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by 1053r 13y ago
Over the last few weeks, bitstampUSD has moved from 6% to 14% on this chart. My guess is that only accelerates that process. http://www.bitcoincharts.com/charts/volumepie/
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by 1053r 13y ago
Digging through the details in the original article that treehugger links to, it appears that the size of this deposit is not entirely characterized, but that it probably corresponds to approximately 9 years of global lithium production at
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by 1053r 14y ago
The flaw in the argument is that BitCoin is not (currently) a unit of account (we don't price contracts or goods or services in BTC), and is (nearly) infinitely divisible. So even if 90% (or 99%) of all BTC is being hoarded, the other 10% (
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by 1053r 14y ago
One way you can hedge against bitcoins is by making a bet on betsofbitco.in. I could, for example, register a bet that bitcoin will have a value of under $10 USD by the end of May 2013. However, you are limited by your ability to find a co
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by 1053r 14y ago
> Outside of Moore's law graphs (which he didn't discover), his predictions quickly veer off course into crazy land I think Ray Kurzweil would agree with you. That's why he uses language like "the intuitive linear view" and "the histor
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by 1053r 14y ago
The first link is a study that found a correlation between skim milk consumption and acne in teenage boys. It by no means conclusively shows causation. Perhaps teenage boys who have a hormone condition which leads to acne also have taste p
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by 1053r 14y ago
The reason to attend MIT or Harvard (as an undergraduate) is not to take MIT or Harvard classes. It is to hang out with MIT or Harvard students, have discussions after class with MIT or Harvard undergraduates, grad students, and professors
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by 1053r 15y ago
These might replace other kinds of capacitors, but at the listed energy density, there is no way they are going up against cell phone batteries or car batteries. According to wikipedia, the lithium iron phosphate battery has an energy dens
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by 1053r 15y ago
As a person who signed up to buy the Nissan leaf early, and a current owner, I was also pretty upset about this, at least until I got the car. The noise that is makes is barely audible from within the car. It is a very faint whistling / tu
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by 1053r 15y ago
Anyone who thinks that solar will only double in install base by 2035 hasn't been paying attention. If it is, as the article says, up to 2% now, then by 2035 it should be up to a very large percentage of our current output. The total amoun
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by 1053r 15y ago
In short - Wrong. Your link claims exactly the opposite if you dig deeper. The top stack exchange answer links to an article which states that fructose is in fact a chronic toxin in quantity, but that high fructose corn syrup is no worse th
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by 1053r 16y ago
It must not come with legislative powers, because at $70K per night, that's only $25.55M a year. The GDP of Lichtenstein is 5.05B according to a quick google search (google for "lichetenstein gdp" and you get a result from google public da
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by 1053r 16y ago
The article incorrectly states that the Nissan Leaf needs a gearbox. In fact, it has a single reduction gear and an AC induction motor, just like the Tesla Roadster. (Well, ok, not as powerful...) As a Leaf owner, I can tell you it makes f
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by 1053r 16y ago
A small plug for my startup. We created a page partnering with the red cross where folks can donate to the relief effort. http://www.fundly.com/redcrossjapan From there you can donate or get involved via facebook.
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by 1053r 16y ago
They claim it at $30/barrel, (42 gallons in a barrel according to google calculator), which makes it about $0.7142 per gallon of produced fuel (wholesale). Factor in distribution and retailing markups and taxes and you are probably going t
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by 1053r 16y ago
The reason is that carbs aren't the problem. Fructose is (largely) the problem. Refined grains (and refined sugars made from grains) shock the insulin system by causing a blood sugar spike (which can be especially bad for diabetics), but
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by 1053r 16y ago
Joules are joules, but what you are failing to account for is the form the joules might take. If the enemy hits the caps and they explode, an amount of energy equal to one projectile launch is liberated. If, on the other hand, you take out
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by 1053r 16y ago
A slightly more informative article, which references the paper published in nature (unfortunately, I couldn't find a copy of that that wasn't behind a paywall). http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101124/full/news.2010.630.ht... Note that th
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by 1053r 16y ago
While it's a good idea to move ssh to a different port, if only to stop the annoying doorknob rattling in your log files, you should not pick an ssh port over 1024. Ports over 1024 are unprivileged ports, and if someone could somehow convi
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by 1053r 16y ago
Batteries have a current limit that is defined based upon the capacity of the battery. Typical low-cost lithium iron phosphate batteries (which is the chemistry looks like they are using here) usually claim a top current limit of 10C, whic
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by 1053r 16y ago
stolen from slashdot, which stole it from the comments in tfa: Translated from this page: http://adacemobility.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/das-wunder-von... [wordpress.com] "Technical Data Audi A2 DBM * * Subject Empty weight (including driv
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by 1053r 16y ago
The reason CPUs aren't getting any faster is only tangentially mentioned in the article. Yes, it is heat dissipation. But why then did they get faster for so many decades? As the process size drops, you can crank up the clock-speed while
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by 1053r 16y ago
It's disingenuous of the author to put "QED" on the end of his article as if this was deductively proven in a mathematical proof. He did make a VERY strong case for cell phones not causing cancer through inducing transcription errors or DN
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by 1053r 16y ago
Smartphones, syncing your facebook, twitter, foursquare, etc in an automated way. Using the latest iphone / android app. 4g phones / usb modems / portable wifi points. Going without home internet. Setting up permanent "windows" between
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by 1053r 16y ago
Well, they did say this was for the "forward bases" (read, bases located inside enemy controlled or sympathetic areas). Keep in mind that they also said that for every 24 convoys, they lost on average 1 person. There were probably at leas
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by 1053r 16y ago
Although it's true that in the movie women were basically presented as sex objects, and that in real life, Zuckerburg has a close and presumably non-sexual object with his COO, it's also true that the startup world is insanely male dominate
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by 1053r 16y ago
Honestly, the receipts for MOST businesses are fairly predictable (within 10-20%, at least), so why would we think that the government would be any different? Also, I'm not sure why making government departments beg for money and have to li
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by 1053r 16y ago
Why is first-class access to the Internet a human right? Isn't "ability to communicate freely" the right, and the Internet just an implementation detail?
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by 1053r 16y ago
I think I'd still rather have a Notion Ink Adam ( http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-notion-ink-adam-prot... ). It's supposed to be coming out Q4 this year, and has a pixelQi screen (combines the best qualities of e-ink and LCD). iPa
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by 1053r 16y ago
<sarcasm>Because people who earn that much by working are new money, and should be penalized for trying to break into high society. Gotta keep the riff-raff out of the country club, you know.</sarcasm> On a more serious not

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