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by beiller 8y ago
Inequality is great really. It incentivizes people to give extra effort for a reward. But gone too far, the efficiency of humanity will drop. There needs to be (and there probably is) shifts in wealth to keep things moving. Let's get t
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by beiller 8y ago
Does this mean I can get some great deals on Supermicro boards now? :)
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by beiller 8y ago
Account balance is a bad example, because it cannot be solved using event sourcing. A key to event sourcing is eventual consistency. The account balance cannot be eventually consistent, otherwise it will allow double-spending. It has to be
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by beiller 8y ago
https://github.com/kripken/sql.js/ I have used this and it is slow. But it was interesting!
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by beiller 8y ago
I asked someone. Their approach was to divide by half a few times. Looks like they made a good guess.
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by beiller 8y ago
But shouldn't every mating pair be able to afford having at least 2 children? Otherwise we will eventually go extinct.
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by beiller 8y ago
Can't wait for that job market 1 pixel attack. Here comes 500k!
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by beiller 8y ago
Yeah I watched an interview. It was cool how he says most of the major modeller refactors, and other very important code contributions were donated by volunteers.
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by beiller 8y ago
Blender is the epic example of free software slowly eventually eating the big proprietary guys' lunch. Volunteers spending countless hours writing software, because they were fed up with the very high pricing point of the alternatives
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by beiller 8y ago
Build Houses, just a thought.
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by beiller 8y ago
I thought I would add to this an interesting youtuber I've watched, and the idea of "Arcologies". The claim is that, a (current) skyscraper sized building that is a self sufficient ecology of human living space / food pr
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by beiller 8y ago
I've heard that its more likely we will see massive inflation ramp up. And since the debts are all fixed interest rates at the time of borrowing, they will be inflated away to nothing, not "written off".
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by beiller 8y ago
They are "hoarding" the data, IE keeping it away from their competition. If the data was free, it could be used for things like large scale medical studies, instead of blasting my eyeballs with auto-play videos about the product I
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by beiller 8y ago
How about cable companies? Some argue Amazon is subsidized in the same way, by having USPS shipping cheaply to the outskirts.
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by beiller 8y ago
People here comment about how python is slow, but even fast/slow is I'll defined in my opinion. You don't see people hacking tensor flow (generally) in native languages to speed it up, they just enable CUDA. I'm imaginin
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by beiller 8y ago
I think the cause effect relationship here is not quite what the headline implies. The fact that the trades are high paying, is obviously just correlated with high school grads lining up for university. For example not taking the trades job
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by beiller 8y ago
I'd like to give my thoughts on unsustainable interest rates in Canada. Living here, I see it as yes, a raise in interest would be catastrophic for many home owners and their mortgage payments. But we are tied to USA's Fed. If the
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by beiller 8y ago
I disagree. If inflation is very high, the fed (aka BOC for me) will increase the interest rate, and by correlation, a higher mortgage rate ensues. Less people qualifying for mortgages attacks the demand side of the market, lowering the pri
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by beiller 9y ago
You should probably clarify that 1 satoshi = 0.00000001 bitcoins, the current smallest unit. Now people say "we can move the decimal point", but I believe they are stored as 64 bit integers. Which means the smallest unit is not in
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by beiller 9y ago
Ah no mention of Black Mirror’s “Arkangel” yet? Haha go watch it.
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by beiller 9y ago
Im just thinking of ways to patch this in to THREE.Matrix4 :) Do you think that would speed things up significantly? Like I have large many-bones skeletons that can take time to animate.
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by beiller 9y ago
Haha. "Every program attempts to expand until it can compile and run a copy of itself"
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by beiller 9y ago
Okay I guess I see the point is that the bouncing ball converges to a default state, unlike a light switch, which converges to an unknown state. Is it the force of "gravity" which causes this default state, so does the convergence
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by beiller 9y ago
Ah I see you already wrote a similar comment as me. You are more correct. I assumed the ball would bounce lower and lower, but never constantly on the ground.
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by beiller 9y ago
I think the statement is wrong about the bouncing ball light switch: "What state is the lamp in after 1 minute is up? Because of how we've set things up, the lamp will be on!". If the ball was perfectly elastic, it would boun
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by beiller 9y ago
I have a branch of https://github.com/tpruvot/cpuminer-multi , which I am working on tidying up and pushing to Github. It has a bash script that instead of GCC / Clang, compiles to WASM. Any Clang compilable softwa
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by beiller 9y ago
Shamelessly plugging sparechange.io we take abuse seriously. Just create a ticket on our site, we require proof of site ownership (place file / DNS txt record) and abusive API key is banned (all websocket traffic becomes HTTP Unauthori
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by beiller 9y ago
I have also tried making a coinhive clone. Sparechange. We fully investigate any complaints and ban API keys immediately after investigation. The only reason to keep mining with a known bad key is greed. also edit - we are working on a way
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by beiller 9y ago
Just my opinion but I think trade wars is heading in the wrong direction. We need to open trade more. At first it will cause pain and inefficiency, but specialization and collaboration has a larger net benefit to humans than both countries
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by beiller 9y ago
This is maybe off topic, but it also may pave the way for us to use nuclear energy to produce electricity without greenhouse emissions. I think the problem we have yet to solve with nuclear, is safety diligence. Maybe some automation can he

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