emmanuelindex's comments

On: FEEDweave, or how to build a decentralized social network

[emmanuelindex]

that's neat

On: I'm a Heart Doctor and Wary of the New Apple Watch

[emmanuelindex]

I suppose this doctor will prescribe you to not use all new medical tools available in case they might find something. I don't understand the logic. Having mass adoption tools to check your health is the future. This will never be 100% accurate, but like medicine and doctors will never be.

[eli → emmanuelindex]

Yes, doctors and health organizations routinely advise patients not to get more tests than they need. A PSA test is cheap and easy to administer but the consensus is that risk of false positives (among other reasons) outweighs the benefits of finding prostate cancer among young men at low risk.

On: TxHash Bridges the Gap Between Web 2.0 and Blockchain Events

[emmanuelindex]

Many companies that will integrate blockchain technologies will look for this kind of tools in the near future

On: Signal Foundation

[emmanuelindex]

yes, he's working on Mobilecoin since the beginning. I'm wondering when it will ship and if it will be the first project of the Signal foundation.

[r3bl → emmanuelindex]

Last paragraph in the whitepaper:

> MobileCoin is designed so that a mobile messaging application like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, or Signal could integrate with a MobileCoin wallet.

Pretty sure we're gonna see a separate product that works with IM apps when installed simultaneously.

On: How big oil will die

[emmanuelindex]

Why self driving cars should only be electric vehicules? And if the price of oil is going down due to electric vehicules it will make people even more happier to use their already amortized vehicules. And don't forget that a large part of electricity comes from oil in the US.

[danans → emmanuelindex]

> And don't forget that a large part of electricity comes from oil in the US.

Unless you live in Hawaii this is false.

Coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar are collectively and individually larger contributors than oil.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

[Gibbon1 → emmanuelindex]

The flip side is if if and when electric cars become cheap enough it's possible that they will beat ICE on a cost per mile basis _even if gasoline were free_.

Justification: For a car that gets 30MPG the fuel cost per mile is only 6-7 cents per mile. Total cost per mile is around 50 cents per mile. So only 10-20% of the cost is fuel.