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by jp555 5y ago
Have you noticed how your cash is buying fewer items than it did a ~year ago? My daily item costs are WAY up, which is really just saying the value of the cash is WAY down.
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by jp555 5y ago
Zero mention of the recent unprecedented fiat currency printing we've seen, nor the fact that every time since the Tang Dynasty when we have done this, it has led to very troubling times 12-18 months later. Everyone is gambling eve
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by jp555 5y ago
I'm a very visual thinker, and this is very cool! Thank you very much for making it!
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by jp555 6y ago
If there were no advertisers, they would not be able to pay the expenses required to deliver something that meets user's expectations, and they would lose interest.
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by jp555 6y ago
As long as it's still 2006.
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by jp555 6y ago
Only if by "lots" you mean "almost no one".
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by jp555 6y ago
Training - simulations. Eventually, a Danger Room anywhere.
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by jp555 6y ago
I like Kevin Kelly's point of view, which he talked about recently on David Perell's podcast: "When the first humanoid picked up a rock and turned it into a hammer, either to make a shelter or to kill his brother, he suddenly
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by jp555 6y ago
This is why most of my copy-paste is actually: copy-paste_in_SublimeText-copy-paste.
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by jp555 6y ago
How about a 10x reduction? Thinking of when "Paste with style" became the default. :P
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by jp555 6y ago
I heard Jim Keller say on a podcast recently that many computation problems are N^2, so if unoptimized and run on silicon with 2x the transistors, it runs 4x slower.
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by jp555 6y ago
This says more about the mindset of Sci-tech journalism than it does Tesla. Reminded me why I really try to avoid consuming any of it anymore. They think they know better, when it's clear to anyone with actual domain knowledge that it&
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by jp555 6y ago
Most things we think come from the scientific process in fact are the result of trial & error and tinkering, and then back-filled with the scientific process and so only appears historically as if they came from theory. Galileo would ne
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by jp555 6y ago
Watching a friend go through the process of attaining tenured position in Economics recently has taught me to never listen to Economists. They are all focused on impressing each other MUCH more than progressing Economics. And that's no
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by jp555 6y ago
People should be more aware... of the collapse of science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
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by jp555 6y ago
Apple doesn't have to build it's own CPU, but often vertical integration gives one a significant advantage. TSMC is slave to Dutch ASML, whos is the only one on the planet who can make the EUV lithography technology TSMC uses to
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by jp555 6y ago
Also Apple didn't have to do ~80% of what Intel has to do - you know, the actual building of chip fabs as well as chip design. "merely" LOL.
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by jp555 6y ago
"...Just weird little scenes!" Does this not describe YouTube too?
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by jp555 6y ago
Sometimes the rumor of a weapon is better than the actual weapon, and can in fact be the actual weapon if you can use it to control your enemy's actions. Eg. the prospect of imminent cheap laser weapons puts a lot of doubt in expensive
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by jp555 6y ago
"First of all, you must realize that that 10% isn't stable: the "Market for Lemons" effect will guarantee that if nothing is done to stop it, that 10% will become 90%." Are you sure? Is this ergodic? Does the ensemb
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by jp555 6y ago
So the problem is more a coal energy problem than a bitcoin problem?
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by jp555 6y ago
Which transactions? The Bitcoin transactions running on coal, natural gas, hydro, geothermal, nuclear, solar, or wind electricity? Figures don't lie, but liars will figure.
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by jp555 6y ago
The coal ingredient still vents off toxic and radioactive waste in the making of the polysilicon. And with the rapidly falling price of PV, it's unlikely we'll see expensive investments that do not reduce costs.
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by jp555 6y ago
Many solar panels are made by putting quartz and coal into an oven, and using coal to heat it to like 1800 degrees. This releases a bunch of C02 and other much nastier stuff like silicon tetrachloride and radioactive uranium into the enviro
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by jp555 6y ago
Even more directly - How much energy does all the world's "legacy" Fintech use? Banks, exchanges, government tax agencies, accountants, money printing, retail cash machines (ATM, registers, etc) and all the way to gold minin
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by jp555 6y ago
Most environmentalists are in it for the religion. For example, wind turbine blades are composite components that are too expensive to recycle and wear our much faster than most people realize, so there are vast garbage dumps filled with bu
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by jp555 6y ago
Um, how many lifetimes have audiophile headphones been available? If there have been people passing headphones down to their kids, I bet that would be a lot smaller group than you are suggesting. A pastoral fantasy.
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by jp555 6y ago
How do you know this to be true?
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by jp555 6y ago
At least with us geezers there's no trace of it ... now nothing gets deleted. That's a new stress for sure.
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by jp555 6y ago
doesn't that headline essentially say "teenagers damage teenagers' mental health"? Don't most teenagers spend most of their time socializing with other teenagers? My pre-internet teenage "social networking&quot

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