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by ericd 3y ago
Many governments attempt to force their populations to keep their savings in the nation's currency, while aggressively devaluing the currency. The richer people in those countries tend to try to get out of it via other currency holding
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by ericd 3y ago
I guess I don't understand the advantage of having a truck over just doing Home Depot scheduled deliveries, if it's only a few times a year. He's paying like $1,000 for each of those two mulch runs, it's much cheaper j
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by ericd 3y ago
You could always chop off the final softmax layer and dump out the activations of one or two layers below, which are basically an embedding, which should reflect that it's partly cat and partly truck?
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by ericd 3y ago
Can we not overbuild solar and wind such that the troughs are nearly good enough, combined with high voltage cross-regional transmission lines, and limited storage for buffer? Solar panels are absurdly cheap, and the world has a lot of equa
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by ericd 3y ago
Mine is set to chime when I go 8 mph over (you can define this). Also, I tend to use the traffic aware cruise control on the highway to set a speed and not have to worry about it. Also, the speed is in the top left corner, it’s very easy to
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by ericd 3y ago
Does Monero match all of those attributes of BTC that the parent listed? Lightweight validator is one of the big ones that most seem to trade in exchange for higher transaction throughput.
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, I’m saying that most people here seem to live in those advanced economies where banking works pretty well, and so they think it’s totally useless because it’s useless for them. If they can get dollars, that’s maybe a reasonable substi
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by ericd 3y ago
I guess we have to deal with a bunch of this kind of reporting again now that BTC is recovering its value. While I’m certainly no fan of the environmental impact Bitcoin had in its last bull run, I like Lyn Alden’s point that having access
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by ericd 3y ago
Sorry, I don't know much about these, but how does anyone know what other communities you're part of? Is it difficult to have per-community pseudonyms?
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by ericd 3y ago
The utility is decreasing launch cost per kg by a couple orders of magnitude from the Falcon Heavy, which already represented a huge decrease from other launch systems. Decreasing costs to <1% of former costs seems likely to open a lot o
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Lyn Alden November 2023 Newsletter: The Monetary Gates Are Open(lynalden.com)
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by ericd 3y ago
It seems like we need a distributed training network where people can donate GPU time, but then any training result is automatically open.
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by ericd 3y ago
That just means that smoking while pregnant is immoral? Which I think most would agree with.
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by ericd 3y ago
No fundamental reason a micro transaction has to be more than a tiny fraction of a penny.
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by ericd 3y ago
This seems pretty reasonable: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/blackstad-induction-cooktop-bla...
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by ericd 3y ago
Your site isn’t worthy of the same crawl budget as Wikipedia.
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, my understanding was that it was audio fingerprinting tv ads, not transcribing anything, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they were trying to vacuum up other stuff. That said, I think it should be feasible to do basic low-accuracy trans
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by ericd 3y ago
Nah, we didn’t ask for any permissions at the time iirc, except gps if/when people wanted to use that to hop the map to the right spot.
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by ericd 3y ago
The most galling offer we saw on the mobile app side was something that would turn on the user's microphone, and listen for ads on tvs around them to track what they'd been exposed to offline. Adtech is such a thoroughly gross fie
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, it’s basically not a real concern compared to semis.
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by ericd 3y ago
I’m guessing it’s a way to reduce fraud attack surface without relying on something easily lost, like a portable private key?
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by ericd 3y ago
I think one of the challenges is that if a society gets richer around you, and you don’t, then normal services get more expensive as people demand higher salaries to do the same things, and houses get more expensive.
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by ericd 3y ago
Ah, but there are a bunch of other carbon capture solutions, DAC is usually considered among the highest cost. But yeah, not emitting is cheaper in most cases, and you’re right, we can’t just slather carbon capture on our current situation
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by ericd 3y ago
Why do you think carbon capture is a scam? It's not going to replace reduction via reducing new emissions to zero like some people seem to think, but we're also going to need to pull a lot out of the carbon cycle - net zero isn&#x
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by ericd 3y ago
I’m pretty sure there’s no chance that people in aggregate are going to voluntarily reduce consumption - on the contrary, the billions in developing countries are moving toward the western lifestyle, and they’re not going to accept westerne
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, definitely. Right now most are still in the "can't imagine not having a car, and want to make sure that that car can take them everywhere" state of mind. If more people walked/could walk, maybe we'd prioritize
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by ericd 3y ago
Yeah, no argument, I'd love more light rail/streetcars. If people are less dependent on personal cars, they'll be more willing to develop toward that pattern with mass transit/small bike/pedestrian roads/etc.
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by ericd 3y ago
Society doesn't have that car taking up space on the side of a public road all day, for one thing. Less parking, narrower roads, smaller parking lots, things are closer together, things are more walkable, we burn less fossil fuel, peop
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by ericd 3y ago
I've gotten the memo, thanks, I've devoted a good amount of time to this stuff, and yes, some things are useful enough that they're worth emitting their relatively insignificant amounts of CO2 for. Obviously, it's the wr
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by ericd 3y ago
I think he's making a joke based on your comment's wording.

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