Hacker News: quartus

New comment by quartus in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone"

quartus — Tue, 17 May 2022 19:12:07 +0000

I'm still using the Pixel 4, I'm happy with it. I tried the Pixel 6 but it's just too gigantic, and the camera strip sticks out too much, so I went back to the 4

New comment by quartus in "UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg"

quartus — Tue, 10 May 2022 23:27:21 +0000

PoST (Chia specifically) produces 20,000 times less e-waste than Bitcoin. Chia also has 20x the nodes as Bitcoin. A comparison of network security would probably be the best way to compare the scales of each.

In the long run, hard drives used for crypto lookups in PoST (farming) have very low load and can last for a decade. Whereas Bitcoin ASIC miners become obsolete much faster and can't be reused for general purpose computing afterwards.

New comment by quartus in "YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content"

quartus — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 04:21:47 +0000

The parent thread to mine actually did claim that various lies were their mother's reason not to get vaccinated:

> My mother only got vaccinated last month [...] Her main hangup was the lies [...]

New comment by quartus in "YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content"

quartus — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:31:59 +0000

> Her main hangup was the lies and coercion.

Can you provide examples of the lies you're referring to?

New comment by quartus in "It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency"

quartus — Mon, 31 May 2021 03:18:31 +0000

"Tech culture has a nice tradition of not deriding new ideas, but we need to break it here and speak out"

No we don't need to break it here (even though it's a pastime of the author, who has already done it to two tech ideas in that Twitter thread).

Build something that improves upon the ideas and solves the problems in a better way instead.

New comment by quartus in "Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?"

quartus — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:45:31 +0000

Try some of the old school tech companies: Cisco, Oracle, IBM, etc

Or find a company you are really excited about and engaged with and then it won't feel like work

New comment by quartus in "Bill Gates Says that Bitcoin is bad For the Planet"

quartus — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 06:36:09 +0000

This is an interesting thought that crypto (or at least proof of work crypto) is backed by a sunk cost of an otherwise useless task. But let me extend that paradigm: why is (or isn't) gold also not baked by a sunk cost? What was the point of all that expensive mining and digging if not for the sole purpose to extract that shiny metal from the earth's crust?

New comment by quartus in "Coinbase S-1"

quartus — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:13:14 +0000

Anyone else care to comment on the S-1 itself? Revenues doubling, and a rare example of a tech company that is actually profitable before IPO (to the tune of $320M net profit on $1.1B in revenue). Seems like a great business to me! Given current market conditions, I wouldn't be surprised to see a market cap on first day of trading of $50B or more

New comment by quartus in "Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index"

quartus — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:29:47 +0000

What does calling someone a "comedian" add to the conversation?

New comment by quartus in "Robinhood Play Store listing went from 329K reviews to 180K in few hours"

quartus — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 03:38:48 +0000

Clarification: It did not prevent you from selling your holdings (ie. did not make you a bag holder). It only prevented you from opening a new position.

New comment by quartus in "Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?"

quartus — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 04:31:07 +0000

> (although we should certainly adjust for the large gay male population)

Just curious, why wouldn't there be an equivalently large lesbian female population?

New comment by quartus in "Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?"

quartus — Fri, 03 Jan 2020 21:54:30 +0000

How did you cherry pick that list? The actual top countries per capita from your source are:

  Qatar 40.1
  Trinidad & Tobago 37.78
  Kuwait 34.24
  Netherlands Antilles 23.55
  Brunei Darussalam 22.96
  United Arab Emirates 22.31
  Aruba 21.59
  Luxembourg 21.34
  ...

But looking at the total, rather than per-capita, carbon emissions makes more sense if we want to actually cut total carbon emissions.

Here is the list of top CO2 emitting countries:

  China 10,877.2
  United States 5,107.4
  India 2,454.8
  Russia 1,764.9
  Japan 1,320.8
  Germany 796.5
  South Korea 673.3
  Iran 671.5
  ...

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... , which cites the source https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/fossil-co2-emissions...

New comment by quartus in "Rooms can be as bright as the outdoors"

quartus — Fri, 29 Nov 2019 20:11:55 +0000

This immediately reminded me of the scene from Silicon Valley where Gwart is working directly in front of an extremely powerful light, which Jared rushes to shut off because it's too bright

New comment by quartus in "Cloudflare S-1"

quartus — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:25:14 +0000

>Throughout this year it is just loss-making companies floating everywhere on the markets here and have boarded the hype-train into the red.

Cloudflare is a loss-making company too, and their losses are growing. From the S-1: "we have incurred net losses of $17.3 million, $10.7 million, and $87.2 million for 2016, 2017, and 2018, respectively"

New comment by quartus in "The #1 Office Perk? Natural Light"

quartus — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:15:55 +0000

For a healthy dose of skepticism, check out the New York Times article "Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It". It points out, among other things, that a 2010 National Academy of Medicine (then known as the Institute of Medicine) report found that most Americans get enough vitamin D, and that "the evidence supports a role for vitamin D and calcium in bone health but not in other health conditions" http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2010/Dietary-Re... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/business/vitamin-d-michae...

On a related note about sunshine, Sam Altman recommends a full spectrum LED light in the morning as his most beneficial productivity booster. http://blog.samaltman.com/productivity

New comment by quartus in "WDMyCloud Multiple Vulnerabilities"

quartus — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 21:49:00 +0000

If you feel compelled to put a smiley face after a sentence to make it more agreeable, it's a sign that you were uncomfortable with the tone of the sentence. Adding a smiley just comes across as passive aggressive or condescending. Just rewrite the original sentence so that you're comfortable with the tone, and omit the smiley.

New comment by quartus in "Quickly generate product screenshots in realistic environments"

quartus — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 18:51:29 +0000

I loaded up my first screenshot sequence of the day. http://placeit.breezi.com/3443524 Please advise on how to kick up the 4d3d3d3

New comment by quartus in "App.net pricing changes"

quartus — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:00:46 +0000

Yes you can.

New comment by quartus in "Dalton Caldwell: We Did It"

quartus — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 01:02:42 +0000

xwowsersx, please send an email to join@app.net and we'll get you set up with your login information. The backing process and the alpha.app.net access are not automated yet, we still need to grant your user access to the alpha.

New comment by quartus in "Dalton Caldwell: App.net is not Vaporware"

quartus — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:37:21 +0000

There were certainly people calling app.net and our API spec vaporware on HN and other places.

The purpose of this post is to showcase the alpha-version of our web service and API to users and developers and to encourage them to check it out. We hope that our work so far will speak for itself and get people excited about join.app.net.