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by rmah 6y ago
I hope this ban spreads, not because of the air pollution, but because of the noise pollution. I hate when those things wake me up or keep me from enjoying my terrace.
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by rmah 6y ago
A smart contract is literally code. It compiles to a bytecode that is executed on a turing-complete virtual machine (EVM) within a restricted environment (the blockchain).
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by rmah 6y ago
The use of the term "contract" in computational blockchains like ethereum and binance smart chain is a bit of a misnomer. They aren't actual contracts in the sense that they are agreements between 2 or more parties. They ar
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by rmah 6y ago
The wealth distribution of bitcoin is even worse than the wealth distribution of society as a whole. Further, I suspect that this would be the typical state for any finite/limited asset. IMO, things like bitcoin (and gold) as a prima
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by rmah 6y ago
What does that have to do with scientists?
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by rmah 6y ago
Given that scientists had essentially zero say in the food pyramid, I fail to see how it's relevant here.
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by rmah 6y ago
That all depends on what you mean by "money". And this is the root of the problem for people not neck deep in the financial system in evaluating metrics about the financial system. This is why there are different numbers for dif
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by rmah 6y ago
There was a change in regulations in May 2020 which changed how banks classified some deposit accounts which effectively changes how the Fed defined M1 money. IIRC, it was related to what sorts of liquid deposits were counted as M1 vs not
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by rmah 6y ago
Yes. And to make it even more confusing, there are often plants/animals that have wildly varying appearance but are actually the same species: e.g. great danes/chihuahuas or cabbage/broccoli
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by rmah 6y ago
Rising interest rates will only make new debt more expensive for governments. Existing debt will actually become cheaper as rates rise. If rates rise high enough, they could actually call (buy back) the bonds early for less than face va
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by rmah 6y ago
Central banks do not issue bonds. What they've been doing is buying bonds issued by national governments. Usually on the public markets, not directly. Where do they get the money to buy the bonds? Why they just magically create i
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by rmah 6y ago
You can see where your tax dollars go now (except for the classified items, but even there you can see the totals). You can get detailed breakdowns of nearly everything, including salaries. For example, you can see every NYC employee sala
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by rmah 6y ago
High profit margins for eink are the main cost driver
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by rmah 6y ago
I'm no lawyer, but that sounds like tax fraud to me.
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by rmah 6y ago
In the 1990's the thing to do was work in management consulting or finance (in the USA at least). Eleven out of the dozen or so people I knew graduated MIT in 1989 and 1990 went to work for big name management consulting firms or wall
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by rmah 6y ago
They need to know where your primary residence is. Because of things like payroll taxes, social security taxes, income tax withholding and unemployment insurance. Which vary by state and (sometimes) city. Not knowing means the company
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by rmah 6y ago
Just FYI, Hōryū-ji is a temple built of wood that has lasted 400 to 1300 years (parts have been repaired over the centuries). It's all about how you care for the building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C5%8Dry%C
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by rmah 6y ago
I was curious as to the cost of bricks so I did a bit of research... A standard two-cell "cinder block" in the US weighs around 17.5kg and costs around $2.00 at home depot [1]. I suspect they'll be much cheaper in bulk. May
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by rmah 6y ago
For some industries, it's not just correct, but very correct :-). I have a bit of experience in working with a financial industry group that coordinated with regulators in different nations (US, EU, UK, Japan, Brazil, Singapore, etc.)
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by rmah 6y ago
Of course I have. But that's not what she described. From what I read it was a near obsession, consuming her thoughts on a near constant basis. THAT is what I found foreign. And of course being more attractive makes life easier. Di
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by rmah 6y ago
It feels to me like the article just sets up a bunch of straw men to knock down. To start with, when most companies say "we only hire top 1% talent" in the context of software development, they don't really mean talent as som
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by rmah 6y ago
I usually don't read articles like this, but it was so well written that I was sort of sucked into it. What was most interesting to me was not the various controversies about body aesthetics or even health consequences. What stood out
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by rmah 6y ago
The reality is that humans consume a fixed amount of resources and have a variety of jobs that produce value. That is not the reality at all. People in industrialized economies today have, on average, vastly higher standards of living an
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by rmah 6y ago
Most cars made today are absurdly high quality compared to when I was a youth 40 years ago. A typical car made in the 1980's would be lump of rust and barely functional after 50,000 miles. Nearly any car made today is still almost li
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by rmah 6y ago
Yes. I've heard from a few sources connected with the Tesla that Musk felt that engineers (both design and process) from existing US auto companies were "yesterdays news" who were not up to Tesla's standards. Turned out
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by rmah 6y ago
Back when I was starting out, what your describing was called an "systems analyst".
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by rmah 6y ago
This is going to sound like a rant, but I really don't mean it that way. I'm not trying to make a value judgement. GNU picked the term "malware" on purpose. I think the purpose was to (slightly) confuse, connect a know
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by rmah 6y ago
Yeah, I get it, these volunteers found the time to work on this one project and therefore get more of a say about what changes will be made, but you know what? They don't get "more of a say", they get ALL the say. This is
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by rmah 6y ago
If you own stock and it's at a broker, mutual fund, in an ETF, a retirement fund... then you have probably lent out your shares to shorters.
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by rmah 6y ago
What fraud? There's no fraud involved in shorting.

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