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by marshray 9y ago
> BTC has basically zero of that, as evidenced for the fact that there isn't a deliverable version of this contract. How can anyone claim Bitcoin is a useful currency if it's less practical to deliver than, say, KC Winter Wheat
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by marshray 9y ago
Land has inherent utility, Bitcoin has inherent costs, notably energy.
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by marshray 9y ago
> Wrong question. When everyone is invested is it a bubble? No. Once everyone is invested the pool of potential new investors has been exhausted and the bubble pops.
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by marshray 9y ago
Yes, that's exactly what happens when economic uncertainty sends the price of gold higher.
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by marshray 9y ago
That's why it's such a big deal that Bitcoin (derivatives) are now trading on regulated exchanges in Chicago and New York. Whereas before those millionaires may have been reluctant to open an account with (i.e., send all their ide
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by marshray 9y ago
Why would you ever want to use an immutable public blockchain for such a transaction? Bitcoin is perhaps the most traceable currency in the world. This is something I just don't understand about Bitcoin's value proposition. > w
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by marshray 9y ago
I looked at this the other day. There is about one recorded Bitcoin blockchain transaction, ever, for every $1000 of current valuation. The early transactions were at a much lower conversion rate so they would be of larger BTC that tended t
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by marshray 9y ago
> can you really keep blaming the people instead of the product? Yes. Freedom of the press/media is an agreement that as adults we individuals are responsible for our own consumption. Anything less is an extremely slippery slope usu
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by marshray 9y ago
> How many times can you mine Zelda nostalgia in an age when kids have dozens more, and often better titles available for $0.99? Breath of the Wild just won Game of the Year not because it's 'mining nostalgia' but because
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by marshray 9y ago
That's like saying if the cost in USD of chocolate from Switzerland changes with USDCHF then you're not actually paying in USD. All international transactions are affected by exchange rate, it's just a question of to what deg
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by marshray 9y ago
I think NSA would have foreseen the inevitability of FPGA and ASIC miners and chosen a better proof-of-work function than SHA-2.
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by marshray 9y ago
Except Samsung is Korean, not Japanese. Hmm, it must be... SANRIO!
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by marshray 9y ago
It's not a novel idea, it's an old and discarded idea. Regulatory agencies such as FDA and EPA exist because it actually takes an agency to do a competent job regulating drugs and medical devices and investigating the toxicity of
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by marshray 9y ago
Couldn't one implement these functions with ordinary analog circuits?
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by marshray 9y ago
Also, sometimes there can also be tax advantages to not selling something (realizing gains) and instead buying insurance on it (possibly deductible expense).
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by marshray 9y ago
Here's 1,605 pages of defined behavior. What language are you comparing it to with more completely-defined behavior that can be translated to efficient native binary code for as many different architectures? https://www.iso.
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by marshray 9y ago
Both chips have similar (within an order of magnitude) die areas, frequencies, power dissipations, and external pin bandwidth. If the GPU were truly 1000x more efficient than the CPU, then the CPU vendor could just take 1/1000th of a G
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by marshray 10y ago
Isn't this basically the idea of Google's NaCl (native client)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
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by marshray 10y ago
> The hacker in question was trying to sell the data, doesn't appear to be a state actor. As if no state actor could possibly be crafty enough to act like they're trying to sell the data to misdirect from their true intentions.
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by marshray 10y ago
Because effectively blocking packets at requires supervising all routes through which they might escape (i.e., managing a lot of dynamic rules on a lot of very critical routers), whereas injecting forged packets only requires one little box
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by marshray 10y ago
> Safely stored nuclear waste isn't a danger to anybody. You can not claim that without a credible plan to store it until it's no longer hot, however long that takes.
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by marshray 10y ago
Yeah that was one of my favorite features.
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by marshray 10y ago
I would say that GC, generics, and maybe even HLLs are useful because they are tools to constrain the set of possible states the program can possibly enter. When your language and runtime provide good tooling for constraining the state sp
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by marshray 10y ago
Here are some potential charges I could imagine: 1. She used her official position as Secretary of State representing the United States to solicit $150M++ of dollars in foreign donations for her personal 501c3. Imagine how this worked. Pict
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by marshray 10y ago
> That's the entire function of a newspaper Exactly. And newspapers aren't doing so well on the internet.
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by marshray 10y ago
> It astounds me that they couldn't focus in on that and make revenue from that reliable core of people that, like me, turn to Twitter before anywhere else when something is happening. Yes, Twitter's role in BLM and Arab spring
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by marshray 10y ago
THANK YOU FOR THAT LINK I've been wondering for 30 years if I'd ever hear that story again.
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by marshray 10y ago
Even if we assume the conversion efficiency of microwaves are much better than solar, if the beam at its peak is less than 1/4 ordinary solar irradiation, why would this be more economical than ground-based solar?
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by marshray 10y ago
Literal grid operators are sometimes quite hostile to residential solar installations feeding energy back into the grid. So "the grid" is equivalent to buying 3rd party energy rather than generating it renewably yourself and the t
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by marshray 10y ago
I was just sharing something curious that I observed that seemed relevant, I was not intending to have a debate about Assange and the Wikileaks prosecution.

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