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by monort 9y ago
I think it's just because tea-drinking is a small market, so there are few people like me, who don't enjoy the process, but enjoy the tea. There are people like you describe in coffee to, but they are outnumbered by those, who jus
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by monort 9y ago
Yes, I know, they call it for some reason "cooler" :) The first problem is you should stay near them while they are pouring the water, and it takes time, especially if I'm making a tea for two. The second is that making hot w
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‘I Forgot My PIN’: An Epic Tale of Losing $30,000 in Bitcoin(wired.com)
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by monort 9y ago
Yes, tea doesn't require tech, but espresso-machines are not only tech, but a convenience to press a button and get a cup. I drink coffee because of that, not because I enjoy it more than tea. Unfortunately, tea market seems to be too
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Submarine aircraft carrier(en.wikipedia.org)
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When Clinton Fired Surgeon General for Encouraging Masturbation Education (2016)(newsweek.com)
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How we found rogerkver’s obfuscated wallet private key(medium.freecodecamp.org)
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Palestinian arrested by Israeli police after Facebook mistranslated his post(ibtimes.co.uk)
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by monort 9y ago
Your chart shows that velocity of BTC is the same as velocity of USD M2. Is USD not a medium of exchange by this logic? Bitcoin is a replacement precisely for M2 (base money + deposits), because with a fractional reserve deposits are as muc
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DJI 'AeroScope' tech shares your drone's ID and location with law enforcement(dpreview.com)
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by monort 9y ago
The Black Swans I'm talking about are about failed attempts to control the exchange rate by central bank. Fiat currencies are stable until they aren't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday https:&#x
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by monort 9y ago
Even the most stable currencies of developed world can be influenced by a black swan. For example, see Swiss Franc or British Pound. If some cryptocurrency is adopted for mainstream use (big if), it won't have this risk, inherent to a
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by monort 9y ago
Surely this data can be crowdsourced from end-users? Just like wages are not public, but we still have a glassdoor.
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by monort 9y ago
Is there a service to show the map of insurance premiums for different disaster types?
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by monort 9y ago
Actually modern CPU can make around $20 per month with $5 electricity cost. https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator/intel-cpu-...
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How Will Banking and Credit Work in a CryptoCurrency Economy?(fee.org)
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by monort 9y ago
Actually it is in the same ballpark. 2.9% + 30¢ is a usual price in US for a small business.
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by monort 9y ago
When thinking about reasons for ageism you should account for consulting, which do not have this problem (or at least it is less pronounced). The cause is hidden in the overhead of full-time employment.
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by monort 9y ago
It won't happen in a day. If your scenario is correct, economy will transition slowly to bitcoin from fiat. Fiat inflation is not a problem when you have non-inflated currency in a wide use.
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Cypherpunk Desert Bus: My Role in the 2016 Zcash Trusted Setup Ceremony(petertodd.org)
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by monort 9y ago
Why environment pollution is not solved with suing polluters by those, whose property is affected? E.g. I don't understand why anyone can drive an internal combustion car and pollute the air of residents. Is there some legal protection
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Critical rationalism(en.wikipedia.org)
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by monort 9y ago
Was US a mature democracy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...
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by monort 9y ago
If opioids could be sold for recreational use, I think they would be sold with a naloxone in one package, reducing the number of deaths from overdose.
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by monort 9y ago
I think upcoming CRS (the global version of FATCA) is one of the reasons. Investment accounts will be reported to homeland automatically.
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Common Reporting Standard(en.wikipedia.org)
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What Is Bitcoin's Correlation with Other Financial Assets?(signalplot.com)
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by monort 9y ago
And Scott Aaronson quits mathoverflow due to this "off-topic" policy: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/282869/the-enigmatic-comp...
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The enigmatic complexity of number theory(mathoverflow.net)
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1988–94 British broadcasting voice restrictions(en.wikipedia.org)
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