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by nuerow 5y ago
> Crypto currencies (or atleast DeFI) is trying to solve a pretty pragmatic problem: There is 1.7B unbanked people in the world and banking services are outdated and unavailable for large portion of humankind. This take is quite plainl
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> Banks don't just create money because they like your smile. They issue their own liabilities at a discount against collateral, the charge over which they take as their own asset. Keep in mind that there's a theory where ban
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> For a possible answer, please read my other post in this thread. You've posted an awful lot of messages, but the only one remotely related to crypto's intrinsic value was the following post which makes no relevant point at
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by nuerow 5y ago
> lol Uber stock at $48, still well above the IPO. Journalists have been calling for the demise of Uber forever. They need to find a new hobby. Forecasting is not for them. The article mentions that so far Uber has burned through over
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Ride sharing is only profitable if Uber and Lyft don't pay the drivers as much as taxi drivers. If that was true then how do you explain that there are countries where Uber rides are actually provided by taxi cabs?
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> Who's doing the scheming, I wonder? As with all pump-and-dump schemes, obviously those who pump it. Let's put it differently: what concrete, real-world, tangible value is there driving crypto speculation? Is there any at al
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> What surprises me is the constant negative drum beat against Bitcoin on Hackernews. Why does that surprise you? As the article from this discussion shows, there is strong evidence supporting the idea that crypto in general "it&#
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> Ride sharing’s empty promises can be chalked up to corporate PR… I don’t imagine most riders or investors consider those when calling a car or investing. I disagree. Ridesharing promised sharing a car. That is the whole concept: anyo
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> * Unless the vast majority of seats belong to Microsoft, you can't say that it's "simply a fascade".* This assertion is rejected by ReedCoopsey's statement regarding the fact that Microsoft reserves its right t
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> Who gives a shit about “rational basis”? Well, for starters those who show respect towards others and don't feel entitled to force their own arbitrary whims onto everyone around them and act as some kind of etiquette police . If
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> yeah, if we don't have blackouts this year i'll be pleasently surprised. How does this address GP's statement that governments don't "walk the walk" ? Meanwhile, some member states, like Portugal, alread
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> I think of it like the UN. You may not like the USSR (the creators of the UN certainly didn't) but if you don't give them a seat at the table the whole endeavor is useless. What's the point of putting up a foundation i
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> Just default everyone’s pronouns to “they/them” unless they explicitly change the setting. Doesn’t seem like a big deal. I fail to see the rational basis of complaining that "default pronouns" are pushed onto a small s
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> You can keep saying it’s a false dilemma, but that doesn’t make it so. How exactly is the attempt to frame the problem as either adopting Nuclear or else climate change happens not a false dilemma? Are there no other energy sources?
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> That's exactly what you are doing. To be honest, I can't tell if you're serious because all you are doing is making statements and then just linking to pages without citing any particular fact. No, not really. You migh
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> Governments around the world are competing in announcing ever more ambitious climate targets. Would be nice if they would also walk the walk. A few EU member-states already met their targets a few years ago, and are actually ahead of
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> It's like with cars vs. airplanes. Most people learned to live with the comparatively high risk of driving a car, yet often have a (silent) fear of flying Boeing/Airbus even though they are much safer. I don't feel this
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> That is trusting governments and corporations to deal with climate change in other ways. Again, that's a false dillema. At best, Nuclear is being pushed as one of many possible alternative to fossil fuels, and one which has been
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Thereby no one should rightfully speculate or disagree? That's pretty fallacious. It's one thing to state that you personally believe in something. It's an entirely different thing to try to pass off a personal opinion
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> If every release has a single breaking change, then that language is said to be unstable/not-production ready. IMHO, that's not at all an acceptable way of doing point releases. This. It makes absolutely no sense to claim t
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by nuerow 5y ago
> The evidence so far points to the opposite. No, not really. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident... And keep in mind that the whole world, which is migrating away from nuclear, also disag
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> Then we need a term for when code race conditions are possible but rare enough that nobody using the software notices. thread-timebomb? There's already a term for that: not thread-safe. The definition of thread safety does not i
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> The failure modes of hydrocarbon based power are huge. Most notably cooking the entire planet, which stands at 197,000,000 square miles. It's a good thing then that hydrocarbon-based power is being phased out as well. For exampl
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> Then I guess we're effed then. After all, if we can't trust non-government entities like Equifax with private records, why even go as far as trusting some other non-government entities to handle nuclear reactors? The point
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> This is my biggest concern as well. However it needs to be balanced against the alternative, which is trusting governments and corporations to deal with climate change in other ways. Isn't the alternative actually looking into r
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by nuerow 5y ago
> Isn’t the whole point of declaring pronouns that it gives you the option not to be gendered, if you prefer? English already supported gender neutrality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_English
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by nuerow 5y ago
> If you don't want to be kind to others then that's on you Kindness has really nothing to do with persecuting and punishing anyone who doesn't comply with arbitrary demands regarding etiquette.
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> I linked to a PDF, not the whole site. Let's focus on the information in that document. Thanks. Cherry-picking which piece of propaganda or disinformation to paste from a propaganda and disinformation-pushing group doesn't
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> I've peripherally known Corretto is the Amazon distribution of Java (specifically, OpenJDK), but I never really looked up what the difference between, say, the releases from AdoptOpenJDK and Corretto are. (...) Did I miss anythin
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> Companies are taking their cues from Facebook and now they're all in a race to build back-end data warehouses of information of individuals (...) The current state of affairs can be explained without dragging Facebook or other bog

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