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skymer
·2년 전·discuss
If you're not going to give a few free test runs, I need some examples.
skymer
·2년 전·discuss
Is my company's private information e.g. source code kept end-to-end encrypted?
skymer
·3년 전·discuss
There are plenty of React dashboard libraries. They seem to be useful in building a top-level overview of a database with many tables. Can someone list a few real-world examples (web sites) where the dashboard is more than 10% of the work in building the site? The cases I know, e.g. wise.com or quickbooks.intuit.com would be much less than 10%.
skymer
·3년 전·discuss
Options are a leveraged way of buying or shorting stocks. To win, you need to be right in both direction and timing. There's nothing passive about it.
skymer
·3년 전·discuss
If the law makes apple ban 3d party e2e encrypted apps along with its own, UK sales of iphones will be a good test of society's current values.
skymer
·3년 전·discuss
Legal action costs you money. If you win, you get a "judgement". To attempt to collect on that judgement costs you money. There are many ways to avoid paying a judgement. You need to decide if you can collect from the customer before you start down this path.
skymer
·3년 전·discuss
A British judge named Alfred Denning was Posner's spiritual predecessor in the last century. Unlike Posner, Denning made it to Britain's supreme court.

In law school, student's were warned early that while Denning's opinions were regularly published in casebooks because they clearly illuminated the law, he was often on the wrong side of the result.
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
Seems like this was a simulation on a quantum computer, and that such a simulation is considered equivalent to/interchangeable with doing it in real life???
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
I don't think bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme. But if it becomes the "last man standing" in crypto, the scammers will just use it as the backbone for their scams, instead of promoting their own standalone coins. Smart contracts, NFTs etc. all grafted onto bitcoin just like the lightning network has been (I am not saying the lightning network is a scam, just an example of something complex grafted onto bitcoin).
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
It could be that married couples get large financial gifts/boosts from their parents more often than unmarried couples. If this is the case, then the involvement of the parents in the marriage ceremony may be a major factor in this outcome.
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
I don't think the NIH is the only source for this type of data. Don't 23andMe and other DNA data companies have millions of genomes of individuals along with their names and addresses? These can easily be (or already have been) linked to much more personal, financial, and other information than is in the NIH data.

We know these companies have used their data for law enforcement purposes. Do they also allow academic researchers to use it (anonymized, of course)?
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
Unfortunately, Jones lost both his cases by default -- there were no trials. The jury trials were only on the amount of damages. So if the unvaccinated start suing everyone who defamed them and worse, this case sets no precedent. But it might indicate a ballpark figure for their damages. If 30% of Americans are unvaccinated, their Jones-damages could be 100 Million x $50 Million. That could cause a few bankruptcies.
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
This guy has learned that the vaccines don't stop infection, don't stop transmission, and in his own experience don't stop serious symptoms. Yet he still promotes the vaccines. His problem isn't hubris.
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
What's your barrier to entry that supports charging money? An equivalent list of articles seems like it could be generated in a few hours a week from the content on r/Archaeology. Maybe that could even be automated.
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
In my experience, you should take care of yourself and stop worrying about the company. You've given them enough service. The company has to take care of itself now.
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
We pay all the monthly family bills (including joint purchases like cars, vacations or home improvements) in proportion to our earnings/wealth. We do not have a joint bank account. Any personal items like clothes, golf clubs, or suborbital space flights are decided on and paid for individually. If both people want a suborbital space flight but only one can afford it, the richer one would probably pay for both [if they intended to return home after the flight]. As long as both people have a reasonable amount of savings, this works fine.
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
At best, the Pinephone is buggy software on low priced but mediocre hardware. It has always been like this, and it is not going to change. There is nobody willing to spend the millions of dollars it would take to make it otherwise.

Meanwhile, AOSP is fully working, open source Linux-based phone software that runs on lots of modern hardware from a variety of manufacturers. Distributions like GrapheneOS have put huge effort into de-googling, privacy and security. Cameras work. SMS works. Phone calls work. There are lots of apps. I hear there are even a few phones that can do wireless charging!

Why waste any more mindshare on the Pinephone?
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
I think the authors feel the government response (lockdowns, vax mandates, etc) was too strong. But the article makes it hard to determine whose criticism of which scientists is considered "obsessive".
skymer
·4년 전·discuss
It seems as though the authors of this paper were vocal critics of the government response to Covid-19, and faced the full "obsessive" wrath of criticism (although, unlike many others, they don't seem to have lost their jobs). The same thing happens to non-conformist scientists in other highly politicized areas like man-made global warming. I think it is similar to what happened to Galileo 400 years ago.