rthomas6

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by rthomas6 1y ago
I really wish someone would make a stablecoin not pegged to some currency but to a basket of goods. A CPI-coin, if you will. How would that work? Maybe similar to the programmatic way DAI works, by collateralizing other assets in a way that
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by rthomas6 1y ago
No, it's not the United States's military dominance that makes American debt a safe bet. It's that the Dollar is the worlds reserve currency. Other countries need to transact regularly in dollars even if the United States is
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by rthomas6 1y ago
Well I'm moving to get out of Alabama, so not everyone...
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by rthomas6 1y ago
You can look at per capita GDP in inflation-adjusted dollars
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by rthomas6 1y ago
* What HDL did you use to design the processor? * Could you share the assembly language of the processor? * What is the benefit of designing the processor and making a Python bytecode compiler for it, vs making a bytecode compiler for an ex
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by rthomas6 1y ago
Eh. Google may be better than Microsoft in this regard, but this is basically what they're doing with Android. AOSP is now lacking a lot of core functionality that comes with Google Pixel phones, such as RCS messaging, emoji reactions
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by rthomas6 1y ago
More than giant corporations make IP. What about independent artists making original art?
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by rthomas6 1y ago
So you don't think employers will raise wages as the cost of food increases?
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by rthomas6 1y ago
I worry about this, but I started worrying about it less when I read about Purchasing Power Parity. The same stuff costs less in poorer countries.
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by rthomas6 1y ago
The flaw I see is centered around this paragraph. > How can rates come down? The present uncertainty around tariffs and a potential crisis could create conditions that pressure interest rates downward before those Treasury securities mat
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by rthomas6 1y ago
My personal opinion: It will be similar to how computers affected jobs. No jobs are safe, but no skilled jobs are immediately on the chopping block either. AI will boost peoples' efficiency, such that it will take one skilled worker to
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by rthomas6 1y ago
In the Culture books it was AI...
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by rthomas6 1y ago
The way I see it you only have two real choices: 1. Raise wages to match global increased productivity 2. Democratize ownership That's it.
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by rthomas6 2y ago
But unless you were nobility, meat wasn't available at every meal, or even every day. It cost too much. Meat for most people was a special occasion kind of thing. Ever notice how the English words for animals have Germanic roots but th
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by rthomas6 2y ago
Wait, this comment made me aware of the existence of iCloud Relay. Apple built their own Tor only for Apple users? Why would they do that? Why not use Tor???
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by rthomas6 2y ago
Well, it still tells us something. What are the upper and lower bounds of whole brain microplastic content, given that 25% variation?
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by rthomas6 2y ago
It's not irrational to avoid exposure to unknown or poorly studied chemicals. Avoiding something for which one has no evidence in either direction is a good risk avoidance strategy. In general, when it comes to my body, I prefer a whit
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by rthomas6 2y ago
I think this issue is a lot of why ChatGPT feels smart to me. It actually parses all the parts of what I say and tries to respond to it comprehensively. It doesn't always succeed, but it's usually better than my experience asking
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by rthomas6 2y ago
The building materials aren't what's causing housing to be unaffordable. It's single family zoning and land speculation. The best thing to do to lower housing costs is to drastically reduce single family zoning (some cities h
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by rthomas6 2y ago
I wish it were standard practice to have some kind of house battery (what Tesla calls "Powerwall") for new construction homes. They could smooth out peak usage in this exact way, in addition to making individual homes more resilie
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by rthomas6 2y ago
If they are more than just a line on the road and are actually safe to use, they are probably not as empty as they seem. Because bikes take up much less space and don't tend to bunch up as much like cars, it can seem like there must be
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by rthomas6 3y ago
That is why I buy the blu-rays
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Blu-rays are much better quality than streaming in the majority of cases, and 4k blu-rays are ALWAYS better quality than any streaming, hands down. If you have a home theater setup, or even an nice TV, it is very very worth it to get the bl
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Denying communication will always be possible, you just have to be loud enough to drown everyone else out. But spoofing stuff doesn't have to be possible. You can design rf communications with various kinds of encryption that makes spo
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by rthomas6 3y ago
People lie about what they personally did as part of a larger team. They claim to have skills and expertise they don't actually have. I'm not saying you need a gauntlet of tests. I liked the approach mentioned elsewhere of a techn
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Probably so, but at least my company can't MITM and log all my traffic.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Not until just now I didn't. Do they not have a smartphone? A personal laptop? I'm waiting for something to build as I'm typing this right now. On a separate computer. I would never go on Hacker News on my work computer. Why
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by rthomas6 3y ago
You could do it all with discrete chips on a board. No need for a computer really. Temperature -> PID controller, display -> 7 segment decoder, timer -> timer chip. Something like a circuit board with a bunch of discretes would be
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by rthomas6 3y ago
I wish there was a forum like this for engineers. I'm really a CompE/EE masquerading as a programmer.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
for bar_vec in bar_mat: if bar_vec != []: for y in bar_vec: if baz(y): for x in y: foo(x) Seeing it written out here, the example looks nice. In real code with mo

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