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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Pumping oil from inside the Earth and then converting it into plastic and then into CO2 has a much bigger impact than putting the plastic into a garbage dump. The oil to make the plastic came from a hole in the ground. A garbage dump is a h
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Perhaps it's necessary to add generics to keep users, but my takeaway is this: if you have innovative language features, then you don't need generics to attract a passionate set of early adopters. If you don't have innovative
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
> Advancement replacing it with "hundreds of filing cabinets" should tell you something. A rolodex was enough because that's all that could be managed by an individual. If the number of names needed by a person grew past t
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
And yet Java and Go are both wildly successful languages. While lack of generic support may be a mistake, it's clearly not a critical one.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
There are two components to the crazy asset inflation we saw after COVID: 1) The Fed increasing the money supply. This lead to a situation where there was a lot of money that needed to be put somewhere. 2) The Fed keeping the interest rate
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I think Snapchat is popular with Gen Z as a communication mechanism. It's one of the only delete-by-default social networks out there, which kids, having grown up in the age of digital surveillance, find important. The issue facing Sna
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
You can use nuclear or stored renewables to power a heat pump, which could heat homes for most of the German winter. You’re saying heating is “negligible”, but the fact remains that 25% of all energy consumed in Germany comes from natural g
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Not related to your broader point, but you can download source from a release via https://github.com/<org>/<repo>/archive/refs/tags/<tag>.zip
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Casino chips are a good example. It's the casino that is zero-sum, not the chips themselves. People don't do business in casino chips because of logistic and liquidity issues. If you could buy casino chips digitally from anywhere
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
This source says that natural gas was 25% of Germany's energy consumption: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c... Your link only covers electricity generation, which is only a part of tota
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
How is taking a crypto loan and using it to produce something "of value" in the U.S. different than someone taking a USD loan and using it to produce something of value in Turkey?
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not zero-sum due to the ability to create money via lending. E.g. if I make a currency with 100 tokens, I can lend them to you for a year at a 10% interest rate. Even though there are only 100 coins in existence, I’ve c
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Ponzi and pyramid schemes are illegal in many jurisdictions. It's possible to be charged with securities or commodities fraud for security-based ponzi schemes, but there are laws against such schemes outside of the securities market. E
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
SARS, MERS, and Swineflu all garnered attention at the time. An outbreak of a new disease is interesting, regardless of what happened the last 2+ years.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
People have definitely been harmed by crypto. I was pointing out that pyramid and ponzi schemes harm people by definition. There is no mathematical way for them to benefit a majority of participants. That doesn't necessarily hold for c
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Are they regulated or are they illegal? Such schemes have negative worth as they actively harm people.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Germany derives 25% of its energy consumption from natural gas. In order to remove this, they'll need to replace it with something. If they want to replace it with renewable energy, then they'll need storage. In no universe can th
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I first played Maddy's games as a kid, starting with Jumper. She is an absolutely amazing level designer. I remember seeing Celeste and thinking, "Wow, that looks just liker Jumper." Lo and behold, they were made by the same
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
TikTok differs from other social media platforms in that they'll always expose your video to others rather than just your follower graph. If the initial set of exposed users have high engagement (i.e. they watch the entire thing), then
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Sanctions on Cuba could also be due to the Cuban missile crisis. That was a pretty big deal.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Large law firms provide a one-stop-shop that some clients, like large businesses, are willing to pay a premium for due to the convenience factor. They’re not providing law services more efficiently, measured by cost, compared to smaller fir
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Law firms don't have economies of scale. Two partnerships can serve N clients roughly as well as one larger company could. Most software has huge economies of scale, so it's unlikely small partnerships would be successful long-ter
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Why? I’ve heard olive oil is pretty good.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
So what's your solution? Stop building dams and decommission the ones that have been built? Humans attempt to create order. The universe naturally wants to increase disorder. It's natural that anything we create will need to be mo
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Cathie Wood has said she expects ARKK to get 50% annual returns[0] despite being down 57% YTD and over 30% since she made the statement (more than BTC). Pointing to what "others" have said as some type of broad argument about an u
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
BTC is down 53% from ATH. NFLX is down almost 75%. PTON is down over 91%. You'd actually be better off investing in BTC than in many tech darlings. I don't own any crypto, but I don't think it's fair to single out crypto
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
You’d be surprised by the number of things that need to be constantly monitored. Building structures, power plants, roads, dams, mass transit, etc. basically everything.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
That’s why they’re sealed with clay and plastic and constantly monitored for leakage.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Landfills are not a miracle technology. They exist already and are technologically sound. It’d be way more of a miracle if we somehow managed to greatly reduce waste.

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