jcfrei

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Unique prediction of 'modified gravity' challenges dark matter theory(phys.org)
3 points by jcfrei 6y ago|1 comments
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Do you have any evidence to back these allegations?
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Of course they are. Let's assume they are making 0.20% per trade (you can lookup their fee tiers online) - at current volumes that's around $5mio a day in fees. I doubt coinbase even needs the money - the IPO market is just really
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Decentralized exchanges still have lots of issues that would prevent a serious investor from using it. And sidestepping KYC/AML regulations is not an option for any institutional investor.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Coinbase is the leading US regulated crypto currency exchange. There are bigger ones outside of the US but if you want to actually buy cryptos and your are a US based investor chances are you will have to stick with them. I think they will
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by jcfrei 6y ago
It's not surprising at all that the entities which benefit the most from the money printing by central banks (issuers of corporate debt) want to convert their funds into one of the most deflationary asset (bitcoin). It is simply a hedg
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by jcfrei 6y ago
You need more than just education. If people feel their standard of living is deteriorating due to no fault of their own then they become much more susceptible to disinformation. If they have to work 12 hours a day just to keep their home a
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by jcfrei 6y ago
This makes me wonder: If there's such a benefit from creating an integrated and specialized chip, will the next consoles follow the same approach? Will they be ARM based? If Microsoft and Sony follow this same model then PC games might
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Seems a bit short-sighted because if Oculus becomes the dominant VR platform that Facebook envisions it to be then it's going to dwarf instagram in terms of economic importance (for advertisers and users) over the long term.
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The universe is a shade too bright(nytimes.com)
2 points by jcfrei 6y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I've had kind of the opposite idea: Use bitcoin mining to consume excess electricity. Excess electricity is already an issue in European grids and resulted in negative power prices (for example in April: https://www.cleanene
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by jcfrei 6y ago
These accusations against Tether are very outdated. Read Matt Levine's take from 2019 on an ongoing lawsuit: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-26/things... The quintessential part is thi
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Burning Fossil Fuels Helped Drive Earth’s Most Massive Extinction(nytimes.com)
28 points by jcfrei 6y ago|3 comments
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by jcfrei 6y ago
The biggest advantage in Switzerland that I know of is no capital gains tax. So if you sell shares of your company you don't pay a tax on the sale.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Never take Trump's words at face value - even as president.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Don't know why you are talking in absolutes here. There's quite a bit of venture funding outside of the cryptocurrency space. Crunchbase shows $2B total in funding for Zurich alone ( https://www.crunchbase.com/hub&#
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by jcfrei 6y ago
There are very interesting software companies in Switzerland. And those companies are taking a lot of risks as well. Maybe your impression stems from the fact that it's not a very visible ecosystem and the funding is obviously much sma
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> The economic foundations in Australia, Canada, the UK, the US, and the EU are different enough that there is no obvious single structural fault common to all of them. There is one though: changing demographics - the median age of the p
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> why does this type of car thrive so well? Cars around you on the road get bigger so you feel more uncomfortable in your small car (just like some feel uncomfortable driving close to big trucks) so your next car will be a bigger one. I
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by jcfrei 6y ago
Why should there be a separation between corporations and government? I could see a valid argument for limiting their influence on government but they are an important stakeholder in society. So why shouldn't they have some influence (
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Citadel Securities Fights to Block Rival from Using Leaked Algorithm(bloomberg.com)
1 points by jcfrei 6y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 6y ago
> money also represents 100% of the capital and therefore affects the poor completely. Per definition the poor don't have much savings. Their wealth is mostly in durable consumer goods: Car, television, furniture, etc. The market pr
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Aeva, Maker of the First 4D Lidar on Chip, to Be Listed on NYSE(prnewswire.com)
1 points by jcfrei 6y ago|0 comments
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Spread of a novel SARS-CoV-2 variant across Europe in summer 2020(unibas.ch)
3 points by jcfrei 6y ago|0 comments
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by jcfrei 6y ago
From a previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19192106
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by jcfrei 6y ago
This makes me wonder, is there some kind of walkthrough of the early unix code? That would be really interesting to read.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
The article mentions that the real focus of anticompetitive behaviour in Google's case should be the acquisition or integration of additional aggregators. In this case the Android app store. I think one of the most blatant anticompetit
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by jcfrei 6y ago
As described in the article: It's a chicken and egg problem. More people using a search engine, leads to more data for analytics, more analytics lead to better results and again more people using it.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I think a better way to describe the halting problem would be: There isn't a program or algorithm of lower complexity which can prove that a specific program actually terminates.
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by jcfrei 6y ago
I don't see it mentioned in the article but isn't one of the main selling points of Snowflake their data exchange? Companies upload their data to Snowflake in the hopes of someday monetizing it? If that's the case then I thin

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