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by legulere 5y ago
10x is a lot if the market follows a winner takes it all model.
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by legulere 5y ago
The problem is that the people with decision power over software are usually not the ones who actually use it and latency issues are more of a subconscious thing. Slow programs just feel less good to use until they reach a pretty high thres
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by legulere 5y ago
Incremental progress is helpful when you do not know in which direction you need to go but leads you only into local maxima. Sometimes you know how to get closer to the global maxima and you have to do that, otherwise competition will do it
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by legulere 5y ago
I do not know why you are so against persecuting money-laundering, considering it's definition according to Wikipedia: > Money laundering is the process of changing large amounts of money obtained from crimes, such as drug trafficki
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by legulere 5y ago
This shows one of the few uses of Bitcoin: evading the law (in this case the US-embargo)
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by legulere 5y ago
Why should law enforcement be a problem? I thought the idea behind smart contracts was that code is law?
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by legulere 5y ago
Which photos does Apple scan? Also of emails and messages? Could you swat somebody by sending them benign images that have the same hash?
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by legulere 5y ago
Air pollution is probably one factor in the development of allergies: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192198/ Playing in mud and with animals is probably beneficial, but unclean air isn’t.
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by legulere 5y ago
But if the asset bubble bursts and your home loses most worth.
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by legulere 5y ago
You will still pay for at least 4 KB or whatever the page size in your system is. If you reuse the buffer memory use will never go down, if you reallocate on reuse you pay the price of communicating with the operating system. On x86 the vir
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by legulere 5y ago
Also for this system that’s the efficiency for the whole cycle electricity to electricity. For the fuel cell you have to multiply by the efficiency for creating your fuel.
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The west has a productivity stagnation because it’s concentrating on services instead of industry. The productivity of services grows much slower that that of industry.
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Those probably lead to a few percent of efficiency increases. In agriculture already you see orders of magnitude increases if you look in how many people used to work in it and how many people work in it today. In Industry the efficiency in
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by legulere 5y ago
Would be interesting to compare those values to typical wages of the time. How many hours did you need to work for a restaurant visit? Most products are far cheaper in terms of hours of labour needed to produce them nowadays, while services
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by legulere 5y ago
If you are programming C, you will already roll your own data structures. So why not roll your own formatting routines?
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by legulere 5y ago
Like almost everything in software development it's a trade-off, length + pointer means that your data structures become bigger and that often you will use more registers. That used to matter more than it does today.
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by legulere 5y ago
Even better is to not null terminate strings and use pointer plus length everywhere.
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by legulere 5y ago
10% increase every year means around 160% increase in 10 years, 570% increase in 20 years, 1640% increase in 30 years and 4420% in 40 years. That seems a bit unrealistic to me.
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by legulere 5y ago
I think the biggest difficulty in front ends is that they are statefull. Backends are usually stateless and pass through data from a data store or a cache.
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by legulere 5y ago
If you look at the longer term graph that might as well be some smaller fluctuations. The longer term trend seems to sharply down for coal.
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by legulere 5y ago
You’ve said it yourself that your favorite behavior of managers is to leave you alone. But what’s their use then? If apart from having autonomy you only have negative experiences with management your idea of them ranges from useless to harm
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by legulere 5y ago
The first study I found on google seems to suggest that biochar lasts for a pretty long time but also decomposes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00380...
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by legulere 5y ago
The big difference is that states use force to convince people of the worth of their currencies: If you don’t pay taxes you will go to jail. The reason people believe in the worth of cryptocurrencies is greed and fear of missing out.
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by legulere 5y ago
But where are cryptocurrencies used as a currency except by criminals? They offer no benefit for legal transactions except in rare edge cases.
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by legulere 5y ago
I don't see how lack of infrastructure isn't caused by the debt they had to pay off. Infrastructure takes extremely long to build up and lasts usually pretty long. Also I find it peculiar how the damage incurred by the Duvalier fa
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by legulere 5y ago
It’s not that simple, behind the company are people. While earning money might be probably the biggest goal there are a lot of other goals by the people working there. Workers act on their beliefs up to a certain point (because they have a
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by legulere 5y ago
The threat-model there is that the attacker controls the text that is parsed.
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by legulere 5y ago
There are a lot of things you could do to let the labour market behave more like a free market, like for instance mandatory wage ranges on job postings. The problem is that a lot of people in power would lose from this and manage to prevent
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by legulere 5y ago
You were able to say the same about beanie babies. Bitcoin could lose trust in it at any time. There’s hardly an intrinsic use in a Bitcoin and there’s also hardly any demand for it except as a gambling opportunity. (Fiat money has governme
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by legulere 5y ago
It could also be tragic of the commons effect though. High ad spend is necessitated by the high ad spend of competitors.

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