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Mortiffer

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I am doing Data things
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Mortiffer··on Signal users can give a recurring monthly contribution
arn't they good on funding now that they integrated their monero copy into signal ? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/mobilecoin/ ...
Mortiffer··on Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review
Thank you for this extract. Iv seen many past meta analysis on the 7 to 14 day impairment but no difference after that. Based on these findings i use marijuana regularly but never in periods of need of high output like fundraising, product release date sprint etc... There are a lot of parts of life when you have a lot of stress but you don't actually need to be on your top game you just need to show up for those periods weed is amazing.
Mortiffer··on Ask HN: What Is the “HN” of “Web3”, Crypto, DeFi, NFT, etc
Not to be rude but i tried to go through a fair number of the twitter accounts you follow and i still see mostly self congratulations for being in early hyping self or hyping friends products...

Gonna try starting with only following the core devs of the top projects and see how that goes

Mortiffer··on Open-Source Babelfish for Postgres
Very cool. Will see if we can reuse some of these super complicated views we have in our backlog with SQL server apply
Mortiffer··on Google Voice has stopped forwarding SMS
wow wtf thanks for this notice
Mortiffer··on Reflections as the Internet Archive turns 25
Via librivox for me and many others i consume 1800s content almost daily
Mortiffer··on Global minimum corporate tax: 130 nations to support U.S. proposal
Low corpate tax countries not on the list: Ireland 12.5%, Kuwait 0%, Hungary 9%, Kosovo 10%, kyrgystan 10%, Lichtenstein 12.5%, Moldova12%, Sark 0%(UK related but only had 1 active bank so perhaps they did not need it on the list )

I am surprised that they managed to get most of the typical island states on the list to convert. And it will be super interesting if Kuwait and Sark can stay strong or if new companies will take the opportunity to address this market.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rat...

Mortiffer··on Show HN: Venty – The IRL Social App
Has it already been launched or is it still the beta version? During these times, launching a social app feels quite bold to me, but I like the concept. I'm curious to know what kind of feedback you already received
Mortiffer··on Job board to work on problems like climate change and food insecurity
The idea is good, but some other features are needed, like a description of the role and of the company, showing why they are a good fit for the goodjobs page. It could be interesting as well to be able to apply for the jobs directly from goodjobs instead of being send elsewhere, and why not having a bookmark feature to see where you already applied / what positions or companies you're interested in
Mortiffer··on Polycloud: S3-compatible object storage
Would love to have lower cost S3. Last time I tried one I got burned when they changed their prices and then made it really hard to migrate with super slow outbound bandwidth.

Anyway my advice is giving people something to de risk the cost of migration. IDK maybe an abstraction layer that automatically keeps a backup copy inside s3 glacier . Or something else ...

Mortiffer··on Woice.me – async voice communication for teams: work, at your own pace
This app idea seems to be in the zeitgeist. https://www.yac.com/ same thing also released recently
Mortiffer··on Listenlater.fm – A Read-It-Later service for your ears
on android I use evie it lets you choose different speech engines pretty good https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lenntt.evo...
Mortiffer··on Listenlater.fm – A Read-It-Later service for your ears
lit, earlier today i needed to do shopping which I hate so i wanted to listen to some of the articles my friends have been sending me and I have not responded because they are too long but of course mobile text to speech extensions inside android where not working well and even the goolge assistant was a pain in the ass to setup and then didn't work.

So yea thanks for making this went for premium right away I assume its good but in general want to support audio based products :)

Mortiffer··on Going to elite Indian colleges improves earnings, but not test scores
Am I the only one that finds their primary data plot at the top terrible? Journalists should have a look at the Grammar OF Graphics .
Mortiffer··on Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
Does anyone know a 25 mg oral dose of pure psilocybin compares to typical grams of dried mushrooms people eat ?
Mortiffer··on Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA
Here's the actual trial https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03866174
Mortiffer··on Google Buys Fitbit for $2.1B
I can see them linking this data to medical data and getting sued again. Like last June https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/26/technology/google-univers...
Mortiffer··on Ask HN: A General Business Needs Q&A Forum
Imagien you are a manager at a big co and your supposed to fix some situation (yes it may be recruiting, sotware, hardware, ...) . And now you need to find a vendor so you probably google a bit and then ask around for the right partner/strategy/architecture. It would be great if these people could anonymously post their needs.
Mortiffer··on Show HN: CoRepo, a Company Search Engine
yea a bunch of people have asked about Direct name search. I think i will make name search a specific field and try to autocorrect if there is an exact match
Mortiffer··on Show HN: CoRepo, a Company Search Engine
I needed a full text searchable database of companies for another project, decided to release it as a stand alone to test how many other people need this kind of search. The meta data is not curated it is collected with crawlers and NLP on the open web. If you would be interested in paid API access let me know I could implement that pretty fast. Or if you think I should dedicate more time to building out the free web frontend encouraging words would be very much appreciated.
Mortiffer··on PostgreSQL Features to Try
dude, so cool
Mortiffer··on Mozilla Firefox to Enable Hyperlink Ping Tracking by Default
This is amazing news b/c it will unfuck the link graph. So many shitty content sites link to the outside through an intermediary url which counts clickthroughs and then passes you on with JS. Would love to see that stop
Mortiffer··on Scientists rise up against statistical significance
I like your statement "there is no such thing as a truth machine". But your talk as this article seem to allude that the world would be better off if we just dropped significance testing. AKA dropping the objectivity of science. My guess would be that in that world there would be many more talks about how we need to introduce some kind of objective test to prevent all these drugs from getting to market that were subjectively accepted.
Mortiffer··on Data science is different now
totally agree. Have been consulting in the data world for some years now. Most companies want to do data science but they have so many low hanging fruit that it makes no sense to do any ML. If they actually manage to get a senior data scientist hired then they typically torture them with boring BI dashboard creation.
Mortiffer··on Show HN: Shellvault – Cloud SSH terminal accessible from any browser
did you-guys reuse any code from https://guacamole.apache.org/ or all home grown ?
Mortiffer··on Finland’s plan to train its population in artificial intelligence
Machine Learning is Alchemy https://youtu.be/x7psGHgatGM . We need to understand optimization to advance this field not train thousands of monkeys to press play and hope for a nice result.

Also, why did they not decide to teach 1% of the population basic coding. Now that could transform a society.

Mortiffer··on I analysed the searches people used to read my blog-it’s not good news for women
how did she get the exact keywords searched. When i look at the referral header it only shows https://google.com and same goes for my google analytics et al. Is she using some advanced tracking?
Mortiffer··on Did I just waste 3 years?
This makes alot of sense and now i wish there was something like open data from steam sales but for SAAS products !

I guess if you go deeper you can get a qualitative idea by judging how good a game is before including it as a data point

Mortiffer··on Did I just waste 3 years?
Looking at the industry they also have the approach of announcing or teasing things which then never get build. So thats probably a way big companies test too
Mortiffer··on Did I just waste 3 years?
Whats the equivalent of testing your business idea before building a business in the gaming world ?
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