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by oscilloscope 3y ago
Same author as the AI claims warning which also had an interesting tone https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your...
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by oscilloscope 7y ago
"But rocket science is arguably simpler than weight loss, in the sense that it involves less unpredictability and variation. We control how rockets are made, and they don’t change their material composition over time." The composi
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by oscilloscope 7y ago
Since this was about devices and ad-blocking, I expected the Pi-hole to make an appearance. But alas, the author used Brave browser. https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/blob/master/README.md
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by oscilloscope 7y ago
The latest MacBook Air starts at $849 refurbished. Quite a good value even compared to Windows laptops. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FREA2LL/A/refurbished-133...
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by oscilloscope 7y ago
The block-based visual programming system also looks similar to Scratch. I think kids still pick up valuable experience with basic logic, side-effects and weird cases like non-terminating loops. I met a 10-year-old who made a cat-and-mouse
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by oscilloscope 7y ago
The issue here is there needs to be administrative mechanisms to match supply and distribution of assets to demand. If you give someone $20 worth of food, but what they really need is a place to sleep, then that's not an optimally dist
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by oscilloscope 8y ago
It's important to start saving first and buy property only after you have a sustainable nest egg. The extra liquidity from saving helps in all scenarios: if you need to find a new rental, if you need a down payment, if tragedy strikes
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by oscilloscope 8y ago
I do truly hope insect biomass decline is uncorrelated to global climate change, and has more to do with local land use (farming, concrete, fertilizer, etc). That would mean we could make significant progress on restoring land-based insect
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by oscilloscope 8y ago
John Bogle created the index fund, and along with it a savings philosophy that enabled the average investor to build wealth by taking an appropriate amount of risk (with exposure to stock/bond markets) and minimizing fees. The Boglehea
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by oscilloscope 8y ago
I'm not sure the largest company by market cap has priced itself out of the market just yet.
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by oscilloscope 8y ago
The Motorola Razr M was an even smaller form factor with a 4.3" display. And all the iPhones from 3g to SE were outstanding in this now-extinct category, especially the 5s. The 5s has the venerable status of being not only small, but o
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by oscilloscope 8y ago
There's a nice interactive version of a decision tree diagram here, in the section "Growing a Tree". http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/
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by oscilloscope 8y ago
The thing about looking elsewhere is— what alternatives are there on the Android side? The XZ2 Compact is only marginally smaller than the iPhone 7. At this point the 7 (Apple refurbished) is cheaper than even the XZ1 Compact and will proba
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by oscilloscope 8y ago
You'd probably need to go with an MVNO plan like PagePlus or Mint SIM.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Gold's been around for a lot longer— it's mythologically significant. But as far as recent technology goes, Bitcoin's been around for a while. It's older then the iPad.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Bitcoin isn't really attempting to fulfill the currency use-case anymore. It's pretty much sticking with digital gold. Likewise with Ethereum, the currency is primarily used to run the protocol. Low price volatility is not a press
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Viewing and editing 4K video would be a pretty common use case on the largest MBP.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Another classic, BitListen: http://www.bitlisten.com/
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Then if I lose 100% of my investment, how much have I lost?
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Bash scripts are way more portable. But for little scripts that only I will run on my computer, Fish is great.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Right now, you probably can't send $50M of Bitcoin around for the world for $3 either.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Vertcoin is the probably the most Bitcoin-like one that addresses the mining centralization issue.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
It was probably MtGox and it was indeed shady.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
The best feed to look at is GDAX for Bitcoin on Coinbase https://www.gdax.com/trade/BTC-USD
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
That would put Magic Leap somewhere between Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash in their crypto market cap.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Neither the interest rate nor the term of the loan affect the principle. These only change the monthly payment amount. It's possible to have a lower monthly payment with a shorter term, depending on the interest rate.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Not all blockchains need to use energy-intensive proof-of-work mining to reach consensus.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Which part isn't true? The miners and many companies were quite explicit about their conditional support for Segwit with the New York Agreement. This is not a surprise move for anyone following the scaling debate.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Most exchanges, wallets, miners, etc currently support BTC and designate it as the new Bitcoin. The switching costs are the big hassle.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Their 10 day notice is also consistent with messaging Coinbase has been putting out for months on what their initial fork policy would be. https://blog.coinbase.com/update-for-customers-with-bitcoin-...

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