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6y ago
> I have money stuck in limbo right now because of a failed LN transaction. The sats will return to you in 2 weeks. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/.amp/technical/understanding-the...
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Sex in Japan: Dying for Company
(youtube.com)
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Japan’s Cautionary Tale: Debt and Demographics – Part 2
(btcm.co)
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Geometric Unity
(geometricunity.org)
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6y ago
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Teen Crypto Entrepreneurs May Be the Real Adults in the Room
(forbes.com)
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Computer Arithmetic Algorithms Simulator
(ecs.umass.edu)
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Bitcoin Fee-Based Security Modeling
(lynalden.com)
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noch
6y ago
> Maybe not in the top decile we are discussing here. Things like age and prep time matter a lot. Not really. Of course studying for any test and preparing strategically/emotionally/psychologically makes one able to perform at
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noch
6y ago
> Maybe I just lack imagination, but I am missing where the benefit of this lies. When Apple has a coin and Toyota has a coin and Kodak has a coin (as seemed would be the case at the time this was published) why is it any better to hold
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6y ago
> […]it is ridiculous that one of the main metrics used in admissions is a glorified IQ test. SATs are a good measure of General Intelligence (and IQ). “ This research established the relationship between SAT and g, as well as the appro
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The End of Industrial Society
(palladiummag.com)
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Let’s Destroy Bitcoin
(medium.com)
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6y ago
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noch
6y ago
> That's not a cost you need to live [...] there was no effect on the cost of things people pay for, which broadly stayed in the 0-5% per year range, as it did before 2004. I'm sure you're absolutely correct about everythi
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6y ago
> That period included the massive money printing of 2008 crash, none of it says hyperinflation, despite the federal reserve "printing" $3.9T between 2009 and 2014. [chuckle] Now do assets as well. Do healthcare and school fees
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noch
6y ago
Lol. Okay. You win. You are right about everything. Thanks for your time.
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6y ago
> If you have a $1 bill from 1973 it still can be exchange for a 2021 $1 bill. Nominally. How do you grok the practice of coin-clipping? You hand in one gold coin which is then clipped and you are given a coin with a smaller percentage
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6y ago
> Has 1 USD ever not been worth exactly 1 USD Not really. If you own 1 fiat dollar today and I double the money supply tomorrow, I have just halved the value of your fiat dollar over time. Your share of the money supply has been diluted[
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noch
6y ago
> something as instable as bitcoin? Bitcoin isn't unstable. It has a fixed supply of 21M. It is the other currencies to which it is compared that are unstable. Bitcoin allows you to measure fiat currency instability.
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6y ago
> Another question arises: what is it good for? It certainly isn't empancipating or empowering ordinary people Here's a detailed thread[0] with global examples of empowerment of ordinary people. One example from the thread: &qu
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The winners of the 2020 GCP VRP Prize
(security.googleblog.com)
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Analyzing Bitcoin’s Network Effect
(lynalden.com)
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6y ago
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An Open Letter to Would-Be Bullshitters
(allenfarrington.medium.com)
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Analyzing Bitcoin’s Network Effect
(lynalden.com)
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6y ago
> Someone should write "BTC respects the second law of thermodynamics" Knut Svanholm: https://medium.com/hackernoon/bitcoin-and-thermodynamics-63f... Andy Poelstra: https://download.wpsoftware.n
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6y ago
> we have to at least debate this subject as we face an existential threat from climate change and yes cryptocurrencies are contributing to the climate crisis. Are you Kim Stanley Robinson? If you aren't you'll enjoy his latest
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> if "money" can be modeled as excitations of a complex probability wave field. Eric Weinstein insists, if I understood him correctly, that money is a gauge theory[0] and transactions can be modelled as locally enforced conserv
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How to Kill Bitcoin (Part 2)
(joekelly100.medium.com)
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Wittgenstein’s Money
(allenfarrington.medium.com)
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Performance analysis and tuning challenge #4
(easyperf.net)
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A Summary of Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Debate
(braiins.com)
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