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by beambot 3y ago
Don't sweat it too much. Ben, West & I worked on this project in 2014. We filed a provisional patent as well, reached out to potential licensees, and had a handful that wanted to pull the trigger to turn it into a functioning prod
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Prominent examples of "Self Regulating Organizations": The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), The Financial Planning Association (FPA), Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), Financial Industry Regul
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by beambot 3y ago
Doesn't the ETF completely bypass such rules? Now you aren't trading actual Bitcoin -- you're trading entitlements at the DTC, managed on their own settlement system and centralized databases. All you need to do is look into
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by beambot 3y ago
My grandfather said something similar about the actions taken in 1933... though a bit more colorful & without the reference to 1984.
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The bigger irony will be when the US Government steps in and seizes all BTC & ETH within their reach so that they can create their very own crypto-backed central bank digital currency (CBDC) as the new "gold standard" a la Exe
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by beambot 3y ago
IIRC, you only get QSBS if you (a) exercise to purchase actual shares while the company is QSBS eligible; and (b) hold the resulting stock for 5 full years.
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I don't think it's a reasonable assumption to look at industrial use cases over small distances compared to long-distance operations -- the design criteria are different.
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I suspect their statement is true if you consider the fully-loaded diameter too -- i.e. fiber + cladding can carry more power than copper + insulation, especially for small gauges. Edit: Quick google... This paper [1] shows a 180um fiber +
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by beambot 3y ago
> Philosophically, you can start ad hoc-ing functionalities on top of LLMs and expect major progress. Sure, you can make them better, but you will never get to the state where AI is massively useful. Evolution created various neural stru
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by beambot 3y ago
"System" could refer to a botnet -- i.e. a whole bunch of distributed computers from which the credentials may have been exfiltrated.
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The insect apocalypse is even more pronounced. In the 1980s and 1990s, you couldn't drive through Minnesota without your windshield being absolutely covered in bugs. I remember driving through the state & being forced to pull ove
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Not that dissimilar from unfettered options trading on mass-market brokerage apps like Robinhood...
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1 in 3 U.S. Homebuyers Are Paying All Cash, the Highest Share in Nearly a Decade Just over one-third (34.1%) of U.S. home purchases in September were made in cash, up from 29.5% a year earlier and the highest share in nearly a decade. Tha
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by beambot 3y ago
Technically, the US hasn't fought any wars since WWII -- as a declaration of war is a Congressional function. All of the other things people think of or refer to wars were technically "conflicts".
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by beambot 3y ago
The worst is when your virtualization environments intended to provide long-term support don't even accomodate the "new" mainline hardware. Most frustrating example: Virtualbox doesn't work on Apple M1 or M2 chipsets.
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by beambot 3y ago
Animals eat naturally-occurring chalk (and other substances) to regulate key minerals. It's called geophagia.
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> the same kinds of mistakes humans make We're hosed until we can instruct our vehicles to act drunk.
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by beambot 3y ago
So you're saying: Clearly not an urban myth. Google literally bought Motorola for their patent portfolio -- or at least, that's the only "asset" they retained when divesting of the company years later. And I readily adm
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by beambot 3y ago
All from the first page of quick Google search... Google and Samsung sign global patent cross-license deal https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/01/google-and-samsung-s... Google and Tencent agree to cross-
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by beambot 3y ago
Patents don't protect smaller players -- enforcement is cost-prohibitive. The only sector that could plausibly justify patents is biotech... but even there, the vast majority of early R&D is publicly-funded, and thus should negate
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by beambot 3y ago
Now do this exercise for SaaS and AI!
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It's not a skin color question, it's a question of other cultural elements. For example: My Indian & Chinese friends & family enjoy having a deep community of friends, restaurants, heritage events, bilingual schools, etc.
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"Cost of materials" is small relative to the R&D costs of cutting-edge solutions with military-grade operating parameters...
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> how do existing concrete manufacturers determine whether locally sourced materials ("random rocks") are suitable? They test individual samples from each pour on a calibrated press. For large buildings and critical pours, the
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Most of them were probably built on Google's core infrastructure in ways that make them difficult to externalize at sub scale. There's also compensation disparity - it's virtually impossible for a new startup / spinout t
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> How North Korea’s Hacker Army Stole $3 Billion in Crypto, Funding Nuclear Program https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-north-koreas-hacker-army-st...
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More to the point: Perhaps it's a feature, not a bug.
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I agree: The solution is to change government spending so that public goods are sufficient to render other options moot. But the VC investment didn't cause the underinvestment of infrastructure. Rather, they stepped in to fill the void
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Why should venture capital be relevant to a non-commercial money-losing venture?
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Cheaper to buy a bottle of water on the ISS than at a concert or sportsball game. Epic. A similar dynamic happened with railroads. It's hard to predict just how much change this could cause!

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