patryn20

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by patryn20 2y ago
Language is a tool for manipulation. Sure it is used for communication with people considered “equals”. But primarily people use it to get what they want from people they can outmaneuver and/or manipulate verbally and legally (both are
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by patryn20 3y ago
You are of course welcome to administer this site as you wish. However: This site hasn’t represented balanced discourse or intellectual debate in at least a decade. I’ve watched it become just yet another Ivy League and big tech echo chambe
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by patryn20 3y ago
I was so fortunate to get in at a startup paying $90k/y usd in 2004. Now I’m poorly paid compared to the people I “mentor” at $160k + bonuses with no RSU. But at least I’m working on stuff I care about. I hear these fresh college grads
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by patryn20 3y ago
Reading through papers on cholangiocarcinoma: most of them ARE falsified. And I want to harm people for it. Only three new drugs in 29 years. And I can’t help but think it’s partially due to this. Mother has stage 4 intrahepatic cholangioca
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by patryn20 3y ago
Not downvoting personally. But the charging situation on the ground in Texas is hit or miss. If you’re along major interstates and major metropolitan areas you’re fine. You might have to wait for an hour for an open spot but you’ll get char
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by patryn20 3y ago
Yeah. But I can still fill an ICE car manually with a can or hand pump. Also hurricane evacuation with mass electric adoption is going to be an interesting situation to observe. It may be better than with an ICE. We’ll see.
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by patryn20 3y ago
Now imagine that distance being the distance to the next major city. And your family is 2 hours east of there. Welcome to Texas.
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by patryn20 3y ago
Seriously. Just give me a NORMAL car with a modern electric drivetrain and I’ll be happy. I have my 4Runner for longer trips and “electric grid down because Texas is a 3rd world island in a 1st world country” situations. These electric cars
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by patryn20 3y ago
Yes! It literally pointed at the horizon. Awesome find.
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by patryn20 3y ago
Not sure if it’s still this way, but Kotzebue AK was the perfect place to test low bandwidth internet. The over the horizon satellite uplink the entire town shared could only allocate 56k speeds to each client and had horrific packet loss.
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by patryn20 3y ago
Thanks for continuing to write as you can. Both of my parents are simultaneously dying from different forms of cancer. My father the same as yours (it started in his upper gum line). My mother a rare form of bile duct cancer. They’re not th
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by patryn20 5y ago
All these new hardware level physics exploits in software fascinate me. At the same time they make me wonder if the hardware will ever truly be able to be secure and perhaps we need to just move on to new methods and concepts in hardware de
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by patryn20 7y ago
And to be very clear: I don’t think the developer in this case is overhyping anything. I think the community is. His writing is super entertaining and he has made a great product.
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by patryn20 7y ago
Oh I’m not disputing it’s good for a single developer along with the freedom. It’s just that these projects always get talked up as huge successful life changing products (like Bingo Card Creator and appointment reminders etc) and then have
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by patryn20 7y ago
Man it’s so great to see sites like this continue to thrive. At the same time, I am once again amazed at how little revenue a publicly touted successful project makes.
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by patryn20 8y ago
While I'm aware anecdote is not the same as data, I really feel that the smart home experience vis-a-vis Alexa is getting worse. It no longer recognizes simple voice commands. Third party integrations constantly need to be reset (&quot
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by patryn20 9y ago
Here’s where I come off as ass, but what do you expect? These are complex systems with millions of moving parts and millions of lines of code. The chances of anyone ever being able to fully secure all systems (physical and virtual) is liter
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by patryn20 9y ago
Anecdata, a lot of the popular conservative user-generated content on YouTube I've come across tends to trend negatively towards "black people are causing all this crime and police drama", "I don't hate LGBT people,
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by patryn20 9y ago
That is extremely troubling. I wonder if it's because the algorithm is taking into account previous negative uses of the word in comments/commentary and flagging it as possible hate speech?
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by patryn20 9y ago
Unless Bitcoin has a fundamental evolution, it cannot be a replacement for fiat currency. I'm super excited about the crypto currency space but I firmly believe we're in the "Diamond Rio" phase of a new technology and no
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by patryn20 9y ago
This is based on the assumption that bitcoin will stabilize. I think bitcoin is a flawed first mover. The winner (and future stable cryptocurrency) likely hasn't been invented yet. But I imagine it's mathematic properties will all
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by patryn20 9y ago
Bitcoin is basically useless for buying legal things. And especially useless for high dollar transactions without escrow agreements, since the value can fluctuate rapidly before transactions settle and can be liquidated to fiat (funny how m
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by patryn20 9y ago
> Besides maybe a very risky (as in unpredictable value on delivery) method of money transfer. Cherry picking is fun. Did you transfer money last week? If it had been bitcoin and had been at the wrong time, you would have received less t
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by patryn20 9y ago
As I said, Ethereum is fundamentally flawed. And the implementation was...naive. It is a giant liability to all those who use it. I'm very excited for the space. Just not for the current currencies.
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by patryn20 9y ago
Now if your goal was simply to circumvent overseas capital transfer limits and legal limitations, that fee might be "worth it."
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by patryn20 9y ago
If you had traded BTC cross border at the wrong time last week, you could have lost 5-15% in value based on the prevailing market price during the time it took the transfer to settle and the coins to move onto an exchange and sell. BTC is i
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by patryn20 9y ago
This is the fundamental problem with treatment of rapidly evolving diseases. The hope is that if you get a "good enough" treatment and get it out to the population rapidly enough, the disease won't have a chance to evolve and
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by patryn20 9y ago
I think the distinct holders can be classified as such: 1) Libertarian idealists who don't recognize they've already lost control. 2) Money launderers and their developing world mining networks. 3) Speculators (including VC backed
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by patryn20 9y ago
The smart contract model makes it useful beyond just "purchasing things" (as the unimaginative would say. Yes that's a dig at you senatorobama). The EVM (despite it's implementation flaws) makes it's uses practicall
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by patryn20 9y ago
The truth isn't dulled by repetition. It's up to crypto enthusiasts to come up with a use case.

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