johanvts

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by johanvts 8mo ago
Somebody has to pay for the drugs development, the poor can't pay, if the rich (US) won't pay, there simply won't be any drug.
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by johanvts 8mo ago
What percentage of global rich, obese people live in the US? This is the main market and the product would not exist if it could not command a high profit here. Besides that, I think the US prices are so high due to the insane medical insur
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by johanvts 8mo ago
Thanks, I accept that it requires less trust than using a central ledger, still it cannot provide the level of trustlessness bitcon can, if it could why use btc? I totally agree with your analogy, but in my view that just underlines that BT
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by johanvts 8mo ago
I have, and as I have said to others the lightning network is not some magic that makes distributed PoW efficient, it just lets you conduct a bunch if transactions off chain and then record the end result. You could do that with fiat curren
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by johanvts 8mo ago
The lightning network can handle transactions sure. Because it is not a distributed POW system. You can also just sell some BTC, transact via VISA or paypal etc., and buy BTC when you are done. Im not saying you can’t use BTC as a store of
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by johanvts 8mo ago
As i understand it, all the lightning transactions happen off chain and the results are then published afterwards. So you are back to trusting a payment processor to avoid double spend. And, if you can do that, you don’t need BTC to begin w
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by johanvts 8mo ago
I like to point people to this page: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/ The breakdown in cost pr. Transaction really drives home what a ludicrous system it is. Bitcoin is a fantastic example of a grea
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by johanvts 8mo ago
The reason it doesn’t work as a currency is that the transaction costs are way way to high for that. A single transaction it is literally the price of 1-2 million visa transactions. This is by design, bitcoin will never be a competitive sys
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by johanvts 8mo ago
I dont think LLMs really took away much thinking, for me they replaced searching stackexchange to find incantations. Now I can get them instantly and customized to my situation. I miss thinking hard too, but I dont blame that on AI, its mor
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by johanvts 8mo ago
Populism is always a danger, but the current US administration is all about spite, no matter the cost. It is uniquely, outstandingly bad. Lots of places have working democracies that have managed to do long term planning.
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by johanvts 8mo ago
You can have a functional democracy and still do long term planning, the problem is the current US government. Its not a fundamental flaw in democracy.
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by johanvts 8mo ago
Which is exactly why Orsted will now focus on European wind projects instead. American projects will have to be that more profitable/expensive in the future to compensate for the political risk. But I guess this is exactly the desired
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by johanvts 8mo ago
- Less efficient - Shorter lifespan - Some of them contain harmful materials/gasses - Metal fatigue when turned on/off frequently Probably there are more
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by johanvts 9mo ago
You are right for now, but co2 neutral is not impossible. Thats the promise of Rivan, see rivan.com > Rivan’s RNG (renewable natural gas) generator combines 3 core technologies: 1. A calcium-looping DAC system (CO2) 2. An alkaline water
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Subsidies where needed 10 years ago, today the US and EU have to put massive tariffs on mass produced, cheap, superior EVs to keep their own ICE auto industry alive.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Power-to-X, ie electrolysis seems a much better path for CO2 neutral flight, and norway is ideal for that as well.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
With V2G a large EV fleet would actually stabilize the grid.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Except it is remote and flat land is scarce and very expensive.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Look for high Ra or CRI value. Dont buy cheap LED lights, they last for far too long.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
If the LED has good DC conversion it should not flicker at all, the flow across the diode would be constant. Just buy good LEDs, incandescent light has many drawbacks.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Phillips, try searching for EyeComfort. I think all of their premium bulbs have 80+ Ra.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Ra value is (often) written on the package, go for 95+, it’s a bit hard to find but the difference is real. I Do not buy under 90.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
If you buy three (or more) Phillips Hue bulps you can have them respond to motion detected by things moving around and disturbing the radio waves they use to communicate. So they must have pretty much the kind of map you want, but I dont kn
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Go is here: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-go Try google, the others are probably out there as well.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
They where largely unproductive compared to the last few decades. Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-gdp-over-the-long-...
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Cant respond to your EU tariff comment but just wanted to tell you that VAT and luxury tax applies to EU made products as well, so it doesn’t seem relevant to add when talking about tariffs.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Sure, it does happen but it’s not the normal model. Every mother feels horrible and cries when they institutionalize their kids, western society is based on most people doing this regardless. It is not scalable to educate women for 20 year
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by johanvts 9mo ago
Two factors. 1. In an institution there are more kids/adult. 2. Child care is valued below average by society. Combine these and it makes a lot of sense to trade a few below average valued workers for the release of many above average
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by johanvts 9mo ago
You cant even paste markdown into Slack, it’s embarrassing.
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by johanvts 9mo ago
> If an AI makes code that compiles and solves a problem it should have some value Depends if the cost to weed out the new problems it introduces outweighs the value of the problems solved.

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