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by beiller 5y ago
I don't think we know what causes it. It is mainly just observed. What causes this is a very active area of study. Probably some output of a "evolutionary" process of how viruii mutate but my knowledge is very little :)
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by beiller 5y ago
If it was more deadly it would spread less quickly. That's how diseases work from my vague university memories of an epidemiology course. They are on a spectrum of deadly to contagious.
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by beiller 5y ago
I know that in theory a heat pump can do better, but in cold enough climate it can't because one side collects condensation and freezes making it less than 100% efficient. So no, we can't do better.
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by beiller 5y ago
I got a nice microphone but it's not directional and it picks up way too much ambient noise. Also I think it might echo (MacBook pro) so I just switched back to the internal microphone cause it seems to noise cancel correctly. Does any
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by beiller 5y ago
Does it mean that https will be turned off for all EU websites? Can't wait!
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by beiller 6y ago
Excellent point. And to drive a steak further into this idea - ironically gambling is the one where all the prices / chance / rewards are absolutely known up front and calculable. I guess that's what sets wall st. apart from
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by beiller 6y ago
The problem is that economy and technology shifts. Not so great when you are a cold fusion developer today as an example. So it is required to hedge against that isn't it. You need to ensure you have a future by saving for retirement.
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by beiller 6y ago
A friend of mine (Canadian) uses piracy sites a lot for one reason: all the content they are interested in is geofenced to USA and completely unavailable in the country (Hulu)
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by beiller 6y ago
It's already starting. I've heard that Nvidia developed a cutting edge computing audit system, that was developed to detect, in real time, that GPUs are being used for calculating simple hashing algorithms and sniffs out all compu
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by beiller 6y ago
Replace the word house with land. Does that change anything? Who owns the land? The "government" is just people. And if there is not enough land because one person owns it all, absolutely I would be in favor of taking it and givin
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by beiller 6y ago
I rent as well and I think it's smart. Below a certain wage however, in any city, there is a large cohort who can't afford to purchase so they are forced into renting. These are the people I mean when I say no choice. To reply to
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by beiller 6y ago
Well I think the main issue is investors in real estate to then rent out are taking a business risk. There is no zero risk income. The renter on the other hand has no choice but to rent shelter. This is justified in my opinion.
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by beiller 6y ago
Is there some sort of corporate insurance for this kind of thing?
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by beiller 6y ago
What if two people have access to the private key? How do we prove who owns it?
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by beiller 6y ago
How do you prevent two people from claiming the same nft? Wallet? What if two people have the key to the wallet? I'm not sure how that part works.
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by beiller 6y ago
Wow so all that junk mail I get in the mail every day is dwarfing the co2 emissions of Bitcoin?
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by beiller 6y ago
This here is the problem. Gold does use a lot of CO2 yes (heavy equipment construction and operation), but that's not even the worst thing. Mining literally is poisoning water, and destroying very large ecosystems. And carbon tax won&#
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by beiller 6y ago
Bitcoin doesn't use several countries worth of CO2. It has been "calculated" that "cryptocurrency" uses as much electricity as a small country. But that is not Bitcoin. Bitcoin does not use GPUs to mine. They use sp
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by beiller 6y ago
My God! I've been waiting for this since the day the architects told me "only ASCII characters are allowed in the email database field"
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by beiller 6y ago
Children may have more net co2 output but they perpetuate the human race so you might say it's worth it. Cats are just waiting for us to stop moving for long enough so we can be their next meal!
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by beiller 6y ago
Space bar is hilarious for me on YouTube/Firefox. Some times it gets into a certain focus state (play button focussed?) and hitting space bar will briefly pause it, then resume playback. Hilarity ensues as I scramble, pausing a few tim
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by beiller 6y ago
Sorry my point wasn't very clear before but I don't fully agree with your point. Yes your right, still need the bank account to transfer btc to currency. But there is the possibility maybe someday that the account is not required
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by beiller 6y ago
I think paying an artist is not so straight forward. The artist must set up a bank account. Now they must sign somewhere to accept credit cards. Now they must have art that is friendly to said card processor, or else you get deplatformed. S
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by beiller 6y ago
> turning electricity into heat in the form of bitcoin mining is a gigantic and unacceptable waste of a resource that we'd like to use for other things Hi I live in a cold place! Interestingly, bitcoin mining is an electric space he
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by beiller 6y ago
I think the article is about the opportunity cost of the down payment. Since compound interest is so powerful it will usually outpace the house in value after 20 yrs or so. Plus where I live, renting seems to be cheaper for equivalent house
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by beiller 6y ago
Does anyone have any examples of companies that died because of too much technical debt? For me its kind of one of those things I acknowledge exists but I try to avoid any projects where their goal is purely "decrease technical debt&qu
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by beiller 6y ago
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is!
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by beiller 6y ago
I am an AI skeptic hard-core, but I think I disagree with the premise. Just look a bit harder. AI is actually used in things like computer graphics (hello nvidia DLSS?) and hollywood special effects. Also its used in other entertainment. Do
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by beiller 6y ago
Actually your comment brings an idea into my head. What if loss leaders could be a great probe into whether or not the behavior is anti-competitive. I know loss leaders exist, but how do they exist in a positive aspect? They seem to purely
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by beiller 6y ago
I don't really agree with that assessment. If there is mass layoffs for example, and renters can't pay rent, why would a landlord evict the tenant? Who is going to take their place? I think many landlords would prefer a potential

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