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by erentz 5y ago
I mean we know the hack wasn’t sophisticated at all. It seems to me the hackers are opportunists, scanning for vulnerabilities and weak VPNs. People are confusing grunt work with sophistication. They would’ve used ransomware against any tar
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3,000 eggs abandoned after drone scares birds in California(abcnews.go.com)
324 points by erentz 5y ago|234 comments
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by erentz 5y ago
National security implications of relying on such a cable strung across an ocean to power your economy seem quite large.
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Bill Gates company to build reactor at Wyoming coal plant(washingtonpost.com)
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by erentz 5y ago
It’s odd to me that the Ryanair flight yesterday was already closer to its destination of Vilnius than Minsk when it turned around. Ryanair said that the crew had been "notified by Belarus (Air Traffic Control) of a potential security
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by erentz 5y ago
> “Based on present knowledge, it does not appear likely that the fission of uranium or thorium could ever support more than 10 to 20 per cent of the energy system of the United States patterned as at present.” I think he was clearly too
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by erentz 5y ago
If the power grid in your area loses its billing system should it just shut down? What I don’t get is why they couldn’t gather the data manually to keep things running and sorted it out after the fact. They didn’t have any DR planning for s
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by erentz 5y ago
That doesn’t fit given he is still pumping Doge since his announcement about BTC. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392974251011895300?s=21 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/13920301
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by erentz 5y ago
> I also wonder if sometime in the next 6-12 months we'll hear that Tesla is looking to accept Dogecoin due to it being more environmentally responsible I mean his tweet right before this announcement was a poll asking just that, if
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by erentz 5y ago
See also this episode which includes a newer Katabatic Wind theory proposed by a Swedish expedition. I personally found this the most plausible theory I’ve heard so far. https://youtu.be/3NsAVMd8Hek
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I’m trying to understand hedonic adjustments(epsilontheory.com)
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When more isn’t better: inflation in the 21st century(medium.com)
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by erentz 5y ago
A common misconception about Houston is it doesn’t have zoning. Which is true. But it effectively achieves the same thing with a number of city ordinances and with covenants that subdivisions place on their land use which are enforced by th
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by erentz 5y ago
NJ has the highest property tax (I think). Note it’s property tax not land value tax so while it has some effect on real estate prices it doesn’t quite create the same incentive for more efficient land use.
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by erentz 5y ago
The UFB program was a gift to the incumbent Telecom NZ. Their design was expensive and overwrought as you’d expect from a legacy telco. While it is nice that NZ has semi-decent fiber it’s still worse than my experience of FTTH overseas. Not
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by erentz 5y ago
> The CFTC smacked Coinbase because literally 99% of all Litecoin trading volume in 2017 was one dude, Charlie Lee - the LTC founder, wash trading internally [4]. I don’t have any skin in this. But I found it interesting so read it and t
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Aerial photos of China's failed share-cycle scheme show mountains of bikes(straitstimes.com)
3 points by erentz 5y ago|2 comments
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by erentz 5y ago
But that’s not what happens. Data centers have been getting bigger and bigger and bigger and now we literally talk about planning gigawatt scale data centers. No “data center” took the efficiencies of Moore’s law and said “we good, we can s
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by erentz 5y ago
This really is just your moral judgement not a fact. You think Bitcoin is wasteful. Others think it’s useful. And the debate has raged for a decade. I think Snapchat is wasteful. It clearly has no beneficial use to society. But you think it
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by erentz 5y ago
But does banning something do anything different? Say the USA bans Bitcoin mining due to concerns about its energy use. That doesn’t stop mining in China or elsewhere. On top of that the US now needs to set up an invasive investigation syst
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by erentz 5y ago
> that every Joule that is used for bitcoin mining is a Joule that wasn't used somewhere else. This applies to so many things. Snapchat data center? YouTube using gigawatts to process and stream cat videos? On and on. It’s really ha
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by erentz 6y ago
This is apparently only 1.5% of his holdings. [1] [1] https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-ceo-sold-291-8m-in-shares-...
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Why has nuclear power been a flop?(rootsofprogress.org)
3 points by erentz 6y ago|0 comments
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by erentz 6y ago
As others have noted you’re going to have to stick with things longer, and learn to accept your not the one in charge in most of your roles (especially in the US which has a fairly authoritarian workplace culture). Also you may want to look
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by erentz 6y ago
A very good use of massive infrastructure spending along this line would also be building proper regional rail. Electrifying and improving what we typically call “commuter rail” in the US into modern, faster and comfortable all day service.
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by erentz 6y ago
So frequent plasma donations would be a better approach for these billionaires. It’s just such a difficult/uncomfortable/time consuming process.
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by erentz 6y ago
At ~$400k one US cent would buy ~2.5 Satoshis. Prices quoted in Satoshis would actually start to look quite legible, similar to many existing currencies that don’t have subunits.
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by erentz 6y ago
Does it actually work like that though? You own a US domiciled company, with US revenues. You’re effectively making US sourced income or capital gains in the US even if you don’t live there. Surely tax is due to the US IRS for that? If no
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by erentz 6y ago
I think you’re expectations are sadly misplaced. In reality it turns out that a community of people interested in technology doesn’t really equate to it being that much smarter in terms of critical thinking, evaluating science, so forth, th
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by erentz 6y ago
> You know, the ability to blame everyone else rather than face yourself and take personal responsibility. It’s often not even about personal responsibility. Such as the example responding to, it’s just a case of a harsh dog eat dog worl

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