IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> Bitcoin thus appears about 15 times less efficient than the non-cash status quo. You can make calculations today, but they're somewhat meaningless. The reason is, miners don't mine to secure the system and earn money on tran
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> The EU is creating barriers to entry into it's economy for purposes of punishment (their words) - like the gym that makes you pay extra when you leave? Of all countries on planet earth, it's frankly nothing less than comedy t
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> On the contrary, the opportunity to access the UK market has much enthusiasm. You're implying that's some kind of great news. I'd say, real estate investors have lots of enthusiasm for sellers threatened with foreclosure
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
It's absolutely ridiculous. I mean, median household income in Brooklyn is $45k.[0] That's household. The average household size in Brooklyn is 2.75. There'll be some kids in there, but likely the average adults per household
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
A company pre-ordering is quite different from a consumer. They've probably put up a fraction of the regular $5k. But even if they hadn't, this story hit newspapers in pretty much every region they have consumers. At a WACC of 6%,
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Eh, he's a well-known VC with a portfolio of tens of different companies, a > billion dollar net worth and a fraction of 1% of his original net worth put into bitcoin, which has grossed him $200m. So no, not quite.
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
I don't see why you're being downvoted, it's true. There are some counter-arguments to make, of course. One of them is that this model is true in general, but not in every single case. Rather, it may be more useful to say tha
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
I'm not sure if that's a fair comparison. You're essentially comparing the cost of fuel versus the cost of: road infrastructure, costs of a vehicle, costs of a driver, costs of risk (insurance / safety), parking and serv
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
I did mention that. Again, I had to leave my own hometown too. And yes, we've argued, just like every major city, with history vs money. But at the end of the day, you're not entitled to live in the 0.01% richest square mileage be
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
That's nonsense man. I'm literally referring to a woman in the article who sleeps in a parkingarea because she can't pay rent, but she does work, owns a phone, a car, earns more cash than is necessary to pay for her non-rent
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
So leave. I just don't get that. I mean, we're literally talking about a group of people with lower-to-middle class US jobs, who, on a daily basis, go to an auction together with a large amount of billionaires and millionaires, an
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Dutch legal system is often chosen because you don't want to be a counterparty to an agreement in a shitty jurisdiction. Typically companies worry more about their counterparty screwing (e.g. not delivering, delivering late, delivering
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> Do boxers fit this profile? Uhh well yeah, much more than soccer players that's for sure. You typically throw around 50 punches in a round, with about 35% landing, typically more than half are thrown to the head, and punches which
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
When they say vaults, they're actually vaults. 98%, according to them, of their funds are stored offline. The only attack vectors are cryptographically, which you can pretty much rule out (safe for human error), and some kind of human
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> I have always found it surprising how easy it is to get access to offices just by tagging along with folks Yeah it's ridiculous. At my office we've got so many employees I don't recognise about 75% of 'em. Meanwhile
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Just to preface this: where are you getting the 12x reduction from? He spends 40 euros at 0.26, that's 150 kWh per month. That's 1/3rd of your usage, not 1/12th. And he's living alone, you with four. If anything, yo
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
A modern efficient European fridge typically costs about $3 a month where I live. I'd rather ask you, where you spend 900 kWh per month on :p I suspect airconditioning is a big factor though, I've never had a fan in my home in my
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> Especially considering it'll take 10+ years for electric cars to be widely used by a significant fraction of the US workforce. This is key, plus I think we're overstating how fast this will happen. In 2016 we're still at
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
I'm so freaking tired of seeing articles about exciting agricultural tech, just to click on them and find a whole bunch of lettuce. (and tomatoes) I mean, really, try measuring it yourself. They're virtually always all about lettu
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> Average life of ICE vehicles can't be 266kkm, that's absurdly low. I'm not sure it is... I mean, in my country (Netherlands) the average car user drives 13k km per year, in very car heavy countries that's probably a
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Only they're marketing it with oreo cookie mascot, look at all the material. I highly doubt you can just do that. It's the same with kit kat, they probably couldn't just use that, either. But it's a win-win for both part
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> More religious diversity, not just Islam, I think is a gain for Africa. I don't think they will get bogged down in religious extremism as in the middle east. The biggest religion in Africa isn't islam, it's Christianity.
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Know of any blogs/stories like that to read, particularly of people moving to a cheaper area while quitting?
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Ads suck, they're on the decline because everyone is discovering blockers, they pester 99% of the people with things they'll never click on, require a force against privacy, generates money for a small group of companies, and gene
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Hehe, yep, they even made a documentary retelling the Anne Frank stories from experiences of all kinds of different people who're standing in line to get a ticket. (many of them having stories of their own). They're working on it
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
I'd urge anyone not to dedicate any significant fraction of their diet to these snacks. I mean come on, cauliflower with BBQ sauce? That's kind of the problem with all these recipes, you take just about any ingredient and either b
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
Lighting/laptops/phones take a tiny amount of energy. For example, a phone battery nowadays (e.g. iPhone 6) is about 10 watthours with say 5 hours of screen-on-time. Disregarding it's on doing background stuff all the other h
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
> Are sure you know all that is being produced in indoor farms? I don't understand what you're asking. But regarding Growing Power, as far as I know it's a small-scale demo farm that is used for educational purposes that&#
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
This is absolutely crucial. I love indoor farming, I've built some hydroponics systems before, automated a bunch and spoke with my municipality about urban farming projects. But anyone who looks into it long enough finds that indoor-fa
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by IkmoIkmo 9y ago
I made that up, so feel free to take it with a huge grain of salt. But I've worked in higher education, wrote my thesis on it and follow it still with a lot of interest, so the ballpark figure is probably roughly accurate. I'd lik

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