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by arebop 5y ago
What do we know about Google's retention figures?
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by arebop 5y ago
There is not and will not be a central system. The CCP isn't going to abandon their currency for the US CBDC and vice versa. So building on top of an incumbent blockchain such as Ethereum would be more interoperable than the proprietar
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by arebop 5y ago
No. The top managers are in silicon valley, but the key engineers and product people are distributed.
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by arebop 5y ago
This defeats the purpose of disincentivizing adversaries who want to steal coins from other participants. The stake/spacetime/electricity isn't wasted; it is used to establish global consensus. You can't redirect those r
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by arebop 5y ago
IME, Assistant did do a whole lot more than Siri or Alexa in the past. It had a similar set of features, but with Assistant I could speak casually and with Alexa/Siri it was necessary to learn specific trigger phrases. More recently I
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by arebop 5y ago
It gets pretty thorny because you have to be careful about what aspects of traditional platforms correspond to the problems addressed by bitcoins. Some folks will try to compare the electricity usage of Visa to that of Bitcoin for example,
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by arebop 5y ago
This is comparing Visa's use of energy to Bitcoin's. It is not comparing Visa's use of all resources to Bitcoin's. It is like saying hybrid cars are more efficient than electric or gas cars, because they use less electri
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by arebop 6y ago
You can teleport it around the world and you can prove its authenticity mathematically. But it lacks the romance of tangible artifacts.
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by arebop 6y ago
Practice definitely helps. There's a lot luck involved because there are so many candidates, most of whom cannot come up with an approach to solve a problem (let alone to solve it well enough to serve billions of users well). So even m
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by arebop 6y ago
You make it sound as if your healthcare cost is limited to 2% of your total comp. My credit cards/atm records show that I spent nothing on healthcare in 2020, as I am "young and healthy" and skipped my annual checkup because
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by arebop 6y ago
Can they create something similar in-house? Beyond and particularly Impossible appear to be far ahead of the competition in meat substitutes, and presumably they each have close to 20yr left on their patents. It doesn't look so easy to
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by arebop 6y ago
15% of the units in my building are subleased by tenants who may well lease additional rent-controlled flats in the same city.
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by arebop 6y ago
No, the energy usage is proportional to its economic value. If energy prices go up or down while nothing else changes, bitcoin's energy usage will go inversely. If bitcoin's value goes up or down while nothing else changes, energy
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by arebop 6y ago
Aluminum production and datacenter operations also use a shocking amount of energy. Apparently Argentina uses a lot of electricity. People complain about bitcoin specifically because they don't recognize any value and they're frus
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by arebop 6y ago
If you search for a certain date range, Airbnb will calculate and display the full price for each property on the SERP. It makes sense to compare asymptotically when you don't know the length of stay. The cable and telephone companies
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by arebop 6y ago
In my experience, H1B system works pretty differently for employers and employees depending on whether you're talking about an actual tech company vs. the IT department of an industrial age company.
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by arebop 6y ago
France's top marginal rate is 45%.
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by arebop 6y ago
I've heard of this happening for executives and board members at various blue chip companies.
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by arebop 6y ago
H1B in tech companies are not paid significantly less, and they can easily find alternative employers willing to help with the transfer in Silicon Valley. It's H1B in non-tech companies that manipulate job postings to massively underpa
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by arebop 6y ago
It's one thing to "restructure" the comp package for future employees, and something else to change compensation arrangements retroactively after your employers have upheld their end of the deal.
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by arebop 7y ago
The average American pays $10489 in taxes each year. Double the taxes and give average Americans $12000 and they'll come out ahead. Median Americans will do even better. Even if you assume no efficiency improvements, no benefits from v
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by arebop 7y ago
[citation needed] I see this claim is made in the Wikipedia article [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program) ]: "PRISM collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet co
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Oracle Reveals Funding of Dark Money Group Fighting Big Tech(bloomberg.com)
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by arebop 7y ago
"Firefox defaults to Cloudflare, though you can change this." So it's whichever company you choose for DNS, rather than the company chosen by your ISP. Many of us were already choosing not to use the ISP's DNS, for relia
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by arebop 7y ago
fwiw mine is about $20k with a $5k oop max, for a family of 2 in California. This compares to a worst-case ACA cost of about $65k.
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by arebop 7y ago
$6000/year sounds very low for healthcare in the U.S. When you say "I pay" are you really only counting the employee contribution? For purposes of analyzing aggregate healthcare costs for a whole country, we ought to be using
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by arebop 7y ago
Only to the extent that money from anything goes towards landowners in the form of increased land rents. There are other basic necessities and also some luxuries that the beneficiaries of this progressive redistribution would likely buy wit
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by arebop 7y ago
In my locality, I believe the difference is explained in part by local policies that severely restrict new building and renovation of old buildings. You might not expect such housing supply restrictions to cause land prices and rent prices
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by arebop 7y ago
It is a basic necessity to have physical space in which to exist. Property ownership of course isn't strictly necessary; renting is a fine way to satisfy this need. But how can rent prices remain very far below the price to own? In pri
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by arebop 7y ago
When I try to read comments on normal Twitter, it prompts me to login.

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