perseusmandate

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by perseusmandate 6y ago
Why do you think Hal would have been Satoshi but then also been the first developer using his real name?
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
Satoshi's email was hacked and that wasn't signed with PGP I think the consensus is that the statement wasn't real
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
If that's the case why has Craig continued to gain prominence and have more and more sway over BTC? Bitcion SV is worth $4B now. He's been able to monopolize the mindshare on Satoshi and misdirect the narrative.
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
This is insane. Mess up with this and you could end up with a serious infection
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
Procedural generation for plants is actually pretty common already Most trees you see in video games are from middleware like Realtree
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
Even if Blender can't match any of these point solutions at their respective niches, I have to imagine there would be a ton of value in a team that all mostly works in a common tool they all know well a pipeline of Maya, C4D, Modo, Nuk
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
They offer a Crytek derived game engine called Lumberyard used for the long-running Star Citizen scam
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
Not a valid comparison since those are core products of both companies. Google hasn't and never will open source Search.
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
PUBG was itself a commercialized version of (arguably better) Arma 3 mods with a bunch of royalty free assets + microtransactions. It still was printing money and top of the Steam charts for many months- I think it ended up being a great ou
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
Alphabet has 120K employees right now. Ex-Google was a meaningful distinction 15 years ago. Today it does not remotely entitle you to being funded. Many VCs today recognize that Google is an extremely bureaucratic place that does not resemb
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
The reality is that VCs are genuinely inclined to fund black founders since their funds are overwhelmingly old white men. This is an industry that cares a lot about not generating controversy. VCs got hit hard by Me Too- Lightspeed, Kleiner
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
I'm in VC and there are many reasons why I and my peers are not interested in yet another software product selling to gyms. They are extremely fragmented, hard to access, low ACV customers who are already well served by products like M
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
I was a customer at one of their gyms and the app was garbage. It frequently crashed and there were huge bugs with basic stuff like the dates I'd be billed for renewal being wrong. I didn't realize I was still subscribed and they
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
The thing that really allowed DoorDash (and UberEats) to pull ahead was investing in partnerships with chain restaurants vs focusing on independent restaurants. Which hasn't necessarily resulted int he best product
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
Meal delivery doesn't just exist because people are lazy. It has been around a long time via the much more inefficient process of calling a restaurant that you already knew about, having someone spend time with you on the phone getting
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
For a period of time when Uber was in China, a huge amount of revenue was from fraudulent rides that weren't actually happening. There were smart investors who saw through the facade and didn't invest and there were smarter ones w
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
CloudKitchens is more the kitchen infrastructure for restaurants who only have a presence on delivery apps. They are trying to facilitate a restaurant model that is optimized for the delivery apps'supply chains rather than starting the
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
DoorDash already serves as the back end for a number of other services. But being a courier company is not near as good of a business model. The aggregation element means that they own the end customer and payment flow, which among other th
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by perseusmandate 6y ago
I suppose you think Olga Tokarczuk or Svetlana Alexievich are more popular with millennials? David Foster Wallace and Harold Bloom both have called Delillo one of the greatest living authors. I and quite a few other people I know in my age
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
The fast inverse square root algorithm Carmack invented for Quake 3's lighting is the definition of elegant code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
As I understand it typical occupancy rate is 95%. Looks like there are ~400K housing units in SF (not total bay area). That would imply there are 20K vacant units just for frictional reasons. I expect the number of these type of vacancies e
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
You're right, you aren't "forced" to pay, you're merely deprived of the right to participate in temple rituals that are central to the community and teachings if you don't. And also have to tell your bishop, th
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
I've heard many times in the church that you're supposed to pay tithing even if you can't afford it and that "blessings" (often material) will make up the difference. It is patently dangerous financial advice. The a
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
Add to this the fact that he had been reported as being optimistic about winning his case and had never exhibited suicidal behavior before, even when he was facing a serious sentence
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
The general prison suicide rate isn't comparable- Epstein was in jail rather than prison, previously already on suicide watch from a supposed attempt and was more importantly possibly the most high profile prisoner of the Millenium.
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
In terms of total mineral output oversaturating would seem to be disadvantageous since being able to get more workers on the new mineral line is offset by the cost of not expanding sooner and then being able to build from both bases. I&#x27
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
They have demonstrated a consistent commitment to user privacy that their peers have not
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
Amazing how WC3 maps were responsible for both MOBAs and Tower Defence, two of the most popular genres of all time, both moreso than conventional RTSs at this point
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
According to this site Phoenix has an F in crime, as does Salt Lake City. It also has a C+ for cost of living, F for schools, D for employment. Seems off
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by perseusmandate 7y ago
If you have amassed enough hashpower to be able to do the 51% attack you have far more to gain economically from continuing to mine for the network than to somehow short it (impossible to find a counterparty for a transaction that large) an

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