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vinniejames··on Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene
The problem is that there isn't a graphene farmers lobby group
vinniejames··on What's the point of a Covid-19 test that takes 19 days for results?
What percentage of the current population has already been infected?

What is the latest death rate of confirmed cases?

vinniejames··on Twitter: Hackers Accessed Private Messages for Elite Accounts
That works until you lose your keychain :/
vinniejames··on I am a model and I know that artificial intelligence will take my job
Influencers will take your job well before AI does.
vinniejames··on Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack
You could have bought Bitcoin for $3000 just a few months ago
vinniejames··on Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
Why is it that the door close button never works? Any elevator engineers out here?
vinniejames··on Space Jam's 1996 website is still alive
National treasure
vinniejames··on Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
Sounds like a Pyramid scam
vinniejames··on Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
OP needs to read about Bitcoin, it solves most of the problems discussed in the article
vinniejames··on Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
"not liable for paying it," but you're still paying it at the end of the day via fees and increased merchant prices
vinniejames··on The Story of Stripe (2018)
Startup implies rapid growth via VC funding and reinvestment, size and age are not a determining factor
vinniejames··on Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?
Better yet, there should be a setting to block cookies on all sites with a selective opt-in for sites you want tracking you
vinniejames··on Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?
Take a look at Lyrebird

https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai?source=lyrebird

vinniejames··on Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
According to this research, it isn't even good content. It's divisive content intended to force you to pick a "side" then fight for it
vinniejames··on Coinbase will be a remote-first company
> How many people actually prefer WFH

Everyone paying ludicrous rent in SF proper who can now move, saving thousands per month

vinniejames··on X
"Since each variable has a corresponding color, assignment is easily represented with background colors. For instance, A denotes the assignment of the number 12345⅔ to the variable #F00BA2. Note that this could also be written as rm -rf /, because we are removing the arbitrary indirect association between text and meaning to focus only on the clear meaning conveyed by the formatting."
vinniejames··on 402 Payment Required, and why micropayments are doomed
It should get here just before cold fusion and AGI!
vinniejames··on US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs
> You opened the door to surveillance nirvana

While everyone is arguing over silly ID numbers, the true surveillance Nirvana is already here.

Facial recognition, already deployed in some areas, essentially precludes the need for an ID at all.

Once you can uniquely identify anyone with close to 100% accuracy just by looking at them, you don't need to worry about silly things like IDs

vinniejames··on $14M in ETH stolen from Upbit were laundered in May through well-known exchanges
The authorities don't want it to succeed. They want a bunch of "I told you so's" to justify shutting it down
vinniejames··on Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
How many times has that happened to military drones? I'd be more worried about an armed stealth jet than a cargo plane full of rubber dog $ out of Hong Kong
vinniejames··on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
Candidate A probably wouldn't live in SF if he didn't have to
vinniejames··on Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
Would you buy a package shipped on a plane with a remote pilot? Not all flights carry passengers
vinniejames··on Remote work can also be a source of socioeconomic inequality
"Pilots cannot pilot from home" ... Google 'drones'

"Surgeons can't cut" ... oh but they can, https://www.therobotreport.com/remote-surgery-via-robots-adv...

Builders can't build... but they can click "Print" https://www.businessinsider.com/3d-homes-that-take-24-hours-...

vinniejames··on Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
Companies don't do this. They will adjust your salary down based on your city of residence. Square is one example of this. You're not compensated for the value you provide, you're compensated for the cost of living near the office.

You're also now competing against a national talent pool vs locals only

vinniejames··on Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure
The article also doesn't cover the fact that prices dont remain static long term. A loss leader today becomes a premium product tomorrow
vinniejames··on Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions
This is definitely true, most cheaper discs degrade after a few years.

The issue you're forgetting to mention is the fact that physical DVD drives won't be around for more than a few more years, you then need to make sure you have one in working order on a system that can use it

vinniejames··on Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions
Do you have any budget left for a sales team? I can speak from experience they are essential for most startups
vinniejames··on Filecoin's Cryptoeconomic Constructions
Why should I believe IPFS will still be running in 30 years?
vinniejames··on SF vs. Uber Eats: Service stops food delivery to Treasure Island citing fee cap
It was a Navy base wayback that was used to clean nuclear warships and may or may not be radioactive.

"In April 2013, caesium-137 levels three times higher than previously recorded were found (the island hosted "radioactive ships from Bikini Atoll atomic tests and was a major education center training personnel for nuclear war"—the USS Pandemonium (PCDC-1) mockup had begun nuclear training in 1957."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island,_San_Francis...

vinniejames··on Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips starting in 2021
It seems to make more sense around the rumors iOS and OSX will merge into a single platform.

One of the issues back in the PPC days was lack of applications on Macs. Partially due to the chip, as more apps supported Intel architecture. As soon as the switch to Intel happened it made porting existing software much easier.

Assuming they move to ARM. I would bet my morning coffee that the plan is to merge iOS and OSX then start porting over mobile apps into the desktop system as opposed to requiring existing software packages to rewrite desktop software for the new platform.

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