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by 4death4 3y ago
I'm interested in the question: why does Bitcoin use water? Apparently some of the water comes from cooling power plants, but a lot of the water usage comes from hydroelectric power. From the study the WSJ article is based on: > I
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by 4death4 3y ago
Is it really wasting water? For instance, I don't really consider drawing water out of rivers in the East to be a waste of water, because ultimately they flow into the ocean and become salt water. Also, I'm going to assume the pow
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by 4death4 3y ago
Have terms of service ever successfully been challenged for failing to meet the requirements of a contract? Like if I make an Uber account for my mom, and she uses it, at what point is she bound by the ToS?
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by 4death4 3y ago
Profits and growth are way more important than revenue. Google’s revenue is only 2x GM’s, and yet they’re worth almost 100X more.
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by 4death4 3y ago
Reversible computation doesn’t need to result in waste heat so that’s one path towards unlimited economic growth.
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by 4death4 3y ago
By "any other" do you mean "at least one other online company" or do you mean "all online companies."
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by 4death4 3y ago
I’m not talking about marijuana. I’m talking about opiates. Often, initial exposure comes through entirely legal means, e.g. pain prescription for wisdom teeth removal. Certain classes of drugs are highly addictive. There is a major profit
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by 4death4 3y ago
I would say drug addiction is partially a health problem. But, if you’re strung out on the streets then it’s also a different kind of problem. And what about before addiction or even first use? What kind of problem are drugs then? The fact
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by 4death4 3y ago
But where is the prediction on how Spotify will fail?
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by 4death4 3y ago
> The problem comes in when you repeat the exercise on a different example and find that also 0/0 = 3, or whatever. And now you start to see something is really amiss. Yes, that's the obvious part.
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by 4death4 3y ago
Fossil fuels are only 8.6%. I would call that "nearly 100% fossil fuel free."
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by 4death4 3y ago
That doesn’t explain why the functionality that is there is usually buggy and lackluster.
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by 4death4 3y ago
> In enterprise software, you cater exclusively to management, they will turn a blind eye to 99% of issues as long as the team is able to get the work done. Again, you can exclusively cater to management, but you don’t have to. Look at
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by 4death4 3y ago
I wouldn’t say you have to cater to middle management instead of the end user. You just can if you want to. Of course you need to consider what middle management needs, since they’re paying you, but there is usually room for craftsmansh
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by 4death4 3y ago
Two adults, two kids in car seats, and a dog. With that, even a mid-size SUV has no space for cargo. If you drive a sedan, you have to leave the dog at home.
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by 4death4 3y ago
I find storing the avocados in the fridge causes them to brown without really ripening. I usually buy a bag of 5 and try to eat them over a 3 or 4 day period starting when the first one ripens. Fresh Direct also sells packs of 2 ripe avocad
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by 4death4 3y ago
As a man, I agree, but I’ll add take some time to be the sole caretaker. I took some time off with my wife and then some more time off when my wife went back to work. It was a totally different experience and I bonded a lot with my daughter
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by 4death4 3y ago
I mean plenty of companies do offer these things, so likely you’d just subcontract out to them. And it’s not like you need to offer everything everywhere all at once.
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by 4death4 3y ago
Why wouldn’t it have been trained on such questions?
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by 4death4 3y ago
Ok, but compare yourself to the rest of the world. There's literally almost nowhere better to live than in Canada. You're assuming the current state is an aberration and that the status quo of the past is somehow obtainable. But m
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by 4death4 3y ago
> It's actually even more insulting when the gov is telling you how good you have it. I agree that these aren't the best times the country has ever seen, but, objectively speaking, things are pretty good. Just as an example, ga
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by 4death4 3y ago
Compare a Bolt (~3700 lbs) to a Fit (~2600 lbs).
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GDP is inflation adjusted, so simply printing money won't work unless you also control inflation (although I will say I don't think the inflation calculation necessarily reflects the true value of the dollar).
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by 4death4 3y ago
They pioneered the modern private equity playbook. Ultimately, they're largely responsible for transitioning the economy based on driving productivity through innovation, to driving "productivity" (if you can call it that) th
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by 4death4 3y ago
> With resepct to any American city, we know we are far from the inflection point because we have counterexamples abroad. Such as? There are very few places in the world that match the productivity of the U.S. I don't think Luxembou
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by 4death4 3y ago
The current CEO of See's is Pat Egan. Prior to this, Egan was an SVP at NV Energy, another Berkshire company. It's a pretty crazy coincidence that the CEO of See's would be an existing Berkshire employee if Berkshire had no i
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by 4death4 3y ago
The actual 0th law of economics is the law of decreasing marginal utility. You can't expect specialization and productivity to increase indefinitely as density increases. Clearly, we're at an inflection point. How can people speci
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by 4death4 3y ago
> Some people can more or only feel sorry for small children or animals, because they are obviously innocent, while a grown up could have done something to deserve it. Now that I've had a kid, I understand what it means when people
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by 4death4 3y ago
> Exactly what wealth are cities draining from rural America? Obviously it's not the cities themselves draining the wealth, but rather a spiral of excess capital accumulation. It just so happens that many of the people perpetuating
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by 4death4 3y ago
But why do cities have all the opportunity? Most likely because the capital owning class lives in cities and has been systematically draining wealth from more rural areas via globalization and the erosion of workers' rights. I'm n

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