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by anchpop 5y ago
On the contrary, US housing is incredibly socialized, which is why we have some of the worst affordability in the world. The capitalist, free market approach would be to allow landowners to build almost anything they want on their land, but
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by anchpop 5y ago
> On the other hand, there are now decentralized insurance protocols available on stablecoin yields which cover risks of a stablecoin or an unintended behavior in a smart contract for ~2% APY. I hadn't heard of this, how would someo
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by anchpop 5y ago
I don’t see why that would solve the issue. your browser is communicating with facebook’s servers, so if they log your communication it’s not exactly a violation of your private property rights
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by anchpop 5y ago
A lot of theoretical physics research is funded by bored rich traders (who are disproportionately physics people)
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by anchpop 5y ago
This is exactly what Unison is trying to do
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by anchpop 5y ago
The GP didn't say anything about anyone needing more money?
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Producing graphene in bulk using waste food, plastic and other materials(news.rice.edu)
98 points by anchpop 5y ago|56 comments
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by anchpop 5y ago
So why do the owners of Apple decide to pay Tim Cook so much? Do they just not realize that they could come out ahead by only hiring CEOs willing to pay much less?
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by anchpop 5y ago
> Hmm, makes me wonder if this data structure would also support CRDTs. Collaborative editing is a nice thing to be able to support. Text CRDTs are not very difficult, but representing an AST as a CRDT is an open problem. See [1]. There
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by anchpop 5y ago
Your logic would imply that it's impossible for conventional planes to be cheaper than conventional rail, which is definitely not always the case in the US.
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by anchpop 5y ago
A core selling point of Airtags is that other people's iPhones help you find your AirTag. That's also what makes them effective trackers. It's a bit of an unsolvable problem.
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by anchpop 5y ago
They have very little in common besides the name and the fact that they both are transit systems involving tubes. Hyperloop's main goal was to provide fast intercity transit, TBC's goal is to provide convenient intracity transit
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by anchpop 5y ago
Any new form of passenger transit isn't just competing with Amtrack, it's also competing with airplanes which fly at around 440-550 mph. Let's say you want to go from SF to Seattle, a distance of about 800 miles. If you had a
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by anchpop 5y ago
Practically speaking, as long as they can convince people with control of capital (including the US gov't) that it's worth investigating. The proper answer to your question requires information you're not going to get by aski
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by anchpop 5y ago
Virgin Hyperloop uses maglev. The main difference between what they're doing and everyone else, is that they put their whole track in a giant airtight pipe, and pump air out of the pipe so the train can travel with less air resistance.
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by anchpop 5y ago
TFA has nothing to do with the boring company or underground tunnels
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by anchpop 5y ago
Thank you! I'm the author :P
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Improving the US Financial System(chadnauseam.com)
3 points by anchpop 5y ago|3 comments
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by anchpop 5y ago
Hmm, I think you should use TAI over UTC because UTC has leap-second corrections, Which means that the current time + X seconds might not actually be X seconds from now
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by anchpop 5y ago
For a fullscreen window it would be nice if moving the mouse all the way to the right edge was sufficient to target the scrollbar, but that doesn't work in Chrome on my mac
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by anchpop 5y ago
Any income is subject to taxes in the US
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by anchpop 5y ago
If I could have one wish, I'd replace file extensions with a hash of the spec and have someone maintain a lookup table from spec hash -> extension for rendering
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by anchpop 5y ago
IIRC vscode does this by default, definitely a really handy feature
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by anchpop 5y ago
I'm not sure I'd want a 150 year old freezer though. It'd probably be very energy inefficient for starters.
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by anchpop 5y ago
I haven't read the blog entry, but the logic here doesn't make sense to me. If everyone gets a 5% return on their stake, the gini coefficient doesn't change at all. Probably small holders never stak and so never get any retur
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A (joke) cryptocurrency where you get paid to scalp(scalpcoin.xyz)
20 points by anchpop 5y ago|7 comments
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by anchpop 5y ago
that would be ridiculous and it’s a fair interpretation of the grandparent comment, but there’s actually a coherent theory of “mutational load”, which basically says that 1. almost all mutations are bad 2. mutations come together (like if y
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A fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante and a murder(wired.co.uk)
5 points by anchpop 5y ago|0 comments
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by anchpop 5y ago
This is a use case of IPFS I think. Any IPFS "website" will remain available at its original IPFS content ID as long as at least one person is seeding it, so if a book referenced one the author could seed it to guarantee that the
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by anchpop 5y ago
Besides reusing the name superposition I don’t think I see a connection to our universe. Actually though you might find this interesting: there’s a fundamental disconnect between our universe and the von neumann architecture, which is that

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