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by beefield 10y ago
> Think of bitcoins as tokens or as tulip bulbs - it can be used for something I do not see what that "something" is, which makes it a ponzi in my eyes. (An open, honest ponzi, but a ponzi nevertheless) > If a bank lend out
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by beefield 10y ago
Maybe I should have used "essentially" instead of "fundamentally". What I meant was that the only way your investment in bitcoin will return a profit, is if there are more people after you willing to invest in the scheme
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by beefield 10y ago
In my view bitcoin's challenges are a bit deeper than just the implementation. What these challenges are, depends a bit what you think bitcoin is: -as an investment, bitcoin is fundamentally a ponzi scheme. someone may argue that it is
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by beefield 10y ago
I would be quite likely willing to pay Google for their services more than they are making out of me currently, if: 1.They agree legally bindingly not to give any of my data to anyone. 2. They do not show me a single ad anywhere. Obviously,
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by beefield 10y ago
Not sure about the private consumer part in Europe, but following seems to be in Austria: http://www.bluesky-energy.eu/project/redflow-zinc-bromide-ba...
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by beefield 10y ago
I am pretty sure that long before 10 000 years has lapsed, this so called waste is no more considered waste. For example, my understanding is that you can use current waste as a fuel in thorium cycle.
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by beefield 10y ago
Most western interest rates are very close to zero or even below. I guess that in Zimbabwe you would get reasonable nominal interest rates but there are some other issues that make it uninteresting for most investors.
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by beefield 10y ago
This is what I have found quite usable approach. When the sales person has been explaining for some time how difficult it is to estimete the price, I simply ask how many zeroes he thinks the budget is going to have. This more often than not
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by beefield 10y ago
Is there something stopping these corporations to do anything else with the data? I can imagine recruiters willing to pay on some educational information/analysis. I can also imagine corporations selling credit rating information based
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by beefield 10y ago
I am a bit curious, does this "Exploit all the loopholes you can find in the law and as long as you follow the letter of the law you have done your civic duty and moral obligations towards the society" apply only to tax laws or is
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by beefield 10y ago
Well, I would argue that in most so called extreme sports the mitigatable (is that a word?) risks play relatively much larger role than in traffic. You can't mitigate a drunken driver colliding with you, but it is precisely you who mak
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by beefield 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U... More than one death per 100 million miles gives worse than 1:10 000 odds per 10 000 miles. If you do not want to take 1/10 000 death risks, you would
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by beefield 10y ago
Vast majority of solar power costs are upfront capital costs. So if you know how much the panels/installation costs, what are your financing costs for ~30 year amortizing loan and how much the sun is expected to shine in the installati
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by beefield 10y ago
Yes. Perfect system for perfect people. Problem is not lacking perfect capitalism but lacking perfect people in the first place.
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by beefield 10y ago
There exists already a lithium battery technology commercially available that claims 20 000 cycle life (that is more than 50 years of daily full discharges). Obviously, there are at least currently some drawbacks with lithium titanate compa
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by beefield 11y ago
That's why the copyright term should be flexible. A natural way to achieve this would be to tax copyright (why not? many other properties are taxed, why not IP?) progressively over time. For example first three years zero tax, fourth y
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by beefield 11y ago
Have you tried something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omeprazole when eating ibuprofen? I am not a doctor, but I have understood that it is recommended if you have issues with ibuprofen and stomach.
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by beefield 11y ago
Thank you, I have tried to come up with industries without practically any IP protection. Now I have two. Comedy and Financial engineering. Funnily enough, I do not feel deprived of comedy, and what comes to financial innovations, I would a
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by beefield 11y ago
The writer fails to understand that the debt interest costs are not comparable to business costs, but dividend payments on equity. Interest cost is a payment for capital, as is dividend. If debt is favored in taxation over equity, it causes
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by beefield 11y ago
Funny how difficult this was to find: http://www.audiusa.com/newsroom/topics/2014/piloted-driving Audi has developed a philosophy and strategy for autonomous driving that it calls “piloted driving.” The name
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by beefield 11y ago
Arrow's Theorem applies only for voting on ordinal scale. QV allows degrees of preferences in voting so Arrow should not apply. (This actually is why I do not understand all the fuss about Arrow)
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by beefield 12y ago
I see the difference between the set of human rights assigned to "publicly distributed information" and "human beings" very much a question of principle and not just a question of degree.
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by beefield 12y ago
I think that the ones you really have to watch are the intelligent and industrious ones. They do not have time to stop wondering whether their goal is sensible or not, and being intelligent, they have means to push towards their goal much f
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by beefield 12y ago
Sorry, behind register wall. If that is bad etiquette, I'll remove this.
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Davos 2015: Banks call for free rein to fight cyber crime(ft.com)
1 points by beefield 12y ago|1 comments
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by beefield 12y ago
Based on 3 minute testing, I like, thanks. If someone tries to install this on ubuntu with just the quick start instructions and fails, note that you need to sudo apt-get install libpq-dev Obviously, this is told in the more detailed instal