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by mrb 8y ago
The fact X11, as the "standard" windowing environment for Unix operating systems, was ditched by literally all major Unix operating systems created in the last 20 years like Mac OS X, Android, iOS, etc, tells us that X11 is not
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I’ve decided to put Helium Grants on indefinite hiatus(nadiaeghbal.com)
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by mrb 8y ago
I don't think the Chinese government had any role in destroying Amazon's business. In fact we can find counter-examples to your theory as there are foreign companies very successful in China: https://www.1421.consulting
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by mrb 8y ago
tldr: this worked for me to bypass the paywall on desktop: open the WSJ.com article in Chrome, open the dev tools (ctrl-shift-j), toggle device toolbar (ctrl-shift-m), select the "pixel 2" device, reload (ctrl-r), close dev tools
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by mrb 8y ago
" trigger a massive tax bill " This shouldn't deter him from conclusively proving he is Satoshi. His mere oral claim that he is Satoshi should trigger a massive tax bill anyway. He can't both claim to the world he is S
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by mrb 8y ago
" so far it failed at becoming a money " Bitpay (one of the largest Bitcoin payment processors in the world) processed a record $1 billion in transactions in 2018. This impressive increase of people using Bitcoin to buy real-world
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by mrb 8y ago
Yes they have. The authors write: " Like Beowulf, the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey have also generated much debate about their authorship and composition. Conventionally attributed to a single author—Homer—both works nevertheless clea
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by mrb 8y ago
" So, there are no peer-reviewed, published research on this? " They are coming. At least one counter-study should imminently be published (I am one of the reviewers.) I am sure more are coming. Patience :) " How do we know i
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I initially mentioned renewables as just one way to achieve CO2 emissions reductions. Nuclear is another way that works just as well. " we don't have a large-scale concrete example yet " China single-handedly added 230 GW of
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by mrb 8y ago
You tried to claim we knew nothing about Bitcoin's adoption because 95% of exchange trades are fake. I'm telling you this is irrelevant. Exchange trades tell us nothing about Bitcoin's adoption. They are just noise from w
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by mrb 8y ago
" Who are these other researcher? Care to link to their research on this? " It takes months to write, peer-review, and publish research papers, so given that this Nature Climate Change article is quite recent at the moment there e
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by mrb 8y ago
What Forbes reports as mostly fakes are exchange trades , not on-chain transactions . These are two completely different things...
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France emits 90% less CO2/kWh than Germany (they didn't even need renewables to achieve that, just nuclear): http://environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/2/11/german-e... And according to ht
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by mrb 8y ago
Like I said in my top post, 2% is calculated from the 60-day (not 24-hour) average. True, we will never be able to extrapolate future fees. I'm merely pointing out the authors did it in a way that is completely bogus.
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by mrb 8y ago
" That’s a reasonable approximation " No, because the authors don't understand how miners gain revenue. For every dollar of miners revenues, currently $0.02 come from tx fees and $0.98 come from the block reward (12.5 BTC tod
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by mrb 8y ago
" You're quibbling over details " CO2 emissions being wrong by a factor of a thousand is a "detail" to you? ;) My point is that the impact of proof-of-work, although real, is grossly exaggerated and appears to be mo
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by mrb 8y ago
No, Bitcoin won't raise global average temperatures by 2°C. This Nature article was debunked by other researchers. I too was asked to review it (recently, post-publication) and the gist of what they did wrong in their analysis is: * Th
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by mrb 8y ago
"their mostly-non-renewable power generation" Actually, most crypto mines in China are located in Sichuan or Yunnan, precisely because of an oversupply of hydroelectricity. More than a quarter of the world's hydropower is g
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by mrb 8y ago
Just use 1rem everywhere. There is no reason for the hideously large 2rem margin. Another person said it's just opinion, but I'm sure 9 out of 10 users would tell you 1rem is the better looking option overall.
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by mrb 8y ago
Doesn't look "great" on mobile. 2rem margins are way too big for a phone screen. Too much wasted space.
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by mrb 8y ago
You don't know what you are talking about. Most Bitcoin exchanges have fees that are a fraction of a percent. Not 1-2%. Paypal has international fees approaching 5%(!) It doesn't take days to buy some BTC. Buying or selling is ins
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by mrb 8y ago
Security technologies can only get better over time. I would argue that with hardware wallets, recovery seed backups well-protected & well-stored, M-of-N signatures, etc, you can get to a level of security that's already far far be
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by mrb 8y ago
« The exchange rates offered via PayPal are TERRIBLE » This is why Bitcoin is not such a bad choice after all. People on HN tend to criticize the Bitcoin option for international payments, saying the combined overhead of the buyer convertin
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Π Delivery(pi.delivery)
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«it is possible that the reference graph does not have any cycles.» It's impossible. An English dictionary defined using English words has to have cycles.
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by mrb 8y ago
They don't calculate his net worth correctly. They calculate his worth based on a percentage of GDP. If you actually do the math based on an inflation calculator, you find $5 billion: https://www.forbes.com/sites/c
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by mrb 8y ago
Carnegie was worth only $5 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars. Gates is worth $100 billion, so we can expect him to have a philantropic impact 20 times greater.
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by mrb 8y ago
" it's not filling the function of a phone " At the very minimum, it matches and surpasses the capabilities of a landline phone (since it works at home where there's WiFi.)
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by mrb 8y ago
" Google has no economic interest in mapping the area " Google has an economic interest in mapping anything as long as it's useful to some people. Google is playing a very long term game: provide free services online (Email,
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by mrb 8y ago
Fun fact: any device with a speaker can be turned into a microphone because a speaker is fundamentally the same thing as a microphone (a membrane connected to a coil/magnet).

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