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by jl2718 5y ago
What about Ukraine?
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This is how it was ending before the push for EU/NATO membership of former Soviet states - a long slow disintegration into independent states run by emergent tycoons and kleptocrats propped up by new markets. For instance, a global min
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by jl2718 5y ago
This may be a dumb idea, but, would it be more efficient and useful to use DC battery storage in series up to 120V rather than up/down-converting between 120 and 12?
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Forgive me, but this question sounds anachronistic. E.g. ICO is hardly a thing anymore. There are many ways to look at this: cryptography, engineering, financial, social, legal. Each one of these areas is so rich with new developments and s
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Because they can. There’s way too many of us, so the expectation has changed from ‘trainable’ to ‘pre-trained’. It keeps changing too. Just 5 years ago, hiring was mostly leetcode from junior to principal. Now I think it’s changing again, b
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So far I don’t think I’ve expressed any opinions that could be classified as xenophobic. I assure you that your accusation of inexperience with top STEM graduate programs is misplaced. If I had to posit a “solution”, I would first ask what
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by jl2718 5y ago
Social activism drives investment decisions. It started with environmentalism, but now extends to many areas.
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So there’s this thing called ESG, which the SEC now enforces. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-42 It’s taking over Wall St because there was a ruling saying that ESG is now a primary criteria for the we
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Correct; the programs can’t scale. Schools give a fixed number of PhDs every year. They can either give them to Americans or to foreign students. Hint: same with PhD employers. To be fair, I do understand the point of international competit
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Americans families pay taxes to universities. Then they pay tuition to universities. Then their children go to work to pay loans. Forever. Universities pay administrators to import labor for their government grants. Why are there so many fo
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Wow, that’s like a whole separate R party in the senate.
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Brezhnev was in full control by 1978 and passing power to Gorbachev. The direct saber rattling was pretty much over by that point, and the Soviet-Afghan war had distracted them from all intentions of direct conflict with the West. The Olymp
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by jl2718 5y ago
Anybody who was in Iraq or Afghanistan might remember the “Eagle Cash Card” issued by the treasury as a digital wallet. It was a cryptographic smart card that could be used offline as a bearer instrument, exactly as described here.
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by jl2718 5y ago
This is a fantastic exploration of one set of concerns with candidate voting systems. I am personally most concerned about the ability for a result to be verifiably correct in any voting system. As far as I can tell, most aspects of this ha
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by jl2718 5y ago
This is so tiresome. Situation: People that don’t pay taxes are getting rich, while people that do pay taxes are getting poor. Solution: Raise taxes by X%.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Yes. To see past propaganda, separate in your mind the concepts of a government and the people. A governments and its leaders are to the people, as you are to the earth you walk on: temporary, fickle, selfish, often destructive but ultimate
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by jl2718 5y ago
I think fully-traceable FedCoin will be great. You will be able to see exactly who gets every dollar that they take from you. Imagine that receipt for your dollars in LIFO order.
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Because it’s impossible. He couldn’t do what his father is asking if he’s dead.
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Seems like this should be solvable with something like symbolic manipulation or (e.g. Taylor) series expansion.
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All you’re seeing here is a bias toward 50% caused by random clicking.
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> his income increased by more than $1 million, going from $1.4 million in 2014 to $2.5 million in 2015 Dentist. I feel very stupid now.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Okay well I am not a particle physicist, but I did design and build laser plasma ablation devices, and I will echo the skepticism of the particle physicist. > easy to reach MeV scale Thermal photons in MeV!? Whoa. Going to need a citatio
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by jl2718 5y ago
I have an experience like this. I don’t want to go into depth about it right now, except to draw some connection to this finding. Firstly, just to establish a basic understanding, there were parts of the experience that were more intense th
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by jl2718 5y ago
You’re blowing my mind. “So, it’s all just government money?” “Always has been.” Click.
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by jl2718 5y ago
So many moral arguments completely miss the point. Whether it is good or bad is irrelevant. It reminds me of the arguments against evolution, “no, we didn’t come from that”, or “no, we can’t be turning into that”. There are awful things hap
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You’re hired. When can you start?
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by jl2718 5y ago
Humor (sort of): https://medium.com/@johnlakness/case-study-decentralizing-th... My idea for this specifically is to make a pijul repository for Wikipedia, and then a staking/delegation/voting mechanism for a
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Okay what happens if it does? It already did once. Did things get better or worse afterward?
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I have a dream of solving this with extreme-infungibility of a currency system. I’m sure every ancient civilization noticed this problem when the ease of trade that came with common currency resulted in the incentive to be conquered and tax
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Posse Comitatus only applies to title 10 organizations like the military.

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