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by jcfrei 5y ago
Leaving your attempt to redefine inflation aside - no government forces you to hold your savings in cash. If you are afraid of inflation just buy other assets. Governments are much more constrained in "stealing your money" than yo
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by jcfrei 5y ago
The steam store is very limited because Valve is worried about violating AML (anti-money laundering) requirements. With blockchains these worries can be alleviated because all transactions are visible. It could allow developers to create in
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Fossil fuels are too cheap and approval times for new fossil fuel power stations are surprisingly still much faster than for nuclear. Even though the health impact from the latter has historically been orders of magnitudes (at least 1000x)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
How do you add a new version to npm? Was the devs account hacked or how does that work?
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by jcfrei 5y ago
> A rebalancing is going to have to take place, and somehow the wealth needs to be transferred back to the working class Inflation is the traditional way that wealth gets transferred to the working class (besides higher marginal tax r
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Ports of LA-Long Beach impose fees for not picking up containers on time(twitter.com)
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Facebook plans new group name to revamp image(reuters.com)
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How Some Social Media Accounts Short-Circuit Your Ability to Think Rationally(bloomberg.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Looks like Alden is a fund that just capitalizes on the fact that people are very slow in cancelling their subscriptions. It's nothing to be proud of and fittingly their website doesn't provide you with any information about the f
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by jcfrei 5y ago
As long as the first-past-the-post voting system is used in the US such movements will go nowhere. Unsurprisingly ranked-choice voting is mentioned as their first core value.
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Remember the Sony Mavica line of digital cameras?(twitter.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Yes, why shouldn't the next standard (like 6G) introduce support for a better messaging network than SMS? With group chats and image support. Each carrier could decide if you can send unlimited messages or a few thousand. In any case i
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Tether Settles a $1T Lawsuit Regarding Manipulation(finance.yahoo.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
In this case we are just witnessing the dot-com period of electric vehicles. Everbody and their grandma wants to place bold bets on a few companies. It's (hopefully) clear to investors that most of these bets will fail but then again a
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by jcfrei 5y ago
I'm currently in the process of moving from Linux back to Windows running VMWare. For software development, I use a virtual xubuntu distribution. For browsing the web, listening to music, etc. it's all Windows. I just can't b
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New variants have changed the face of the pandemic. What will the virus do next?(science.org)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
It's not a luxury at all in some regions. In higher altitudes for example where warm weather cycles are too short to grow a lot of crops (other than some type of grass) keeping livestock (for meat, eggs, milk) is essential for survival
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by jcfrei 5y ago
They are not solving a problem. They are creating a new market. Maybe in the long term this new type of market will be a benefit to society or maybe people will lose interest.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
In the most general way I would say NFTs allow for a more granular monetization of things. If you look at the history of finance it's a step by step progression to monetize smaller and more abstract things. It went from monetizing parc
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Lots of negative comments in this thread. I've been following CFS for a few years now and I honestly believe this is an historic event - probably the beginning of the "fusion age".
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Solana Proof of Stake and Proof of History Primer(shinobi-systems.com)
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A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an 'Internet Apocalypse'(wired.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Very cool. Has somebody already attempted to make clothing with a visual fiducial system like AprilTag? Like gloves, socks, t-shirts, etc? Could be a really comfortable way to enable full body tracking without a complicated setup.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Two reasons come to mind: Wages are sticky, especially on the down-side. If they pay more now they will have a hard time reducing that pay. New hires might refuse to work if they know what a previous employee was paid, etc. And the current
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Remaking the Simpsons: Hit and Run with Unreal Engine(youtube.com)
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That's not going to work. A lot of people (and industries) rely on cars to do their jobs. It's a lot of low-income households who rely most on cars because they live in remote areas due to housing costs and have to commute to city
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by jcfrei 5y ago
You linked to the income Gini where Germany is 126th - so pretty far from being the most unequal. But if you look at the wealth Gini then Germany comes in as 20th: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_weal
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by jcfrei 5y ago
A well-working system? Germany only has an income tax but no wealth tax, unsurprisingly there's a huge inequality in wealth. If you earn your living in Germany through work you are basically a sucker: You have to hand on average 38.9%
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Here's what Twitter (and other social media platforms) should implement instead: They should add a button that a user can click so their interaction with a tweet (retweet, quote tweet, reply) doesn't count towards the engagement m
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by jcfrei 5y ago
It always depends. In lots of fields it's just a fact that all the exciting research happens in private companies and then for others it's reversed. Private companies can do research well when a near or mid-term commercialization

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