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by bildung 5y ago
All of Stellar, Hedera and Algorand have a big centralization problem, they have solved nothing. Stellar and Ripple aren't even proper cryptocurrencies unless you allow for a very lenient definition. > the know-it-all condescension
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by bildung 5y ago
> The USD has lost 90% of its purchasing power since the 1950's That's a meaningless number without context: The median income gain was 2000% (i.e. double the purchasing power loss) during the same period (median yearly fami
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by bildung 5y ago
By law it must take at most a single day intra-country, and instant wire transfers are pretty common (though sometimes not free).
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by bildung 5y ago
The difference is that those people can honestly see and use crypto as speculative assets, which is fine (if we ignore externalities for a second), not making up use cases.
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by bildung 5y ago
When did they make Threadripper open source?
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by bildung 5y ago
What do you mean with custom join table? Self-referential m2m works fine im my experience.
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by bildung 5y ago
> Not literally removing all dopamine from your body, but reducing your overall levels/staying at the baseline more. To my knowledge there is no evidence that more dopamine gets created when practicing unhealthy behaviour. Neurotr
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by bildung 5y ago
This has nothing to do with the hedonic treadmill. The treadmill model describes changed on much larger timeframes and of much larger impact, i.e. how your model of the world changes if you lose both legs, or become a parent, or become rich
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by bildung 5y ago
I think this criticism is itself missing the forest for the trees. The idea behind dopamine fasting is, (possibly unfairly) reduced to the minimum, that doing less of a harmful behaviour for a while will cure us of our problematic behaviour
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by bildung 5y ago
What kind of harm, i.e. which stats to look at to compare the different approaches?
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by bildung 5y ago
> Didn't Munich do this like 20 years ago and it was a complete failure? No, it was reversed for political reasons. The majority of users were happy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
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by bildung 5y ago
Japan has a bit lower rates than the US. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SUIC.P5?most_rec... In general one usually gets more meaningful results when a) comparing geographically and/or culturally simil
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by bildung 5y ago
If the path keeps being bumpy you probably took a wrong turn.
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by bildung 5y ago
I'd advice reading a book like "The Gene Illusion" by Jay Joseph as a similar pop-science book taking the opposite position.
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by bildung 5y ago
CEO compensation and company performance are not correlated, there's an abundance of studies about that available. If we accept the axiom that their compensation is based on rational decisions of market participatents, what do they dec
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by bildung 5y ago
The difference seems to be that Ballmer definitely was an expert for all things commercial/enterprisey (he made MS quite a bit of money during his reign), but not an expert for consumer products.
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by bildung 5y ago
I just have been more precise and say copyright holder instead of issuer . Linus doesn't hold the copyright for most of the Linux source, hence he can't relicense without explicit oks from the other developers.
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by bildung 5y ago
Sinovac is said to be 51% effective at preventing symptoms, but 87%-100% effective at preventing hospitalization or death. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57817591
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by bildung 5y ago
They say because they still maintain a zero covid strategy for the foreseeable future: https://time.com/6104303/china-zero-covid/ As far as I have read China heavily locks down regions if covid flares emerge, test
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by bildung 5y ago
Plus about 1.2 billion doses that were exported/donated: https://www.bbc.com/news/58808889
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by bildung 5y ago
Copyleft won't help you there either if the license issuer is also the producer of the physical chip: Licenses are regulating what third parties can do with the source, they don't restrict the issuer.
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by bildung 5y ago
Yes I meant more like e.g. a VW charging flatrate that also applies when using Teslas network as a VW owner. In any case this is pure speculation.
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by bildung 5y ago
Teslas strong dominance in the EV market is quite US-specific it seems. E.G. in France Renault sold more cars, and Peugeot is head to head with Tesla. In Germany VW sold multiple times as much as Tesla. In China BYD sold more than Tesla etc
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by bildung 5y ago
It isn't like VW is much behind Tesla in EV sales: 171k BEV plus 171k PHEV vs. 386k for Tesla in H1 2021, and VW had faster EV growth than Tesla compared to last year. I suspect this is more about interoperability, e.g. a charging sta
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by bildung 5y ago
> Fact is that even today (13/10/2021) Germany is still running its electricity production at 51% on Coal, And one day later it's 38.7%, which shows that daily fluctuations are quite high. Therefore my link to the 2020 a
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by bildung 5y ago
> And average working people were so well off in the USSR that they never tried to leave, lamented its fall, etc... Indeed most average people were quite happy with the regimes. The dissidents, people trying to flee etc. were usually
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by bildung 5y ago
Doesn't this description fit to every religion? It isn't like any of those are founded on rationality or empiric observations.
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by bildung 5y ago
In economics there's the difference between transient inflation and core inflation (I think this is what GP alludes to). Really simplified: Core inflation happens when most market participants think inflation is here to stay and act ac
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by bildung 5y ago
> Germany is firing up coal plants because they're decomissining their nuclear reactors in favour of intermittent energy sources No they aren't, they are decomissioning coal plants, too, and at a much faster rate than nuclear
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by bildung 5y ago
It's always important to compare the whole economy, not just a single number. For context, the median income in 1940 was $18680 in 2021 dollars ($956 in 1940, https://www.npr.org/2012/04/02/149575704&#x2F

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