TheMechanist

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by TheMechanist 2y ago
Given that the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X can compute around 28.1 million SHA-256 hashes per second, the time required to calculate the hash of such a proposition including all possible 9-length hexadecimal strings to would be approximately: 68.72 x
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by TheMechanist 2y ago
Two obvious problems: the fractional part of the price is not uniform over [00..99] and the system has 5 coins, since in 2021 minting for the half-dollar coin was restarted.
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by TheMechanist 2y ago
Standard eBooks has nicer covers...
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by TheMechanist 3y ago
Yes, that's what ChatGPT says: Assuming that a tail is a leg does not actually make it a leg. Dogs have four legs, regardless of the length of their tail.
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by TheMechanist 4y ago
Has anybody reproduced this in… Firefox (on iOS of course)? Asking for a friend who has Safari search suggestions disabled (so Safari does not crash) but encounters Firefox crashes regularly.
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by TheMechanist 4y ago
What is a “duty” ? - https://youtu.be/A-brgkkjnHc
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by TheMechanist 4y ago
This would work out great !!! Except - you know - for the hotel bookings, car hire and the museum tickets you bought in advance.
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by TheMechanist 4y ago
Yes - I am sure this would work out well - like it does with car reservations. https://youtu.be/A-brgkkjnHc
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by TheMechanist 4y ago
I think you should start by reading Progress and Poverty - here is a short review: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr... The land with the highest value is city land. Most of city land and the
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by TheMechanist 4y ago
> One way to organise it is to ask people how much tax they're willing to pay, from which the land value can be derived (as that's the real point of assessing land value for someone who isn't willing to sell that's th
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by TheMechanist 5y ago
The South Park model is surprisingly accurate. See Ray Dalio’s model here: https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/how-the-ec...
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by TheMechanist 6y ago
In regular taxis, you will get more money if you drive the longer route i.e. there is a very strong incentive to be increasingly dishonest.
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by TheMechanist 6y ago
Gentlemen, the hole is due to the fact that no company has the large scale productive capacity for the newly discovered COVID-19 vaccine. Ordering earlier and paying more would just have shifted distribution around, and would not have mad
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by TheMechanist 6y ago
Besides her parentage, you forgot to mention that she's a German woman and mother in a position of power, to fully "justify" your ad hominem attack.
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by TheMechanist 6y ago
The Russian scientists have first discussed Sputnik V with EMA (EU's medicine agency) 5 days ago: https://www.msn.com/en-xl/europe/top-stories/russia-files-sp... ; Hungary, which is part of the EU, has
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by TheMechanist 6y ago
Non-sequitur, but true: this is a political hatchet job from delivered by a center-left newspaper to a center-right politician. The key to this crisis and article can be found in the middle of the article: "...von der Leyen's pres
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by TheMechanist 6y ago
It's low orbit pollution with high speed space junk by any technological civilization,resulting in an inevitable self-interdiction of space flight: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2000/03&#x2F
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by TheMechanist 6y ago
Question 2: This is better left unanswered. We've been building superhuman AIs for at least 300 years which are exploiting reality to their advantage and have started out-competing humans for resources (including by changing laws in th