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by cturner 5y ago
China has purpose-build non-nuclear anti-ship cruise missiles. There is a running game of chicken between the CCP and the US about whether they would dare use them against a US carrier group stationed in the SCS. The way the game theory wor
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by cturner 5y ago
US carrier groups are the main defence against the ccp’s slow-push into its neighbour’s territory. This test may signal the CCP that their current generation of long-range anti-ship cruise missiles are less of a deterrant for US presence in
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by cturner 5y ago
Interesting people come to hacker news. (I'd give another upvote for your username if I could.) What is the essential set of skills/foundation knowledge for a nuclear power plant operator of the sort that you get on a submarine? W
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by cturner 5y ago
Separate to the complexity highlighted here, there are a number of operations where there is no readiness mechanism available. For example - file open, file stat. These syscalls can cause significant thread blocks. For example, when operati
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by cturner 5y ago
London thrives because it's a world city with a massive talent pool. The standard of financial regulation is as high as anywhere else in the world, and the regulators hold a firm position against money-laundering.
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by cturner 5y ago
Government is a service, and services work harder when they have to compete. Tax competition is a good thing. When raising taxes is hard, government has to work to justify its spend. If it doesn't, the business and talent goes elsewher
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by cturner 5y ago
Don’t underestimate the importance of market makers - people who create liquidity on the exchanges by constantly resting buy and sell orders on the book, the modern equivalent of the guys on the exchange floor in the bright jackets. Exchang
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by cturner 5y ago
There are complex and strict rules around commercial banks that direct to their loan to value ratios, capitalisation and auditing arrangements (Basel accords). Tether is not subject to this. The biggest difference you highlight is a big dif
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by cturner 5y ago
The scientific approach is to form hypotheses, and then seek facts that will allow us to rule on them. But the character of the epidemic has been a battle of wills between a priesthood of experts and their reactionaries.
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by cturner 5y ago
"Do you agree that in these cases, just having adequate laws would make a blockchain useless?" Yes. There are jurisdictions where there is no prospect of this, but the answer to your question is yes. "Isn't that a compan
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by cturner 5y ago
"Right, but NFTs don't solve those, either. In a dispute between the court and the blockchain, the court wins." 1) In contracts, you can add a clause that mandates a dispute-resolution process that must take place before eith
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by cturner 5y ago
"I think we live in a world where holding the real thing in your real hands is all that matters." In regions with the rule of law, there are things more important than physical possession - ownership, contract.
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It suits the state to run the land registry: (1) a state is a barrier around land, which can be subdivided; (2) the state has incentive to do this; (3) the state can use law and courts to enforce it. There are other problems that need regis
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by cturner 5y ago
Computation: proof-of-stake is coming - expensive computation won't be a factor. With that said, if you did everything on-chain, that would generate a lot of activity. (In a separate reply, I have spoken of focusing on the chain for go
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by cturner 5y ago
Here are the qualities that I think are special about this model: (1) the platform is organic; (2) critical mass kicks in pretty quickly. Organic: it would be unrealistic to attempt to solve the wine problem as a one-off registry. But once
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by cturner 5y ago
"the NFT hype never made any sense whatsoever to begin with" I felt the same, but now regard NFTs as the first meaningful application of blockchain. First, let's talk about land registries. In developed countries, the state a
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by cturner 5y ago
Assume you are hashbanging /bin/bash at the top of your /sbin/init. Ensure that shell does not have missing dependencies and is compiled for the matching arch. It can be fiddly to supply shared object dependencies for th
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by cturner 5y ago
That HTML error page uses my GPU and consumes an entire CPU core.
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by cturner 5y ago
Funnily enough, I have a GT 710 kicking around for this purpose. But my point - a hardware firm should be able to retail a no-feature, no-gpu PCIe VGA card with no passive power draw for a good deal less than 50 quid. Those asrock rack unit
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by cturner 5y ago
Different issue, but related to video: if you build a server around high-end Ryzen chips, there is no onboard video. I could not find a no-gpu card that was a good fit for this scenario. There may be a market for a low-feature, low-tdp PCIe
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by cturner 5y ago
Berkshire Hathaway is NYSE listed, so Nasdaq do not set those rules for them. If a primary market created rules to mitigate systems issues, they would be harshly judged for it, and likely lose business to competitors.
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by cturner 6y ago
The GP post had a sole purpose, to explain scarcity.
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by cturner 6y ago
"If I live alone in a big house with 5 rooms, I could host at least 10-15 people there. They would surely rather live in that nice house, and not on the street." Would it still be a nice house if 10-15 people with no kinship were
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by cturner 6y ago
Once you have eaten an apple, it cannot be eaten again. If you plant a crop of wheat on your field this season, your brother cannot also plant a crop of barley there. When you ride your bicycle to work for the day, your neighbour cannot rid
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by cturner 6y ago
Scarce things have limited use.
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by cturner 6y ago
“Of course you can steal ip ... you reduce the value of their ip”. This is a circular argument, and invalid. Then default state is for ip to have no value. The only thing that gives it value is far-reaching laws that diminish the real prope
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by cturner 6y ago
“action which produces value exclusive rights...” This does not describe “property in general”. (Also, it is gobbledegook.) The concept of property (excluding ip) is extremely straightforward - control of something scarce. Things called IP
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by cturner 6y ago
Thanks for the context regarding your experience in a related domain. Still, in your comments you have been presenting speculation as fact. Please don't do that.
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by cturner 6y ago
Both this comment and your earlier comment appear to be speculation. Above you said they did not pay taxes, but now you seem less sure. Why? What is your evidence?
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by cturner 6y ago
The matter you have linked to is a criminal matter that relates to the practice of medicine. It is important to differentiate between criminal and civil matters. Police should only be involved in criminal matters, and should never be act as

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