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by once_inc 4y ago
Sci-hub link: https://sci-hub.se/10.2139/ssrn.3036573
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by once_inc 4y ago
Though I mostly agree with the ridiculousness of the concept "species ending virus", I do think this, combined with advances in medical technology and manufacturing can be a significant threat to the status quo of our highly-conne
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by once_inc 4y ago
> Fun fact is that the JWST cryocooler operates on a similar principle (although the implementation is quite different). as per u/alexose in this thread.
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by once_inc 4y ago
It probably isn't. Most mission critical problems and bottlenecks are resource depletion problems, and those can be easily solved by just sending a shitload of resources to Mars before sending people. Need to scrub CO2 from the air? No
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"The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer. Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, on
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by once_inc 4y ago
To my knowledge, he has yet to give a reasonable answer why Alameda was using FTX customer funds. He can't, because that should never have happened, and is considered fraud anywhere.
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by once_inc 4y ago
They probably changed his keepass or bitwarden main password, which effectively locks anyone using those products with generated passwords from entering into anything.
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by once_inc 4y ago
His Scifi reading list is great, though very much lacking at the end.
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by once_inc 4y ago
When is the head of the department going to do a televised interview? > https://youtu.be/B3xY6Ffy_wE?t=68
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by once_inc 4y ago
As time progresses my respect, love, and admiration for my parents increases. They didn't do a perfect job, but they did it perfectly.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Poaching is illegal. All practical issues with sedation and humane tusk removal aside: these guys need to work fast. They shoot the animal, race over to it, hack the tusks off at breakneck speed, then disappear. Penalties for poaching are g
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by once_inc 4y ago
Project Hail Mary is such an awesome book. Great buildup, an intriguing plot slowly unfolding with an inquisitive problem solver caught in the middle. I would recommend this book to anyone and everyone.
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Dahaka Khagrabari, the world's only third-order enclave when it existed(en.wikipedia.org)
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by once_inc 4y ago
The curtains are slowly getting pulled aside for the "crypto" ecosystem. Tokens on tokens on centralized or non-scaling systems that generate "yield" without really specifying where the yield comes from. Vitalik is indee
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by once_inc 4y ago
I consider Bitcoin decentralized; what makes you consider it a facade?
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by once_inc 4y ago
Well, the first is realized, the second is currently underway. I guess the creator would be happy to be mentioned along these projects.
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by once_inc 4y ago
And privacy coins come with the appended issue that software issues could hide an inflation bug, which isn't provable at that moment. Is Bitcoin anonymous? Nope, but with some diligence, you can be quite protected.
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by once_inc 4y ago
You guessed wrong.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Bitcoin is provably the only decentralized system that has permissionless, borderless, digital scarcity. Other cryptocurrencies are less secure (the many direct forks, such as Bitcoin Cash and the like), less decentralized (Solana, BNB), le
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by once_inc 4y ago
"Crypto" is useless. Bitcoin isn't. Maximalists have been warning against this stuff happening for nearly a year now. Ever since Luna collapsed, those voices grew louder, but the yield-farming degenerates chose not to listen.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Consider it such: there is a company that wants bitcoin to stay above 15k. Every time the order books show a significant decline below 15k, that company issues new tokens that are treated as dollars by exchanges in order to buy bitcoin. Thi
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by once_inc 4y ago
Is there also an overview of all 555-XXXX phone numbers used in movies and what they are for? 555-0001 is used in Die Hard With a Vengeance for instance. Would be fun to see if any of the numbers are used more or less often.
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by once_inc 4y ago
It's official now; let's see if any other crypto companies will also fall. Looking at BlockFi and Nexo specifically.
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by once_inc 4y ago
On the other hand, fiat isn't doing very well either. The financial system is breaking down like a slow motion train wreck we're all just sitting at the sidelines watching.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Aside from millions of people having access to dollars via stablecoins? Or the ability to escape an oppressive government with capital controls? Or donating to organisations that aren't in the governments graces, like Wikileaks? Or pre
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by once_inc 4y ago
DeFi is however possible on Bitcoin, and the decision for pretty much every Defi company to build it on another chain that is a) less decentralized b) less secure or c) less permissionless means that all of those products inherit those risk
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by once_inc 4y ago
> it seems so hard to grok that they couldn't have modelled all of this risk properly I think they did, but their management got greedy and overly hopeful that Bitcoin was going to break 100k last year. This is a trend in crypto for
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by once_inc 4y ago
It reminded me of this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/12eggw/comment/... It remains one of the best posts on that platform imho, and unlike this article, is actually corre
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by once_inc 4y ago
Which was controversial in my country from the onset, and which has recently become even more controversial when it was revealed that Pfizer didn't actually test for transmission prevention in their product. Not trying to shoehorn this
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> So in our little thought experiment, (...), our bugs-per-windshield metric would have been cut by two-thirds even if the number of bugs had remained constant. And it hasn’t! It’s fallen precipitously. This could also be a function of b

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