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robertAngst

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robertAngst··on As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned a Blind Eye
You can either continue to innovate, or copy others.

This becomes a cultural difference, and the innovators continue to be number 1.

robertAngst··on Julian Assange Deserves First Amendment Protection
Freedom of Information only exists because government is historically corrupt and there needs to be a counterweight.

Given the corruptness of government, Freedom of Information can be bad.

Unredacted data sounds dangerous, but it asks the question-

"Why is the government doing it to begin with?"

robertAngst··on No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick
>USB device was generally expensive

How expensive? USB is a protocol, a micro, and some power management.

How long ago was this 'out of scope'?

robertAngst··on No one, not even the Secret Service, should randomly plug in a strange USB stick
why is this unwise?
robertAngst··on The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
These are the three closest things I have to time studies on food:

High protein per second foods-

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/protein-per-second-fastes...

Cooking protein faster-

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/protein-per-second-part-2...

Foods that can be prepared in under 3 minutes, sorted by calories per dollar-

https://efficiencyiseverything.com/3-minutes-of-effort-calor...

robertAngst··on The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
Oh dont! I talk about how to make it from scratch cheaper.

That was supposed to be a time saver, but the idea is to have the roux.

robertAngst··on The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
I'm curious what you consider a healthy meal.

Do you have any recipes or expectations?

robertAngst··on The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
Thank you, will do.
robertAngst··on The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
I hope that using Linear Algebra I can make flour useful.

Current plan is to collect the data, match it to recommended amounts of nutrients/calories/etc... and see what the outcome is.

I fantasize that it tells me to eat ~50 calories of flour a day, but until the equations are finished its merely an outlier.

robertAngst··on Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 in Indonesia
Thoughts, since this is a real life issue/question I'm making a decision on-

>I'm quite surprised at the cost of a USB GIPO board. I suppose I shouldnt have been.

>Developing an OS for a platform that could change at anytime, seems risky/time consuming.

>novel ways of communication- Put everything on wifi relays, or communication with other peripherals

Might be worth buying one of these phones and taking it apart to see whats inside.

EDIT: Looking to select my microprocessor for a consumer product. An entire computer would be nice.

robertAngst··on Linux-based 4G phones with Google Assistant sold for $7 in Indonesia
How difficult would this be to add GIPO to?

This crushes the Raspi3 for the value.

robertAngst··on The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
Some notes- At base, the recipes eat for ~21$/week/person. After I lost my job, I definitely got below 20$/week, less protein, more rice.

I have seen HN dispute 19k/yr living, so I also wanted to share with HN, the 3 things that allowed 2 people to live on $19,000/year. We lived like this for 3 years as my wife got her Doctorate.

>Health Insurance- Don't pick the wrong one. Too often I hear people choosing 'a good plan', but the reality is, the Payments(preimums) + Max Out Of Pocket exceed the cost of a Bronze plan.

>Used cars are better than new. Nothing quite like not caring if your car gets a ding. Nothing quite like not having a car payment.

>Stop eating out, the 6$ meal is 6x the cost of the meals in the cookbook. Doing a Calorie Per Dollar comparison is a wakeup call for value.

Thought this is useful for everyone. I'm planning to study another round of Calorie, Protein, and Nutrient Per Dollar data. Any requests?

robertAngst··on We Built on Ethereum Blockchain to Create New AR Real Estate and Ad Marketplace
This is why alt coins fail. (Bitcoin might be digital gold)

There is seemingly No use-case.

Who cares if my video game data is trustless? Ubisoft's store bricked my copy of Farcry 3, and I will never buy a Ubisoft product again.

What is important enough to justify the large expense of blockchain.

robertAngst··on You Are Not Google (2017)
One gripe I have with this thinking- Until you are, and you have failure.

Things that don't scale or be AA Quality will show up.

Go viral and fail to service. 15 minutes of fame squandered on an avoidable tech mishap.

One time a top comment on a thread was about a misspelling.

robertAngst··on I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
Is front page HN real?
robertAngst··on I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
There are a few solutions to this.

And... they are using chromium. Can I be sympathetic to Google because they have to pay people money to support this?

robertAngst··on A barber shop on wheels that you book via an app
>Most doctors are already at capacity.

Physicians are at capacity. The American Medical Association has capped entries to medical school.

Other doctors are not like this.

robertAngst··on On Being a Free Software Maintainer
Get a job with your new programming skills?

(seriously, there is a difference between a day job programmer, and a lifestyle programmer)

robertAngst··on On Being a Free Software Maintainer
The download/view/session is decently valued.

Or at least I value it.

robertAngst··on On Being a Free Software Maintainer
>You may not feel the joy of working on what you work anymore. You may want to move on. You may also not do that due to the sense of responsibility that you have to your code, your community, and the people who use your software.

I run a popular website, and I switched from selling books, to free content.

I make 6 figs at the day job, but put in 2-3 hours a night on figuring out new ways to save time or save money. The occasional email is nice, but its a very temporary feeling. I consider it my responsibility to society, so things will be free, but it also means only 1-2 people study this.

Capitalism and growth might cause me to change.

robertAngst··on Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports
>Probably the most important thing it does is to keep the world from descending into a flaming fireball of constant wars between countries.

Gang wars are much tinier than state wars.

robertAngst··on Laptops to Stay in Bags as TSA Brings New Technology to Airports
Which things?
robertAngst··on Uber is dropping rates for drivers down from 80 cents/mile to 60 cents/mile
And if I were them, I'd be paying for R&D on automation.

I think I will be right, long term.

robertAngst··on Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data
Ive started doing this.

Treat everything as compromised.

I am always looking for new suggestions on where to hide 'Keys'.

robertAngst··on Apple Cancels AirPower Product
What self respecting Nerd would work for Apple? serious question
robertAngst··on Apple Cancels AirPower Product
> this product isn't good enough,

And Mexico will pay for it

Don't trust a companies words at face value. This sounds like PR.

Wasnt profitable enough?

robertAngst··on The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=s

Can we start blaming Physicians and Pharmacists yet? Physicians are 300k+/yr earners because they artificially limit admissions of medical school.

Not to mention its dangerous to use Pharmacists in 2019. Everything should be done by computers. Expensive Dangerous rubber stamp.

But yes, Hospitals, insurance companies, and pharmacies are to blame.

To no surprise, all top 20 lobbyists, hundreds of millions of dollars.

robertAngst··on American Employers Are Hung Up on Hiring PhDs
>how to take a vaguely defined research problem that nobody has done before, where you're not even sure that a solution exists, and make tangible, rigorous progress on it.

Interesting, that was not the impression I had from 2 engineering professors at my local uni.

It sounded like I was going to be their assistant in studying their idea for up to 6 years.

robertAngst··on McDonald's Acquires Machine-Learning Startup Dynamic Yield for $300M
That having a fat dude in a fan usually means they should put in another order of fries?

And as a result, everyone gets hotter fries?

I don't see why having Math help make better decisions is a bad thing.

robertAngst··on McDonald's Acquires Machine-Learning Startup Dynamic Yield for $300M
I don't think you understand how AI works.

If I know facebook, they are going to make McDonalds addicting AF

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