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Hashcash, a proof-of-work system adapted by Bitcoin: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/genesis-files-hashcash-... 1. It solves an extremely practical problem (spam) using a very simple idea (provide a value that whe
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by apo 8y ago
The article mentions LGFVs, without defining the acronym or explaining much about them. Here's another article that goes into more detail: Local government funding vehicles (LGFVs) are companies owned and funded by a local government
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It could have something to do with the arrival (soon to be a flood) of much-better financed and regulated stable coins such as the Gemini dollar: To date, there has been no trusted and regulated digital representation of the U.S. dollar th
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The Doctor Who Gave Himself an Ulcer and Solved a Medical Mystery(discovermagazine.com)
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H. pylori was first discovered in the stomachs of patients with gastritis and ulcers in 1982 by Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren of Perth, Western Australia. At the time, the conventional thinking was that no bacterium could live in th
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Milton Friedman – Money and Inflation [video, 1977](youtube.com)
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We used to think that Presidents can't unilaterally enact new trade policy. That also turned out to be wrong. What's more, the active term is "for cause," which is an exceedingly low bar.
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What's "loco" is not the tightening now underway, but the super-lax monetary policy that preceded it for many years. The Fed kept short-term rates close to zero for nearly a decade. Longer terms rates were negative for many y
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How Trump Could Fire Powell and Rebuild the Fed(forbes.com)
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Both of the examples (2-Party Multisignature Escrow Account with Time Lock & Recovery, and Joint-Entity Crowdfunding) have been possible with Bitcoin for some time.
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Appleboum said one key sign of the implant is that the manipulated Ethernet connector has metal sides instead of the usual plastic ones. The metal is necessary to diffuse heat from the chip hidden inside, which acts like a mini computer. &
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One of the first YC Startup Schools (the first?) was held in April 2008. I was there and distinctly remember one of the presenters, an editor from one of the financial monthlies IIRC. He claimed that subprime defaults (no mention of housing
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Walmart Patent Wants to Monitor Your Health and Stress Levels While You Shop(cbinsights.com)
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A Roadmap for the Upcoming U.S. Treasury Bull Market(advisorperspectives.com)
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I'll take well-named variables, functions, and classes over code comments any day. It's a chore and and half to plow through code in which the author has, for whatever misguided reasons, shortened variable names to inscrutable abb
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People who are suffering from trauma don't need advice. They need comfort and support. Comfort in, dump out is a simple rule that makes sense in many situations. Breast cancer is given as an example in the article. I think it breaks
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English grammar is far simpler than German grammar. Eliminating noun genders, declensions, and cases (as English does) is a great simplification over German. I've never understood the need for noun genders and I scratch my head at a so
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by apo 8y ago
As a startup founder, why should I care about Brex in particular? I know startups are different in a lot of ways, but it's not clear how they're different when it comes to credit cards. The Brex website isn't much help.
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How a Rundown Square Near Boston Birthed a Biotech Boom and Real Estate Empire(bloomberg.com)
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Where reporters across any topic and beat try to seek the truth, tapping information from the intelligence community is near impossible. For spies and diplomats, it’s illegal to share classified information with anyone and can be — and is
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Science can never "prove" a hypothesis - it can only disprove it. Therefore, a hypothesis that makes no falsifiable predictions has no business in scientific discourse. This is a point that non-scientists (and, unfortunately eve
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Our maximum lifespan may not have changed much, if at all. But that’s not to delegitimise the extraordinary advances of the last few decades which have helped so many more people reach that maximum lifespan, and live healthier lives overal
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Zooming out a bit, the legislation designed to stamp out the 60s and 70s counterculture is slowly being dismantled, brick by brick. https://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
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Reading that these tweezer beams are focused with a microscope objective raises the question of how much energy is in one of these beams. For example, what would happen if the tip of the beam made contact with a piece of paper, steel, etc.?
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Is there a name for the feeling you get when you discover something you thought only you noticed or knew about has a name (and essays written about it, and a documentary)?
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That moment when you realize there's actually a name for something you've seen over and over for years!
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If you’re a jogger, it is no longer enough to cruise around the block; you’re training for the next marathon. If you’re a painter, you are no longer passing a pleasant afternoon, just you, your watercolors and your water lilies; you are tr
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I was surprised by this explanation describing how the beam is focused: Optical tweezers are capable of manipulating nanometer and micron-sized dielectric particles by exerting extremely small forces via a highly focused laser beam. The be
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Two megapreachers defend their private jets(boingboing.net)
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I've studied Bitcoin for many years on a technical level. I've studied altcoin and ICO scams from the beginning. This site has all the hallmarks of a technology scam. Case in point: nowhere does this site articulate a problem to b

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