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by kipchak 5y ago
Rentals are somewhat of an odd model, at least pre covid. By buying less popular models/excess capacity they buy at slightly above build cost, and the manufacture or dealers buy the cars from the rental company at it's depreciated
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by kipchak 5y ago
IMHO it’s due to Bitcoin’s a fairly high correlation to US markets (SPY) in 2020/2021, which have had a downturn due to the fed turning more hawkish.
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by kipchak 5y ago
Hot water bottles or heat bags are nice for keeping limbs warm also, especially if you don't have great circulation. heavyweight base Layers and hot tea do a great job keeping your core temperature up, but you have to get creative keep
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by kipchak 5y ago
Vegetable/seed oils is one I’ve been seeing recently.
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by kipchak 5y ago
A bit of pedantry: BTC is .56% of electricity use, and .28% of energy use according to this site, though I don't grasp where the disparity of coming from other than many miners getting power directly from the energy source versus thr
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by kipchak 5y ago
I would figure a lot higher percentage of people are aware of JFK's death than failed attempts on Castro.
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by kipchak 5y ago
Most are stored on traditional hosting services, some are stored on other chains (IPFS) and some are stored on the parent chain. Data storage costs vary a lot depending on the chain.
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by kipchak 5y ago
While I wouldn't be terribly surprised if this user was botting their own account (I remember them tweeting the same photo on their Nancy account twice, attributed to different dates for example) this seems like an abusable ban conditi
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by kipchak 5y ago
It might not also be immediately obvious also, a SanDisk SD card bought fulfilled by Amazon might be a fake and just write a bit slow or die after a year. How many people would notice a fake?
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by kipchak 5y ago
Something similar happened with a NOAA satellite in 2003. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/1783/was-the-noaa-...
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by kipchak 5y ago
I wouldn't say the truth itself is dangerous, but it is dangerous to the organizations involved. Those who benefit from the truth such as you or I do not have the ability to uncover it, and the institutions that could have the ability
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by kipchak 5y ago
I agree they leave a lot to be desired, but they're both at least perceived as somewhat reliable and trustworthy - factcheck is used by Facebook for example. I'm sure lots of people have pointed to those sites as proof, unfortunat
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by kipchak 5y ago
Assuming there was a lab leak, the root cause to me would seem to be organizations overestimating the benefit from GOF research compared to the risks. Why that happened is a bit harder to answer. A couple potential explanations are a leak w
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by kipchak 5y ago
I definitely agree that there's good reason to know what actually happened, if for nothing else for the sake of long term trust in institutions. Instead of group, something more like organizations and institutions with the ability to i
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by kipchak 5y ago
Pretty much everyone involved stands to lose from it proving to be true that a lab leak occurred. China looks bad, the CDC/US looks bad, researchers look bad, EcoHealth Alliance looks bad[1], the lancelet looks bad.[2] Heck even politi
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by kipchak 5y ago
I think the intent is more improving the process of managing records than making creation easier and reduce the potential for loss of data, which such a system could address. "Approximately 44% of health care and pharmaceutical organiz
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by kipchak 5y ago
One potential use is consent management healthcare such as consent to participate in a medical trial.[1] "Supply chains" is probably the classic example.[2] [1] https://hedera.com/users/acoer [2] https:/&
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by kipchak 5y ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard Chivo was no longer active. I can't seem to find any reference to it being cold, though like you say it's difficult to get perspective not being boots on the ground. The most recent article I can f
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by kipchak 5y ago
Debts and units of account are arguably a foundational part of civilization. In David Graeber's 'Debt the first 5000 years' he argues that debit and credit appeared before money and barter. Regardless of which came first writ
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by kipchak 5y ago
Filecoin storage is about .02% the cost of S3, at least according to this calculator. https://file.app/
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by kipchak 5y ago
>Nobody's buying pizzas for bitcoins. Couldn't I buy a pizza with Bitcoin in El Salvador? https://seekingalpha.com/news/3738724-mcdonalds-starbucks-pi...
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by kipchak 5y ago
Filechain might be worth a look, distributed storage to allow people to rent out unused storage capacity in exchange for coins and based in IPFS which isn't blockchain but is neat. Or Internet Computer, which is more or less a blockcha
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I suppose the classic answer to the problem it solves is the Byzantine general's problem, or in other words the combination of incentives and rules to allow records to be made on a distributed system that isn't actively managed by
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by kipchak 5y ago
I could see alternative currencies becoming and increasingly available option. Something like SDRs used by the IMF could emerge for example, made up of multiple international currencies. Not necessarily a replacement, but a decreasing relia
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by kipchak 5y ago
The only thing I can think of is a reintroduction of something like Shotgun Shacks, somewhere in between trailer parks and suburbs. Something like Boxabls, Tiny homes and container homes.
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by kipchak 5y ago
>Almost always a large number of dislikes on content like "rewind" videos expresses widespread genuine disapproval of content Presumably he's referring to this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJOTdZBX1g
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by kipchak 5y ago
I think she might just have forgotten to date this one? Most other articles back to 2020 seem to have publish dates. Either way this one seems to be from April 2020.
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by kipchak 5y ago
For sure, some people will benefit from such policies and some people wont. My figuring is that those in the parent comment's category of "middle class and saving for a home" are probably not in the camp of those benefiting f
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by kipchak 5y ago
The lease automatically converted to a month to month after the one year term ended. This thread seems to cover a similar scenario.[1] I suppose the downside is they could give me the boot with 30 days notice. FWIW I've contacted them
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by kipchak 5y ago
I would figure from a self interested perspective a repeat of 2008 would be pretty advantageous to an aspiring homeowner. Home prices peaked at $262,600 median in March 2007 and bottomed at $205,100 in March of 2009.[1] Rates were even abou

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