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by aazaa 5y ago
The article shows many tables without ever quoting sources. In the previous article in the series, the author claims: > ... I’m a “forensic environmental data specialist” (I invented the term just now). I use the troves of free to the pu
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SEC Set to Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs as Deadline Looms(bloomberg.com)
3 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
> In Upstate New York, where a quarter of US crypto mining takes place, the researchers find that electricity rates have gone up in response to rising demand. Their study demonstrates that because of bitcoin mining’s power usage, househo
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by aazaa 5y ago
>  Many Markdown utilities support front matter, which is designed to solve exactly this problem. --- template: blog other-key: other-value ---
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The Belarusian directorate for fighting organised crime said in a statement that "subscribers to extremist Telegram channels and chats will be held criminally liable ... as members of an extremist group." Of course, the nifty
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by aazaa 5y ago
> But this [knowing that an internet service will behave exactly as advertised] fails to hold true for general purpose chains acting as a VM, including the front-runner Ethereum. Ethereum nodes can in theory filter modifications to the s
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by aazaa 5y ago
Or at least post something on how it is done?
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by aazaa 5y ago
> The growing surveillance powers in Australia have been in the spotlight recently following the passage of the Identify and Disrupt bill last month. This handed “extraordinary” new powers to the Australian Federal Police and the Austral
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by aazaa 5y ago
It's baffling how anyone can simultaneously believe: 1. climate change is an existential threat to humanity 2. having one or more children is a good thing If you believe one, you need to yield on the other. The article yields on (1) to
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by aazaa 5y ago
> I hesitate to speculate about Satoshi’s identity, given that the discourse has generally ranged from misguided to downright idiotic and unethical. But with Craig Wright fraudulently claiming credit and invoking a copyright claim to tak
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Einstein Refrigerator(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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Evergrande Liquidity Crisis(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
> More startups would succeed if they were bull-headed about keeping the customer and the problem the same but changing the solution. This is why passion matters. You are unlikely to pivot quickly through lots of different problems or cu
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by aazaa 5y ago
> But you'll still be able to do Bitcoin transactions without exchanges, even if they get banned. Exactly. But a ban seems highly unlikely. Instead, exchanges are more likely to be regulated and subverted to the point of being usele
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by aazaa 5y ago
> According to the epidemiologist, the Moderna vaccine has for the past two months been used almost exclusively here for stimulation vaccinations after the Janssen vaccine and after two-dose vaccinations for the elderly and immunocomprom
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by aazaa 5y ago
> “If cryptocurrency exchanges want to be the banks of the future, we need to make sure people can have confidence in these systems,” she [Deputy Attorney General] said during an interview at the Aspen Cyber Summit. You'll know Bit
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by aazaa 5y ago
It comes from a book whose name I can't remember. Maybe "Don't make me think." It's about UI design. "Banana" as in the fruit. Monkey as in, well, user. If you want a monkey to follow you, use a banana vis
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by aazaa 5y ago
I find this kind of article that explains how to do something with vanilla Rust valuable because many articles will instead explain how to use a crate that offers similar functionality. This is the only way to know if a crate can actually p
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Kobayashi Maru(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
What are "hunter-gatherer-style installs?"
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by aazaa 5y ago
> I’ve joined the Wasmer company at its early beginning, in March 2019. The company was 3 months old. I had no idea that Wasmer, Inc. was a company. The home page, wasmer.io, says nothing about a company and reads like an open source pro
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by aazaa 5y ago
> “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis” The prize is about artificial catalysts. A catalyst is a substance that speeds up a reaction without being consumed. Another way to speed reactions up is to heat them, but that consum
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by aazaa 5y ago
The Platform page lists a selection of positions that I think would not be very controversial. https://www.forwardparty.com/platform Surprisingly, the issue that Yang is known for, UBI, is not on the list. UBI is, however,
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US Gold Reserve Act(en.wikipedia.org)
15 points by aazaa 5y ago|39 comments
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Texas Company Offers Truckers $14K/Wk During Tough Times for the Industry(altdriver.com)
12 points by aazaa 5y ago|15 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
> And I don't think they had location/address They most definitely did have addresses.
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by aazaa 5y ago
One of the problems with looking at the economy through the lens of inflation is defining "inflation" itself. Consider the Wikipedia definition: > In economics, inflation (or infrequently, price inflation) is a general rise in
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Wild West Pony Express Rider from the 1860s Tells His Story [video](youtube.com)
2 points by aazaa 5y ago|0 comments
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Taiwan reports largest ever incursion as 38 Chinese planes fly over air space(theguardian.com)
34 points by aazaa 5y ago|28 comments
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by aazaa 5y ago
From the conclusion: > In the historical record, crises are like fires and the government interventions in those crises are firefighting. ... There's a brilliant quote from James Grant to the effect that the US Federal Reserve acts

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