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by jcfrei 6y ago
> They are ABSOLUTELY going to intervene here. I wouldn't be so certain about this at all. Matt Levine has a good take on it: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-01-26/will-w...
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Protecting Against HSTS Abuse(webkit.org)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I have a feeling that AGI is a requirement for FSD. There are enough tail events while driving where you can only make "the right decision" if you actually understand what's going on.
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NASA Suggests Sending Boston Dynamics Robodog to Mars(futurism.com)
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Antibodies less likely to work against South African mutation(twitter.com)
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Missing: One Black Hole with 10B Solar Masses(nytimes.com)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> Coinbase maintains the stable value of USDC by creating new USDC and selling it to people for BTC. If tou want USDC you can simply change your dollars on coinbase. No need for them to use their own funds to maintain a stable price - t
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> print USDT, buy BTC on sham exchanges, send BTC to Coinbase, sell for USDC. The steps you described don't result in new USDC being minted. That happens only when people send dollars to Coinbase and change them to USDC. > If it
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Hedge Funds for digging up lost Bitcoin hard drives(bloomberg.com)
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The Boredom Market Hypothesis(bloomberg.com)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Does superconductivity remove or reduce the limit on die size?
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Parent is probably alluding to market caps before the great financial crisis. So about 14 years back.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
VP of Facebook about a similar decision on his video: https://twitter.com/guyro/status/1346950532372393985
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Kind of ironic calling for shutting down platforms with algorithmic content systems on HN.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Thanks for outlining the thoughts that went into this. To me this once again exemplifies why a blockchain for assets is the way to go. And by that I don't mean an ethereum or bitcoin (or insert popular coin here) type of blockchain. I
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Just like the NASA bureaucrats thought they could make a dent in rocketry - how foolish of them. Seriously though, some projects are just too expensive and risky for a privately funded venture. That's why public-private partnerships ar
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A Secret Battery Startup Hints It’s Blown Past Tesla – But Won’t Show the Goods(marker.medium.com)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
So far it hasn't because the additional money has remained in financial markets and just lead to higher valuations (lower yields, higher share prices, startup valuations and housing prices). It hasn't really lead to increased spen
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Depends, if the central bank can keep to inflate its balance sheet and absorb most of the additional debt of corporations and the public without creating inflation then nobody will actually have to pay. If there is inflation then that means
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by jcfrei 6y ago
You pointing out two policy measures which are not according to the Austrian school doesn't invalidate the argument that the response was Austrian rather than Keynesian. The seizure of Gold was to prevent a further contraction in cred
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by jcfrei 6y ago
The main difference is that physical money exists as a liability on the balance sheet of the central bank. That is special however. Because - as you say - most of the money in existence is digital. However that digital money - ie. your depo
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by jcfrei 6y ago
The Austrian answer to such a crisis has been tried early in the 20th century after the Great Depression. Spending was reduced but the government was still running a balanced budget. "Outright leave-it-alone liquidationism was a common
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Regarding technical feasibility: I don't think the Fed has a system ready that could handle the amount of transactions and record keeping necessary for a system which is accessible to the public. They would need to buy such a system. B
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Parent is probably talking about SLS (selective laser sintering). Patents expired in 2014.
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An updated way to calculate the likelihood of extraterrestrial civilizations(phys.org)
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by jcfrei 6y ago
This isn't the end of facebook. These privacy changes will affect all social networks and they all run a free membership model. It will certainly change their profitability but facebook is earning so much money there's a long way
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> It seems like market orders are, and always have been, for chumps. It's not as simple as that. Market orders vs limit orders are a trade-off between immediacy and price. If you have an information advantage you may want to capture
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Ethereum transferred their funds to a Swiss foundation (a "Stiftung") if I remember correctly. And they are not moving to a distribution model where they can mint ether. They can still finance their operations from the initial 12
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by jcfrei 6y ago
In a similar vein with lots of cooking videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson/videos
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by jcfrei 6y ago
This seems to be a common misconception that the slow progress in politics (whatever that means depends on your own political compass) is purely due to the lackluster presentation and evidence finding for policy changes. If the past years h

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