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fatlasp··on Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the best piece
that was incredibly stasifying for me to watch though
fatlasp··on The digital currencies that matter
as far as I can tell this is what inx.co is doing and they are about to launch. interesting company sounds like they have lofty plans and an executive board that has some interesting people (former nyse and tsx execs). both a platform for 'traditional' crypto but also building an exchange for fully regulated 'digital assets' a la digital representations of stocks etc
fatlasp··on Show HN: Lovetris – Tetris which always gives you the best piece
as someone who has an ocd need to get the 4 line tetris clear this triggers me
fatlasp··on The digital currencies that matter
I think digital currency in the CBDC (central bank digital) sense is that its "programmable money." For example my understanding is that the beta testers (my term) for the e-yuan literally have 30 days to spend the currency through alipay or whatever they're using or it disappears forever. I'm sort of looking at it as a combo of regular money and smart contracts but thats just me.

Interestingly Jim Bianco (who you may see regularly on old-financial media) argues that all of these currencies will fail in favor of the defi stuff that's already being spun up. For example by the time fed coin is even being tested (2025) the technologies behind cryptos will be so mature that the tech the us fed is using (from 2015) will be dead on arrival

fatlasp··on Comparative assessments of dietary sugars on cognitive performance (2018)
I was keto for six months a year or so ago and definitely felt sharper at the time as well. Turns out I like carbs more than clear headedness
fatlasp··on Netdata: Open-source real-time monitoring platform
Same. I'm not a fully qualified sys admin but I do have access to a number of our servers (I'm more of a full stack generalist than an expert at anything) and I immediately go to netdata when one of my services isn't acting right. For me its a nice 'system at a glance' where I can check on the host and then alert someone more knowledgeable than myself if there's something that looks off
fatlasp··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
> Woke crazies try to impose their ideology on others by complaining and shaming on the Internet.

I would argue that what ebay is doing is simply a permutation of this idea. Woke companies deciding what is and what is not suitable for you to spend your money on (shaming you for not spending your earned value on something 'worthy'). Meanwhile they don't seem to have a problem with mein kempf or however its spelled.

fatlasp··on Why Bitcoin Could Be Banned or Criminalized in the Coming Years
One interesting statistic is that more people dropped below the poverty line in the united states this year than any other year recorded to date.

Much like occupy wallstreet didn't really kick off until well after the 2008 financial crises, the impact of what is happening now in the economy will not be clear for several more years

fatlasp··on Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a new era for vaccinology
correct me if I'm wrong but haven't all the mRNA vaccines skipped human studies / have 'emergency use' certification
fatlasp··on The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief'
probably good that ex cia chief john brennan is a regular pundit in the mainstreem media
fatlasp··on Short on Money, Cities Around the World Try Making Their Own
Utah Goldbacks seem like an interesting alternative https://goldback.com/
fatlasp··on Why Cruise Ships Are a Bad Place to Quarantine Coronavirus Patients
So, isn't the implication here that quarantining people in apartment buildings is going to be equally ineffective?
fatlasp··on We Feared Deepfakes. Then Tech Monetized Them
I feel like it is much too soon to disregard deep fakes as mostly harmless
fatlasp··on Punk Mathematics (2010)
I'm in at any level I can get a hat with that logo on it
fatlasp··on Elon Musk’s Surprise Pick for Tesla CFO Is a Relative Unknown
In grad school I had a corporate finance professor that said when you see the CFO leaving it's almost always a bad sign. Finance guys don't leave when everything looks like it's going to be smooth sailing for years to come
fatlasp··on When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves
I'm in my 30s and when I gave up pot my cognition quickly improved...
fatlasp··on Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More People Driving Cars?
My understanding is that the original idea was to do a partnership / use BNSF rails (for some reasonably "small" fee [I think I heard $30-40 mil]) which were preexisting but then BNSF decided that the rail could only be used during certain time windows when it wouldn't effect their industrial traffic; OR RTD could pay something like $550 million. Not sure if the 23 years is to collect the tax for that cost or what.
fatlasp··on Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More People Driving Cars?
I live in Longmont; one of the cities promised a light rail connection in 2004. So far RTD has collected more than $44 million in taxes and has pushed the completion date of our section of the rail to beyond 2040. This is why I am still driving my car. I don't care how the transit 'looks and feels' -- I just want it to exist.
fatlasp··on The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
"Kill Decision" by Daniel Suarez spins this topic in to a great work of fiction.
fatlasp··on Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
I always thought open offices became popular because it was literally the cheapest set up for facilities. For startups it worked because all you had to buy was desks. Somehow that got spun in to 'open offices are so sexy!'

