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by nunb 11y ago
They get oxidized more easily. Arterial plaque is oxidized fatty acids. Fatty acids are essential to cell wall formation. Deductively, fatty acids which are more susceptible to reactive oxidation species (aka free radicals) will lead to mor
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by nunb 12y ago
Which chinese phablet, if I may ask? > with great batteries A phablet with a big battery plus not-ultraHD screen would solve the abysmal battery life problems of modern phones... it's likely thinness suffers though?
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by nunb 12y ago
I believe you can opt out of it. I was annoyed for a while at having Hangouts foisted on me but now (in Gmail at least) I've gone back to the old interface which, while not jazzy, is perfectly functional.
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by nunb 12y ago
the libraries abstract over most fs warts see Practical Common Lisp for an example
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by nunb 13y ago
I'm guessing he means the GPL sense of free as in freedom, not free as in beer?
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by nunb 13y ago
you mean you'd have to cut off the roof to mount it? http://i.imgur.com/CFtOzAD.jpg ;)
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by nunb 13y ago
Other than cost of housing are there very big differences with Sedona in say, grocery or {furnishings, restaurants, car, gas} prices?
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by nunb 13y ago
>The whole point of inflation is to reflect the natural rate of economic growth and to discourage economically inefficient hoarding. Runaway inflation is of course a bad thing, but no inflation at all, or deflation, is just as bad in eco
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by nunb 13y ago
> Put it this way: money simply can't be saved without someone else spending that same money at the same time. Saving means keeping something aside that people will want in the future . Which means you can save without someone spen
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by nunb 13y ago
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/appeal-to-authority
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by nunb 13y ago
yeah why is it always Glenn Greenwald? Now don't say "conspiracy" because then you're just being faddist and contrarian.
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by nunb 13y ago
the Ivory Tower speaks
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by nunb 13y ago
The idea of "conflating all saving" is itself wrong. Saving is a matter of time preference, specifically, preferring to consume in the future. That implies carrying forward surplus value from today to be spent tomorrow. Let's
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by nunb 13y ago
Why does deflation worry you? It's a good thing. I would like my healthcare to get cheaper and better over time just as my Android phone does. > Don't conflate "zero growth of the money supply" with "zero inflati
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by nunb 13y ago
I can't edit the original. Tightened version has been put in the right place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6553774
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by nunb 13y ago
Actually it seems to be your assumptions that need questioning: the idea of "conflating all saving" is itself wrong. Saving is a matter of time preference, specifically, preferring to consume in the future. That implies carrying f
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by nunb 13y ago
Your posts are so well-written that I feel compelled to point out these few errata while you may still edit this one post: - Your post is incoherent. - why, based on the historical record, - were relieved of their - They won the central - w
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by nunb 13y ago
Reflecting on the problems with metals-backed currency (eg FRNs) it's a wonder that nobody thinks BTC is the ultimate form of money. It's especially a wonder that us hackers don't think it'll work, and that HN is so oppo
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by nunb 13y ago
yeah, that religious part was a bit far-fetched. (As a hindu/brahmin I LOL'd). I've read several different theories of money and I don't find the debt vs coincidence-of-wants bifurcation that Graeber alludes to such a bi
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by nunb 13y ago
A lot of people understand money today. The Chinese certainly do. Unfortunately, most of HN doesn't seem to. Moldbuggery is a good introduction.
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by nunb 13y ago
you might find Moldbug interesting then. moldbuggery.blogspot.in
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by nunb 13y ago
I feel compelled to remark that they wouldn't do this just so they could flip the switch and screw over some people holding bitcoin. The NSA has easier ways of screwing people over. Instead, as PG and others have hypothesized, the sove
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by nunb 13y ago
Presumably, by the fifth time this happens, it'll be seared in your brain. And the browser url is already prominent.
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by nunb 13y ago
they have editors, and the editors are there to give it a cohesive voice, which implies a mind.
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by nunb 13y ago
true, agreed. though processing power would seem to be the best proof of stake, as say compared to network connectivity.
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by nunb 13y ago
what's amazing is that laws are added as riders onto unrelated legislation. at least, that's my understanding[1,2]. i suspect that the only people who read the bills are those trying to sneak something in, or watchdog groups like the eff. e
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by nunb 13y ago
bitcoin is designed so that miners have an incentive to work on it and not alternatives. The result being much the same as that predicted by Austrian theory: a single money winning in the market, and the rest being demonetized. (A caveat ho
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by nunb 13y ago
or even "open transactions" -- the OT-issuer would then be the "offshore tax haven" of today's financial system.
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by nunb 13y ago
>But when you consider the FED bad habits of "quantitative easing" (printing money), it make the US even less likely to be the originator. Regarding the Fed, QE and USG. The Fed is a private bank (it pays its shareholders 6%, which no g
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by nunb 13y ago
I was in a bank yesterday and there were all these animals in cages shuffling paper around, worried that their customers would yell at them if they were off by a single digit, (because doing so would be tantamount to robbing the customer of

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