manholio

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by manholio 4y ago
Les might not agree.
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> And then slice/view variants of all the above. So all in all, about a dozen kinds of strings.
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by manholio 4y ago
> 1. the capacity to signify a digital original and 2. to decentrally organize ownership (though it's more like possession) of these items. There is nothing novel in this. You could do it in Bitcoin too by agreeing that a certain tr
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by manholio 4y ago
You should take into account that regen braking (even with resistors) only works at high rpm. The final phase of the braking you need to put even more energy into the coils on top of what the they already must dissipate for braking the car.
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by manholio 4y ago
In the money quote, he puts it quite eloquently: Over time, the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster. If you look at those two curves, you see that there i
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by manholio 4y ago
> The resource curse is that easy riches drive out honest efforts elsewhere. Thank you for the response, I believe this is an oversimplification. The resource curse is not your typical creative destruction typical of free markets. If, s
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by manholio 4y ago
...or we're on on the very edge, walking straight into the abyss, totally focused on some mindless diversion on our device's screen?
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by manholio 4y ago
KYC is by definition a form of centralization - the government endows a well known private entity with the authority to run financial transactions on behalf of individuals, subject to certain constraints and information gathering. Since any
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by manholio 4y ago
This economic opportunity is only true for PhDs in CS or engineering and even there, only for hot research areas. Good luck getting 5x academic pay with a PhD in geology. Generally speaking, the professor's advice from 25 years ago is
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by manholio 4y ago
> it is entirely up to you to either reveal your transactions to parties of your choice or keep them private forever. Keep in mind, that none of it is possible without the Tornado.cash Note and it is your responsibility to keep a record
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by manholio 4y ago
Law enforcement needs to have an entity to subpoena and which can produce transaction and identifying information when the legal case might be. Law enforcement is subject to laws too, there is no problem with having laws and enforcing them,
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by manholio 4y ago
What I would like to see is reversible and auditable privacy in crypto: to participate I need to disclose my real identity to a broker I trust that follows all KYC compliance rules in the jurisdiction it operates, and my financial identity
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by manholio 4y ago
> we have a bad theory about how our minds work, one so dastardly that it could have only been devised by the devil himself. It goes like this: We humans are, deep down, lazy and gluttonous creatures. If left to our own devices, we wil
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by manholio 4y ago
You are of course correct that energy is a master resource that powers all physical transformations that drive economic development. You are in fact so correct that the claim is almost meaningless: we are awash with potential sources of ene
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by manholio 4y ago
The discussion is undoubtedly framed developmentally, the author clearly compares affluence among contemporary societies and tries to propose economic and technological determinants for those outcomes. In that limited frame, my assertion is
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by manholio 4y ago
> require the government to guarantee rights to do what one wants to do, as long as it does not harm others. It also requires a government to enforce contracts and property rights. That's far from sufficient for sustained economic g
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by manholio 4y ago
Poverty is by definition a relative notion. A middle class occidental has access to culinary diversity, healthcare, transport speeds and indoor plumbing that not even kings could dream of a few centuries ago. Poverty is defined relative to
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by manholio 4y ago
Some form of government exists in any place on Earth - lest that territory is claimed by some other government. Yet, a large number of such entities are unable to guarantee those rights. The gap between the minimum common denominator of a s
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by manholio 4y ago
Markets are just an abstraction that's built on strong institutions: property rights, an inclusive justice system that can settle commercial disputes and punish the antisocial, a state that can tax that commercial activity and reinvest
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by manholio 4y ago
All poverty is institutional and societal poverty. People are poor not because of lack of energy, but because the societies they live in lack the inclusive institutions that can create those patterns for energy use, education, healthcare an
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by manholio 4y ago
Battery electrochemistry still has headroom, but solar is already approaching the Shockley–Queisser ceiling, which limits efficiency at about 30% for single junction and 50% for multiple junction devices. That's the absolute conversion
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by manholio 4y ago
He goes into it in an older comment in his history: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Orthanc
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by manholio 4y ago
Electric engines are capable of insane torque, but prolonged operation in such a mode is far from efficient, cool and preferable from a reliability standpoint. Two seconds at the green light - yes, plowing your field with a Tesla - no. So I
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by manholio 4y ago
> If I need to travel 260km at 20km/litre I need to but 260/20 litres or about 13 litres. > With the “metric” way you need to do two calculations. That's really an absurd way of looking at it, because one of those calcu
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by manholio 4y ago
You are ignoring economies of scale and the externalities of a mass market technology. Electricity is everywhere and even so, electric cars had and still have a huge barrier to overcome in providing adequate infrastructure. Once a technolog
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by manholio 4y ago
> The optimal amount of fraud a business/industry should accept is non-zero Let's make that: "The optimal amount of fraud a business should accept under the current credit card online payment system is non-zero". Th
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by manholio 4y ago
Sure, in principle, but in practice you are limited by the actual fuel you need to burn, and it seems the existing designs get close enough to those limits and do not stand to gain significantly from higher energy densities. Fuel efficiency
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by manholio 4y ago
Maybe he designed a geometry that can achieve the required implosion speeds with slow, easily available explosives ex. AN, KN, AP etc. The size of the device (a container) seems to suggest this. The actual initiation is the easy part and wo
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by manholio 4y ago
Unless you build a rocket or submarine, all engines are air cooled. Using an intermediate transfer medium with high heat capacity seems like a design tradeoff, it helps you achieve higher power density in the combustion chamber at the expen
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by manholio 4y ago
> If you buy a cheap Chinese cable, it won't have any markings or it has wrong markings. That is, until the Chinese get on this fancy new internet thing.

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