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by arcticbull 1y ago
Correct, this is fundamentally the oracle problem. There is no link between the blockchain and the real world which is why only money-like instruments have been successful for whatever value of success this constitutes.
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Even criminals don't want the insane volatility of vanilla crypto, and there's an unfounded sentiment that Tether doesn't freeze value in people's wallets (they actually freeze more than anyone else, and good luck resolv
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You know everything was shit hundreds of years ago right, the wildcat banking system collapsed into miserable failure and the bearer instruments were eliminated because of the risk of train robberies.
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Great opinion.
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> The devastating impact of these scams is evident in the staggering losses reported globally. In 2024 alone, cryptocurrency investment fraud, largely driven by pig butchering schemes, caused over $5.8 billion in reported losses in the U
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Other way around. Stablecoins are essentially Venmo for crime. They get zero benefit from a blockchain. They are centralized, trusted and permissioned. Circle can freeze the USDC in your self-custody wallet at any time and you’re on your ow
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by arcticbull 1y ago
No, it doesn't. Deficit spending does not create new money. Deficit spending borrows existing money from people in the economy who already have it, and gives it out in exchange for a share of future revenues. The Fed does not participa
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by arcticbull 1y ago
They really don't. You can run the numbers yourself. All the prices that it's computed from are public, the methodology is public and it's dead easy to backtest. Dead. Easy. (1 + (Inflation / 100)) ^ (Years). Inflation w
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by arcticbull 1y ago
They influence creation of money by adjusting the short-term interest rate which influences the demand for borrowing at commercial and retail banks. It's not that direct or straight-forward though, because they only have control over t
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Ah yeah, that's a common misconception. Deficit spending doesn't create new money. Deficit spending borrows existing money from the population and institutions in exchange for a promise of future government revenues. The Fed does
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by arcticbull 1y ago
In a centrally banked economy, retail and commercial banks create money when you take out loans. The government doesn't create money except during QE which only happened twice in the US, 2009-2014 and 2020-2021. That's why I was c
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Who's "they"?
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The irony is biting.
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> Which is almost certainly protected speech (just as any odious white-nationalist propaganda is protected). Fun fact, much of the existing framework on the boundaries of free speech come from Brandenburg v. Ohio. You probably won'
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> Renewables are relevant given their trajectory How convenient. > Of course forgetting how France uses Russia for this reprocessing. They do the reprocessing at the Orano La Hague site on the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. They also
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by arcticbull 1y ago
You can look at the linked study, it's a complicated topic but this is net carbon add. It's a combination of the fossil fuel based fertilizers, tractor fuel, moving the corn around, processing the corn into starch, fermenting the
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by arcticbull 1y ago
$20,000 for a 6kW system with a 15-20% capacity factor that lasts 20 years means you're going to generate a total of 157,000kWh. That's 12.7c/kWh. Before factoring in anything that might happen to it, including damage, cleani
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Not exactly, distribution conversation aside this is specific to kernel extensions. Apple's been moving drivers out of kernel space and into user space for several years [1]. There's a lot of good reasons for doing so, and not a l
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Assuming they're USB devices they shouldn't be a reason to do this... Apple moved third-party drivers for USB devices and audio HAL extensions to user space, so there's some minor overhead choosing DriverKit over IOKit. Every
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> They are in the "base load" camp, despite knowing full well we need an "all of the above" approach. I support renewables. I think it's important we understand the whole picture, and think we should construct th
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> Which falls to 7.6% when counting the useful energy and not staring yourself blind on the electricity grid. Wind and solar is less than 7% combined on that graph, so either wind and solar aren't relevant and nuclear isn't r
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> In the US the ethanol produced used as a gasoline mix in etc. Just so we're clear ethanol produced from corn is almost the same carbon intensity as the gasoline, and it's worse for the climate when you factor in the land use
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by arcticbull 1y ago
> Nuclear power is irrelevant in our energy systems today. I dunno, it's been producing 20% of US power for decades. Same as renewables. Seems relevant. > For the nuclear supply chain we still have not been able to sanction the R
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> This seems like hand wringing over a nothing burger? Compare the dynamics with fossil fuels: I'm not comparing to fossil fuels, so it's not really relevant. > Or you know, just diversify renewable supply chains? That'
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Renewables really aren't that cheap unless you view them entirely in isolation. Sun doesn't shine all night and wind doesn't blow continuously, it needs to be viewed with storage to represent a complete picture. Rooftop solar
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Yep for a substring against its parent or other substrings of the same parent that’s definitely true, but I think this question generalizes because the case where you’re comparing strings solely within themselves is an optimization path for
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Apparently Python uses a variety of internal representations depending on the string itself. I looked it up because I saw UTF-32 and thought there's no way that's what they do -- it's pretty much always the wrong answer. It u
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by arcticbull 1y ago
Substring operations (and more generally the universe of operations where there is more than one string involved) are a whole other kettle of fish. Unicode, being a byte code format more than what you think of as a logical 'string&#x27
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Taking this one step further -- there's no such thing as the context-free length of a string. Strings should be thought of more like opaque blobs, and you should derive their length exclusively in the context in which you intend to use
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Steganography for those who want to look it up.

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