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by garmaine 5y ago
I assume you mean atomically precise manufacturing? That has the potential to bring us into an age of radical abundance mainly by substituting the materials used in high technology from rare metallic elements to carbon-based diamond. Where
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No. It doesn’t release any more heat than burning that fuel in cars or airplanes would. Chemistry is chemistry. And a Falcon 9 consumes about as much fuel as 3 fully loaded 737s. While not trivial, it’s also negligible in the grand scheme o
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by garmaine 5y ago
The development of space resources is the ONLY potential avenue of technological development that will lead to an abundance of material wealth while decreasing our impact on the environment. A handful of joyrides now is peanuts by compariso
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Notably SoaceX doesn’t use RP1 for Starship, and is aiming for a carbon neutral fuel source.
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> Is it not possible to create a good cryptographic hashing algorithm that results in 128bit or 160bit hash? No, it is provably not possible to do that. A N-bit hash function has maximum N/2-bits of collision resistance. So a 128-bi
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Well, they made 2.4994722 BTC directly by exploiting a smart contract on bitcoin that pays out to anyone demonstrating a SHA-1 collision.
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Does GitHub support this?
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It doesn't take any money or time. Google's break of SHA-1 was fully reusable. So long as committing a PDF to the repo counts, there's a script that will trivially concat two PDFs in such a way as that they each render to the
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by garmaine 5y ago
Disneyland with the death penalty…
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> There is a saying that if China were democratic, then they would have invaded Taiwan yesterday. In this sense the CCP are moderates. That saying is propaganda. Here is a list of literally every war between democratic powers in the enti
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> It looks to me that Tibetan scripts and languages, Mongolian scripts and languages, etc are better preserved than over the border in India and Mongolia. You've been drinking the koolaid. Tibetan as only been preserved through a he
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by garmaine 5y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. He says in the article that Microsoft wanted to hire him to keep working on appget. He asked for an acqui-hire instead, and was told that’s not possible. He wanted more than Microsoft was willing to gi
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by garmaine 5y ago
These points largely don't hold true in the USA. There is a gift tax exemption of $15k/yr, but with a lifetime cap and the total counts towards your estate taxes, so it ends up being paid in the end (assuming you die, and assuming
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by garmaine 5y ago
Facts: https://www.thebalance.com/what-the-average-american-pays-in... "According to the Tax Foundation's review of 2018 tax returns, the latest year for which data is available, the top 1% paid an average income
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by garmaine 5y ago
It’s not how costs and prices work though.
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Tax deferral is not tax avoidance. If Elon Musk gets a loan backed by his Tesla shares to diversify his holdings, that isn't actually a "tax free" cash out. The tax is just deferred to if/when the bank margin calls the l
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Taxes are progressive, so they do pay more taxes than the 99%.
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It’s quite nice.
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They haven’t decreased in price. The feds instead say, essentially, “hybrid cars and airbags didn’t exist when this metric was invented, so to compare apples to apples we’ll guess at what a 1960’s car would cost if it were made today today”
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by garmaine 5y ago
Internet addiction has been a thing for a long time.
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I doubt you will find a place that is not run by CCP shills. Most English speaking people don’t hold China in high regard, and for good reasons.
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To a planetary scientist who is familiar with lunar geology, yes that is recent. It was widely believed after Apollo that the lunar core shut off and plate tectonics stopped soon after formation. 2Gya is a long time from now, but it is also
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If it is useful enough that someone is willing to pay for it as a service, then it fundamentally changes the incentive model and voids the security it provides.
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It is not a polite fiction.
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Pretty much all jurisdictions. Even in Europe the copyright is extended if you alter a work.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Why should I give two bits about who is famous?
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by garmaine 5y ago
Newsweek is maybe a better comparison?
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That's not what copyright is for or how copyright works. Copyright renewal is a real thing. Copyright years generally get refreshed whenever the content changes.
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by garmaine 5y ago
They definitely do have it in the RFID tag. Depending on your nationality, some have it printed in a larger QR-code like thing, I think. There’s an international standard, but I wouldn’t know where to find it.
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by garmaine 5y ago
Just FYI they do contain machine readable digital signatures from the passport issuer these days.

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