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New comment by samdoidge in "When Bitcoin miners take over a town (2018)"

samdoidge — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:56:20 +0000

> What I do, though, is measure the actual positive impact this tech has now.

I don't think just measuring the carbon footprint is giving you an accurate measurement.

New comment by samdoidge in "Stable 1.2 Gigabit/s Internet achieved in moving train in Switzerland"

samdoidge — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:57:25 +0000

You say this could not have been pulled off by a private entity, but I would argue the Japanese train system is equal, if not better and to my knowledge is privately ran.

New comment by samdoidge in "Robinhood goes down again, during another historic trading day"

samdoidge — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:38:08 +0000

> If the markets are like this when there are a few hundred cases in the UK and US, what will they be like when there are tens, or hundreds of thousands of cases and major cities are in lockdown?

Investors are trying to judge the likelihood of these very events and selling / buying accordingly. Markets are based on predictions.

New comment by samdoidge in "Building a command line tool to design a farm layout in Stardew Valley"

samdoidge — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:02:33 +0000

A nice application, but I think a screenshot from the game next to the ASCII layout would improve this article.

New comment by samdoidge in "Brave Browser and the Wayback Machine: Working Together"

samdoidge — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:22:07 +0000

What is your suggestion? It is far better than Chrome from a privacy point of view, while still being useable.

New comment by samdoidge in "1-on-1 meeting questions"

samdoidge — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 13:16:04 +0000

IC = ?

New comment by samdoidge in "Swiss crypto company backdoored by CIA for decades"

samdoidge — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:37:23 +0000

You now flagged comment was explaining ways one could check. I was showing this explanation was redundant.

New comment by samdoidge in "Swiss crypto company backdoored by CIA for decades"

samdoidge — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 09:23:37 +0000

I was stating my initial interpretation from the title alone.

It should be a given that responding in a chain with the OP stating 'By crypto they mean cryptography here.' I have ascertained the 'crypto' in the title now refers to cryptography.

New comment by samdoidge in "Swiss crypto company backdoored by CIA for decades"

samdoidge — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:37:45 +0000

I did interpret this as being related to cryptocurrency, so quite possibly.

New comment by samdoidge in "The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church"

samdoidge — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 15:26:12 +0000

> this starts with the assumption that what people like me went through is trivial.

I did not read it as that, and don't believe that is what his statement conveys.

New comment by samdoidge in "App Used to Tabulate Votes Is Said to Have Been Inadequately Tested"

samdoidge — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:29:32 +0000

Shambles. It sounds like there was no load-testing.

Nobel Prize-winning scientist Frances Arnold retracts paper

samdoidge — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 22:57:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50989423

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21958225

Points: 3

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New comment by samdoidge in "New disclosures to our archive of state-backed information operations"

samdoidge — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:51:51 +0000

I'm sure it is related to the fact they can report N new users to shareholders. I can't see what else explains their complete lack of dealing with obvious fake/spam accounts.

New comment by samdoidge in "Silicon Valley IT Administrator and Friends Charged in Insider Trading Ring"

samdoidge — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:22:51 +0000

Where's the evidence?

New comment by samdoidge in "Twitter to ban political advertising"

samdoidge — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:39:46 +0000

Ideally, yes.. but it shouldn't be a condition for it.

New comment by samdoidge in "Twitter to ban political advertising"

samdoidge — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:39:05 +0000

>>In addition to that, America is a country that works forwards from principles much more often than European nations, which very often work backwards from objectives.

>Have any examples to back this up?

This is an example to backup the statement. The US starts from a strong principle of free speech. European countries generally don't value this as highly, and will censor speech if they feel it is necessary.

New comment by samdoidge in "Twitter to ban political advertising"

samdoidge — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:51:49 +0000

Free speech.

New comment by samdoidge in "Dyson has scrapped its electric car project"

samdoidge — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:02:46 +0000

Dyson moved it's HQ to Singapore with the CEO stating: “We have seen an acceleration of opportunities to grow the company from a revenue perspective in Asia"

I don't see why this makes Dyson a terrible person.

New comment by samdoidge in "Reddit, where chaos thrives, tries to clean up to attract ads from big brands"

samdoidge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:49:50 +0000

No, not everyone is in their own bubble. Some are able to be objective, and profit from being so.

There is room for reasoned debate but many are incapable of it, especially on an internet forum.

New comment by samdoidge in "Reddit, where chaos thrives, tries to clean up to attract ads from big brands"

samdoidge — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:57:40 +0000

I'm not sure how you have interpreted my statement to mean the above. Please re-read without the assumptions.