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by danbruc 3y ago
Nit picking, but floating point is not commutative either.
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by danbruc 3y ago
So it is like allocating an array of objects but I guess it does not have to be homogeneous, i.e. you can decide after the initial allocation what objects you want to live in your chunk of memory. Allocation gets simpler as you just have to
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by danbruc 3y ago
I might be a bit ignorant here, but I was under the impression that this is what every program already does. Before virtual memory, you would not call into the operating system for every allocation but you would have an in-process memory al
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by danbruc 3y ago
That increasing demand drives the price up does not look like a feature to me, if something becomes popular, then I want the supply to increase, ideally even the price to go down due to economy of scale and investments in innovation. For pe
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by danbruc 3y ago
So currently there are a quarter or half a million transactions per day for 100 $ each. If Bitcoin was primarily used for long term storage, that would probably no longer be true. The current market capitalization of 1T $ is a million peopl
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by danbruc 3y ago
That sounds potentially problematic in the long run. If Bitcoin is primarily used for long term storage, then you need some [at least] constant flux of people moving money in and out of long term storage, otherwise your stored Bitcoins will
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by danbruc 3y ago
This essentially boils down to not using Bitcoin. If Bitcoin ever wants to achieve its goal of becoming a usable currency, hiding pieces of paper in safes is not the way to go. But you can of course speculate that in a few years someone els
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by danbruc 3y ago
Interesting point but would that really be relevant? If you have a hollow pit or one with an initiator in the center, you will be making two half-spheres, so you will be far away from the critical mass. And even if you are making a solid pi
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by danbruc 3y ago
Was wondering the same, I would not have expected welds in places where plutonium is used and assumed things like casting, forging, and machining is what you do to plutonium. Maybe this was just for research, just in case the need ever aris
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by danbruc 3y ago
Only if you think that the goal of the invasion of Ukraine was to annex the entire country or bring it under permanent Russian control. I do not think that this is the case and that the reason of the invasion is solely or at least primarily
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by danbruc 3y ago
I mean you could just do that and tell the students that the magnetic charge and current densities are always zero unless we eventually discover monopoles.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Personally I think there is no convincing evidence that Russia has a desire to go to war against other countries in eastern Europe, but for the sake of argument I will grant you that. The thing is, just having a desire to go to war with som
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by danbruc 3y ago
The Eston Kohver kidnapping, an Estonian security service member kidnapped a few meters across the border and later exchanged for another Estonian that spyed for Russia. Shaddy business, sure, but nothing that says war with Estonia. Sabotag
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by danbruc 3y ago
By that logic the European countries should also keep a close eye on Germany.
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by danbruc 3y ago
What is the evidence for that?
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by danbruc 3y ago
Germany did not get what they wanted, Georgia and Ukraine got the Bucharest declaration that they will eventually become NATO members. Russia attacking the rest of Europe is just fear mongering.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Germany was among those countries that were against NATO memberships for Georgia and Ukraine in 2008.
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by danbruc 3y ago
But the project started in 1997 and began construction in 2005. And Merkel was among those that advocated for a different politics towards Russia, one that might have avoided the situation of today.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Russia was no adversary when Nord Stream was build and given the repeated disputes between Russia and Ukraine with regard to gas [1] it seems completely reasonable that they wanted to bypass them. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by danbruc 3y ago
In my opinion the most worrying thing in this story is that nobody is willing to come forward and say who did it. Sure, there is the possibility that nobody knows with certainty and I understand it in that case, you do not want to accuse an
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by danbruc 3y ago
No, trying to get a better compensation is not per se the issue. In a hypothetical company where the management takes home all the profits and the workers make minimum wage, moving to a more fair distribution of the profits involves less mo
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by danbruc 3y ago
I already wrote that you can have some additional widgets for inventing and building the machine. Even if I had not mentioned it, that would be a reasonable thing to do, if I insist on splitting the crank turning work, you can pretty safely
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by danbruc 3y ago
What then is a more fair outcome in your original scenario where producing widgets was the only activity? If you keep working, making other inventions, that is a completely different scenario. That you should do your share of crank turning
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by danbruc 3y ago
Sure, everyone [1] is better off, but that just sets the bar too low. You and the other guy each turn the crank for four hours, that is the fair outcome. If you insist, you get a couple of extra widgets for inventing and building the machin
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by danbruc 3y ago
I might be wrong, but is the labour theory of work not supposed to explain how value works in the economy and is criticised for not making the right predictions? I am not saying that this is how the economy works, I am saying that this is h
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by danbruc 3y ago
Come on, people have written thousands of pages about economy over centuries, I wrote a few sentences here. Of course there are differences between working conditions, individual abilities, and whatnot, that is why I wrote to a first approx
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by danbruc 3y ago
My point is very simple and we do not have to discuss all the edge cases. Working x hours and consuming stuff that took y hours to produce where y is much larger than x is unjust. All the rest are details.
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by danbruc 3y ago
You should not be able to do that, the system should discourage it. But I think one likely has to tolerate this to some extent because trying to completely eliminate it will probably negatively affect people that rightfully claim such benef
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by danbruc 3y ago
To a first approximation, you work for one hour, you get to consume stuff that requires one hour of work to produce. I don't care if you work your ass off for some time and then retire early or if you work very little or very much as l
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by danbruc 3y ago
Okay, I see how can read it like that. What I meant is that consuming after you stopped working for it is immoral, or alternatively earning so much that you can keep consuming but stop working.

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