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by beefield 4y ago
What? I just checked news last week and there was a small thing about an exchange called FTX that seemed to have exactly this problem.
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by beefield 4y ago
I admit, I did not read that in detail. Can someone explain how the "proof of liabilities" is proving that it contains all liabilites of an exchange? for example the electricity bill that is coming to be paid next week or the of
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by beefield 4y ago
I have this feeling that with the increasing complexity and sophistication of the technical environment/tools we have in our hands, there is an increasing amount of people simply unable to cope with everyday challenges of modern societ
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by beefield 4y ago
Obligatory John Rogers quote: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable
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by beefield 4y ago
> With solar and wind being so competitive on price (both per MW and MWh) I don't understand why there's not more of it. You need to be a bit more patient. solar / wind have been growing double digit percentages (from the
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by beefield 4y ago
I think we have something that should do the PID for overall economy. It's called The Central Bank, and it is a damn difficult job.
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by beefield 4y ago
> So if for instance some company creates a token, and says that there can be 10 billion of the token, and reserves them all for itself, and then sells 1 million of them to outside investors for $1 each, then the market cap of that token
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by beefield 4y ago
I feel bad that my tax money is going to be spent to feed crypto scammers when they end up in jail. I wonder if we could come up with a law that makes crypto-related fraud, scams, hacking and theft completely legal? After all, one of the ma
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by beefield 4y ago
> We don't even have the metal supplies to fully electrify car production, Okay, I need to say that you are not even wrong. Yep, I am slightly irritated on this blatantly false claim that has started popping up. If you think your cl
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by beefield 4y ago
Just to note, that is making pretty questionable assumptions to get to the conclusion that there are not enough metals. For example, they assume that there is a set need of cobalt/nickel per kWh of lithium batteries, which obviously is
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by beefield 4y ago
Broadly speaking, either they are financially illiterate, or they like gambling. Or both.
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by beefield 4y ago
> never replace a terminal based app, with a GUI based app and expect productivity gains I can imagine this being true. It seems that almost the whole software industry has failed to grasp the distinction between an appliance and a tool.
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by beefield 4y ago
It's not fallacy to note that the theory has worked between democratic countries remarkably well, but failed between democratic and not so democratic countries. Thus my call to re-evaluate trade relationships with not so democratic cou
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by beefield 4y ago
Until a very short time ago there was a widespread idea belief mutual trade stabilizes relationships in addition to all kind of other nice stuff. Now, that belief has shattered, and it seems to apply only when the participants of the trade
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by beefield 4y ago
> The bottleneck is rarely how fast you can type or edit the code; it's how fast you can reason about the code. That's the reason why I have been not learning to touch type for the last decade or so. I just have this strong fee
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by beefield 4y ago
As we are talking about Sweden, a relatively cold country, a big chunk of energy consumption is about heating. And heat is a form of energy that is much easier to storage than electricity. I very much assume that even seasonal storage of he
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by beefield 4y ago
To put it nice, I would be careful to use that report to back any argument whatsoever. To come up with their conclusion they e.g. basically assumed LFP battery chemistry does not exist. (To be more accurate, they assumed that there is a set
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by beefield 4y ago
Yes, but we are there already in many applications where we need to pad the core for abrasion and handling. Making the core even more smaller makes no big benefit - unless it is substantially cheaper than the competition. And to be clear, I
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by beefield 4y ago
I'm not sure what you want to quit. You kind of seem to imply that drinking as a social thing is what you enjoy, but not being intoxicated by alcohol. If that is what you meant, I'd recommend giving a shot to non-alcoholic drinks.
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by beefield 4y ago
Regarding ropes, for most practical applications I can think fro the top of my head, tensile strength is not actually that much of a limiting factor (especially with dyneema), but more the abrasion resistance and how easy it is to handle a
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by beefield 4y ago
Now, who would start to standardize lithium ion battery packs for different voltages? It would be quite nice to have a pile of packs of 12V that you can slap together to get the voltages 24, 36 and 48 as you need and all your tools from pow
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Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages?
156 points by beefield 4y ago|132 comments
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by beefield 4y ago
Install Whatsapp on a virtual android on your computer?
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by beefield 4y ago
Just wondering if there is a betting market somewhere that would show odds for e.g. such a bug in the PoS that Ethereum needs to roll back to PoW within the next 6 months?
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by beefield 4y ago
I had to google because I was pretty sure I had heard the story before. and I think I had... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29057134
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by beefield 4y ago
Well, I consider myself being relatively open to all kinds of new ideas. But at some point you need to realize that certain genre is not going to give you any new insights and it's better to move on. For example, I have read total of t
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by beefield 4y ago
I need to check, are you sarcastic? I have so far avoided Lewis due to an impression (way too old impression to remember where I got it, may be unfounded or not) of the texts being close to christian/religious zealotry?
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by beefield 4y ago
There are two problems with your definition: 1. The definition differs significantly from what people usually call money. Gold bar is a gold bar, not money. 2. It makes anything money. I can barter a basket of apples to a fish -> appl
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by beefield 4y ago
You get easily into quite deep questions with money... Anyway, there are good reasons to argue that dollar bills owned by central banks are not money - at least in any meaningful sense. To see why, let's assume a central bank prints a
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by beefield 4y ago
I think the issue is more how "is" is defined. I like to think with following analogy: A knife can have lots of properties. A knife is sharp, long, dull, rusty etc. But fundamentally (Don't know if there is a better word fo

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