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by once_inc 4y ago
> It is hard to believe later generations were always just too impatient to bother doing top quality work. I very much feel that this is an exact mirror of what we see today in modern construction: simpler, _cheaper_ materials, less time
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by once_inc 4y ago
Depending on the weight, it could also be used in flight, automotive, industry, or even construction. Very cool new frontier!
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by once_inc 4y ago
Comedy gold, in a very interesting way. Will it start inserting sponsorships for GPT-3 and Dall-E after reaching 10k listeners? Will it be listened to by other AIs? Are the episode thumbnails generated images after a prompt created by a tl-
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by once_inc 4y ago
This feels very much like a post that will be followed by a future post titled: "Lessons learned losing 200k in a flash crash". These sorts of systems and models often work until they don't . Often, there is a hidden risk th
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by once_inc 4y ago
Not for me, no.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Honest question: doesn't the production of battery and photovoltaic cells require quite an investment of rare elements and significant carbon emission?
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by once_inc 4y ago
Protocol Labs on Youtube has a great video on this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA Very much worth spending a half an hour on.
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by once_inc 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33074289
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by once_inc 4y ago
Steve Jobs remains such an interesting mix of focussed attention to detail, obscure decision making, and flamboyantly anti-social behaviour that I still struggle to make up my mind about whether he as a person was someone I think generally
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by once_inc 4y ago
There is no third party to have agreements with. There is only the government, the account holder, and the private key.
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by once_inc 4y ago
As another comment here notes: there is a different meaning behind the words 'seize' and 'control' when used by the government. Seizure doesn't equate control, and in the case of Bitcoin private keys, this differenc
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by once_inc 4y ago
People have died for less. You are assuming everyone has the same kind of morals and ethics as yourself.
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by once_inc 4y ago
With regards to differentiating prices of products by category over time, this chart looks relevant: http://www.roseassociates.ca/20-years-of-price-changes-in-th... "The Price of Tomorrow" by Jeff Booth really nai
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by once_inc 4y ago
Imagine sending in a hard-core, 2009-era bitcoiner with a single address containing 10k bitcoin. The bitcoiner isn't going to hand over his coins for any reason (including torture, torture of family members, bribery, etc). How does the
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by once_inc 4y ago
I'm not attacking Alex de Vries as a person; just showing how his position makes him suspect of bias. https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/ "For those reasons, whether Bitcoin continues to be successful or
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by once_inc 4y ago
What makes you say those claims are falling flat? Nigerians are heavily using Bitcoin and the LN for financial privileges. Check some of Alex Gladstein's (CSO at Human Rights Foundation) articles.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Please note that this is a piece of a larger whole. The "21 lessons" by Der Gigi are the origin for this piece.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Methane is 10x as powerful as a greenhouse gas, and reducing methane is far more relevant to combatting climate change than fighting CO2 emissions. The research you referenced is sourced eventually to Alex de Vries, a person that has for ye
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by once_inc 4y ago
Note that most of those retorts aren't backed by any sort of sources, and that the one comment that does refers to Alex de Vries, who is basically the single source of energy FUD for the past 7 or so years. Alex de Vries also works for
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by once_inc 4y ago
Perhaps you should check out the Cantillion effect, and research fractional reserve banking. Both are clear financial systems that greatly benefit the extremely rich.
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by once_inc 4y ago
It would destroy a nascent financial system that would empower billions of people in the world. You are basically saying: a baby dying in their cradle wouldn't generate as much impact as a harvard professor dying. Well, it wouldn'
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by once_inc 4y ago
Both > other cryptocurrencies which function better than Bitcoin in every aspect and > Block lattice tech has been around for seven years now, utterly disproving that statement are false statements of fact. To date, there have been no
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by once_inc 4y ago
Note that this can be forked into Bitcoin if this feature turns out to be very desirable.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Bitcoin is rapidly turning into a net carbon negative industry because of using bitcoin miners to prevent methane release into the atmosphere. It is literally the single best solution to make prevention of methane emissions in landfills and
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by once_inc 4y ago
Please note that Bitcoin's energy consumption is nothing compared to other industries, and that it is rapidly becoming a net carbon negative industry because of the use of miners to prevent methane emissions.
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by once_inc 4y ago
Bitcoin having an unfair wealth distribution isn't a problem beyond just that; early adopters were heavily subsidised for the risk they were taking. Unlike under a Fiat standard, that uneven distribution doesn't benefit them beyon
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by once_inc 4y ago
Der Gigi is very effluent and philosophical Bitcoin proponent, that has written lots of great articles about Bitcoin. I perceive Hacker News to be generally negative towards Bitcoin, and feel that his articles should help bridge a gap betwe
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Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity(dergigi.com)
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by once_inc 4y ago
Google is extracting more and more information from the sites in the search results, and displaying that information above the actual results. This negatively impacts the sites that the information is harvested from, since users just accept
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by once_inc 4y ago
> If a hacker knows your first and last name, a couple of quick guesses (say janedoe or jdoe) and they're halfway to accessing your account. I disagree with this mostly. While finding out the username might lead to an issue where re

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