bongobingo

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by bongobingo 5y ago
No, I don’t. Even if it were possible to acquire that much land, and it isn’t, the land isn’t suitable for solar.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
> You are incorrect. No, I’m not. The supply of Bitcoin is 21 quadrillion satoshi. You are making an arbitrary distinction that an entire Bitcoin is some meaningful thing. I’m not doing a conversation. A Bitcoin is 100,000,000 satoshi. T
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by bongobingo 5y ago
> Ads. You pay with your attention. What? No. You pay with your data. You pay with your privacy. And the ads additionally destroy legitimate paid services. Ads have destroyed the entire internet economy, and brought upon a surveillance s
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Have you looked at a map? I live in NY, and there is absolutely no place for such a massive solar farm. The numbers I quoted were just for NYC, and they weren’t adjusted for the winter sunlight problem. To power the entire metro area would
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by bongobingo 5y ago
That’s an arbitrary, and pointless, distinction. 100,000,000 different people can own a single satoshi. What does it matter that each individual does not own the entire thing? The question is whether Bitcoin has enough supply, and there act
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Each Bitcoin is 100,000,000 satoshi. So the actual max supply is 2,100,000,000,000,000. It’s effectively infinite supply.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Opportunity cost is simple. It’s a calculation of what your money could have been doing if you put it to use doing something else. The easiest to estimate is the market opportunity cost. If you spend $10,000 on a solar installation that is
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by bongobingo 5y ago
The opportunity cost for the cash you had to put down to install a solar array. Or the opportunity cost of the interest payments you’re making on a loan.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
I’ve yet to see any renewable plan that could cover big northern cities. Where are we going to build a solar farm to cover NYC, DC, and Philadelphia? There is 9 hours of daylight in the dead of winter, and it’s not exactly known for being s
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Probably because finance people know to not accept such obvious bribery.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
I find that most of these payoff periods are generous on one side, but lax on the other. For example, does the payoff calculator include the opportunity costs? I doubt it, because it would likely be impossible to ever achieve break even.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
They do. Actual diamonds have occlusions, slight color shifts, unique sparkle patterns, and other characteristics. Grown diamonds are too perfect, and it’s trivially easy to tell the difference. You don’t need a loupe at all. I don’t own an
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Would you prefer that the USPS join the public pension crisis? It is not scandalous to force a public organization to fund their employee retirements. What is scandalous is the massive unfunded public pensions that are going to wallop the e
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by bongobingo 5y ago
> Hoffman said he thinks DeJoy’s real goal is to erode public confidence in the government-controlled postal system in order to build support for privatizing it. We don’t need to privatize. We need to get rid of it and switch to digital
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Good for hobby or personal projects, but not if you’re building something for work. Many of these “free” tiers are designed to vendor lock you before they walk you off a pricing cliff. Take Auth0. Free for up to 7,000 user but then it jumps
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by bongobingo 5y ago
> Yes they are business decisions but they are also political. No, they aren’t. You’re trying to make them political. This is entirely of your own doing. Take housing. It’s too expensive! Many people would agree. We can talk about houses
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Hey guess what we're doing right now? We're discussing the issues of Crimea, Russia, and China... and we aren't getting political about it. Incredible. Maybe impossible? >If you are an international company you have to
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by bongobingo 5y ago
> What happens if you want to discuss a disputed nation? You don’t? > Banning politics is impossible because everything in life has some hand in politics. Hard disagree. You can talk about how houses are too expensive right now withou
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by bongobingo 5y ago
I am sure many of these people will land on their feet, but I would absolutely not hire someone who quit their last position because they were told to stop talking about politics at work. Is there any place where you can exist, in 2021, wit
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Seems quite similar to Hasura. Looks neat.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Uber is the client, not the person the driver picks up. The drivers are contractors, and they contract to Uber (or Lyft, etc) to do some job, in this case driving some person to a destination. Each requested ride is a new job. The contracto
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by bongobingo 5y ago
It’s more complicated than what you’re saying. The health care industry in the US is almost 15% of the GDP and employs about 10% of the workers. It is difficult to quickly fix this system without catastrophic economic consequences. Unfortun
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Well you used to be able to buy decent catastrophic insurance to protect you from unlimited losses. ACA effectively killed that type of insurance.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
They need to allow me to operate my own store, or I’m suing.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
The average premium for a family is over $1,000. The average family deductible is around $7,000. The numbers I quoted are high overall, but people absolutely pay those amounts. This topic of conversation is edge cases, anyway. The average p
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by bongobingo 5y ago
I am suing Epic because I am unable to sell cosmetic items in the Fortnite store. Epic has a monopoly on it, and doesn’t allow third parties to sell within their store. This needs to change.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Does that democracy include the right to not join the union?
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by bongobingo 5y ago
If you’re not American, it’s difficult to understand. However, insurance is an absolute scam in the US. You pay hundreds of dollars per month for the privilege of having to pay thousands of dollars before your insurance will start paying. F
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Android has an 87% market share. I don’t really care what the minority players are up to.
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by bongobingo 5y ago
Bluetooth contact tracing had absolutely no chance of ever working. 15% of adults don’t own a smartphone. 47% of children don’t own a smartphone. Of the 85% of adults who own a smartphone, 20% don’t carry it with them. At absolute best 50-6

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