ethbro

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by ethbro 8y ago
In the case of gold, there's also exploration, colonization, and foreign resource exploitation. There's probably an argument that one of the main drivers of European colonization was pursuit of a de facto increase in currency supp
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by ethbro 8y ago
(Someone please correct me if I'm wrong) Without adding additional hardware, likely not significant. The way you avoid some of the impacted scenarios (at modest performance impact) is with additional hardware or microarchitecture chang
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by ethbro 8y ago
I wasn't aware one could buy screws whose heads could be manually torqued off without leverage until I did it. Now, I generally throw any fastener hardware that comes with Chinese kits out and use my own.
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by ethbro 8y ago
I wish I could find the article, but I read an excellent write up of Chinese manufacturing by an expat fixer a couple years ago. The suggestions were basically: (1) don't think about manufacturing in China unless you visit the factory,
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by ethbro 8y ago
I'd highly recommend the NIST blockchain overview paper it came from as well. https://www.nist.gov/publications/blockchain-technology-over... NOTE: Paper currently unavailable due to government shutdown.
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by ethbro 8y ago
The submitted link. "Oct 16, 2017"
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by ethbro 8y ago
I was looking at whatever pulled up. Most of those are on the other side of the pre-internet chasm though, so not much accurate info. Thanks for correcting!
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by ethbro 8y ago
Because I was curious, recommended specs (quick searching): Wolf, 1992: 386, 4 MB memory, 8 MB disk Doom, 1993: 486, 8 MB memory, 40 MB disk, Sound Blaster Pro/compatible Q1, 1996: 75 MHz+, 32 MB memory, 128 MB disk, SBP/c, GeForc
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by ethbro 8y ago
The thing about unpaid content is that you have no market signal about its true value. We know Avengers can bring in X ticket sales + Y movie purchases + etc. But what's a million YouTube view video worth? The actual content value is i
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by ethbro 8y ago
This article was from a little over a year ago, and detailed what Google and Facebook were producing. I think your ignorance of their offerings (and I couldn't name anything either!) says what we need to know about their success.
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by ethbro 8y ago
> Most of the content people are now enjoying day to day isn't coming from large corporations. Taking that at face value, it's still the Google vs Apple argument. "The content people are enjoying" is not nearly as v
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by ethbro 8y ago
Uranium (elemental) has a density of 19.1 g/cm^3. For comparison, lead has a density of 11.34 g/cm^3. It's heavy .
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by ethbro 8y ago
The impression I get is that the video game industry is extremely hit / miss. Hence the large graveyard of publishers and developers who at one time made excellent, well-selling games. (E.g. Interplay Games) Money comes cheaply at time
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by ethbro 8y ago
Wasn't the iPhone the first smartphone? /s
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by ethbro 8y ago
Was going to ask about outsourcing. I don't know the market on provider billing, but I'd assume there are some companies that manage a number of facilities. And wow, does that search bring up a lot of astroturf: https:/&#x2F
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by ethbro 8y ago
Something I read on the anthropomorphisation of AI really clicked with me, and explains much of the media and marketing wrongness. If I tell a random person on the street that my AI can play checkers, they think, "A human can play chec
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by ethbro 8y ago
I would hazard to say that both of us aren't in the demographic where $20 matters. But for a lot of people, $20 vs $250 is the difference between going to a doctor and not. Separate from that there's the catastrophic vs no coverag
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by ethbro 8y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35397749 But Junko Sakuma thinks the answer lies in the fact that Japan's whaling is government-run, a large bureaucracy with research budgets, annual plans, promotions and pen
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by ethbro 8y ago
Caveat: All hospitals not managed identically. I'm sure there's a lot of varying billing policy, hospital to hospital. And varying ability to financially write off care. As a gut guess, I'd expect rural hospitals to be the
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by ethbro 8y ago
It's a good goal, but this is a very complex system. For example, if published prices were brought down to slightly-above-insurance rates, fewer people would buy insurance. Consequently, insurers would have less bargaining power, furth
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by ethbro 8y ago
I think France balances realpolitik against its ethics, with a veneer of corruption on top. Same as any world power. That said, in comparison to post-WWII refuse-to-decolonize France? Objectively, modern France is far more ethical. In regar
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by ethbro 8y ago
Nobody's arguing colonial history doesn't have a huge number of mistakes. But now, at this moment, policy going forward -- if not supporting democracy, democratically elected leaders, and the regular, peaceful transition of power,
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by ethbro 8y ago
Working on it. We're just in a bit of a 1968 moment after despairing over how difficult nation building is with Afghanistan and Iraq. I'm sure we'll return to our regularly scheduled American exceptionalism circa-2040.
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by ethbro 8y ago
> And we definitely felt sorry for Ivory Coast when French special forces busted into their presidential palace to resolve a domestic electoral dispute. You're referring to French forces arresting Laurent Gbagbo when he refused to
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by ethbro 8y ago
I was thinking about this recently and decided it's probably another culprit: we're less tolerant of unexpected and different things as we get older. That seems kind of essential for younger-esque 'Hey, stranger who I know no
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by ethbro 8y ago
I gave a ceiling number, as someone asking likely wouldn't have an optimized card portfolio for bonuses. Worst case, they're pulling their second card, where it could easily have a 150 pt impact. Last I heard, the Chase rule is a
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by ethbro 8y ago
Can't speak from personal experience, but my father would certainly agree with you. As would a number of other people I know. A surprising number of people seem to have 'When shit hits the fan, Amex delivers' stories.
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by ethbro 8y ago
Could you give examples? Or are there sites which catalogue this? It'd be nice to have some information for comparison with other status banks.
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by ethbro 8y ago
By "5.25% for online purchases," are you referring to this? https://thepointsguy.com/news/bofa-cash-rewards-pick-bonus-c... Which is to say, this is a new deal BoA has not previously offered, scheduled to g
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by ethbro 8y ago
Not really. Because of the rules to generate the score (see Credit Karma etc) the effects of a new card mostly balance each other out if you have an old enough average age of credit. On the order of -150 pts for a few months. The only reall

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