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by beambot 5y ago
"Crypto" is a general set of fundamental primitives for decentralized infrastructure. (1) A decentralized, "trustless" ledger. There are a ton of use cases here -- akin to databases, but without having to trust a central
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by beambot 5y ago
Don't forget declining interest rates.
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by beambot 5y ago
I would gladly decorate my home with one. They're beautiful in their own way.
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by beambot 5y ago
> It should be noted though that planes release their emissions at higher altitudes, where both CO2 and sulphur do more damage [...] Stratospheric sulfur aerosols are largely considered one geoengineering solutions for global warming. H
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by beambot 5y ago
The distance^2 applies, but it's most pronounced for isotropic source (i.e. emitting across a sphere). If you create a tight beam (think columnated laser), you vastly reduces the overall system loss. The bigger problem for microwave l
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by beambot 5y ago
I appreciate informed discussion about bitcoin & nuclear, as both topics are highly relevant to the technical, business, and hacker roots of HN. They seem distinctly different from, say, "anglocentrism" @dang was calling out.
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by beambot 5y ago
Apples don't have orange skin.
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by beambot 5y ago
GP agrees with you: They're saying the currency crisis starting in Asia is USD-denominated (the international bonds in particular), which is creating a positive feedback loop when USD-RMB exchange rates spike. They're saying you
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by beambot 5y ago
2025 is a pipedream -- they'd be lucky to break ground by 2025. > Median construction time required for nuclear reactors worldwide oscillated from around 84 months to 117 months, from 1981 to 2019 respectively. https://ww
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by beambot 5y ago
Don't forget to add parallel construction to the list of options too: bad things that then help make a separate case using sanctioned methods.
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by beambot 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help > The Signal for Help was introduced by the Canadian Women's Foundation on April 14, 2020. Behavior change & language development take time.
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by beambot 5y ago
Even the microSSD card likely has an ARM core that can be hacked: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
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by beambot 5y ago
(1) If you find the time, I'd be very keen to read about this history of how this market came to exist & how the earliest entrants succeeded or failed. Pointers to books (or better yet, your voice) would be great! (2) How do you t
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by beambot 5y ago
Diamond Age, Snowcrash, and Seveneves are much more accessible and (IMHO) better.
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by beambot 5y ago
How does the USD currency compare? I'd wager that the top-10 banks and the various central reserve banks own or control the vast majority of USD.
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by beambot 5y ago
World GDP is $80T. Google's run-rate is $240B revenue and Facebook's is $116B. That's $356B / $80T => 0.445%. Close enough for internet math.
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Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'(decrypt.co)
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by beambot 5y ago
Meanwhile, at the intersection of crypto & biometrics: Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs' https://decrypt.co/84277/snowden-slams-sam-altman-worldcoin-...
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by beambot 5y ago
I'm not sure if include Amazon in the list of privacy conscious providers: https://nypost.com/2021/10/19/i-found-an-amazon-folder-with-...
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by beambot 5y ago
Monero*
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by beambot 5y ago
It's not cultural at all -- it's economics. Businesses are valued based on discounted cash flows (DCF). If you're profitable and not growing, your cash flows are very stable & easy to evaluate -- you get a low P/E o
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by beambot 5y ago
The fact that Tesla has more revenue per car, higher profit margin per car, and less debt are all benefits -- they can more readily "buy" their way out of supply chain problems compared to others. Combined with more agility, you
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by beambot 5y ago
Species matters, but so does availability. Lignum vitae is an endangered species, so it's not really a renewable alternative at the scale humanity requires.
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by beambot 5y ago
Supply chains are in a dire state right now, with less-agile firms slow to adapt. And if you believe the thesis behind "Innovator's Dilemma" the scale tuned for ICE is a liability not an asset. Will be interesting to see how
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by beambot 5y ago
> Apple takes 75% of smartphone profits, despite fewer sales than Samsung https://www.cultofmac.com/755598/apple-smartphone-profits-q2...
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by beambot 5y ago
Good old "net send." Out of all the things, that was the one I got chewed out about too. Wasn't a regular MS user, but we were in a computer training lab at a company for "computer day" field trip. Was bored during
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by beambot 5y ago
I certainly wasn't suggesting that we should stop measuring instantaneous CPI / inflation. We should -- it's the only way that the bigger macro trend becomes visible over time. My entire comment was: Don't miss the fore
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by beambot 5y ago
Let's use another example to explain why your thinking is incomplete: temperature versus global warming. Just because it's a bit chilly today, it does not mean that global warming isn't real. The time constants of the underly
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by beambot 5y ago
Canary in the coal mine...?
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I'm always reminded of articles like this: > Holding U.S. Treasurys? Beware: Uncle Sam Can't Account For $21 Trillion https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2019/01/09/holding-u-... &gt

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