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by ckastner 9y ago
> Price of an electric car powertrain: $16,000 > Price of a conventional car powertrain: $6,000 Can anyone provide a better source for this? This is exactly the opposite of what I expected. I thought electric powertrains had far fewer
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by ckastner 9y ago
And yet, people will still invest in it. The "Useless Ethereum Token" [1] subtitles itself as so: You're going to give some random person on the internet money, and they're going to take it and go buy stuff with it. Pro
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by ckastner 9y ago
> The attitude of the post is the big WTF I don't do twitter, but from second-hand exposure, I am under the impression that this attitude is exactly what some of these corporate social media accounts are aiming for (less corporate,
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by ckastner 9y ago
>> while deranged world leaders measure each other's manhood by "mine's bigger than yours > Not much has changed in 70 years. Well, that's not entirely true... At least, with regards to nuclear arsenals and weap
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by ckastner 9y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how much influence the MPAA has. Movies, while extremely popular, don't generate that much money: in 2016, total box office results in the US were under $12bn [1]. That's the entire industry . Apple
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by ckastner 9y ago
> You’re forgetting currency control evasion. If a businessman from a country with tight controls wants to move money out of the country Before you can move it out of the country, you have to get it out of the bank , and your bank will
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by ckastner 9y ago
The selection of test videos (the 5%) could address that -- just pick videos that a fair reviewer would ignore, and an at least slightly biased reviewer would reject. If a reviewer flags more than X of these videos, one might assume that th
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by ckastner 9y ago
> The real problem with these rules is subjectivity. Something you would consider offensive is probably not from my perspective. I'd be surprised if YouTube didn't account for this, or in other words, if they made the demonetiz
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by ckastner 9y ago
Funnily enough, I drew the opposite conclusion from grandparent's comment: To me, this is literally why the I'm-beyond-government-control crypto dream cannot work.
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by ckastner 9y ago
Interesting. I'd assume that these methods are probably more effective than a manual review by your average person anyway, but there are certain areas where I would expect automation to be at least frowned upon.
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by ckastner 9y ago
How can you automate the checking of an ID?
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by ckastner 9y ago
Imagine the margin call you're going to get whenever the market swings wildly against your direction... I assume that most interested parties will use these for hedging purposes, but there's bound to be a few poor souls out there
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by ckastner 9y ago
Incredible! Contrast that to Europe, where the Fourth Anti-Money Laundering Directive will soon force all states to hold information on beneficial owners of legal entities in a central register, where it may be queried from by any lawyer, b
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Centralized institutions do provide a safety net, but is there anything necessarily wrong with a group of people saying they don't want or need that? Not at all! However, within the context of cryptocurrencies, I can't help b
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by ckastner 9y ago
The thing is, these central parties also provide an enormous amount of benefits. Take your average stock exchange. There's an enormous amount of regulation governing its operation, with the goal being to protect market participants fro
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by ckastner 9y ago
The IRS won't share a thing, because the CRS doesn't apply to the USA -- they aren't participants in the AEOI. The USA have FATCA, so the IRS receives this information from all other countries. Most other countries will be sh
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Now all of a sudden I have to pay tax on something I already own? That's why it's called a capital gains tax -- it's collected at the time of sale (when/if you realize a profit), not at the time of purchase.
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by ckastner 9y ago
> A year ago, Mr. Bell’s team spent hours distributing hundreds of Excel spreadsheets to regional and unit leaders each month for planning and performance tracking of the company’s 415 U.S. restaurants, he said. Now the same process take
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by ckastner 9y ago
Your argument is sound, but nevertheless, I'd still argue that if one is susceptible to manipulations of this sort, there wasn't much Free Will to be DoS'ed in the first place. Manipulations of this sort have been effective l
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Modern Media is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will Being saturated by Modern Media is an exercise of Free Will. An attack is an act of force that requires active defense. The Modern Media is not forcing me to ready anything, nor do I hav
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by ckastner 9y ago
That's my point: impractical as it may be at the current time, I could not find an argument as to why it should generally be impossible.
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by ckastner 9y ago
It was unclear to me what the impossibility is that is referred to by the article, but it appears to be the exponential nature of the required storage for the simulation: > Simulating anything more than 49 qubits on a classical computer
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by ckastner 9y ago
> As it's described in the article, I see many parallels with today's anonymised internet culture - we can be someone else, someone who doesn't have to fear any consequences for what he says, we can lie on the internet to
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by ckastner 9y ago
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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by ckastner 9y ago
The actual TL;DR is that the Core i9 beat the Threadripper ist almost every test. The bang-for-the-buck argument is only briefly mentioned towards the end, and is followed up by: One last thing to consider is that the price of just the CPU
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by ckastner 9y ago
Because it's been in this mode for 14 years already.
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by ckastner 9y ago
Unless he does indeed style himself as "Zuck", can we please spell his name properly?
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by ckastner 9y ago
> We all know people who are much smarter than us, surely we must sound stupid to them [...] I believe you misunderstood the article, because the "stupid" it discusses isn't relative. Quite the contrary: the third (and gol
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Oh, come one, you don't need to be a marketing genius [...] But your product does need some marketing, which is the point I was trying to make. Marketing does not just "build on top of [Engineering]", they are codepend
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by ckastner 9y ago
Whether the product is needed or not is irrelevant to my assertion.

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