rndphs

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by rndphs 5y ago
I think you can usually refinance a fixed rate mortgage to an adjustable rate one at any point. Or refinance to a different fixed rate one with lower rates if the opportunity arises.
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by rndphs 5y ago
Yes it does. TikTok is known as Douyin in China. The company that owns TikTok is headquartered in Beijing, and Douyin was operating in China for years before TikTok was released in the west.
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by rndphs 5y ago
I think it's more that if someone builds a sufficiently large quantum computer for other purposes then it would also break bitcoin as a side effect.
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by rndphs 5y ago
I think if TikTok started as an American company and didn't have access to the FB-free Chinese market then it would have been crushed by Facebook in the American market before it could grow.
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by rndphs 5y ago
The way I understand it, is that with Q>1 in a confined plasma you no longer need external heating and can just let the fusion heat power the plasma. I.e. you "ignite" it and it burns within confinement (self-sustaining). Where
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by rndphs 5y ago
Interest rates are so low compared to inflation that in many places the real rates for mortgages are negative. This means that just having a mortgage increases your wealth more than it decreases it (because the value of the mortgage decreas
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by rndphs 5y ago
> The purpose of antitrust law is to prevent monopolies, not to prevent industry consolidation. Consolidation is fine in the eyes of the law, but monopolistic behavior isn't. The purpose of antitrust law is to prevent anticompetitiv
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by rndphs 5y ago
> If spacetime is continuous you effectively get infinite precision -> information density - at every point (of which there are an infinite number). This would be true if objects existed at perfectly local points. However we know that
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by rndphs 5y ago
> Wait, what? The golden ratio's in there?! No. Way! That's so cool. And the solution it's some random garbage, but pretty regimented. Neat-o! The golden ratio is the solution to x(x-1) = 1. And its reciprocal is the solut
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by rndphs 5y ago
The way I understand it is: Since 2008 central banks around the world lowered interest rates in order to stimulate investment. But for the first time ever, they set the interest rates to below the inflation rate. This below-inflation intere
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by rndphs 5y ago
You can simulate quantum dynamics but the number of bits required is exponential with respect to the number of qubits simulated. So basically you can simulate really simple quantum systems but it becomes pretty much intractable when the sys
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by rndphs 5y ago
> then and only then the human race should throw tens of billions at that. Yeah we should hold out before spending tens of billions on fusion research... Meanwhile, 1.5 trillion gets spent on a failed fighter jet program... The amount of