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I’m Worried Nobody Will Care About Rollups(medium.com)
5 points by cinquemb 5y ago|0 comments
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by cinquemb 5y ago
It is possible.
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Frax, USDT, and TrueUSD allow people to deposit into bank accounts and mint on eth mainnet or avalanche c-chain now (note: not mint on both places at the same time), neither make the claim that they are 1:1 backed (except for TrueUSD), but
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yeah, I think in the case where one tries to fork the chain state and expects the assets on the new chain automatically be redeemable for something doesn't really work out. Though this may happen in reality because of bridges (centrali
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by cinquemb 5y ago
There are other evm compatible chains out there that people use: bsc, matic and avalanche c-chain come to mind. They all on some level opted out of some of the assumptions in go-ethereum.
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Chris Whalen: Economist Class Has Run Out of Ideas(thesoundingline.com)
4 points by cinquemb 5y ago|0 comments
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Can only really speak for the conversations I had with people I know, who have access, and those that aren't willing to take it have varying reasons: - dont want to pay for it - sinovac is most widely available and the optics of "
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by cinquemb 5y ago
There are people refusing to take covid-19 vaccines in Indonesia, who have taken vaccines in the past, who are more willing to have a treatment that has been on the market for decades than one that hasn't (at least until long term stud
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What Is the Point of Profits in a Negative-Real-Junk-Bond Rate World?(thesoundingline.com)
17 points by cinquemb 5y ago|2 comments
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Powell Admits RRP and Collateral Scarcity, Still Unaware of What It Means(alhambrapartners.com)
4 points by cinquemb 5y ago|1 comments
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Are you seriously now ignoring that this whole exchange has been about you claiming shipping molten salt to the other side of the world in vacuum insulated ceramic coated oil tankers to make steam to turn turbines is a viable way of ex
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yeah, someone already linked it. They have no mention of what they are even going to sell the energy at, and no mention storage capacity (if any will be used at all) and not expected to come online for another 6 years. We'll be able to
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Electricity already comes from a lot of sources. Very true > It is pretty myopic to think people talking about solar panels means replacing all electricity generation with solar. I don't think that all will be replaced with sol
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> I like how HN arguments involve someone deciding they like a particular technology (concentrated solar) and then imagining an entire non-existant R&D program and industrial infrastructure to support it, despite the physical, econo
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> I think we can go ahead and rule that out as impractical given we're talking about temperatures which are high enough to melt steel. I don't think steel will be used as the only form of confinement (certain kinds of ceramics
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> All the person you replied to said was that they live in a region without sun, you are the one that took this into the territory of shipping molten salt for some reason. Because it is an option, just like it is an option for those to p
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> To be clear, you think that shipping molten salt to the other side of the world so that it can make steam to make electricity is viable because oil is shipped in tankers? Yes, if needed ("to the other side of the world" could
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by cinquemb 5y ago
22 MJ/liter for LNG, ~9.1 for CNG MJ/liter [0] Molten salt will vary depending on its heat capacity and delta_k above freezing point. 0.338048298841 MJ/liter for the typical NaNO3 KNO3 NaNO2 mixture (assuming a delta_k of ~30
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> because I'm not super convinced that would work. I think its because you missed > ports Other energy products are shipped on tankers: CL, NG. Once they arrive at a certain country, they can be disbursed over roads and rail to p
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Not surprisingly, mostly those in the US… and all but one in of those in California (which is not exactly the paragon of innovation as it was in its heyday…) Luckily, that doesn't limit what other can explore and pursue :D Look, panels
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Here is a very efficient method for moving power: a copper cable. Right, texas natgas producers should just run a copper cable directly to places like Singapore!
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> If utility generators are rational actors they will pick the best solution. People make the same textbook argument for "rational" actors in "markets"… as if all actors are "rational" or agree on what is &q
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> I think long range UHV transmission plus wind/PV Solar is the real challenge for other baseload technologies. Yeah, would like to see more improvements there. Running up to fundamental limits with that though. Perhaps large batte
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> The cost of tracking PV + batteries is already cheaper than CSP when fitted to the current demand curve. Really? Any cost stats for that, I'd love to see that. From Lazard's 2018 [1] and 2020 [2] reports, PV+storage (and only
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Yeah, but you probably have roads, rail, and ports. It wouldn't be impossible to move vats of molten salt at scale to different locations from collection for usage via HEX and typical Rankine power cycle systems (i.e. steam).
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> Li storage is currently only really used for grid stability style installations at the gird-scale level (ie, as an alternative to gas-peaker plants). Yeah, in the latest Lazard's: "Lithium-ion chemistries continue to be the
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> CSP (concentrated solar power) isn't on the same price reduction curve as photovoltaic solar though. Esp if one ignores storage costs. > But at grid scale there are lots of options for storage. Agreed. > Pump solar is the o
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by cinquemb 5y ago
PV with Li storage isnt!
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by cinquemb 5y ago
> We are seeing larger farms with more installed storage every year. Same is happening with CSP, just way less so in the US. CSP with MS storage is already cheaper on a LCOE basis than nuclear, esp factoring storage [0]. Lots of PV analy
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by cinquemb 5y ago
Luckily there are cheaper solutions for energy storage at grid scale thru CSP and molten salt storage.

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