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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
One point in favour of that theory is he has billions of dollars in bitcoin and has never attempted to spend any of it. Or maybe has lost the keys.
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
I think it would be useful if news outlets signed their video content using watermarking techniques. Then social media sites where news is shared could automatically check for recognised signatures for major outlets and give it a checkmark
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Not necessarily. If you lay down FTTP for 500Mbit it'll work at 10 gig no problem. You need to change the equipment at either end. In fact it'll work well beyond that speed if someone wants to pay for the equipment. But if the pri
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
The thing I found fascinating about this machine is it has no video RAM at all. I couldn't initially understand how it could possibly work without a frame buffer. What it does is you have to redraw the screen dynamically on every frame
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
No-one said slow. I was thinking FTTP. However a public sector initiative would come with limits. It has to come with limits because people demand low taxes. Let's say the public sector does the math and says 500Mbit is what they can g
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Definitely not a rent-seeking opportunity. Just to clarify, I'd see the public ISP service as providing a vanilla "wires only" type broadband offering at a reasonable competitive speed at a reasonable price. A value-add servi
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
I think the best approach would be publicly owned infrastructure with a mandate to reach all addresses. Run a basic no-frills public ISP service over it at a fair price but the private sector can also operate added value services over the p
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
A commodore 1541 disk drive for the C64 originally cost 300GBP on it's own at launch (1982 prices before inflation). That's more than the cost of a home computer at the time just for the drive. That's why careers were started
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
I'm guilty of not reading this paper in any detail but it feels that the default setting "nudge" idea should work as described. So if you e.g. nudge people by setting up a pension plan by default (that they can opt out of) do
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
I agree. The fact the 80s micros booted to BASIC put programming in front of you from the get go and subsequent machines hid programming away. The fact the machine came with a manual that was mostly about programming, they expected you to d
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
The other thing is nVidia try and sell GPUs with similar performance at two very different prices. One price for data centres and a quite different price to kids. If you do the job yourself you can often get away with using the much cheaper
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Yeah that amazed me also that they failed to produce any kind of blockchain. All they had to do was start a new bitcoin ledger or whatever using the openly available bitcoin software, as several other coins did at the time. They did try to
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
I agree it would be very difficult to get robots to do either plumbing or electrics in a home environment as it is. However another option is that the job becomes simplified and dumbed down so home owners can do it themselves or with low sk
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
But it may be the "better" landing page is less clear, which makes it more frustrating to understand the product, which has a side effect of causing a negative opinion of it. So in this case the landing page is not better because
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
It's interesting the extent to which the players trust Hawkeye. Particularly in the tennis, there is no more McEnroe screaming the ball was on the line. The computer says it was out and that's the end of the matter.
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Long time Firefox user. Using it now. Used it in the early days for features liked tabbed browsing, good performance and Linux support. These days I really mainly use it to be contrarian to avoid using Google for everything. I just want to
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
They charge fees. They also lend stocks to shorters (and charge a fee for that). And cheap brokers sell order flow.
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
They were doing something similar in London for a while. They'd install a large advert screen with a phone attached and say it was a payphone because the local planning rules made it difficult to oppose installation of a payphone. The
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
That's incorrect, you forgot the dividends. I went with an analysis from last year where Berkshire was behind and was doing worse than the S&P. Now they're about evens. Berkshire is now an S&P500 tracker.
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
That makes no sense at all. What you're saying is it's possible to hire people who can see the future. Index tracking works because the market as a whole generally trends upwards if you wait long enough. This would be expected as
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Now throw in all the other active funds and average them out. Also Berkshire would not have been the better investment over the last decade. Can you guarantee me Berkshire will pull ahead before I retire?
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
There'll never be a shortage of people who think they can beat the market. Market beating is just such a compelling illusion. Also passive funds are not quite 100% passive. What does everyone do when they're broke? Stop investing.
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
And one SD card could probably hold every commercially released title for every machine ever released combined up until about the CD era started in the 90s.
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
BBC Micro for me round these parts but same idea. The 80s were a golden age for bedroom coders and the various 8-bit machines round the world launched thousands of careers. The fact that the machines came with a programming language (and e
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
I noticed your amount was in pounds. If you are in the UK, you could try a "Subject Access Request" which legally requires them to hand over all relevant personal info that they hold about you. People sometimes get lucky with thes
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
In the late 90s and early 2000s every second bank round these parts decided to do their entire website in Flash. Not just some animations and videos, but I mean the actual entire content of the site was Flash, no HTML. As well as being basi
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
That's the most important point in this article. That clichéd "everyone should code" line you hear isn't true. Or the standard "you should code" response on Reddit every time someone asks what job they should d
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
I didn't correctly read your comment sorry. I don't know about the US system, but here the fixes normally do have a lock-in typically on a ratchet system where they are expensive to exit in the early part of the loan and cheaper l
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Well it's an unknowable gamble. You might also be locking in an excessively high rate. The flexible approach of continuously re-mortgaging would have been the better strategy for the last 10 years with interest rates that went down. In
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
They're often called "lifetime fixes" or "fixed for term" in the UK. You can easily get them. The term customers choose is typically 25 years rather than 30. However they are currently running at an interest rate of

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