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by gwicks56 5y ago
I covered quiet a bit of his work in a Language and Computation elective. I previously only knew him from his political writings. His Linguistics work left me with a deep respect for his intelligence, as well as a deep pessimism that comput
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by gwicks56 5y ago
But people on Hacker News keep telling me Bitcoin has no genuine use cases? I'm confused.
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by gwicks56 5y ago
The USA dollar is the settlement currency of the world. Which means you are really looking at the energy use of the Army/Navy/Air-force. If, in this hypothetical future, BTC became the settlement record.
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by gwicks56 5y ago
I don't understand this argument. There are lots of things people like to do that use a lot of energy that I think are stupid. Like why to people in the West drive such stupidly large cars? Surely the answer to clean the inputs, not th
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by gwicks56 5y ago
it's already been voted on and passed. Comes into effect in 90 days I believe.
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by gwicks56 5y ago
yeah, but that doesn't matter, no matter how much you mine, or how many coins you have, you don't get any more say in the protocol rules than the people running the nodes. Your stake is irrelevant, and whilst your hashpower secure
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by gwicks56 5y ago
Different issues. In PoS, the people with the most coins decide the protocol. In PoW, the people running nodes decide the protocol. See Segwit2x debate.
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by gwicks56 5y ago
FDIC covers all 6 billion people on earth now? You can store an unlimited amount of money in your head by memorizing 12 words. Like it or not, that has value to a lot of people around the world for a lot of different reasons.
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by gwicks56 5y ago
In Australia, after a $2500 .gov subsidy, mine will pay for themselves in 4.5 years. LG Panels with 25 Year output guarantee. 6.6kw System. Financially speaking it's a complete no brainer. One thing I did notice when I was living in th
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by gwicks56 6y ago
Well the Democrats agree, which is why they have repeatedly put bills up to secure elections better[1], Republicans have repeatedly stalled those bills, so I guess you can infer from that what you will. [1] https://thehill.com&#x
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by gwicks56 6y ago
Surely the whole point of tech is to make life involve less work? The problem becomes an economic one, how to you distribute the wealth automation enables.
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by gwicks56 6y ago
I'm losing interest in it, for actually some of the reasons sited. Chinese manufacturers are slowing increasing market share, and their version of Android is completely broken, to the point where if you are not a major whitelisted app,
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by gwicks56 6y ago
From my experience working as an engineer in Academia, there is a big problem in anything AI related, in that anyone decent can instantly increase their pay by 200 -1000% just by leaving for one of the big tech companies. Half the phD stude
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by gwicks56 6y ago
"Ride up grades, not buy upgrades"
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by gwicks56 6y ago
I saw the Ferrari V12's at the end of straight in Adelaide ('94 I think). I have not heard anything else like it.
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by gwicks56 6y ago
That's the thing about being good at your job in our field though...you essentially do get a say, because we're hard to replace. If you are genuinely good, you can get a new job with a 6 figure income in a matter of days, weeks at
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by gwicks56 6y ago
Even funnier when you consider he worked out how to game the system and is only paying off the debts of African Americans and Latinos who are registered to vote.
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by gwicks56 6y ago
Well, it's certainly true that the cops were rioting.
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by gwicks56 6y ago
Exactly like that. And 10 years later they can come and extract the calories from you against your will.
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by gwicks56 6y ago
Can the person using the twitter OAuth API change those permissions? Ie if you are the business setting it up, do you get an option over what permissions are granted?
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by gwicks56 6y ago
"Can you please show me the benefit to society of cryptocurrencies?" Sci-Hub? Wikileaks? Medical Marijuana?
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by gwicks56 6y ago
It's literally footage from 7 News Australia, the biggest TV station in Australia. Are you suggesting the footage was doctored? Where do you host video, if not YouTube? Honest question. If video from a reputable Australia News crew, ho
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by gwicks56 6y ago
You don't read so good. Check the usernames genius.
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by gwicks56 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5GNB_7cQxY There you go. The Australian Prime Minister is calling for investigation into why police attacked an Australian news crew. There are literally hundreds of video's like that o
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by gwicks56 6y ago
According to their website[1], this is the extent of what they have to say about their technology: The Technology Form Energy has identified and is developing a novel approach that is low-cost, safe, and scalable. This battery would allow
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by gwicks56 6y ago
I am usually more up to speed on the features and options of the vehicle than the person selling it to me. I think they exist to rip people like my Mum off, who think because the nice man advises she really does need the AWD version for inn
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by gwicks56 6y ago
Am I the only one who still uses hangouts? For some reason its the app my wife and I use, i dont use it with anyone else. It's handy that it pops up in chrome, and my Google Fi messages pop up in it too.
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by gwicks56 6y ago
I have heard too many horror stories about direct solar hot water. Sure it might work well, and can save a lot of money, but if it breaks it can get VERY expensive. I am looking at electic hot water that only heats with excess solar power t
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by gwicks56 6y ago
Sanden do seem to be the recommended option for this. The problem is if you have a functional gas, the economics rarely stack up to change. If I knew for sure the Sanden would last 10 years yes, but unlike very simple gas water heaters, hea
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by gwicks56 7y ago
first case was Jan 21st apparently[1] [1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa-coronavirus/

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