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(2014)

Also ignoble price winner of 2014

https://improbable.com/ig/winners/?amp=1#ig2014

> A pistol is the great equalizer - anyone has some chance of ending the fight decisively.

This may be true if the pistol magically appears in your hands just when you need it. In statistical practice you‘ll have to handle it safely for thousands of days till you finally might need it. Enough time to hurt yourself and your loved ones.

One thing might be: In a paid job you can focus on your job. As founder/freelancer you have to handle everything. Some people are good in diving deep but slow to context switching.

In best case they can pair with a co-founder that has a good intuition about „good enough“ and handles all the chores. But then a co-founder also adds its own set of problems.

> which other‘s can‘t due to copyright

Apparently using copyrighted training data is okay in EU: Directive (EU) 2019/790 … on copyright and related rights Article 4 [1]

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Also: Make a project buildable in one step [1]

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...

They can also be tracked by their history if you have othe data sources. Let’s say you have cell phone data of someone. You can then correlate that with place (let’s say home and work) and time of a few purchases. This then de-anonymizes the card and the other purchases, even if they had their cellphone turned of in the delicate purchases.

The reality is sometimes that regulators kick the door in for banks financially including legal stuff: Operation Choke Point [1]

The consequence of abolishing cash seems to be total financial control and that is a bit like arming the police: of course you might need military equipment for fighting a cartel.

But applying it to daily operation is very cruel to parts of society.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

How do you define pi or e but as a limit? At least for practical purposes.

Once you approximate them with rationals you can also imagine adding a fraction of the second multiplicand.

> Second, I dare you to run "ls /etc" and claim it's not a mess...

In unix man my.conf will work for most sane programs.

This is not a docker bug, it is a kernel bug.

It could be triggered by other complex applications that use kernel container features.

The pi is almost self contained. The pico is a piece of e-waste without a proper computer to program it. So start wit the pi.

> New York $36,000/year

>> We are anchoring our salary to the 60th percentile of San Francisco, CA

Not the same. Quite different.

$15 might still be the extraction price in Saudi Arabia.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/19/you-wont-believe-w...

There will be plenty of He from fusion reactors - in about 20 years ;)

Two problems stand out to me:

- I have to put centralized trust in you that you don’t take my money and run.

- Regulation risk. The SEC will happily shut you down any day. Other centralized attempts of e-currency where shut down in the past.

I like the idea. But I‘m turned off by the fact that there is no pricing information. Just a request access action button.

Maybe it’s vapor ware. Maybe they are checking market interest. Maybe they are looking for large pilot customers. I don’t see a product for me.

The discussion here is still interesting and I‘m grateful for the mentioned alternatives.

As for my pricing limits? Probably something between 10-50 USD per user per month, where at 10 USD I would very seriously look into it and at about 50 USD, I would have to carefully run the numbers.

What’s the docker equivalent in Apple world to run something in a container?

People also have ticks. Some drool when concentrating, some stare in a strange way. The cam on your laptop is shoved right in your face which is different from a normal larger f2f meeting. Also people don’t secretly take pictures of you in real meetings.

I always turn the cam off when I share my screen. I want people to focus on the content I’m sharing, not the pimples in my face.

There are also notifications and more. It’s about loosing the community enabled by the social features of github.

Archived: https://archive.ph/OwTzz

Previous studies showed positive effects for ARI.

https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583

CONCLUSIONS:

Among adults with a high baseline prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency, implementation of a test-and-treat approach to vitamin D replacement did not reduce risk of all-cause ARI or Covid-19.

> This event is completely unprecedented and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system

While this is more about weather than climate it shows how much is still left to be understood.

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30604374

Another example was Operation Choke Point. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

I‘m not aware of any decent data engineer for whom money is the bottleneck. It’s always time and mental capacity.

Since I wanted to learn more about Linus Jitter Dance, here is the patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/50ee7529ec45

And here is discussion of the concept: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9512718

> There are ways to store data securely, one of the simplest methods is to do zero-knowledge encryption of that data by way of key-generation from a password only the user knows at the time of decryption.

This keeps your passwords save until you enter your master password. At that point you have to trust the software that was downloaded a few days ago from an appstore or a few seconds ago from the company webserver. It might have been backdoored and happily phone home your master password.

Your downloaded password manager might be a few years old and YOU decide when to upgrade.

Or just don’t affiliate with amazon. Instead use an online service, that is dedicated to your niché and both profit.

> You can’t sample all parts and all fluids of someone’s body all the time. Maybe trace undetectable levels of the virus can be transmitted…

You don’t need to be a 100% sure. Once the risk becomes small enough you can spend your time worrying about other risks.