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by nroets 5y ago
Which is a good thing because it also makes them more immune to political pressure to overstimulate the economy.
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by nroets 5y ago
So a buyer can pay a seller in Bitcoin with minimal internet connection. Note that the volatility of Bitcoin introduces a another requirement: Both parties also need fairly recent data from a Bitcoin exchange to find a price at which the tr
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by nroets 5y ago
Fiat is valuable because of a never ending torrent of positive exposure https://Bitcoin.isNot.Money/
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by nroets 5y ago
My main problem with Bitcoin is that the number of times it has been used for advertising prices is still negligible. By contrast, fiat currencies are ubiquitously used to advertise prices. So Bitcoin got its intangible differently from a n
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by nroets 5y ago
The problem with BTC is not the accounting aspect. Some parts of the financial system (like option traders) have learned to do accounting in highly volatile situations. The problem is that BTC gained it's intangible value differently f
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by nroets 5y ago
Due to the lockdown, people and companies are spending less. (Less Traveling, no reason to buy fancy clothes and other luxury items because you can't show them to anyone) So the savings rate skyrocketed. And it was already very high du
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by nroets 5y ago
It's a fad[1]. It won't last. [1]: https://Bitcoin.IsNot.Money
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by nroets 5y ago
Could there be a valid reason for this ? For example: A trend may be appearing where hackers gain control of the GPUs of unsuspecting users and then mine crypto in the background. The GPU uses more power and slows down given the user a bad
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by nroets 5y ago
The idea a create a CPU with only one instruction is much older. I recall that Professor Van Der Poel of Deft University did it in the 1960s. A decrement-and-jump-if-non-zero instruction.
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by nroets 5y ago
All Google products except the Google Translate App are blocked in China. So no Google maps. I spent 2 months cycling China from Hong Kong to Beijing. Despite only using Chinese characters, Baidu maps worked very well for me. I copied the c
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by nroets 5y ago
Creating a second class of share is a very very bad solution: It splits exchange liquidity. It also complicates all the investor relations correspondence, adding lawyer fees.
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by nroets 5y ago
It's not just the exchange that struggles: 1. Many retail investors do not have the funds to buy a full share. 2. Anyone who makes a spreadsheet containing the share prices of largest companies has to make that column wide enough to ac
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by nroets 6y ago
That model predates important advances like Rational Expectations. Even in the 1980s the Fed under Paul Volcker tried to reign in inflation too quickly, causing a recession.
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by nroets 6y ago
And knowing the difference is an important part of rocket science: https://www.simscale.com/blog/2017/12/nasa-mars-climate-orbi...
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by nroets 6y ago
Some websites look and / or work better on phones. Feature request to web browser developers: My screen is horizontal. I want a menu option to open twin windows, side by side, each taller than it's wide. Then emulate a mobile web
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by nroets 6y ago
I took a break and over 18 months I cycled 30,000 km (20,000 miles) in 12 countries. My burn rate was very consistently $1,000/month, even during 5 months in the expensive US. This included airline tickets and replacement bicycles htt
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by nroets 6y ago
I agree with you entirely, BUT Isn't this how Tesla started ? A sportscar with subpar performance and impractical for many journeys due to limited range and charging options.
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ECC implies error correcting. That implies more extra bits to store Hamming codes. But you can have far fewer redundant bits if you only want to detect error s. (Parity). In the worst case the computer reboots. But you must foresee this bec
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by nroets 6y ago
When I was in the US, I saw someone offering free phones to the unemployed (Obama phone). Food stamps being used. FEMA given new houses to people left homeless by hurricane Michael. I even met people whose diet consisted mainly of expired f
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by nroets 6y ago
<citation needed> Including a PDF that generates the digits of pi
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by nroets 6y ago
And a second article for the price of mobile data
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by nroets 6y ago
Here in South Africa, I pay $17 for 40 GB of 4g data. And I can transfer some of that to another prepaid SIM. That way, I kept one of my couch surfing online for a month. It hardly cost me anything, but it was invaluable to him when he hitc
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by nroets 6y ago
I'm on LTE. The carrier grade NAT implementation of my ISP may use a different public IP address for each TCP connection I make. The webserver of my bank sees it as a hack and will then log me out. Fortunately my ISP also has an APN wh
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by nroets 6y ago
I've helped a lot of people to set up new phones and saving WhatsApp chat history is always low on their list of priorities. Keeping their contacts, their photos and all the saved logins for websites and apps are the top 3. Wiping the
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by nroets 6y ago
Fraudsters may trick people into sending the wrong URL. If Whatsapp controls the payment platform, they can prevent a lot of fraud by mining their meta data. For example, if the payment is marked as a gift, but the parties do not have a vib
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by nroets 6y ago
Over the study period, pornography became really easy to obtain. Isn't that the cause ? Men (we) no longer need to groom themselves, dress up, spend money on dates and deal with all the complications of relationships. They (we) now hav
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by nroets 6y ago
Many C implementations allow this without any assembly: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setjmp.h#Cooperative_multita... (2007)
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by nroets 6y ago
I used Couch Surfing thought-out the world. In China and Vietnam, I found that the locals use the site only to meet foreigners. For example an teacher in Vietnam asked me to be a guest during an English class. I traveled by bicycle. This me
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by nroets 6y ago
So, Door Dash will win in some markets and Grub Hub in others. Then they will cut Google out of the process for some consumers. So Google is the real loser ??
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by nroets 7y ago
Has anyone used it to better estimate size of the infected population, like a statistical binary search combined with random sampling ? Here in South Africa, we are really unsure if our lockdown is having the a meaningful effect.

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