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Can you please recommend me an intro tutorial? I’m trying to query DataCommons and it’s really hard to figure out even simple queries.

Shipping Greatness by Chris Vander Mey

Agreed, here is a good introduction with many examples: http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

They are probably just trying to see if they should transfer some engineers to Tesla instead of firing them.

Those ‘small’ interactions maybe benign for you but where I grew up there was non 0% chance they’d take the phone and run away if I asked them to take photo. I don’t think you truly appreciate how much trust your country has.

By definition homeless person doesn’t have much money and most likely no credit card or bank account. Who and how they are going to pay for fastmail?

You are right

Life span has nothing to do with that. Life span is all about economies of scale of the organism. The larger the organism the more efficient it is. The heart rate is slower etc. There are exceptions in animal kingdom, of course. For detailed scientific overview on this specific topic, I highly recommend this book: The Scale by Geoffrey West

Ownership is just equity. Sure they won’t be able to sell shares for themselves but if they have control then it means they can divert profits to themselves in a way of salaries. Which is fine I guess.

Too subjective. Objectively climate has always been changing and will always be changing. Earth has seen much warmer climate and much colder climate and everything in between since formation. Your definition of issues don’t really make sense unless it’s subjective because objectively climate change is just is, not good not bad, just fact and consequence of complicated system. Even in the past many centuries, if you look at history, plenty of empires fell because of climate change(floods, droughts, etc). We are accelerating the change but it would still be changing even if we didn’t exist.

I disagree. Climate always changes. Constantly. Warming is just one part of the climate change. Many other things change too so climate change is a lot broader term for this.

Not if you are doing legitimate transfers. I had to move money from trading account and had to do it over multiple days due to limits. It’s my money moving from one account to another. Zelle also doesn’t allow you to move more than certain amount. Probably for protection reasons.

To make it more complicated not all tranfats are bad. Conjugated Linoleic Acid is natural transfat that is beneficial.

Thank you so much for this information

I guess couple of questions out of curiosity:

- machine dies at 4am, what happens? do you manually restart process when you wake up? does this down time cause slashing?

- what mechanism prevents you from running 2 identical validators by accident?

I see, so money is locked up but they'll deploy another smart contract that you have some stake in but you still have to find a buyer otherwise you are out of luck and your money is actually locked up

I agree with you, as you said the only uses are drugs and hiding money from governments. But it's also kind of like saying creative writing (novels, poetry, etc) doesn't have a use beyond entertaining and stimulating mind. Code and concepts in crypto are much like that too, to stimulate and entertain the mind.

Can you elaborate more on the distributed compute platform part? How will that work and prevent down-time issues and other mistakes that will cause slashing?

That's what I am afraid of the most. Do some devops mistake and get penalized. Are there any protection mechanisms to help you with that or are you totally on your own?

so what you are saying is that only very rich people will be able to participate because:

- you need good hardware and access to good networks to meet the up-time guarantee s (can be solved with pooling the money I guess)

- you need to have enough eth to spare locking up portion of it for years (this can only be solved if you find another person to join the pool and take your place by giving eth to you but there is no incentive for pools to offer this)

Transdermal delivery(through skin) of vitamins and other substances/medications. I’ve been using various products since 2017 and they work. No need for needle injections or large pills.

I think injections will be replaced with transdermal delivery(through skin). Some popular peptides already popping up like that.

lol true, at the end of the story human had to mow the lawn and at the end of publishing this story human had to edit the script :P

DMSO is one of those substances. You can dissolve other substances in it and if you apply it on the skin it would go through. It leaves skin very dry and it tingles a lot. You would need to apply water or hydration cream to stop the tingling. But napkin would need to be drenched in it and it would probably evaporate quickly too if left for too long.

I used to run for hours in NorCal and SoCal every weekend and experimented a lot. I found that:

- you should use sunscreen. I use Hawaiian Tropics sports edition or Neutrogina Hydroboost sunscreen (I hate very thick creams)

- sunscreen is not enough. I argue that good hydration and taking antioxidants(fruit/powder juice/supplements like vitamin c and alpha lipoic acid/etc) might be just as important if not more. You can get away with not using sunscreen for under an hour if you do that. I have not tested this for over an hour activities so can’t recommend.

You can only go so far as a society copying work of others. You can’t progress without innovation and if innovation is happening in other parts of the world then your are highly dependent on them. The society that produces innovation is never crippled because others are copying them.

It’s funny because in Canada/US the saying is: “the squeaky wheel gets the grease”

I’ve never ever seen “replaced” being used instead of “grease”.

The beauty of a lot of Western societies is that you have an individual voice and you are free to be as stupid as you want.

In most of the Eastern societies you don’t really have an individual voice. They have “cancel culture” embedded as a feature and not a bug. You wouldn’t dare speak against whatever norm is at the time.

You are right

It's hard. HN specifically doesn't respond well to it. I'll give you concrete example: I once tried making a comment and mentioned 'universe rewards creativity', that got downvoted pretty hard, even though as engineering mind you should consider stuff like:

- solving a problem in a smart way and get cred/promotion/recognition <- creativity rewarded

- asking out/getting attention of a girl/boy you like <- creativity rewarded

- paying for clothes you think is cool (some t-shirt with a cool text/drawing or something that looks good on you, etc) <- you literally giving money to the person who created it

I'd love to hear your learnings though. Please do post where you are going to share them.