johnrichardson

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by johnrichardson 8y ago
I've had the complete opposite experience. I've tried almost every food delivery app, and what I've found is that Uber Eats is the most reliable, longest open at night and best value for price food delivery service in my area
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by johnrichardson 8y ago
A trend I've noticed from lurking and browsing these comments: commenters who have experience taking risk and operating under existential conditions in stressful, budget constrained companies (AKA, startup founders) tend to be critical
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by johnrichardson 8y ago
You fundamentally misunderstand PoS. There is no social trust involved. It will work entirely through economic incentivization, including 'group penalization' when enough validators are offline/byzantine at the same time in t
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by johnrichardson 8y ago
There's no way they raised $660M. Even $66M would be pushing it. I hope TechCrunch edits this article with a more accurate number. Filecoin and Tezos both raised about $200M and were considered massive ICOs, not to mention they happene
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by johnrichardson 8y ago
You're right. Some studies have found it as high as 85%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ
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by johnrichardson 8y ago
I don't see the word 'IQ' mentioned anywhere in that article. And yet, it's the single biggest determinant of lifetime success. Unfortunately, it's also highly heritable, so environmental interventions have a fairly
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by johnrichardson 8y ago
This is in response to the 'medium of exchange' problem, which posits that if your token doesn't have a sink built into it, it will slowly lose value over time. See this post: https://vitalik.ca/general/2
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
In my experience, it's counterproductive to code more than 4-5 hours per day. At a certain point you start introducing bugs/inadvertent complexity whose negatives outweigh any feature contributions you're making. There's
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
I'm a big fan of Peter Thiel, and of anyone who's a divergent thinker and has well thought out opinions that run contrary to mainstream ideology (e.g., Noam Chomsky). If YC ended its relationship with Peter because of his politica
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Another day, another mainstream media publication shilling hysterical articles about Russia. My pet theory is that it's a big collective act of psychological sublimation to compensate for the shock of Hillary losing. I also find it ir
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
This article's dumb. 8 men control half the world's wealth? All of a sudden the word 'bodega' is racist? Too many white men contributing value is 'problematic'? Articles like this are the reason why Trump won.
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
It's actually spelled 'raycis.' And the reason why Kaepernick's kneeling is silly is that black-on-black crime is orders of magnitude more of a problem for the black community than police shootings of young black males.
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Ethereum's moving to PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerant) Proof of Stake. See this FAQ for more details, it has the most up to date details on Ethereum's PoS progress: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki&#x2
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Also see: http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/19/congress-considering-valid... I've been expecting digital currencies to be co-opted (or at least, try to be co-opted) by centralized authorities for a while no
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Indeed. It seems as though the entire West has lost its collective mind about the importance of free speech and free expression as bedrock principles which ensure peace, stability and prosperity. Additionally, I view these acts of censorshi
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Let's Get Rid of Mount Rushmore(vice.com)
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Adolf Hitler: ~9 million deaths Joseph Stalin: Estimates range from 3 million - 60 million deaths. Mao Zedong: Estimates range from 49 million - 78 million deaths. All evil men. Why aren't the latter two nearly as reviled as Hitler or
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Awesome. Thanks!
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Can't read this, it's behind a paywall. Anyone got a link to the full article?
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Yet another example of what I was referring to. I happen to be quite grateful for the sacrifices my ancestors (and the human race more broadly) made in building civilization, so that I don't have to live in a Hobbesian world where deat
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Jordan Peterson has a great take on the attitude this author (and many others like her) have about America, and the West in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf2nqmQIfxc&t=1s The modern Left is dripping with hatr
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Here's reality: kowtowing to leftist media pressure in the name of making a company more 'sensitive and diverse' (i.e., hiring people for any reason other than their competence , such as their addition to 'diversity&#x2
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by johnrichardson 9y ago
Agreed. I wish they would just state the facts, and avoid the SJW nonsense. I don't care about the author's thoughts on identity politics - I just want the substance of the story.