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by nwah1 6y ago
Which scientists failed to raise an eyebrow? Mullis won the most prestigious award from his peers that exists in the world.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Wikipedia? Are you going to take the word of a bunch of internet lunatics? To be serious, the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne describes it as if their decades-long work was going at a snail's pace and Dr. Minor was crucial to making suf
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by nwah1 6y ago
This was true even before the internet. The Oxford English Dictionary owes its existence to the paranoid schizophrenic Dr. William Minor, who did his work from an insane asylum after murdering a man.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Fair enough, but it had only been operational for a year at the time of the outbreak and is focused on veterinary science.
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by nwah1 6y ago
And that is very solid bayesian logic. Wuhan has the only BSL-4 lab in China, and was specifically working on gain-of-function research on coronaviruses. The initial prior of zoonotic origin simply because that was usually the case in the p
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by nwah1 6y ago
The headline falsely represents the content of the article. Lizzie Magie was in favor of free trade, and invented Monopoly to demonstrate the evils of landlordism because she was a georgist.
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by nwah1 6y ago
With all the efforts to isolate China, they are being forced to develop their own fabs and their own architectures. Their obvious choice is to use RISC-V as a base. With the world's largest economy behind it, RISC-V will probably becom
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by nwah1 6y ago
Have one. It looks very sharp. But, after only two years my rig bit the dust. A particular component must have fried from overheating, but I don't know which yet. Realistically you should be more in the 35W range with this setup. And a
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by nwah1 6y ago
It is amazing that after the massive negative repercussions for Saudi Arabia after their murder of Khashoggi, that the nations of the world somehow decided that such murder is more worthwhile than before. Iran just murdered Roohollah Zam th
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by nwah1 6y ago
But you can train a CNC machine to replicate a carving that you do once, and then replicate it indefinitely.
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by nwah1 6y ago
I would personally love to see a writeup on that which shows some data on how big the market is for these illegal bitcoin transactions.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Incentives in the existing ACH and SWIFT systems are such that transactions are fast and accurate. But businesses have to follow the law. If a regulation were imposed, people would feel a need to comply. If they said to block transactions f
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by nwah1 6y ago
Onion routing also requires trust that there is no collusion between nodes
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by nwah1 6y ago
For one, it uses onion routing, which means you are trusting that nodes are not colluding which each other to share information. In addition to the trusted watchtowers. If people start trusting the intermediate states of the payment channel
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by nwah1 6y ago
If a payment channel is still open, then the blockchain hasn't confirmed anything yet, the only speedup is to reduce roundtrips to the blockchain in the case of a series of transactions. So you are still limited by the speed of the blo
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by nwah1 6y ago
https://themoneymongers.com/lightning-network-watchtowers/
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by nwah1 6y ago
With bitcoin you can send funds peer to peer. No trusted intermediaries. Routing through a network of exchanges is more like routing through SWIFT or ACH.
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by nwah1 6y ago
Tether is still a scam, and the music is still playing. Don't be the last guy. As for lightning, it adds a layer of trust into a system whose reason for existence is trustlessness. If you don't care about trustlessness, you can al
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by nwah1 6y ago
Good idea in general, but the details matter. Teaching people how to make efficient wood burning stoves could fall prey to the Jevons Paradox. Ideally you would enable some other type of stove. They may lack the infrastructure for natural g
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Reproducibility is routine in programming. Science should learn from it(symbiogenesis.medium.com)
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by nwah1 6y ago
You can already buy shares of things, crowdfund, buy real estate, invest in REITs, and a million other financial instruments. Since real estate is a physical thing, it needs to interface with the legal system, the recorder of deeds, etc. Th
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by nwah1 6y ago
Regenerative brakes rely on friction just like any other. Pollution is a given.
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by nwah1 6y ago
EVs actually make this problem worse because they are heavier. Both brakes and tires release toxic pollution. While I fully admit that these are all engineering challenges that people could make progress on, there's also much simpler a
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by nwah1 6y ago
macOS may have technical advantages, though less and less over time. But it always had a dramatically more restrictive business model from the very beginning. This is what made it unattractive to business and continues to make it unattracti
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by nwah1 6y ago
Pump up Filecoin price. Sell Filecoin. Move to Fiji. Don't do any coding while in Fiji
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by nwah1 6y ago
That is a good point. Although, in principle Proof of Stake could use any number of algorithms, and thus the trust could be based on something other than who has the most resources. In general for distributed systems, trusting based on repu
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by nwah1 6y ago
I think a better way to say it is that it moves from a trustless system to a system that trusts based on some criteria. That criteria is usually how many coins one has. Since the original bitcoin concept was solving the byzantine generals p
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by nwah1 6y ago
Or it could be that the stats are cherry-picked and there is no decoupling. The concept of household income is fuzzy and not necessarily related to rewards to labor. Measuring by hours is the appropriate way to measure. Among other issues.
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by nwah1 6y ago
The majority of spending goes towards pensions, healthcare, education, etc. Education could be an investment but per student spending has tripled over 50 years, yet it would be hard to argue that there is a high marginal return on investmen
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by nwah1 6y ago
The US debt is denominated in a currency that it is the sovereign issuer of. The US has full ability to pay such debts, at the cost of inflation. Large deficits would be fine if the spending were for investments with a high ROI, such as inf

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