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751.
by ivalm 6y ago
Even without the real part I showed 44% is illegal activity, which is ore than 16%.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Then for crypto you need to count what fraction of value is used for illicit activity. Here is a paper estimating its about 46% of transactions [0]. If you look at transactions that cause real economic activity (as opposed to speculation) I
753.
by ivalm 6y ago
In total? Yes. As a fraction of total volume? Debatable.
754.
by ivalm 6y ago
But that’s not people going to “financial arrangements.” ZIRP does encourage over reckless investment in ventures with low chance of working out, I am just saying it’s different.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Lots of crypto is trustless, they just don’t have inherent value.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Can you elaborate on this? ZIRP encourages people to seek riskier investments, which presumably means to spur growth. Low risk financial arrangements are exactly what suffers.
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by ivalm 6y ago
It's hard, look at microsoft/windows phone.
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by ivalm 6y ago
I wonder if we can go to even higher density. From entropy constraints, computing performance asymptotically scales with surface area [0,1]. The general bound is Bekenstein bound[2] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bla
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by ivalm 6y ago
I think the argument is we aren’t spending enough on anti-aging research.
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by ivalm 6y ago
I agree that the presented view does little to calm me. Yet, while I am an extreme proponent of life extension, death will still come to all. At the tail end there is only so much energy available and I am pessimistic that basic physics, li
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by ivalm 6y ago
Yes and no. Teens/young adults will have sex whether you accepts it or not. However, how they do it and how they feel about it definitely depends on education. 1. Sex safety ed needs to be taught, otherwise you get STDs and pregnancies
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by ivalm 6y ago
Why not? I’d definitely be more ok with a soft core scene than some brutal violence. Sex is normal/good part of life. One should educate kids about sex (and when it is appropriate) rather than pretend it literally doesn’t exist.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Probably not since dark matter tends to not radiate even when accreating next to galactic nucleus/pretty extreme conditions. This is in part why dark matter is less clustered than normal baryonic matter (nothing to shave off angular mo
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by ivalm 6y ago
The expectation is that the new Navi (which will come out probably earlier than xe-hpg) will be 80 cu [0], it is essentially 2x 5700XT [1]. This should put it in 15-20TFlop range, 1.5-2x Intel single tile. [0] https://www.pcgames
765.
by ivalm 6y ago
You're right, apparently only Xe-HPG is made fully on external fab. https://www.anandtech.com/show/15974/intels-xehpg-gpu-unveil...
766.
by ivalm 6y ago
I thought intel said during architecture day that GPUs will be done on outside fabs (presumably tsmc or samsung).
767.
by ivalm 6y ago
If anything this is a move to maxwell-like architecture away from normal intel stuff. I feel like all GPU architectures are kind of converging (amd navi is also a move towards more maxwell-like arch)
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by ivalm 6y ago
You need thermal and memory bandwidth solution for multi-tile setup, so you can't easily scale it too much up. Although companies like cerebras do show us a path into "very very large chips"
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by ivalm 6y ago
That's actually pretty bad, it will be potentially worse than 3070 (which it will compete against)...
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by ivalm 6y ago
If a brown dwarf scatters into the solar system it might dramatically shift orbits potentially making earth uninhabitable. To say nothing of a direct hit on anything, even hitting the sun might strip atmosphere from earth, hitting any plane
771.
by ivalm 6y ago
If you have multiple gigs then at least one of those gigs should provide basic benefits such as insurance. What gig is better at doing it than the gig powered by a megacorp?
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by ivalm 6y ago
Not even that, with changes in interest rate the discount rate changes. Also, with increase in monetary base TINA but invest into a few yielding assets.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Distances between objects can increase faster than speed of light (due to expansion of space, for example) the problem here is that with wormholes you might have causality violation (also not sure if the universe’s topology supports holes).
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by ivalm 6y ago
Sure, I am all for an amendment.
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by ivalm 6y ago
We should incentivize productivity (thus low income/gains taxes) but pay for goods and services (thus wealth and inheritance taxes). There is nothing beneficial for society if there are people with large amounts of poorly allocated wea
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by ivalm 6y ago
Wealth tax doesn’t push people out of assets, it makes assets less valuable because of higher discount rate. Making housing cheaper sounds like a good thing.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Wealth tax proposals target only very high nw people. There is no inherent right to be very high net worth, if you are not productive with your wealth then it is more efficient for the society if that wealth is reallocated. This is what wea
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by ivalm 6y ago
I have a razer deathadder chroma with a kvm switch on mac/windows/linux systems. I do not have razer app installed on any of the three systems and the mouse works fine (including the forward/back side buttons and pressable sc
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by ivalm 6y ago
Their email has this: they got a cut of order volume.
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by ivalm 6y ago
Maybe this is a kind of promotion of zig? Not sure who jfo is, no about page and whois records are private. Anyways, it kind of worked, I didn’t know zig before and now I do.

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