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Comment · 3 years ago
I assume parent commenter is talking about this: https://www.anthropic.com/index/introducing-claude . But it can hardly be consider as access to a GPT-4 prompt, can it?
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe at highway speed. At city speeds I am constantly taken by surprise by electric cars that come from behind while I'm cycling (in the Netherlands, for context, where I'd estimate that at least 25% of the cars are already electric, in the city in question).
Comment · 4 years ago
In most places, including the UK, there's a legal principle called adverse possession (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession), where anyone can take possession of a property for free, if it's unoccupied/unmaintained by the owner, and the possession is not challenge for certain a period of time, i.e. actual owner doesn't evict the prospective occupier (12 years in the case of the UK).

So people or the government don't really need to actually buy much of the land.

Comment · 4 years ago
I'm currently residing in Central Europe and 42C are scheduled on Saturday. I think it's a new record for the town. But other than about 2 weeks of heat wave per summer, the rest of the time the weather is quite livable. I'm renovating the basement a bit, where it's a lot cooler, so it's not all that bad.

The worst will be in a couple of decades when climate migration will become a thing, I suspect.

Comment · 4 years ago
.ml, .tk, .ga. All free. (With a catch, I remember some reporting their TLD getting taken over once they crossed a certain traffic treshold).
Comment · 4 years ago
Is there any other country that has a non-English ISO name?

LE. There are a few, such as Côte d'Ivoire, Curaçao etc. But those names have been used in practice much more frequently than their English names.

Comment · 4 years ago
What EEG device were you using? Is it the OpenBCI Cyton, by any chance?

I'm currently working with a similar ADS1299-based device, but I've still got a lot of work to do on it.

Comment · 4 years ago
I just realized we're less than 1 year away from reaching 8 billion people on Earth. A bit scary.
Comment · 4 years ago
Since there are people who end their own lives early, i.e. suicides, that position is clearly not unique.

But I think it boils down to where you are in life. No-one would like endless suffering.

As for my own stance on this, i wouldn't want this to happen simply because it will greatly exacerbate the gap between the haves and have-nots, the poor and the well-off. It will completely throw the current social equilibrium out of the window.

And I'm mainly talking about life extension, since i find immortality a foolish/impossible goal.

Comment · 5 years ago
Not necessarily, maybe there's a strategy that returns 1 extra percent per year compared to just holding the ETF long term. Not quite enough to make a day and night difference, but enough to make it worth it.

Still, I personally wouldn't share it had I had one, since generally the more traders use it the less effective it gets.

Comment · 5 years ago
No, you should not. Chances of it working out are probably slim. You probably don't need funding, as many solo founders can attest. Hiring should be done once the business is already generating an income, and should be scaled based on that income.

What happens is that if you do sell your house, (assuming you'll pay rent) things will get a lot more stressful for yourself financially, and this will severely hinder your mental performance and chances of success.

An even better idea would be to get a regular job and bootstrap your business in your spare time, on weekends. Once it takes off, you can quit the job and focus full time in it. Successful startups coming from this kind of environments are way more common than those coming from YOLO, all-in approaches you are thinking of. And this is precisely because of the way the mammal nervous system works. The ability to do creative mental work is severely impacted when under a perceived threat (financial doom in this case).

Comment · 5 years ago
People have built solar bikes, as in regular ebikes with 2-300w panels attached that power the motor. That's more impressive if you ask me. Other than that, lots of people (myself included) have run old, indirect injection diesels on used veg oil. That was years ago when it was financially very advantageous.

If you ask me, these are more impressive/interesting technical feats, but with real world applicability and usefulness.

Comment · 5 years ago
> 1000^n is definitely more human friendly.

It may be more human friendly, but 1024^n is more programmer friendly, especially at the low level.

Comment · 5 years ago
Advice? Try to find the reason behind this feeling, this "exhaustion", or why working is "consuming" you, because this doesn't lead to a sustainable way of living. Chances are when you get back (if you don't happen to fall into a downward spiral. It's easy to fall into one if you cut your social contact, your income, safety net etc. All these could make getting back into the workfield quite hard), things won't be massively better, unless you address the root cause.

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