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10441.
by api 8y ago
Industrial scaling is hard but it's also exponential. The gap between 5000 cars and 10000 cars is exponentially smaller than the gap between 1000 cars and 5000 cars. The gap between 10000 cars and 100000 cars is smaller still.
10442.
by api 8y ago
People remain naive about online propaganda and the extent which "shill mills" influence social media. This industry has done a remarkable job keeping itself out of the limelight. There are legitimate reasons to be skeptical of Te
10443.
by api 8y ago
It's quite obvious to me that sometime last year a huge astroturf effort against Tesla was launched. My guess would be hedge funds shorting Tesla and then attempting to depress the stock. There's precedent for this. I thought it w
10444.
by api 8y ago
Here's a dumb question: if God does not exist then why have the majority of moral systems happened upon such large areas of overlap regarding right and wrong? Absent a God there still needs to be an answer to this. It would be likely f
10445.
by api 8y ago
Strong indicator of a real estate bubble 2.0.
10446.
by api 8y ago
A deeper problem for the rich countries is that the entire economic system is built for perpetual inflation. Everything has to always go up. Free migration is deflationary. Wide nominal wage declines would cause cascading default across the
10447.
by api 8y ago
Both views are right, and more. Wealth is created by a large number of workers under leadership by a smaller number of inventors and managers but neither is able to do anything without demand. Demand requires a strong middle class. Aligning
10448.
by api 8y ago
There's lots on that list that seldom appear in standard libraries let alone language cores.
10449.
by api 8y ago
I feel like this should include some basic cryptographic structures in their own category: hash chains, merkle trees, hash based block chains, and hash based directed acyclic graphs.
10450.
by api 8y ago
At 5-10tps conventional bitcoin can never compete with USD. There are other reasons too. But I think your argument is fundamentally incorrect. We had plenty of wars with gold backed currencies and we'd still have war if cryptocurrencie
10451.
by api 8y ago
Never invest in something you don't understand.
10452.
by api 8y ago
Do you believe there is now a quantum Moore's Law in place? I've seen graphs showing quantum chips from Google, IBM, and Intel plotted on a log scale that are suggestive. (These exclude adiabatic quantum computers which are differ
10453.
by api 8y ago
One of the more depressing things I've noticed in my time on this planet is that hype is often unrelated to or even inversely related to merit. I hypothesize three reasons for this: (1) The skills behind hype often do not intersect wit
10454.
by api 8y ago
The rich win in either scenario. In the bailout scenario they pocket most of the froth. In the crash scenario hyper-deflation causes cash to increase vastly in real value, allowing the rich to swoop in and buy up everything that isn't
10455.
by api 8y ago
> Monetary policy solved all the US’s problems following 2008 I think "all the US's problems" is a pretty extreme stretch. Monetary policy may have prevented a worst case depression scenario but the economy is still wildly
10456.
by api 8y ago
The ideal thing for them would be to ban ads for ICOs that do not comply with certain requirements like disclaimers, SEC registration, etc., but that would be really hard to implement so they just ban hammered the whole space.
10457.
by api 8y ago
There is perhaps a pragmatic argument for being a dictatorship if your goal is to climb from backwater to "developed" nation very quickly and then to transition to a democracy, but the authoritarians in charge have a history of ni
10458.
by api 8y ago
Maybe when the Chinese bubble crashes the present crop of neo-totalitarians and anti-democracy reactionaries will shut up. I am referring to those elements of both the alt-right and the totalitarian left who look to China (and similarly to
10459.
by api 8y ago
This is whataboutism. The fact that America has done awful things doesn't mean China hasn't or that we can't improve China's behavior. I sort of wish someone (EU?) would have put trade sanctions on America for those abus
10460.
by api 8y ago
The original SystemV init was ugly and hairy. Systemd managed to replace it with something more counter-intuitive and obtuse. That took effort. "systemctl list-units" What's wrong with? "systemctl list" or "s
10461.
by api 8y ago
A similar way of looking at it that I've heard: The USA got hundreds of billions of dollars worth of manufactured goods and raw materials, while China got hundreds of billions of rows in a SQL database. Of course that analysis leaves o
10462.
by api 8y ago
I love Alpine. Its Linux without the bloat and systemd cancer.
10463.
by api 8y ago
If that's what they're doing then why not just do an auction on a web site? What's the point of using the block chain if your solution to any problem is to go around it anyway?
10464.
by api 8y ago
Time to encrypt DNS too.
10465.
by api 8y ago
Sqlite is incredible. Tiny and usually used for small stuff but I have heard of 1TB+ databases with acceptable performance.
10466.
by api 8y ago
Ideology played a huge role in BBSes and Arpanet too. The same kind of cyber libertarianism popular in bitcoin was popular in the BBS world, and Arpanet was created to help America win the cold war.
10467.
by api 8y ago
Reminds me a lot of "dubs" in the 4chan world. The chans have always struck me as being a bit of a cult to some people. Look up all the weird Pepe/Kek stuff. "Bitcoin is a cult" is click bait. People have been engag
10468.
by api 8y ago
Peer to peer networking is being rebranded as "fog" because its cloud brought down to encompass everything. So now your laptop, phone, fridge, and toilet are the cloud too.
10469.
by api 8y ago
It's complicated. I think we have a few layers of feedback loops here. While the alt-right is scarier and more viscerally dangerous there is a bit of a "negativity laser" phenomenon going on here. The far left and far right a
10470.
by api 8y ago
I wish we could address both at once but recent history seems to suggest that we can't. I think the problem is with how these issues interact with other issues when projected down onto the demographics of the voting population. The pro

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