FabHK

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by FabHK 2y ago
The excellent document converter pandoc unfortunately only supports conversion to PDF.
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by FabHK 2y ago
FWIW, when you submit an article, you can now also immediately comment on it; that's what the text field is for. (But no need, I think, to copy & paste the first two paragraphs from the article.)
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by FabHK 2y ago
> obviously HK is a bit of a special case Reminds me of the old macro economist joke: There are 4 types of economies, developed economy, developing economy, Japan, and Argentina. Maybe HK should be added to that joke...
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by FabHK 2y ago
HK has a currency pegged to the USD via a currency board, that is (similar to a stable coin) backed one-to-one with USD denominated short-dated treasuries. That is within the HK exchange fund operated by the HK Monetary Authority. The excha
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by FabHK 2y ago
And anything beyond 3m you put into real estate, stocks, or bonds anyway. Real rates have mostly been positive; and if not, that's the result of an economy wide equilibrium process that can't be undone risklessly by some magic bea
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by FabHK 2y ago
The essential feature of crypto is that you can transfer it without regards to rules. There are on/off ramps dealing with crypto as well as fiat, thus centralized entities, and they have to obey the rules indeed. Look, guns are about s
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by FabHK 2y ago
Coinbase is a centralized old fashioned listed company that (even though they dislike it) has to follow the laws applicable to it. They do KYC and maybe even a bit of token AML and CTF. Then you can exchange fiat into crypto, send it to an
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by FabHK 2y ago
No, not talking about a specific case. I am talking about crypto in general. The distinguishing feature of blockchain is permissionlessness. The point of crypto is that you can transfer it without any regard to any rules [1] (by virtue of t
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by FabHK 2y ago
Indeed. From Satoshi's emails: ++++++++++++ >> You will not find a solution to political problems in cryptography. > Yes, but we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. &g
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by FabHK 2y ago
Yes, HSBC laundered money for Mexican drug cartels. Surprise: the business of handling money flows attracts criminals. That's why it is heavily regulated. When the HSBC money laundering was revealed, what was TradFi's answer? Let&
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by FabHK 2y ago
Pity that Wire never took off. It combined all the advantages of messaging apps for a while (available on many platforms, e2ee, etc.). Goes to show that success is not determined by technology.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> The tension on the bubble appears to have exceeded safe parameters. Mit dem Angriff AI wird das alles in Ordnung kommen.
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by FabHK 2y ago
The side effects of going for a swim in the ocean every morning, mate.
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by FabHK 2y ago
That's how I interpreted it, yes.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Not quite. It's about 3x. It also depends on whether you're talking fixed wing or rotary wings. A modern car might easily have 130 kW or more, and that's what a Cessna 172 has (around 180 hp). (Sure, a plane cruises at the hi
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by FabHK 2y ago
LOL about the last paragraphs: > Let’s Continue a Noble Tradition! > The billionaire founders of both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin had faith in the systems they had created. They both personally flew on the first operational flight
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by FabHK 2y ago
Minor nitpick: > NVidia’s margin on the H100 is 1000%. That means they’re selling it for 10X what it costs to produce If the margin is 1000%, they're selling it at 11x what it costs to produce. Were they selling it at 10x, their mar
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by FabHK 2y ago
I think it's a great idea that the delivery of the material is done by video, and then the engagement with it, the exercises etc., are done with a teacher. That flipping strikes me as sensible.
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by FabHK 2y ago
You could mandate that airports incorporate runways shaped as disks with 10 km diameter and another 5 km of empty space around them. Accidents would still happen.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> new major airports for example Qatar Doha, US Denver and SA Upington has runaway length close to 5 km. These are by no means average "new major airports". Denver airport (from 1989) is the west's largest airport (by land
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by FabHK 2y ago
Sorry, as a farmer you have a very clearly defined purpose (and it might be more implicit than explicitly said out loud, but it's very clear nevertheless). And that's to make sure that you have enough to eat for your family and yo
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by FabHK 2y ago
What we want: 1. A second has fixed length. 2. At 12 noon every day the sun is at its zenith. 3a. A day has 86400 seconds. 3b. Time only goes forward. Pick any three. not 1; 2, 3a, 3b: You get UT1 [1], which basically gives you the angle of
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by FabHK 2y ago
Around 15 bn trees are felled each year.
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by FabHK 2y ago
That’s in the linked paper: > Following almost all of the collected data sources, we define a tree as a plant with woody stems larger than 10 cm diameter at breast height (DBH).
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by FabHK 2y ago
Currently, for every child born there are about 250 CPUs produced (ARM only).
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by FabHK 2y ago
You can have stars without trees, but you can’t have trees without stars.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> How big does the tree have to be to be counted as a tree? That’s in the linked paper: > Following almost all of the collected data sources, we define a tree as a plant with woody stems larger than 10 cm diameter at breast height (DB
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by FabHK 2y ago
Definitely true for me, but then, I was a kid when I first saw it.
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by FabHK 2y ago
It probably exploded near the aircraft. That would explain the shrapnel damage.
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by FabHK 2y ago
No. The entire discussion only applies to images being uploaded (or about to be uploaded) to iCloud. By default in iOS all pictures are saved locally only (so the whole CSAM scanning discussion would not have applied anyway), but that tends

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