git_rancher

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by git_rancher 21d ago
A few hundred thousand dollars worth of tech replacing what used to be a massive industrial investment is amazing. And I thought enriching uranium is something that counties with nukes go to extreme lengths to make it not accessible.
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by git_rancher 3y ago
What about unique patterns of wealth redistribution across the economies they participate in? Surely this is a value to society.
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by git_rancher 6y ago
> There is one other use case for identity, and yes, it is decentralized and bottom-up, because it is about dividing into secure, self-sovereign affinity groups, and the reasons for doing that are on a very short list of uses. Super fun,
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by git_rancher 8y ago
Everything is already automated if you consider the universe’s noise to be an organizing force.
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by git_rancher 8y ago
There’s a tragedy of commons problem in engineering. The engineering orgs collective ability to handle complexity is the community resource. Without safeguards in place this resource is squandered by engineers because the easy solution to
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by git_rancher 8y ago
This probably mirrors the concentration of power that’s happening.
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by git_rancher 8y ago
The what list?
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by git_rancher 8y ago
This makes the whole US a debtors prison of sorts. Not sure if this is a useful way to think about it though.
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by git_rancher 8y ago
Does anyone else remember being taught in Econ 101 about globalization and comparative advantage and how great it is? Either the educators didn't know this would happen or it was a campaign to sell the public on the idea. Or maybe it w
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by git_rancher 8y ago
Strictly focusing on minimizing risk to life imo leads to practices that neglect quality of life. Imagine if keeping your baby isolated at night meant that later in her life she would have trouble trusting the world and would as a result be
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by git_rancher 8y ago
The constant skin to skin contact between baby and mom from cosleeping and breastfeeding is believed by some psychologists to contribute to baby's healthy psychological development. Humans are highly social animals. I'm amazed and
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by git_rancher 8y ago
Fat vs glucose being the energy source depending on diet? Where can I find more info about this?
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by git_rancher 8y ago
My therapy involves periods of getting in touch with my body, e.g. tension in my forehead or tightness in my chest, and then as I focus and try to be present with the sensations, words tend to pop into my mind that often yield insights into
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by git_rancher 8y ago
I wonder how long until a critical mass of people get fed up with the resource hogging of the ultra rich. Seems likely to happen at some point if current trends in wealth inequality continue.
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by git_rancher 8y ago
A lot of journalism is basically PR. I forget who, but someone did a study showing that a large percentage of journalism source material is basically press releases. Edit: typo fix
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by git_rancher 8y ago
Can we keep age discrimination out of this discussion please?
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by git_rancher 9y ago
Run the examples to see what it does, try to build something with it to get a deeper understanding of the depth of its capability, then finally dive into the code itself by fixing a bug or adding a feature or even just playing around and ch
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by git_rancher 9y ago
Skycoin is interesting. https://www.skycoin.net/whitepapers/
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by git_rancher 9y ago
Maybe this is the "make a favorable impression with rich people at LA parties" PR tactic.
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by git_rancher 9y ago
Can you share more about your interest in this? Eg just cryptocurrency or for something larger?
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by git_rancher 9y ago
How is the time dimension modeled?
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Are timing vulnerabilities discoverable by formal verification?
1 points by git_rancher 9y ago|2 comments
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by git_rancher 9y ago
> As an aside, has anyone else noticed how new posters are overwhelmingly pessimistic and reliant on dubious anecdotes? New posters are the next generation of old posters, that is unless they are driven off e.g. by being stereotyped.
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by git_rancher 9y ago
The upper middle class is apparently a minority that is politically safe to do economic harm to.
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by git_rancher 9y ago
He means speaking commands (to a shell I presume) rather than type them.
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by git_rancher 9y ago
You may not know this but a primary purpose of Mensa is to help "smart" people find other "smart" people to socialize with. In that sense it succeeds (I'm a member).
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by git_rancher 9y ago
What? Holy smokes! This is the first I've heard of this. Can you share any more info? Sources?
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by git_rancher 9y ago
These aren't mutually exclusive scenarios. Anecdotally I have friends who are investing in bitcoin because they've seen the price go up so much that they want in on the action. At the same time there are legit demand reasons for t
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by git_rancher 9y ago
This is just industry self regulation in the face of otherwise impending "doom" from the ad blocking trend.
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by git_rancher 10y ago
Is there any commercial software that lacks an EULA? Not having one would I think expose the company to risks that any for-profit company is incentivized to minimize (i.e. It wouldn't make sense to not have one).

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