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by gregable 3y ago
In another context, I recall someone doing something similar, but they didn't have images in advance. So they would study the list of names, but wouldn't know who is whom. Supposedly made it faster to learn people's names any
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by gregable 4y ago
Jobs like archeology could probably also be automated further. Somewhat limiting this is possibly the fact that the "market size" for automation here is small.
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by gregable 4y ago
In a similar bucket is the Aptera I'd say, but also more expensive.
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by gregable 4y ago
This assumes supply is perfectly inelastic. Even assuming, it also ignores the fact that the money is only dumped in one nation.
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by gregable 4y ago
This really only applies to POW coins, not so much stablecoins
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by gregable 4y ago
I suspect it's backed by loans to bitfinex. Basically tether mints a bunch of USDT, 'loans' it to bitfinex which then creates an asset on tether's balance sheet of the loan. Bitfinex then goes and buys BTC with the USDT
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by gregable 4y ago
1. The author points out that txn fees are tiny, 1% of the revenue. And they are unlikely to be significant during the depreciation period of the machines. 2/3. Sure, but see #1. 4. Sure, but the author is pointing out that the cost of
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by gregable 4y ago
Yes, but. There are few places that need heating 100% of the year and fewer people living there. During the non-heating hours/days, that's just waste heat. Depending on where the bulbs are located, they may be emitting into a ceil
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by gregable 4y ago
That was once true but it's no longer a real issue: https://youtu.be/GiYO1TObNz8
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by gregable 4y ago
I've been looking at the Toronto real estate prices a bit, and I'm convinced the real issue is primarily interest rates, not immigration, or construction. Don't take my word for it, ofc: Immigration: - Rent has not increased
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by gregable 4y ago
Folks here lean Bay Area, but I don't think Canada has the same issue of preventing construction. For example, in Toronto, you get about 30-40k new housing starts a year in a city of 3M. https://ycharts.com/indicators&#
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by gregable 4y ago
The demand for the housing drives the price, modulo short-term speculation. The investor buys it with an eye towards the cash-flow from renting, and by definition, it's rented to someone living there.
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by gregable 4y ago
Not doing something about it eventually ruins the community and then takes the life savings away in an even more dramatic crash. Canadian Real Estate is pretty clearly in bubble territory. Something can happen now or later, but it only gets
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by gregable 4y ago
I'm not sure why "amount over reserve / list" is a meaningful metric. It's clear that in a lot of cases the list prices are intentionally below market to attract more bidders and produce the appearance of more compe
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by gregable 5y ago
Electricity Demand Response / Micro Grids. Right now, most electrical systems, even internet connected ones, don't have any awareness of electrical supply and demand. Most of the grid is designed for power to flow one direction. A
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by gregable 5y ago
Yes, and this would really be awful in the short term, but in the medium term medicine companies would just spin up more production until the "very wealthy people" demand has been met and medicine becomes available again at some r
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by gregable 5y ago
Eventually, but at current prices existing hardware mines at well above electricity prices, so that won't happen any time soon.
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by gregable 5y ago
There is no "displacing" going on. The amount of hashing going on is independent of the amount of BTC mined or transactions verified per unit time. Until such time that the hashrate rises to the point that BTC mining costs more th
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by gregable 5y ago
I used https://pypi.org/project/appdaemon-testing/ . You can write a simple test file which does things like sets a device state, then asserts that services were called or whatnot. It doesn't test that the ser
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by gregable 5y ago
For folks here I strongly recommend installing the appdaemon integration and just writing python scripts. The downside is there is a good bit of learning curve and time investment just to get the hello world going (turn on a light at sunset
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by gregable 5y ago
It depends on your definition of efficiency. Electric heat is considered 100% efficient as 100% of the watt hours that go into the device eventually get turned into the same amount of heat. A heat pump moves heat from outdoors to indoors. T
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by gregable 5y ago
The issue with this is that in the limit it just makes the insurance premium exactly equal the payout + some margin. Some of the point of insurance is cost sharing of extreme events. It's perhaps a little better when we are talking abo
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by gregable 5y ago
Does this mean that Netflix has to have a private TLS key in the box? I wonder how the security of these keys is usually maintained. Interesting engineering/cryptography problem. This problem might also be an interesting use case for S
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by gregable 5y ago
True for the C from food, but the production process is energy intensive. Fertilizer production, tractors, etc all burn oil C which would otherwise have been left in the ground.
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by gregable 5y ago
I'll be honest, it seems reasonable to me in a lot of cases. I'm not enamored with steak, and chicken/pork can work just as well as beef for a lot of other dishes. A chicken sandwich is just as good as a burger to me. I know
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by gregable 5y ago
Ive just gotten started, but what I like so far is based on node-red but only using HA triggers, functions, and HA call service nodes. Essentially I use the trigger blocks to schedule my function calls. The function then ignores the inputs
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by gregable 5y ago
It's in a weird space. It's kinda a pure electric.
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by gregable 5y ago
My memory (might be incorrect) is that both Twitter and LinkedIn use the Google cache directly, rather than running their own.
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by gregable 5y ago
I did some hacky analysis and roughly half of the PRs originated in GitHub and the majority of those are not google employees. Most changes have a github issue attached with discussion, all of the changes have descriptive commit messages re
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by gregable 5y ago
I won't try to address every part of this writing, but there is one claim that I feel is false: namely that the AMP validation rules are not open source. Here is the code: https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml&#x2F

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