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All distributed apps should be built for the desktop first. Everything else will be censored.

I think the money is often debt, which would make it untaxed.

Sure as a shareholder I also like stock buybacks. For instance, when Berkshire Hatheway does it, it's almost certainly a good thing.

I don't think that's what we're seeing in the vast majority of cases though. I think what we're seeing is managers personally enriching themselves by taking on corporate debt and doing so in a very tax-advantaged way. Keep in mind they're not buying the stock they own in the first place, they're being given it via stock options at crazy discounts.

This is robbery by the management class, and who can blame them.

If I can take on debt at a corporate level and personally enrich myself, by increasing the value of the stock through buybacks and then selling it, why wouldn't I?

This is all made a whole lot worse by stock option packages that give managers equity at major discounts.

I think we'll look back at this as the largest heists in history. Should serve as a good lesson to central bankers in creating wack incentive schemes (but it probably won't)

live somewhere else.

This article is only considering static images. Lidar static "images" necessarily contain depth information so yeah obviously they'll have better depth estimates.

But that's really beside the point because the world is not static and any system attempting self-driving will need to take that into account.

Using parallax measurements which is what Tesla says they are doing, you can dramatically increase the estimates of depth measurements by comparing multiple frames of 2D images.

Also, just a reminder that Tesla is also using radar in conjunction with the cameras.

This author missed Musks point entierly. His argument is that to solve self-driving you need a deep understanding of your surrounding which you can only achieve with visible light spectrum video. That's the real hard problem to solve and you need cameras to solve that and if you solve it then lidar becomes unnecessary.

The doomed part is because if companies are spending all of their energy on creating neural nets around lidar then they'll reach a local maximum where they never begin to tackle the much more difficult problem truly needed for self-driving.

I have these headphones and definitely feel a weird pressure that I don't like whenever I have noise canceling on, so I keep it turned off or the setting very low.

Bullshit. Maybe they were forced to be a vegetarian when they couldn't get meat.

Also, it's not like they had modern vegetarian protein powders and supplements which are most likely being used in their assessment of the modern vegetarian athlete.

And it's super flawed reasoning to assume that because they have markers of eating plant-based food, they therefore only ate plant-based food.

This just seems like vegetarian propaganda masquerading as science.

This study is totally missing the point. Intermittent fasting is not about weight loss. It's about trying to mimic bodily processes that result from fasted states that have been observed to lengthen lifespan.

This seems pretty obvious. Anything static is forageable and hence vulnerable. Bio can add complications (is this fingerprint warm and pulsing?) but ultimately all will be overcome.

yay wage inflation

While it's still early days, I think holochain is showing real promise and has delivered alpha software that delivers on it's promises.

They're creating a framework for building decentralized applications built ontop of distributed hash tables (the technology behind torrents) instead of blockchain.

https://holochain.org/

No, it isn't.

It operates in an environment of intense greed and crypto economics is about trying to make systems that are antifragile to greed.

I don't actually know, but my guess is time drift with respect to other lights.

This feels equally true of classrooms as screens

Check out https://digitalfreelancer.io/

They have a slack group for developers that's really good

you do, this would only work in arid climates.

It's worse than that. You can't even install windows when you buy one of their computers!

I agree with you.

But from the governments perspective that defeats the whole purpose, which is to raise funds.

This is crazy. It's like if Android wasn't open source at all this wouldn't be an issue. But because it is open source they're being punished.

This is such a horribly biased and negative article.

That's a good point. I'm assuming it's "too much" since 21 raised 100M previously but they're likely having a "down round".

I said insider dealing. I just meant that it's an indication of sketchiness.

And I'm not actually sure that's true (though I did before googling it just now):

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=e24dc4ab-2a77...

https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersinsiderhtm.html

I can believe it. I think A16Z is also an investor in Coinbase.

Definitely seems like some insider dealing. Especially considering Earn.com seems like a very immature (bordering on useless) product.

Also another example of a startup having more money then they know what to do with and not returning it to shareholders.

Yeah, sure, agreed, but why call the article that? Don't we want them all to stop sucking?

Silly since China has been working hard buying up these US industries https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/whos-behind-chinese-takeov...

Try acting a little less biased NYT, China has had tariffs on US goods for years. They're not the ones retaliating.

Yes technically it is. It would also be illegal to give someone Euros for USD so there are practical thresholds here that need to be crossed before anyone is going to press charges, but doing it regularly is definitely something that puts you at risk.

If you guys are not a registered Money Service Business you should stop ASAP.

What your doing sounds like a jailable offense.

See the local bitcoin guy who went to prison for selling bitcoin in Florida.

Don't worry utilities, electric demand is going to double once we switch to electric cars.