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by grondilu 9y ago
One thing governments could do is this: - Create a digital token system that can be exchanged and accounted freely via a centralized server. - Give it a name. Don't even call it a currency, let people use it as money if they want to
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by grondilu 9y ago
> We literally set things on fire to generate electricity for these global brute force algorithms. Who's "we"? Because I don't. People who mine do. They do it by their own free will. It's their resources the
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Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible to Stop Ageing(sciencealert.com)
4 points by grondilu 9y ago|2 comments
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by grondilu 9y ago
Have you read Ron Paul's piece? I think the argument about Russia makes a lot of sense. He claims that introducing protectionism in space actually made things more expensive, not cheaper. "Specifically, Section 1615 of this year
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Does anyone understand this? I don't quite grasp the details of the story, but the "four kinds of money"[1][2] theme may help understand the point of view. Why exactly would Musk spend money in a way that disturbs conser
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by grondilu 9y ago
The counterparty risk is not in the storage, but in the exchange. You always expose yourself to counterparty risk when you exchange currencies (even crypto ones).
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> Usually a dentist prescribes painkillers without finding out if you'll need them. That would be absolutely unacceptable, imho. And I thought being in pain was not enough to be prescribed opiods anyway? Isn't the pain suppose
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Any doctor who can be shown to have given addictive opioids to people that aren't terminally ill should be investigated. About ten years ago I had two teeth removed. The next day I received a phone call from the dentist office.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> using something like mercury you really don't want to do that.
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by grondilu 9y ago
The catch is that it will take a lot of time until this kind of study gives definitive results. People already live quite long, so longevity studies are usually multi-generational.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Banks are among the biggest culprits. Wow. From an article about insects you arrived to banks in three sentences. Kind of impressive.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I'm personally not too surprised. The sea is a complex environment and octopuses are invertebrates in a mostly vertebrate-dominated world. They need to outsmart both their preys and predators.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> How could an ordeal-administering priest make boiling water innocuous to an innocent defendant’s flesh? By making sure that it wasn’t actually boiling. I had no idea that this kind of things was actually staged. Should I understand th
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by grondilu 9y ago
> If similar techniques can be applied to other structured problems, such as protein folding, reducing energy consumption or searching for revolutionary new materials, Protein folding sounds like a nice idea for their next challenge.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Are those dark markets contracts enforceable? Of course they are. When absurd laws try to prohibit market forces, shadow markets emerge and they tend to have their own enforcement policies. Think mafia, prohibition in the 20s, corrup
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by grondilu 9y ago
Then you'd just create an incentive to sell the share in dark markets. You'd officially still be the owner of the share, but in secret you would have sold your voting right by agreeing with someone to vote on command in exchange
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Anyway here's a story about the Long-Term Stock Exchange, which is a new planned stock exchange backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalist types that will have "tenure voting," in which shareholders who hold their share
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by grondilu 9y ago
I've updated the code to display more useful information on the values. A big framerate drop is to be expected after several rotations, as the numerators and denominators become very big.
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by grondilu 9y ago
I had noticed the disappearance of the cube after a while indeed. With Firefox it happens much later than just six rotations though. Can't test it on chrome right now. Apparently this happens when .valueOf() becomes NaN. I'll m
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by grondilu 9y ago
Well, I don't trust professionally managed products (I'm in France as well btw) for various reasons. Basically I think in the long run it's better to manage your portfolio yourself. I'm sure I could get a better return
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Passive implies less-than-full-time work, not "no work". Pretty sure passive really means "no work". Granted, it's a theoretical concept that in practice can only be approached, but "less-than-full-time&q
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by grondilu 9y ago
> Are you intentionally picking dividend-focused stocks though? I used to when I started, but I don't anymore. Now I just buy stocks of companies I like. Lately for instance, I bought some NVDIA shares because I like what they do.
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by grondilu 9y ago
> (I'm not sure about US but here in Brazil the dividends are subtracted from the stock valuation) What is that about?? Usually the market prices the dividend removal, but that only lasts so long. At any point during the year the
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by grondilu 9y ago
I have about 50k€ on European and US stock markets. Amazingly enough, that only payed me 1128€ (after tax [I just checked my income tax form]) in dividends last year. I guess I suck at picking high-return stocks.
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Show HN: Implementing a trackball with rational numbers(grondilu.github.io)
11 points by grondilu 9y ago|6 comments
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by grondilu 9y ago
> The Sigils syntax does not resonate with me. I'm a Perl fan and I have to say that sigils should go. Or at least become optional. Most of the times it's just one character too many. Say you want to write an anonymous functio
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by grondilu 9y ago
> It's like a macro-scale version of Schrödinger's cat. A faraway corner of the universe might be moving future to past. But the moment humans point a telescope in that direction, time conforms to the past-future flow. Mind bl
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by grondilu 9y ago
As pointed out by others in this thread, this is basically the doomsday argument all over again. It's a deep subject, and I can't pretend I know much about it, but one thing that I'd like to point out is that this kind of rea
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by grondilu 9y ago
Agreed, though arguably you need to tell newbs that in order to quit, they must type <Esc>:q!, not just :q!
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by grondilu 9y ago
You should add a typedef for numbers. That would make things easier if someone wants better precision than float.

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