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by Zanfa 4y ago
Maybe, but it might also help put things in perspective. Enjoy the things you have and help the ones that are not as lucky.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
At the end of the day, you as a person are a combination of luck. Your intelligence, hard-working personality, physical and mental health that allows you to even try. Things that you might have some effect on, but are mostly a lottery.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
It definitely is. Just because success mostly boils down to luck, doesn’t mean that people realize or acknowledge it, which leads to unhealthy obsession with “being successful” that permeates the society.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Didn’t seem to have any significant effect on focus/hyperfocus for me, maybe slightly reduced irritability, but definitely added migraines with aura. Still have them occasionally, even after being off for over a month now.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Made up numbers. You can't just sum up fictional "market caps", number of unique wallet addresses and wash trades to conclude it must be doing amazing.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
I'd bet on Binance just delaying the inevitable collapse, rather than trying to fix the underlying issues. Judging from the FTX balance sheet, they gambled all of their money on shitcoins and random projects without any sense of logic.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> What is the purpose of “stable” coins? If you want a thing that is worth a dollar, why not just use dollars? Random exchanges can‘t print dollars, but they can print stablecoins to prop up other crypto prices.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Russia’s been threatening to nuke everybody on a regular cadence for a decade. What’s different now is their threats are being broadcast more to western audiences who are not used to nuclear threats. Nobody in Eastern Europe has been phased
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Regular single-use alkaline AA batteries are more energy dense than comparable rechargeable lithium based ones (up to 3000mAh for a single AA vs 3200mAh for iPhone 14 Pro). They're also safer and have lower self-discharge.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> If Tether was minting unbacked USDT, then Tether would eventually be shown to be insolvent. Tether's has been shown to be technically insolvent every time they've been forced to open their books. > Second, if you're m
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by Zanfa 4y ago
While online voting isn’t perfect, in-person paper ballots aren’t magic. Estonians had some 60-odd years of paper-only voting experience under the Soviet Union, didn’t make one bit of difference when it came to the complete fabrication of t
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by Zanfa 4y ago
With the number of collapsed stablecoins this year and the biggest one of them all being a complete fraud, I'm not sure they're any safer. Also, every fiat-backed stablecoin is by definition 100% centralized to a single legal enti
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by Zanfa 4y ago
I think the report suggests building 5x capacity of the current electricity consumption, not the final consumption when heating and transportation have also been converted over from fossil fuels.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
All mainstream cryptocurrencies rely on the high cost of attacking the network to ensure consistency. If the price is 0, there’s little incentive to participate (mine, validate etc), reducing the cost to attack the network, resulting in the
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Not sure where the 750MWh/day figure comes from, but if Tesla aims to build 500k cars there annually, that’s only around 42.5GWh total capacity if they’re all top-of-the-line 85kWh models. Or 116MWh daily. Also, at 750MWh/day, it
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Because solar and wind are intermittent. UK for example had 11 days in a row in 2021 where wind farms stayed under 20% of capacity during Feb-March [1], the low-season for solar power and high-season in power consumption due to heating. At
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by Zanfa 4y ago
The best number I could find quickly for the current total grid-scale battery storage for Germany is somewhere around 750MWh[1], so they only need to build 13,000 times as much storage as they have as of 2021. That would also only give them
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by Zanfa 4y ago
And as with anything web3/crypto, this example falls apart completely when you need to consider the reality of domain squatting, trademark issues, domain name theft etc. Cases where you need somebody (e.g. a court) to overrule code-is-
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by Zanfa 4y ago
A Bluetooth dongle for my Fully standing desk and an accompanying MacOS app to replace the default wired remote for height adjusting. The original remote was pretty large, with a thick cable and I never found a good place to put it where I
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by Zanfa 4y ago
This sounds exactly like the crypto universe, which seems to be mostly controlled/manipulated by a small number of (crypto) billionaires and their shadowy corporations.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
On iPhone Safari, the bottom browser url bar + the top search input and tabs take up about 40% of the total vertical space of the screen. While usually the url bar collapses to while scrolling down, it doesn’t seem to happen here, probably
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> Public tech companies in 2022 have enormous revenue and profit streams. Alphabet/Google is trading around 20 times earnings and Meta/Facebook is around 10 times earnings. While this is true for the largest of ad companies lik
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> The West's strategy here is stupid to the point where full scale mobilisation and war in Europe seems possible. You're right about this. The correct response would have been an immediate complete embargo of Russia and boots o
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by Zanfa 4y ago
> Estimation, planning, and progress tracking are difficult skills that must be learned, but they’re not impossible. Judging by the constant stream of overdue and overbudget projects in more traditional businesses like construction, whic
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by Zanfa 4y ago
However commodities also have inherent utility that cryptocurrency doesn’t.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Ignoring the fact that you’re implying a 100% USD inflation over the past year, you’d only have 25% of the purchasing power if you “invested” in BTC per the GPs example.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
For context, I purchased the entry-level 8GB M1 Air last year as a portable secondary Mac for my 27” 10-core i9, 64GB iMac. Mainly used for web and some embedded development. 1 - Subjectively it feels so much more responsive and faster than
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by Zanfa 4y ago
This seems extremely constrained by geology, even more than hydro. And what sort of gas would you be storing there?
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by Zanfa 4y ago
It is a big problem, low wind periods can last for days, just this Feb-March, UK wind generation stayed under 20% capacity (mostly between 5-10% I believe) for more than 11 days straight [0]. [0] https://reports.electricinsights.
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by Zanfa 4y ago
Why would anyone take business advice from the person that tanked one (or two if you include Tumblr) of the most well-known brands.

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