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by beefield 4y ago
I've found that the best starting point understanding money and banking is understanding that all money is very literally, nothing more, nothing less than debt. Your "money at bank account"? Very fundamentally, nothing but a
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> Yes there is: a liter of water (see the beauty?) There was /s at the end of the sentence, meaning I was sarcastic:)
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> The metric system is such a beauty, that it's shocking that is not used everywhere. You can check with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, I think he nails it. The imperial system is much more natural for people to grasp. A pound is roughly a
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by beefield 4y ago
Vast majority of the gray goo in our heads is dumb as f*ck and can't hold a coherent thought more complicated than "I am hungry" together other than by accident. That's why writing is a superpower for thinking. It freeze
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> - Will switching to React make hiring and training future developers easier? > - Will this technology choice make future projects faster to develop? (For example, do we get wins from a better toolchain, etc.) > - Will this be an
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My understanding why bowlines are disliked in climbing community is that it may fail if the pull does not come from the long tail, but from inside the loop. That is, cliiping two carabiners to bowline loop and pulling the carabiners apart i
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by beefield 4y ago
It's missing European Death Knot. https://www.theclimbingguy.com/european-death-knot/
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by beefield 4y ago
I'm not sure what your point was? https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/cyclist-riding-e... To me it is quite obvious that pedestrian crashing with a bicycle is much less dangerous than pedestrian hit
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No, the context was that especially in startups there are lots of problems that nobody in the company knows how to solve beforehand. There is a certain personality that you can throw these problems at and they are happy to have them on thei
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The word I am looking for was a bit "catchier"
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Ask HN: Word for Jack of All Trades
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Well, I consider myself somewhat fluent with SQL, and for some reason left joins are the ones that occasionally get me really confused - so much so that I actively try to avoid them. Trouble is not in the vanilla cases, but when you start
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by beefield 4y ago
Well, if cost was not a factor, I'd prefer traveling long hauls with a space visiting rocket thingy, not a mundane private jet. Shorter ones, again, if cost was not a factor, I'd prefer high-speed rail or supersonic Hyperloop stat
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You want to do that with the cooler water that is coming back to the power plant after the heat is delivered to the customer. Thus you use lower value heat to melt the streets. Assuming you do combined heat & power, as a bonus you get a
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I would assume all the methanol produced this way is burned, taking the generated O2 from atmosphere to CO2.
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Trouble is that management seems to be a P != NP type problem. Really easy to tell when done wrong but really difficult to get right - for variety of reasons.
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> I never understood this Me neither. I think there are two distinct possibilities you should consider when you think what to do today. First one is that you may die today. Second is that you may not die today.
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> I haven't tried winter biking yet, and honestly, I'm a bit scared to. Winter biking can mean a lot of differen things, and no, you do not need to start with trying to bike 20km on a -10c blizzard against the wind. A short tri
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Not sure I follow. Ponzi can also exist without new participants buying into it - as long as the existing ones keep pumping money into it. And on the aggregate, bitcoin is negative sum game. Someone must pay for the mining costs and tha
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> There are endless curiosities in the universe. I suspect that people who like to say that they would like to live "forever" or think that they would be interested "endlessly" in new things have not really thought th
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by beefield 4y ago
What's the opposite of "aged like milk"?
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> Uh, yeah? There was something about liberty and safety and deserving neither that some US president said long time ago that I think might very much apply here.
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> At some point you have to consider whether this level of diplomatic incompetence is intentional. Please, enlighten us, what should be done?
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> With crypto, it is so hard to know what it’s actual value should be, since unlike a stock there are no earnings Your second part there gives a very good hint to your problem in the first part. Of course, in some sense there is some val
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by beefield 4y ago
To me emergent phenomena are things that simply can't be analyzed just looking at the building blocks the emergence comes from. Say, a photo of a cat is made of pixels, but there is no meaningful way to discuss "catness" of a
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Not sure if this is applicable? https://www.bos-ag.com/products/le300/
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If the value of assets of a bank drops under certain limits [1], regulators can and will take action. To be clear, every single bank that is currently alive (and regulated by relevant western authorities) has assets way more than what the d
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by beefield 4y ago
You might want to check LiFePO4 battery chemistry. Heavier than Li-Ion, but longevity is better, as well as safety. I have been told that you can hammer a nail through a cell and nothing spectacular happens. (One) trouble with lead acid is
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> easy small transactions that don't go through a credit/bank card, would be nice. Why? I'm hard pressed to see practical benefits over contactless card/phone/smartwatch payments for small sums. Yes, they work al
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by beefield 4y ago
There is a long history of non-fiat currencies before the current system. Would you mind quantifying some of the measures that you think make fiat a fiasco compared to e.g. gold standard? Here is some background data: https://www

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