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in_hindsighton Nine-year-old child to graduate university

Can you say that you are ahead of your current peers in terms of learning capacity / knowledge?

Can you still learn new subjects / fields ?

in_hindsighton Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

Is upcoming Modern Warfare going to get boycotted as well? That will get Activision’s attention for sure

Wow, so the author basically suggested to use the auction to sell the keyboard at $1668 instead of $500 because it’s not market clearing price? That’s borderline evil

in_hindsighton Bird populations have declined since 1970 across nearly all habitats

Tangentially related, but is Scientific American worth subscribing to? I really like reading paper magazines and am a subscriber to Science, but feel like I could use lighter reading if it’s not too sensationalist

in_hindsighton Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

church owns apartments, does it rent it out to anyone ?

in_hindsighton Consume less, create more

Serious question - would you consider exercise consumption or creation?

in_hindsighton NULL license plate not such a bright idea

Can you have brackets in license plate?

in_hindsighton War and drugs: Together since forever

Why that province specifically?

in_hindsighton Anatomy of a Mechanical Keyboard (2018)

How do you find 67g switches? I built quefrency with 67g Zilents and while they are comfortable I wonder if they are a bit too stiff for fingers joints health

in_hindsighton Kuo: Apple to include new scissor switch keyboard in MacBook

Just add eGPU to it and it will be more or less capable of modern ML and games

in_hindsighton Tenure-Based Ownership – A distributed equity model for worker ownership

Also not taking a salary should be rewarded much more because you are not just not getting paid you are actively going into the negative / red personally

in_hindsighton New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End

Also people who just want to genuinely have fun in this life - they are a treasure

in_hindsighton New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End

Working from home when remote seems like the most dangerous idea if your work does not require human interaction (live meetings etc)

in_hindsighton Homeless Population Jumps by Thousands Across the San Francisco Bay Area

Really that many vans? 10 miles?

I thought it’s anecdotal

in_hindsighton Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas

Zuck may not be the role model when for tech theorists, but Rushkoff is just empty - that’s coming from hearing him talk and answer questions live

in_hindsighton Mark Zuckerberg: The Internet needs new rules. Let’s start in these four areas

How could one measure the negative impact of Facebook on the scoiety? However narrowed down the definition of society was

in_hindsighton Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports

What’s security theater?

The elephant deterrence strategy?

in_hindsighton Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

Out of curiosity what kind of job involves doing binary reverse engineering full time?

in_hindsighton Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy”

Wasn’t Gallipoli disaster a result of admirals not providing support Churchill requested? And the plan that was implemented wasn’t something Churchill actually advocated for?

in_hindsighton Making My Own USB Keyboard from Scratch

VE.A2 is probably $500 or $400 at least now

in_hindsighton Apple patents MacBook with key switches under a flexible touchscreen keyboard

Beautiful damage control on Apple’s part, now people will stop posting their complaints on the forums

in_hindsighton How I Became a Knife Steel Metallurgist

I once visited a Panama Har factory and the difference between a $20 and a $100 hat was striking. However real surprise was awaiting in the special room with $600+ hats. They feel like they are made from completely different material - soft like fabric, yet able to hold their form no matter how much you try to stretch them. You get that unique feeling of a very high-quality physical product like you would get from, for a example holding a very fine sword.

in_hindsighton Masque – Wearable that manipulates a user’s perception of their own respiration

Wow can’t tell anything about subject of the piece, but as at as design goes it is an almost 100% rip off of Miriam Simin’s “Agalinis Dreams”. Incredible that MIT would let this kind of thing happen.

Here is an image of the work I mention - happened to see it in NYC in person a while back, it was working with the sense of smell too, so, looks like subject matter is also uncomfortably close http://www.arts.uci.edu/event/embodied-encounters

in_hindsighton Ultimate Hacking Keyboard

It’s the best split keyboard on the market right now.

Maybe VEA is better but good luck finding the first revision and second one is nowhere in sight

in_hindsighton Google created a fake pizza brand to test creative strategies for YouTube ads

Is it the pizza they called during voice assistant demo? ;)

in_hindsighton Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]

Yes and if it’s countryside, even less I guess

in_hindsighton Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia [video]

In Siberia power is paying for you!

Seriously though in Irkutsk electricity is about 0.017usd per kilowatt/hour

in_hindsighton How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them

Just found your own company if it’s a win/win life/work balance-wise

in_hindsighton How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them

CxO may not be paid salary at all or even finance the whole thing from their personal resources

in_hindsighton Which MacBook Pro configurations actually have tangible performance differences?

If I was buying MBP tomorrow, I'd get 16GB RAM minimum, 512GB SSD minimum and integrated GPU. I would use eGPU with MBP for intense tasks.