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by sentinel 5y ago
The newer types of reactors - gen 3 are way safer than a Chernobyl. I.e. a meltdown could not happen
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by sentinel 5y ago
My rule of thumb when working on side projects is to keep it simple: - use tech-stacks that I know - even simpler – use node.js / express (i.e. use only one programming language) - Standard AWS EC2, S3, Postgres instances - scale verti
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by sentinel 5y ago
Any recommendations for courses or books that give a 101 intro all the way to understanding these curves and why / how they are used? I'd like to get a grasp on this from first principles. Thank you!
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by sentinel 5y ago
Another day another “stay away from bitcoin” post on HN
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by sentinel 5y ago
> how you would resolve an innocent person being misidentified by a facial recognition system Due process, which they'll still be entitled to. Not sure about suing. I'm sure people will try and sue.
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by sentinel 5y ago
Turns out making up "antitrust" cases against US companies is a great source of income for the European Union.
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by sentinel 5y ago
> It also seems likely that more surveillance will result in fewer innocent people convicted, not more. +1 – my gut instinct tells me this is the case. I don't have any data to back it up though, but I have a feeling this is true.
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by sentinel 5y ago
> So instead of improving it, you suggest to automate it? I said no such thing. Read the whole thing again, take the upset level down a few notches and get back to us.
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by sentinel 5y ago
Yea it's a weird situation for sure. I would assume that any facial recognition attempt has taken a hit with masks being so prevalent.
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by sentinel 5y ago
Rephrase please.
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by sentinel 5y ago
Yea I think: - Google and Amazon etc won’t touch it cause it is bad PR - stores won’t buy it cause it’s bad PR; fear of boycotting etc. - physical retail is already on the decline; why spend money in a dying industry - the whole project wou
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by sentinel 5y ago
The 1% there is that “the criminal won’t get caught”. Not that someone else, an innocent bystander, will get caught. Also what you described can happen to you today as well. It’s the imperfect system we live in.
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by sentinel 5y ago
I doubt that this would happen.
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by sentinel 5y ago
Certainly possible. I don't know what the mapping would be there, and whether it is 1 to 1. > In the pandemic, burglaries dropped significantly, presumably because people were home I would have expected that to be the case too, but
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by sentinel 5y ago
This is already happening without facial recognition.
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by sentinel 5y ago
An argument here is that it disincentivizes others from doing similar crimes. If the technology is so spot on that 99% of the time you commit the crime you'll get caught, then others will likely not take the risk. Granted there's
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by sentinel 5y ago
How did the EU become such a bunch of luddites? Or does it only seem that way from outside? I get that there are legit concerns about face recognition (as there are benefits), but the concerns _could_ be regulated. Granted, regulation is a
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by sentinel 5y ago
You're in the minority.
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by sentinel 5y ago
Not a better analog at all.
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by sentinel 5y ago
1. The mainstream news pushed numerous stories over the past years without those rudimentary truthiness checks. 2. I disagree with many points in that paragraph: - echo chambers: when was the last time you heard a nuanced "from the oth
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by sentinel 5y ago
Fair – I suppose my point is that they've set themselves up for an out better than others have.
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by sentinel 5y ago
Thanks for this perspective – I was not aware of this. Definitely a good idea and I'm personally happy to see a resurgence in nuclear as a green solution to the climate issue.
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by sentinel 5y ago
You are correct that they both work very similarly. In fact doge was heavily inspired by BTC. Both have PoW and coin minting as a result of block resolutions. Granted I'm not an expert on doge, but one big difference that I know of is
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by sentinel 5y ago
I've been following this story a bit and here's what I've noticed: 1. The causes seem to vary depending on who you ask. There seems to be a combination of CO2 taxes going up, a hard winter last year that diminished the strate
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by sentinel 5y ago
Europe can probably get dirt cheap gas from the Russians, the question is – at what cost?
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by sentinel 5y ago
About coal: 2030 seems to be the deadline to close all coal burning power plants in Europe. Every year more coal power plants will be shut down. This year was a deadline year for some countries in the EU. It was all a long term plan, but po
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by sentinel 5y ago
Permissive insider trading laws and public participation in German capital markets may not necessarily be correlated. There can be other reasons why Germans choose not to participate. But, I do agree that (at least) an attempt to make insid
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by sentinel 5y ago
Crypto is a catch-all term at the moment. Some cryptos will be more useful than others. Some (like BTC) could be the digital equivalent of gold. Some will facilitate decentralized companies (e.g. LINK). Some will likely be Ponzi schemes (e.
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by sentinel 5y ago
There’s something to be said about losing an incentive here. Likely they should pay _something_. But they should also be grandfathered in. But at the same time, over the past year, it’s ridiculous how easily this government decides to chang
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by sentinel 5y ago
You forgot to add “for no reason”.

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