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by Qworg 6y ago
In these proposals (which with the new CBDC furor going on are more common again), it would look a lot like China. The central bank would pick the "Agriculture Bank" or the "Industrial Bank", and hand over a set of depos
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Stripe: The Internet's Most Undervalued Company(notboring.substack.com)
3 points by Qworg 6y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 6y ago
Sadly, no. The physics follow though - water has a much higher specific heat than air, so you have to move much less water than air for equivalent cooling. The production of heat by the processors is the same (and you save on air handling e
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Microsoft's underwater data centre resurfaces after two years(bbc.co.uk)
775 points by Qworg 6y ago|373 comments
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by Qworg 6y ago
I used to work on this project - water cooling is more efficient than air and heat generated by computing is the same. The heat ends up in the ocean anyways.
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by Qworg 6y ago
Yes - between Chicago and NYC.
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On the Moral Authority of the Founding CEO(ohadsamet.com)
1 points by Qworg 6y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 6y ago
Why? This is unnecessarily encumbering the utility of money. Real and Useful: people can use the money as a store of value, medium of exchange, and a unit of account - and enough people believe in it.
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by Qworg 6y ago
I'd love to learn more about the company and technology! Using radar is an interesting adaptation. Do you have a site?
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by Qworg 6y ago
Neither are instant.
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by Qworg 6y ago
Partially this is due to self interest - holding the cash longer and getting interest - but most of it is actually due to self protection. Small banks have less cushion to recover from fraud, have less people to process payments quickly, an
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by Qworg 6y ago
Just the B2B part of SEPA.
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by Qworg 6y ago
I think you'll find that people (broadly) are capable of altruism, but persons (narrowly) act in their own self interest and take advantage of the altruistic.
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by Qworg 6y ago
All communities, including this one, require curation and moderation. The down vote is a way to drive out "non-HN" ideas out of the square, as determined by the broad subset of HN users (and a small number of super users). It isn&
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by Qworg 6y ago
Also, there are wolves in both of the "aggressive" camps - people who would acquire power by any means necessary, no matter the costs to others. It is very hard to draw the line between "failed visionary" and "powe
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by Qworg 6y ago
Historically Black College or University North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
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by Qworg 6y ago
Fluids/moltens are a nightmare.
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by Qworg 6y ago
A good number of the breweries in Seattle are turning out excellent lagers, pilsners, and sours.
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by Qworg 6y ago
Even weirder, sometimes those brand names/logos are _shared between companies_ - for example, Ryobi is made by various different entities who all partially own it and agree on packaging/branding.
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by Qworg 6y ago
> How do you motivate yourself? Competitiveness doesn't only belong to the small company, sadly. Also, they pay very well.
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by Qworg 6y ago
If you want to play with ML racing, AWS DeepRacer is free for May (and you can compete against NASCAR drivers). https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/join-the-formula-1-deeprace...
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by Qworg 6y ago
Trading is inherently zero sum.
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by Qworg 6y ago
There's a great Planet Money story on the Onion King. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/09/19/649273647/epis...
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by Qworg 7y ago
Treasury Prime has been amazing to work with - a truly great team!
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by Qworg 7y ago
... how do you judge the nice explanation? Why wouldn't you want to hear from someone who studied/works in something over someone who is a random observer?
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Tidal(blog.x.company)
2 points by Qworg 7y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 7y ago
I don't know if skewed over imprecise. There's all of the ancillary industries that support OTR trucking affected as well - that'll bring the total numbers back up.
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by Qworg 7y ago
Trucking will go the same way - it is far more efficient (and allows you to grow faster), therefore market pressure will drive every trucking company to autonomous.
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by Qworg 7y ago
Common is an understatement: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-... It is the #1 job in 29 states as of 2014.
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by Qworg 7y ago
There will be one "driver" as a tender for 10+ trucks in a convoy.

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