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by andruby 5y ago
I was thinking about trading commission to convert XLM to EUR. Those are 0.1%. Withdrawing via SEPA was €1.0~1.5, but I see that's suspended now. If you were transferring €1000~1500, that would have been 0.1%. Withdrawing to GBP is onl
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by andruby 5y ago
I'm just careful not to make any absolute statements. I'm not a crypto advocate. I also tried not to pass judgement. I understand that less regulation leads to more crime (and I think we are seeing evidence of that). What I'm
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by andruby 5y ago
I think gold is also a reasonable hedge against certain instabilities. I don't own any gold because I'd be worried about securing it. While I do have some valuables in my house, most of it is easily replaceable.
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by andruby 5y ago
It's not a hedge against society collapsing. In that case nothing will help, perhaps owning land to farm your own food (if you can protect it). The (tiny) investment I keep in crypto is a hedge when economies tank, or governments/
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by andruby 5y ago
During the Cyprus financial crisis, on 25 March 2013, bank account balances over €100K were seized. BTC surged 87% that day, and 700% that month. [0,1,3] When Greece was freezing / slowing bank withdrawals during its financial crisis i
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by andruby 5y ago
I do think there is at least one problem that crypto currencies solve better than the status-quo: sending money internationally. It has less regulation than the official channels. Can have better privacy. Can be cheaper. Can be faster. Comp
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by andruby 5y ago
While that could be possible, I find it improbable that no one that was involved or in the know has leaked or said anything in over 10 years.
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by andruby 5y ago
I wonder if we'll ever figure out who Satoshi is/was. I'd love to know. On the other hand, I do want to respect their wish to stay anonymous. Whomever that person is, it must feel very weird. They either still have access to
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by andruby 5y ago
pun intended?
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by andruby 5y ago
I'm curious, what would happen if you worked 40 hours instead of 60? Would the company fire you? (I'm privileged. I am in a scale-up that has found product-market fit. We could be cashflow positive if we needed to. I'm in a m
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by andruby 5y ago
I loved Lego as a kid. Used to build so many things without manuals. My brother built houses and I built a lot of vehicles. Now I've got 2 boys and I buy tons of lego's for the three of us. We're trying to get mom involved an
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by andruby 5y ago
That's because it is owned by Ethos Capital, and is the reason they shouldn't own .org
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by andruby 5y ago
that seems like a nightmare to check. if 100 parties want to buy a specific domain from me (say: database.io), the incentive to sugar the deal will be huge. Why wouldn't I sell it to the party that'll gift me a Tesla when I sell t
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by andruby 5y ago
Right, indeed. I guess I was thinking about the functionality of having multiple hard links point to the same “file” (inode)
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by andruby 5y ago
You can also have hard links on non CoW filesystems (eg ext3). I assume hard links exists on most filesystems
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by andruby 5y ago
He's actually been talking about Vitamin D since April 2020 [0] and discussed the encouraging first clinical trial in September 2020 [1]. There are plenty of published studies on Vitamin D and its effects on Covid. I don't underst
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by andruby 5y ago
$40 in 1970 would be $269.50 today. That seems like a luxury straw.. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=40usd+1970+in+2021
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by andruby 5y ago
I'd love to read a comparison with PgBouncer (I assume that PgBouncer is still the dominant connection pool)
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by andruby 5y ago
I'm wondering what the effect would be if the money from the fines is burned (destroyed). The company would still feel the same incentive. For the government on the other hand, it removes the incentive to fine for one's own gain.
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by andruby 5y ago
Indeed, that's why I mentioned other governments. Poison seems to be the Russian flavor.
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by andruby 5y ago
Someone once explained to me the strategy of the US (and other govs). They want to discourage future dissidents by making an example of people who oppose the status quo. They want the prospect of being a whistleblower to be as unpleasant as
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by andruby 5y ago
if the nodes don't upgrade their software to the code version with the commented line, they would reject those new blocks, regardless of it being the longest chain. You would need to control the majority (of the important) nodes to be
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by andruby 5y ago
The curve seems to be pretty lineair. So I think you can do another 5k cycles and have 60% left, once more for 40% etc. A quick search didn’t reveal a full curve chart to zero though. I know that a lot of cheaper LFP cells on aliexpress are
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by andruby 5y ago
The weight of a full gas tank that can drive you 1000km is a lot less than the weight of batteries that can do the same. even if you include the ICE engine. In other words: even when you take conversion into account, energy density (both by
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by andruby 5y ago
You can't discharge lead-acid as deeply as LFP without destroying longevity. So that 150Ah, probably only has 75Ah of useable capacity. The LFP battery will also last for ~5000 cycles, after which it'll still have ~80% capacity, a
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by andruby 5y ago
> Being a parent is hard. I know. I've got two kids and a third one on the way. I should have chosen my words better. Both parents and the school system are responsible for educating & raising children. There are some parents th
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by andruby 5y ago
Thank you for that link. I guess I need to adjust my assumptions. I guess my assumption was based on the fact that women are increasingly more active in the workforce in the past few decades: https://ourworldindata.org/graph
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by andruby 5y ago
My wife is a teacher. She (and some of her colleagues) do blame phones somewhat, but they blame parents even more. Not necessarily the individuals themselves, but rather "parenting" and how society has changed that concept. Societ
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yes* * anecdotal data from me and a dozen or so friends. I assume results will depend a lot on the human's manufacturing date. Mine's in the 1980's :)
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by andruby 5y ago
Without wanting to distract from your point. Are you / your family spending more time at home and / or changed your buying behavior? I noticed that we spend more on groceries too, but mostly because we've both been working fr

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