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New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can"

kaffeemitsahne — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:24:55 +0000

Because I vouched for it first (requires some amount of karma I think).

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can"

kaffeemitsahne — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 12:47:15 +0000

I'm pretty sure I've seen some examples of this but I can't find them now. Besides the better-known pinhole photography, there is also pinspeck photography, and some random object standing in front of the wall could perform the function of the pinspeck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinspeck_camera

(p.s. you seem to be shadowbanned)

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Looking Glass starts shipping its 8K holographic display"

kaffeemitsahne — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:22:53 +0000

"There’s a lot more to the evolution, enough for a book on the subject, but if you had to create a list of what kinds of technology and methodology went into the Looking Glass (since they do not list it), it might look like this:"

Pure speculation.

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Wikimedia enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity"

kaffeemitsahne — Tue, 26 May 2020 11:07:19 +0000

Most HN threads are not that big, I think it'd do just fine with (reverse?) chronological ordering.

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case for a basic income"

kaffeemitsahne — Thu, 21 May 2020 20:05:50 +0000

>Every experiment in UBI says otherwise.

Has even one of these been a permanent (for the recipients) experiment?

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Reverse engineering the OP-1 drum patch"

kaffeemitsahne — Tue, 19 May 2020 13:18:35 +0000

Ah, but can you power all of those from a battery pack and keep them on your lap on the train after taking them out of your small backpack? And all at the same time!

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Electrons May Well Be Conscious"

kaffeemitsahne — Mon, 18 May 2020 14:02:54 +0000

Last I heard, integrated information theory is _not_ neutral w.r.t. substrate, i.e. to compute the consciousness of a human being simulated on a computer chip, Tononi wants us to apply the IIT calculations to the computer chip.

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Electrons May Well Be Conscious"

kaffeemitsahne — Mon, 18 May 2020 12:46:24 +0000

Well, sure, there is something it is like to be that computer, but it is only accessible to the computer, which does not pay a lot of attention to what it's like to be itself generally. When you ask me what it's like I can try to imagine becoming the computer, but in the process I would cease to exist, so for me there is only the objective computer seen from the outside.

The only reason "what it's like" seems to make sense with other humans is because we evolved this nifty faculty of empathy. But if I examine more closely what it's like to be you, I also find that at the point I'm you, and thus have subjective access to your consciousness, I'm not me anymore.

So, it seems that when looking more closely exactly the same problem occurs when asking what it's like to be a computer, or a human, therefore the "what it's like" question is not a valid argument to ascribe consciousness to one but not the other.

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs"

kaffeemitsahne — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:49:45 +0000

>Most studies of voter fraud have shown it's negligible.

Source? If I were going to commit fraud I sure as hell wouldn't do it while taking part in a study. Curious how that is dealt with.

Of course I know about the related talking points of the other side, I just think it's curious that people regard "double spending" votes so casually.

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs"

kaffeemitsahne — Sun, 17 May 2020 19:16:12 +0000

>Voter fraud is negligible

Well, how do you know this if there are no IDs?

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "If you overlay all atomic spectra, you get a Planck distribution"

kaffeemitsahne — Mon, 11 May 2020 13:08:19 +0000

Do you think there should be more, or less authors? And more, or less references? I don't get your objection.

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Sparks: A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code"

kaffeemitsahne — Wed, 06 May 2020 17:56:50 +0000

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Resources for understanding cryptocurrency and blockchain technology"

kaffeemitsahne — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 13:13:27 +0000

Funny to browse through their crypto portfolio for a while: https://a16z.com/portfolio/#crypto

For example, they are apperently invested in cryptokitties (the Dapper logo).

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Spain is moving to permanently establish universal basic income"

kaffeemitsahne — Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:54:20 +0000

Actually...

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Zoom Falsely Claims Its Group Video Can Be End-to-End Encrypted"

kaffeemitsahne — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:39:27 +0000

Where did Zoom come from all of a sudden? I had never heard of it before the pandemic but now all my lecturers at two different universities are using it. They must be doing something right at least.

(edit: not to be apologetic for the issue at hand, of course)

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Belgian biscuits, packaging, and copywriting"

kaffeemitsahne — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:17:07 +0000

How would you compensate less fat with more sugar? They taste totally different.

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets"

kaffeemitsahne — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:33:55 +0000

If there is government intervention every time, naturally there is no reason for anyone to implement robustness measures.

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "How Much Toilet Paper? – The Coronavirus Toilet Paper Calculator"

kaffeemitsahne — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:48:34 +0000

Can't have <1 poop per day, it seems.

The Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26

kaffeemitsahne — Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:54:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22606129

Points: 137

# Comments: 89

New comment by kaffeemitsahne in "2019-nCoV may contain a gain-of-function for efficient spreading"

kaffeemitsahne — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:51:35 +0000

I flagged this because the title was edited w.r.t. the actual article in a way that nobody here seems to understand.