topmonk

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by topmonk 7y ago
I'm in Taiwan and for various reasons don't want to move, so somewhat concerned. I don't think I'll be able to avoid it, so I'm exercising more so my body is in better condition to fight it. I'm also making sur
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by topmonk 7y ago
Given the number of cases in Singapore, this may not be the case for this virus.
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by topmonk 7y ago
The Fed has been buying treasuries and doing repo market purchases recently, expanding their balance sheet and dumping billions into the financial economy. Those funds have to move somewhere.
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by topmonk 7y ago
> This would seem to imply that if the government has ample evidence that you murdered someone, they can require you to admit to it in court. They can require you to tell them where the body is if you “encrypted” its location (i.e. burie
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by topmonk 7y ago
A transparent and verifiable governance model. Much better than what we have today.
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by topmonk 7y ago
When did I say it isn't? The idea is that some blocks can be accepted in lieu of the original if signed by certain entities that have been voted in by the community. In this way you can change previous blocks in the chain.
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by topmonk 7y ago
> Providing a way to instantaneously edit past transactions in a blockchain with the proper credentials sacrifices the only useful property that distinguishes blockchains from traditional databases (decentralized verification of/con
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by topmonk 7y ago
Jesus Christ, I'm not the poster child for this, ok? Just because you can find something you think is a problem with an implementation I came up with on the fly, doesn't mean the whole concept is bad. Fine, make it instant. People
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by topmonk 7y ago
I can give you one implementation off the top of my head. You could, in the blockchain, elect some editors that could remove things, but the effect would be subject to a time delay, such as a month for example. So things removed would sti
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by topmonk 7y ago
> then you have billions of people now able to access illegal content, that can never be removed because it is on a blockchain It's software . A blockchain can be programmed to accommodate your use case. It can also accommodate pre
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by topmonk 7y ago
How many coronavirus articles are you going to post this to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294779
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by topmonk 7y ago
Read the first couple of chapters. Not bad, flows well. Maybe being a little more descriptive wouldn't hurt. Thanks.
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by topmonk 7y ago
I always found a shot of straight whisky was good for a cold.
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by topmonk 7y ago
Huh? They started quarantining patients on January 1st, and fully quarantined Wuhan on January 22. And that says nothing for why the data matches up exactly to an ideal model and furthermore that model (quadratic) isn't correct for the
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by topmonk 7y ago
The numbers are ridiculous. What gives it away, is that if you plot them onto a graph, they almost exactly match what an algorithm would predict, unchanging regardless of quarantines, blockades, etc. that have been enacted. The further kic
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by topmonk 7y ago
And the Fed...
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by topmonk 7y ago
Don't rest your argument on official data coming out of China. There is evidence they are even burning bodies now (SO2 levels) to get rid of the evidence.
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by topmonk 7y ago
He raised awareness, though. That's better than all the governments and news media organizations of the world ignoring it. If he should comp people for his actions, what about them?
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by topmonk 7y ago
It's not the reporters, but management that is corrupt. They dictate what can and cannot be printed. On the other side of the coin, independent reporters don't get much traction / notoriety unless they kneel to sensationalism
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by topmonk 7y ago
Because with enough honking, they can get the crowd to ignore the traffic light and start to inch forward anyway.
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by topmonk 7y ago
Reported murders...
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by topmonk 7y ago
Great, make them fat and out of work.
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by topmonk 7y ago
I've learned that VR can eliminate some of the stir craziness you get.
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by topmonk 7y ago
It's different this time...
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by topmonk 7y ago
Most important point, as far as I'm concerned: Ok so - definitely, the death count is too low. We all agree there. But before you freak out, there's a bright spot. We CAN also put an upper bound with a fair amount of certainty on
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by topmonk 7y ago
Nowadays, what source is completely reliable? The best you can do is sample a bunch of them and try to piece together the whole truth from that, because everybody seems to have an angle.
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by topmonk 7y ago
Heres another article: https://www.zerohedge.com/health/man-behind-global-coronavir... What also leads me to believe this may be the case is that there was (according to the article) experiments on bats being run, and
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by topmonk 7y ago
I'm not asserting initialism vs acronyms. I'm talking about the grammar of "Who did". If you actually meant the World Health Organization, you'd have to interpret that as "World Health Organization did". T
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by topmonk 7y ago
The mass production of high end gaming rigs is only going to continue if the market continues to buys them. If thin-clients become the new standard, they will cease to become an option. If you have a hard time ponying up for the funds for a

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