Erlich_Bachman

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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
>housing is much more expensive than the cost of building it. Why would you expect to only pay for the price of building it? There is also a lot of value in land itself, the view from it, the infrastructure around that land, what other p
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Housing prices across the world are insane, They only are insane if you insist on living centrally in large cities. Which you can't do anyway if you live in a van. So it's hard to give a lot of weight to this prediction.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Well... it's in their terms, isn't it? What is the news here?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Source Serif Pro is truly one of the most beautiful modern web fonts.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Yes? That's exactly what they'll do.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
You can trivially distinguish those transactions from real ones. In fact so trivial that you could do it in one if clause #define LATEST_BLOCK_BEFORE_EMERGENCE_OF_QC 76283747 # fill in number when that happens if (block_hei
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Vitalik is not only extremely smart, has many times demonstrated his abilities, but has also shown himself to be incredibly honest and straight-forward kind of guy when it comes to public utterances. Can you find even a couple of times when
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
You can do a much much more deep fundamental analysis than a simple checking {if price_at_ATH then..}. Many of the companies have likely done such deeper analysis.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Investment. Any large company has a stack of cash on hand, this is just required for operations. Traditionally many of them have been putting that cash into government bonds. Lately when many bonds have negative yields, it becomes more and
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
That's just not correct. There are plenty of crypto algorithms already, including hash functions, that are designed to be resistant/resilient against a functional quantum computer. A PoW scheme can use any (well, at the very least
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Look up the term "fork" in the context of cryptocurrencies. It will answer all your questions and you will save yourself a lot of brain cycles.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
They would just switch to another algorithm. Sad for all the miners who bought ASICs, doesn't change a thing for all users and investors. It would just be a hard-fork. It would not be the first one, and it would very likely be quite a
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
That definition works for major potion of USD in circulation as well. So what's your point?
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
I guess by your logic the US dollar USD is also a big negative for society then.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
Plus you can also use a boox as an HDMI screen from any output.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
So I guess "love" is to you also a nonsensical incoherent term? It is not to me, it is very useful and produces a lot of great ressults in my life, and the same goes for free will. Then we live in a very differnet universes. If yo
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Then why can’t anyone perform the basic step of defining their terms? What is “free will” according to you? I am surprised at how you can't understand that there are terms that are insanely useful and yet can't be defined exa
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Why do rocks choose to attract each other? This is exactly what they don't do - they don't choose. Rocks attract each other all the time, every time, with fixed force. When people talk, they routinely agree/disagree, con
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> They might be useful for some purposes Yeah, purposes like living human life. Very interesting and meaningful endeavor, I highly recommend it. Instead of only restricting yourself to philosophical a-b-c logic, you can live and experien
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> No, I think that is only true if you cling to naïve assumptions about what free will is Then explain what is "wrong" about it. When you write "I don't know what to write about it but it's wrong" indicates
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Do you believe that rocks have free will? Why do they choose to be attracted to other rocks? Having a conversation is like attracting rocks? What? Those things have 0.001% in common...
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Honestly I’m trying think of what more to write about that, but it seems like a total non-sequitur. Maybe you are just not aware of what you really deeply believe about it? > but “demonstrating free will” is not one of them AFAIK. F
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
The point is to demonstrate the obvious repercussions of truly trying on the belief "free will does not exist/not a meaningful thing" on something even so commonplace as an online conversation. If there is no free will, there
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Would you mind explaining? Alright. They pointed to how you used the concept of "of the opinion". This is the phrase that you have used yourself in the previous comment. Even if the conversation wasn't about free will, t
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
The parent comment has exactly demonstrated that is already meaningful. Coherence is tricky, because there are a lot of concepts and words already that we use every day, that are certainly meaningful and useful, but that would have a hard t
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
I don't see what is so hard to understand. One thing is internet connections that are initiated by user, or in the background from the apps that user voluntarily installed and wants to provide them a specific services. Another thing is
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> I think apple does really good tuning on their hardware. The reason everyone senses apple is good/solid is because they've tuned the UI to be very responsive. It doesn't mean apple stuff will execute an app faster, it me
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
It's not at all what it sounds like. Intentional user connections, connected to user actions are one thing. Phone constantly sending pings to various addresses and services for no good reason - is very different.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> Trust me, the lead and manager both know when someone sucks Through which mechanism do you think they know it? If nobody ever tells them that some piece of code is bad, this mechanism doesn't do its job.
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by Erlich_Bachman 6y ago
> This means that in order to have Bitcoin serve as the daily currency for all of Argentina's 50 million people would at least 50-tuple its energy consumption. That's not how Bitcoin or any PoW works. The amount of energy used

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