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691.
by beefield 7y ago
Yep, that is one way to do it to have an exchange rate between cash and account currency.
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by beefield 7y ago
The problem with cash is that it prohibits sensible monetary policy in certain situations (i.e. negative interest rates). So instead of cash we would need anonymous physical (and digital) tokens whose value is not fixed, but is adjusted acc
693.
by beefield 7y ago
Just wondering which central bank is the first to conclude that it actually is useless and stupid to keep gold reserves and decides to dump their gold to the market first. After which, obviously, we see a crash in gold price rarely seen in
694.
by beefield 7y ago
I'm in the middle of it and I feel - maybe weird could be a right word, regading the book. It is very verbose in explaining how stupid statistics and statisticians were before the causal revolution orchestrated mainly by the author wer
695.
by beefield 7y ago
One can easily argue that evolution needs also somehow get rid of the elderly at some point.
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by beefield 7y ago
> . We are essentially living past our primitive life expectancy until something fails which is very recent and evolution has had little time to catch up to this. To my naive understanding of evolution, it has little incentive to fix any
697.
by beefield 7y ago
Ah. I read the original comment like having the backslash is the nice gesture, some new meme or something like that...
698.
by beefield 7y ago
Apologies for ignorance, but what's this about? Not easy to google...
699.
by beefield 7y ago
I guess if google was willing to do no evil for a moment and actually think what would make both their search better for the user and www better place overall, they would put a big button next to each search result saying roughly "Hey,
700.
by beefield 7y ago
Can someone give something like eli5 how this works? Is the currency pegged to some currency? How is that peg supposed to hold? Is facebook a bank? Where are the assets supporting the currency ( if they exist) invested?
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by beefield 7y ago
> It's a fast moving field. Obviously it is moving fast at the bleeding edge. But the basics of backprop have not changed for a while, and somehow I would think that a toolchain that I would expect to be a serious tool for practical
702.
by beefield 7y ago
As a complete non-expert in ML I have watched some of the fast.ai videos and dabbled around with their library, and generally I like very much their approach of trhing to make state of the art ML as easily approachable as possible for pract
703.
by beefield 7y ago
> If it's only "free" by virtue of the bank absorbing the costs to suck up to big clients, that's not much of a boast either. Frankly, I first thought you were sarcastic given the massive subsidies by miners in the BT
704.
by beefield 7y ago
I have been wondering, what would be the major challenges to create a 4d "space" in virtual reality with some kind of sensors that would let sense the orientation and maybe even speed/acceleration in the 4th dimension?
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by beefield 7y ago
I have been wondering a bot about what kind of problems superintelligence would be able to solve (or even understand that the problem exists) that human intelligence can't grasp? Only thing I can think is multidimensionality. I can&#x2
706.
by beefield 7y ago
The we should have problems finding bus drivers? Anyway, I am more thinking the platoon commanders would be truck drivers that already have legal requirements for rest and no capability for speeding in highway.
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by beefield 7y ago
> This stuff is hard. Luckily we attract our best minds with highest salaries to solve the pressing problem how to get people click more ads. (Yes, sarcasm.)
708.
by beefield 7y ago
I would be 99% happy regarding autonomous driving if I got a platooning hardware kit installed into my car so that on highway I could connect behind another car/truck that is going to same direction than me and take a nap or watch a mo
709.
by beefield 7y ago
I like qwant.com. No affiliation.
710.
by beefield 7y ago
I would think that the most lucrative thing would be to create permanent space colonies for 1. Sending most of the people there instead of destroying slowly but surely our environment here 2. As an insurance against point 1 failing.
711.
by beefield 7y ago
> it's nonsense to argue that "there is no evidence that intellectual property in any way increases production of works" Please, offer the evidence, then. As it is nonsense to claim otherwise, it should be easy to come w
712.
by beefield 7y ago
I have started to ponder a hypothesis that this thing applies to almost any learning. People claim that it is easier for kids to learn, but for most of the things kids learn, they use much more time than any middle aged could in practice. L
713.
by beefield 7y ago
Not sure if there is something wrong in my brain but I have not been able to understand the hate against NULL. To me the three value logic feels very natural and just clicks. Lately I have been dipping my toes into Alteryx, which treats emp
714.
by beefield 7y ago
Of course there are practical issues in paying all of my taxes from my estate, but I can still hope that I could pay a bit more of my taxes after my death and less while I live.
715.
by beefield 7y ago
I have thought that there would be no need to leave anything of significant monetary value to my kids. Either they are smart and they do not need that. Or they are dumb and they do not deserve that. And if I could choose, I would highly p
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by beefield 8y ago
Sure. I don't know what I was thinking.
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by beefield 8y ago
sorry, that was a brainfart from me.
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by beefield 8y ago
> This says that if you take free energy, store it in batteries, and pull it back out later, you will have to pay $187/MWh. Yes, but with that cost you can repeat that thousands of times instead of just once.
719.
by beefield 8y ago
Batteries have cycle life of thousands of cycles so you can't really compare the costs of production and storage directly.
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by beefield 8y ago
As solar is growing globally something like 30% p.a., one could argue that we have already been limited by the ability to increase production. Just for comparison, Apple has never had a 100% y.o.y increase of iPhone over two full production

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