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by patmcc 3y ago
Looks like gold mined gets diverted to: 47% investment and central1 banks 45% jewellery 7% tech/industrial applications See https://www.statista.com/statistics/299609/gold-demand-by-in... and https:/&#x
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by patmcc 3y ago
There's a few big problems, at least on the "friend-to-friend" transfer. 1) You kinda need everybody on board. The biggest banks in the US have something like 5% market share, so it's not just 3 companies you need to g
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by patmcc 3y ago
Give me a ballpark for the relative market share of "bitcoin as speculation" vs "bitcoin as currency". I'd estimate it as...oh...98% speculation, and I think I'm being generous.
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>As a shareholder you cannot be held accountable for losses of the company This is true. This could also change on the whim of a government. I don't think that's likely, but in a revolution? Who can say.
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by patmcc 3y ago
The alternative to responding with SWAT isn't to do nothing, it's to respond with a less dangerous force (two/three/four officers in-uniform, knocking). We could easily default to non-SWAT unless there's very good e
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by patmcc 3y ago
That depends entirely on how many "my husband is going crazy with a shotgun" calls they get, doesn't it?
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>Some programs use a "last occurrence wins" approach, while other programs (e.g. sshd) use a "first occurrence wins" approach. A bunch of applications at my job use a config-loading library that will fail on s
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by patmcc 3y ago
Ok. What about 20ft off the ground? 50? 100? 200? 350? You see the issue, yah?
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by patmcc 3y ago
What if I fly a helicopter 10 feet off the ground, in the area of the park. Is that 'over' or 'through'?
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by patmcc 3y ago
They'll get blocked and/or sued. And break every time the site changes.
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by patmcc 3y ago
They don't want 3rd party mobile apps. That's it. It's entirely transparent, to the point that I really don't understand why Reddit doesn't just say it.
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by patmcc 3y ago
That depends a lot on the license - some require attribution, some don't, some care not a bit (in that they don't permit copying).
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by patmcc 3y ago
Because cat lovers will help if you do TNR, but not if you catch and kill. People (not me) love their "friendly neighborhood" cats, but most of them recognize that allowing them to breed isn't ideal. Maybe you can convince th
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by patmcc 3y ago
It's 7 times the price, I sure hope the hardware is better. I don't expect $200 phones to be on par with $1500 iphones either. They're going for different markets. Meta is trying to be the VR kids get for Christmas and people
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by patmcc 3y ago
One way I like to think about progress: there are things that are (basically) post-scarcity. Things that have become either too cheap to meter or close to it (for an average "western" consumer, at least). Light. Water. Ice. Calori
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by patmcc 3y ago
Anything is a more likely explanation than crash-landed alien spaceships.
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by patmcc 3y ago
Regardless of protocol, yes only one person/org should be in control of (and able to obtain certs for) a particular domain. Unless you're suggesting Person A should have port 443 on www.something.com and Person B should have port
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by patmcc 3y ago
It's security through novelty. No one has bothered to write a bot solver for these yet. They will, soon enough, if it's protecting anything worthwhile, but that's some other engineers problem.
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by patmcc 3y ago
...this is a joke, right?
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by patmcc 3y ago
Marriage doesn't automatically include children either. As for the easy escape hatch...a marriage is as simple to dissolve as the parties make it. An acrimonious common-law relationship (if your jurisdiction has such things) is easily
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by patmcc 3y ago
>>>To shoot down an ICBM you need to hit it with a similar mass at a similar speed Why would it need to be a similar mass?
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by patmcc 3y ago
Owners are very distinct from users. What percent of that 7% have ever bought or sold anything using crypto (other than when they obtained it)?
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by patmcc 3y ago
It's a tradeoff. They could let (or require) a password be entered to encrypt/decrypt it on each device, but then people would be ticked off when they forget their password and can't recover their 2FA stuff. They should have
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by patmcc 3y ago
Smartphones changed access to cameras fundamentally; it went from something you had to specifically go buy to something you already have by default. Film to digital was also huge, for sure, but we're now at a level where >80% of peo
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by patmcc 3y ago
The current US tax law is flipping (with no rollout period) between dev salaries being 100% expensed (over 1 year) and 100% amortized (over 5 or 15 years). You actually could make some distinction between those two poles without being able
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by patmcc 3y ago
Charitably, smartphones made photography a hobby/art form/vocation accessible to almost everyone . We all carry a "good enough" camera in our pockets. So it's really opened up the hobby to a ton of people. I don&#x
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by patmcc 4y ago
It depends. If you have a truck - capital asset - the oil changes are probably opex, but replacing the transmission is probably capex. Regular sweeping and cleaning of a building is likely opex, upgrading the wiring capex. Software I can ce
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by patmcc 4y ago
Nifty3929 explains this well, let me just add that good accounting rules try to minimize how much you can tweak by "build" vs "buy". Like building a $1b factory or buying one, if you intend to keep and use it to make car
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by patmcc 4y ago
They sort of are, and they sort of aren't. If Ford builds a car factory, that's a capital asset - the costs should be amortized against the useful life of the factory. So if it costs $10 million and lasts for 10 years, they can ex
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by patmcc 4y ago
Your ISP entirely blocked netflix? That's incredible shitty.

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