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by pa7x1 5y ago
As I explained above, some assets protect you from inflation. Like stocks in companies with pricing power, real estate... But almost no assets protect you from the raise in the risk-free-rate that is usually following a high inflationary pe
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Is it? What if we go even farther? http://www.aboutinflation.com/_/rsrc/1369736776695/inflation... Without looking back at the wealth inequality chart. What would you say was the result of the highly deflatio
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by pa7x1 5y ago
I think you are confusing two things. The poor may struggle to reach ends-meet more than the rich, of course. But that doesn't mean that relatively speaking inflation is a regressive tax that the poor have to carry the burden of dispro
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Inflation does not affect (relatively speaking) the poorest more. On the contrary, it's a tax on people that have a lot of cash or cash-equivalent assets. That's not the poor. The poor have either very little cash or even negative
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Not a fan of downvoting for contributions that are on topic, in fact I can't downvote on HN and I think I prefer it that way. But there is a reason why what he posts is just non-sense. Cardano doesn't scale farther than Ethereum o
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by pa7x1 5y ago
> But storing things off-chain kinda kills the entire concept, doesn't it? If I hack into DigitalOcean I can mess everybody's NFTs by tampering with one database. It's not about storing off-chain, you compute off-chain and
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by pa7x1 5y ago
I'm myself a big nuclear proponent and I would like to see bigger funding towards achieving fusion. With that said, nuclear cannot solve the issues mentioned. It's great for base-load but not great to handle renewable energy varia
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by pa7x1 5y ago
I think this is the way. The only way to go truly green is to install over capacity of renewables and store the excess to handle their variability. I haven't done the math but I have the impression that Li-Ion storage at that scale is
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by pa7x1 5y ago
There is no scientific experiment in the canonical sense that could confirm it due to ethical concerns. Once it was accepted that aerosol transmission occurs, since it is a much easier form of transmission it's very easy to tag all inf
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Decentralized pools like Rocketpool do lead to more decentralization and are almost not affected by the economies of scale issue mentioned above (there is a small commission to pay to the operator). While pooling hashpower doesn't solv
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by pa7x1 5y ago
How is it more centralized than PoW? I see multiple factors that hamper decentralization: - Fixed costs that act as barrier of entry - Economies of scale that lead to centralization - Geographic factors (operation costs being different in d
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by pa7x1 5y ago
The stakers of even an entire state like Texas represent a rather small percentage of all ETH stakers. So the extra punishment is rather small. It will likely be much bigger if you use Coinbase/Kraken/... or any other centralized
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by pa7x1 5y ago
On the contrary, penalties are higher the more nodes go out at the same time. If you centralize you expose yourself to higher penalties if something goes awry. The incentives of the system are designed to prevent centralization.
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by pa7x1 5y ago
This is not true. Relativity doesn't forbid and is not in contradiction with supraluminal phenomenona. You need to impose additional constraints on the theory (e.g., real mass conditions) to get rid of them.
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Not an expert but I could imagine some local negative effects. Salt concentration may get higher in the area where the brine is returned. Depending on volume, currents, etc...
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Math is useless, says Hacker News commenter. More news at 11.
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Cymer is not the only company producing EUV sources. There are some Japanese companies that do produce them too, (e.g. Ushio). And ASML itself uses Trumpf's (Germany) lasers instead of Cymer. https://www.laserfocusworld.com&
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by pa7x1 5y ago
https://beaconcha.in/ This is the Proof of Stake Ethereum explorer. There is over 5 M ETH staked at thr moment which gives the value given above at current market prices. In truth, that's more of a lower bound because
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by pa7x1 5y ago
The hard part is not the data structure behind it (Merkle tree) but the economics. An entirely new branch of economics has spun of it and it's far from trivial.
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by pa7x1 5y ago
100% agree, HATEOAS is rather useless for machine-to-machine. And it shouldn't come as a surprise that most APIs decide to not commit to this design constraint. I prefer to think of real-world APIs as coming in varying degees of RESTfu
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by pa7x1 5y ago
Ethereum layer 1 is processing closer to 20 per second. In particular, it did 1716000 in the last 24 h. Ethereum's layer 2 can handle tens of thousands transactions per second. These are then settled on chain as a single transaction. T
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by pa7x1 5y ago
I can only speak for myself but this is my anec-data. I was having recurrent pain in the muscles near the shoulder blades, got rid of my regular 150 $ office chair and got a Herman Miller Aeron. The pain is gone. Having the ability to confi
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by pa7x1 6y ago
It's the same in LHC there are two experiments that run independently, ATLAS and CMS. For exactly this reason. The Higgs was discovered by both independently with higher than 5 sigma each. The combined sigma of the 2 experiments was 7-
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by pa7x1 6y ago
This is absolutely untrue. Charles Hoskinson left the Ethereum Foundation in June 2014. The DAO hack occurred in June 2016. He left because he wanted the Ethereum Foundation to be a for-profit while the rest of founders were looking to make
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by pa7x1 6y ago
Thank you, good excuse to give it a new listen today. I have a soft spot for "The Survivor's Suite", I think is his album I return the most often to.
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by pa7x1 6y ago
We have already done so, the first production was potentially at a loss if the Phase 3 results were not good. And we have done so for each vaccination effort out there. So there is already a lot of oversupply we may be throwing. To be clear
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by pa7x1 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation, it seems you have a more nuanced view due to having a broader exposure and understanding of music and musical theory so I appreciate your viewpoints.
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by pa7x1 6y ago
There is some backstory regarding the piano that Jarrett was given for the Köln Concert being broken [0]. That may have forced him to improvise a lot more as whatever pre-composed melodies he could use as a crutch may have not been workable
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by pa7x1 6y ago
Vaccine production started way before the Phase 3 results were out. You cannot know ahead of time for which vaccines you should make a strong bet. Now we can prop-up production of the successful vaccines and they are doing so. Anyway, getti
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by pa7x1 6y ago
Most developed countries seem to be able to deploy close to 100% of the vaccines provided so far, modulo whatever strategy they have chosen regarding keeping some amount of second doses in storage. So that doesn't seem to be bottleneck

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