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by kipchak 4y ago
SBF has claimed to have donated as much (without proof), but he's also claimed to have not committed any crimes.
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by kipchak 4y ago
I've seen numbers of about 2.7Mbps[1] for average peak traffic rates per subscriber on cable, which would give you about 37,000 users if I didn't mess up my bits and bytes. But as the FSO link is point to point, you would need som
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by kipchak 4y ago
Things are much more difficult from space, but DLR/Mynaric posted 1.72 Tbit/s over 11 KM back in 2016, so we might optimistically not be too far off. https://www.dlr.de/content/en/articles/news/
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by kipchak 4y ago
If they haven't cracked it by now, what do you figure the odds of the next couple billion doing it are?
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by kipchak 4y ago
Gotcha, I agree with both points but am just less optimistic regarding implementation, Hopefully you're right.
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by kipchak 4y ago
FedNow seems to lack some of the juicier potential features of CBDCs, like negative interest rates for individuals in the same way a bank might have on it's account with a central bank.
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by kipchak 4y ago
I don't disagree it's possible to have a CBDC and anonymity, but based on the fed's statements like the part you quoted it seems like from their perspective anonymity no longer being possible would be a feature.
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by kipchak 4y ago
Isn't FedNow separate from CBDC proposals? Some overlap in purpose but different in function. https://www.pymnts.com/cryptocurrency/2022/cbdc-weekly-feds-...
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by kipchak 4y ago
From "Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation" "Identity-verified: Financial institutions in the United States are subject to robust rules that are designed to combat money laundering and the
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by kipchak 4y ago
I've done this for a few office Brother laser MFCs. In my experience while you can get a couple hundred more pages out, pages may start being speckled and the cartridge will dust toner into the printer, even if there's still plent
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by kipchak 4y ago
Hypothetically, would this still be the case if eating bugs was better on environmental and animal welfare/displacement metrics over plant agriculture, and those considerations were motivations for someone being vegan?
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by kipchak 4y ago
Disney Infinity is pretty much this, which has since been cancelled.
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by kipchak 4y ago
>As a sidenote, Disney just bought the biggest cruise ship ever built for the Asian market. I suspect interesting things are afoot there. It reminds me a bit of KFC, which for a variety of reasons has left it's North-American presen
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by kipchak 4y ago
My personal favorite oversimplification is you shouldn't eat what the average person would try and stop a zookeeper from feeding to a monkey. Some bread made from acorn flower, cooked butchered meat or hulled rice would be fine, but gi
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by kipchak 4y ago
No worries, I do think it's an interesting point that people talk about mental like it's reaching zen enlightenment. Though for what it's worth with roughly balanced teams, keeping your and your teams morale up and not gettin
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by kipchak 4y ago
That clip is definitely an extreme example, something like below as a hybrid example diving into arm aim and wrist aim is more typical. trouble is having your sensitivity low enough for fine motions, while still being able to do large movem
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by kipchak 4y ago
I definitely get the tilting aspect for League, I found it generally un-fun to play competitively without the right team. ARAMs however were generally more enjoyable for me as while people are still playing to win there's usually a mor
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by kipchak 4y ago
Maybe I'm being overly sensitive but knowing that people are yelling at me but I just cant hear them feels weird.
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by kipchak 4y ago
This has been an ongoing issue, essentially people unusually dedicated to ruining the game run multiple Linux VMs with bots. Valve has recently done a bit to improve things after a community "save tf2" campaign, but it's a bi
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by kipchak 4y ago
You can see something somewhat similar here, though I don't think many people use high acceleration anymore. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEamcaYyoa0
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by kipchak 4y ago
I think to some degree the people making these decisions to some extent are more likely to be those who enjoy the external approval aspects of work - the "clueless middle management" in the Gervais Principle framework, who enjoy d
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by kipchak 4y ago
CDs are also at risk of disc rot, which might be a non issue for hundreds of years or fail within 20 depending on the CD and storage. From a Library of congress study: "The mean lifetime for the disc population as a whole was calculate
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by kipchak 4y ago
If I remember right Nixon's exit from the gold standard was at least pitched to the public as a temporary measure, and his team was slightly surprised at how little effect it had in terms of causing panic. I think to some extent we&#x2
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by kipchak 4y ago
>the US dollar was never 100% backed by gold reserves The dollar was created by the coinage act in 1792, with dollars being made of the equivalent amount of silver or gold. To me this seems like practically same thing as being 100% backe
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by kipchak 4y ago
>Over the next decade, designers at Nerf, a division of Hasbro, came up with fanciful models shaped like bats, piranhas, and spiders. What they didn’t look like were weapons of war. While they're definitely more abstractly modeled,
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by kipchak 4y ago
For comparison at $14k an ounce you would need 72,000 oz of rhodium, the most valuable PM, in order to hit a $1B.
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>Are you theorizing we automatically burn every bit of fuel available to us? That's not how it works - people have a need for energy, they check the price of the energy and see if it's worth spending that much to accomplish the
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by kipchak 4y ago
I don't think it's pretty, but I somewhat enjoy this sort of look. It reminds me a bit of a compressed version of older, less affluent northeastern towns, where buildings are a mish mash of styles and designs. It's an overuse
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by kipchak 4y ago
I think the problem is the conflict between the two isn't symmetrical. Those who are trying to convince you to eat Coke and McDonalds aren't playing fair or accurately portraying what they're selling. and will promote researc
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by kipchak 4y ago
Is it still wasteful if I enjoy taking hot showers? There might be some health benefits too, but I also just enjoy them as part of waking up in terms of loosening up my chest and relaxing muscles. My total yearly spend on showers is about $

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