Open offices are horrible for productivity imo. Moved to a job with an office and it is so. much. better.

fatlasp··on Two Out of Three Young Millennials Now Use an Ad Blocker
I temporarily disabled ghostery yesterday and ended up visiting the LA Times. Without an adblocker the loading / performance / experience was horrific! Long live the ad-free web!
fatlasp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
The hiring process is overly complicated as we're only loosely affiliated with the university but our hiring process has to go through them. It's also quite slow for this reason - it took me several months of contacting people before I was hired as well. Leadership here has been working with the university to smooth this process out (as well as other processes we needlessly have to go through the uni for.)

I've put my email address in my profile; if you want to hit me up with the job / manager you applied for I'll see if I can dig anything up for you. FWIW its worth the wait / effort; it's a very cool place to work

fatlasp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
CU LASP | Boulder, CO | ONSITE

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder is a world-renowned space science research institute with expertise in all aspects of space exploration. CU LASP works closely with NASA, ESA, and the UAE Space Agency on a variety of space projects. We're currently filling a number of engineering positions:

* Electrical Ground Support Equipment Designer

* Flight Software Engineer

* Junior Flight Software Engineer

* Calibration Engineer

* EEE Parts Engineer

* Systems Engineer

* Electrical Engineer

* Mechanical Engineer

* Satellite Operator

* IT Network Engineer

* Several scientific research, administrative, and student positions also available

Check out http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/about/jobs/ for more info

fatlasp··on My Biggest Regret as a Programmer
>My sister started as a programmer 30 years ago but jumped into management [...] My sister has 10X the assets I have.

This also has SO much to do with OPs lifestyle / propensity to save. "The millionaire next door" goes a long way in explaining how even lower income households can accumulate much more wealth than many high income earners with simple lifestyle differences.

fatlasp··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
CU LASP | Boulder, CO | ONSITE

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder is a world-renowned space science research institute with expertise in all aspects of space exploration. CU receives more NASA funding than any other public university. We're currently filling a number of engineering positions:

* Calibration Engineer

* EEE Parts Engineer

* Systems Engineer

* Electrical Engineer

* Mechanical Engineer

* IT Windows admin + Senior Windows admin

* Satellite Operator

* Scientific Programmer

* Several scientific research, administrative, and student positions also available

Check out http://lasp.colorado.edu/home/about/jobs/ for more info

fatlasp··on Orgmode for Sublime Text 2 and 3
Just chiming in with anecdotal evidence that I've used this package to edit remote files for years. It might just be some sort of scp mechanism though; can't remember as I haven't used it for quite some time (for unrelated reasons.)
fatlasp··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL
Very cool - going to hand this off to some of my colleagues to play around with
fatlasp··on How I could have hacked any Facebook account
hmm yea my memory might have adjusted it to a trial period -- looks like many of the most useful features are crippled in the free version.
fatlasp··on How I could have hacked any Facebook account
Looks like Burp Suite. Sweet web proxy tool -- https://portswigger.net/burp/ Free for 14 days I think.
fatlasp··on Nanex Gets $700k Whistleblower Award from SEC
Ya. I don't have any exposure to options currently. Really I'm barely even a swing trader more of an investor. I did notice that the price could go up substantially if you were looking for data on futures / e minis etc.
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