Do you have a web site? I'd like to check it out. I'm building an identity verification platform for age verification. I set it up as a nonprofit because I think this is a public good that should be provided by governments. It&#x2
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by drumdance 6mo ago
I could use this for a project I'm working on, but the Download link is 404 on GitHub
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by drumdance 6mo ago
That link only works for verified YC founders, not just members of the network.
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by drumdance 7mo ago
In theory yes, in practice it requires lots of different government services to get on the same page. How do you verify a state ID? Usually the DMV. Have they released an API endpoint for that? Almost certainly no. What if instead you'
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by drumdance 8mo ago
There are also SNRIs, which don't have the sexual side effects. I've done mostly SSRIs but in the last few years I've been on an SNRI called Pristiq and it's the best by far.
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by drumdance 8mo ago
> He was told explicitly by his boss that they weren't promoting white men. I've always had questions about this. Did he not look at the senior leadership and get a sense if that's true?
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by drumdance 8mo ago
I agree with this on a subjective level, but it also makes me think of blacksmiths at country fairs. I'm sure they deeply enjoy the work, but industrialized CNC and other technology replaced them long ago. It's a craftsman's
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by drumdance 11mo ago
I've thought for a while that I could get a good sense of someone's potential if I could just read their email. I noodled on the idea of an oauth (Gmail) based AI to evaluate email but the privacy issues make it a nonstarter.
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by drumdance 11mo ago
Thanks for your input. Once we launch the the product itself we will make no mention of crypto for exactly this reason. Lofty.ai used crypto as the back end for their fractionalized property platform, but there is no mention of crypto. I us
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by drumdance 11mo ago
This is something I should use but am not at all knowledgeable about. One thing to consider as a feature is creating an llms.txt file that explains all the details so its consumable by an LLM
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by drumdance 11mo ago
A decentralized identity platform for age gating content - https://cardlessid.org
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Identity Is Fundamental(djcodes.substack.com)
2 points by drumdance 11mo ago|8 comments
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by drumdance 1y ago
My very first programming job was with Quattro Pro spreadsheet. It was a great introduction for someone who was self-taught and pre-internet.
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by drumdance 1y ago
IMO the value of AI coding is less about what we're seeing now and more about what will happen once anyone can program their phone, watch or smart speaker just by feeding it a prompt.
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by drumdance 1y ago
How so? Stable coins issued under the GENIUS Act are fully reserved, unlike regular banks.
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by drumdance 1y ago
Surprised to see so many people who dislike the article. The important background hum to this piece is that she's dating men in a place where the male-female ratio is in her favor. It's also a pressure cooker environment where the
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by drumdance 1y ago
At first I thought this mean that the absolute count of pull requests was trending down and this could be a new BLS data point.
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by drumdance 1y ago
I don't have a strong opinion on this piece but I very much would like to see DID catch on. Not the WorldCoin version, but one that states and other state-backed providers can use to verify that someone is who they say they are.
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by drumdance 1y ago
Easy: parroting YouTube comments
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by drumdance 1y ago
I think that, broadly speaking, hard work and talent strongly predict success. But the circumstances can dramatically affect the magnitude. I have no doubt that Zuck would've been successful in 1880, but not one of the richest people w
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by drumdance 1y ago
Trump has had a bizarre fixation on trade deficits since the eighties. Back then he blamed Japan. Now it's China. It's his one and only ideological commitment.
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by drumdance 1y ago
Obama didn't endorse ZIRP. He wanted to do more stimulus but Congress wouldn't let him. In that environment ZIRP was the only solution. Ben Bernanke (a Bush appointee, re-appointed by Obama) devoted his academic career to how the
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by drumdance 1y ago
Budget deficits are not the same as trade deficits. Trump barely even mentions the debt and clearly does not care about it one bit.
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by drumdance 1y ago
Sadly, this go-round it's Gen X more than Boomers. We voted for Trump disproportionately compared to other age cohorts. I'm embarrassed on behalf of my idiot friends from high school.

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