alphydan

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   by alphydan 13y ago

   So the US produces 11 mbpd (million barrels per day) of liquids (oil, gas2liquids, ethanol, biodiesel). However it consumes about 19 mpbd [0]. Unfortunately this is just a bleep because more expensive prices have made fracking (a 30 - 20 y
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   by alphydan 13y ago

   The article gives an 'example' where the child of the janitor is 'smarter' than the one of the doctor or college student. So the question is, did your parents talk to you? (not where your parents astrophysicists?) >&g
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   Game of Life News: Prime numbers (2010)(pentadecathlon.com)

   31 points by alphydan 13y ago|8 comments
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   The story so far(avalon-asics.com)

   32 points by alphydan 13y ago|12 comments
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   by alphydan 13y ago

   I agree with widdershins. One can use many tools each with their own merit but I'm not opposed to closed source by principle (it's their choice and sometimes their mistake). An open source version of Svbtle would be very easy to
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   by alphydan 13y ago

   Good point. I've only copy pasted and tweaked the PHP in Drupal or Wordpress, so although I'm obviously thankful for all the underlying development I've never really written PHP so I left it out of the list.
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   Open thank you to open source(alphydan.svbtle.com)

   21 points by alphydan 13y ago|6 comments
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   by alphydan 13y ago

   > Deaths from terror attacks follow a power law. [citation needed]
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   by alphydan 13y ago

   well, Ayn Rand modulo all the public money he uses in his ventures (state environmental credits for Tesla, contracts with NASA ... ie. taxpayers money, research grants, etc, etc). Then again Ayn Rand did suck state bottle with medicaire an
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    by alphydan 13y ago

    $6k gdp? You mean $165bn? or perhaps $3k - $5k average gross salary? -- By the way, if you get a $100k cancer and live in a reasonable state with public healthcare it's taken care of.
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    to add to Piskvorrr's point, if population isn't a bubble waiting to explode I don't know what is ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_curve.svg
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    The actual best solution might be to talk to your kids and educate them so they voluntarily don't spend too much ... how innovative and rad is that?
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    <<non-peer-reviewed scientific literature is the antithesis of the research culture>>. I don't think it's necessarily so. The arxiv is not really peer reviewed (you need to be recommended by someone to enter, but then are
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    Does anyone know why there's not a free pre-print server ( http://arxiv.org/ ) in other areas of science? It's the morning paper of most theoretical physicists, big papers get published there first (and in Nature, Science second), or even
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    thanks for the typo notice. I really hope that's not what it becomes ... but who knows? :)
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    I may very well be off by a factor of 10. Agreed. But what is your estimate? and what exactly would M2,M3 and M4 be? Let's assume 12m has been mined, 1m has been lost forever, 8m are hoarded, and a velocity of 10. You then have 30m bitcoin
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    Good points about velocity and monetary base. "satochi" spelling and decimals corrected. Thanks. The $6000 is just an order of magnitude >>>(80/12)*1000. Too many unknowns for anything beyond guesstimates: What percentage of
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    I can't. I think criminals will find their way with Bitcoin or without it. It's easy to fall for the easy argument: "the standard banking/monetary system is even worse, so bitcoin is ok". As a small example HSBC was considered too big t
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    Sorry, I didn't express myself properly. AsicMiner does have ASICs, and Avalon also has shown them to work. All I'm saying is that a government or individual can't buy today enough ASICs off-the-shelf to conduct the 50% attack.
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    As of today, you can't buy the ASICs because they don't exist, so I guess it's true (plus minus a lot of millions as it is a rough estimate). But it will be a lot cheaper very soon for a brief period of time before miners up the arms race
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    Good point. I agree that major exchanges are vulnerable to regulation and shut down. I think localbitcoins.com (cash in hand or private transactions for bitcoins all over the world) is probably part of the answer (but not a very liquid or
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    The Big Book of Bitcoin - An introduction(alvarofeito.com)

    118 points by alphydan 14y ago|52 comments
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    by alphydan 14y ago

    here's an essay that will hopefully make you think about it in another light http://weeklysift.com/2012/09/10/the-distress-of-the-privile...