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by runeks 5y ago
I flagged this because the linked PDF does not support the claim in the title. I think it would be more appropriate to link to an article that supports the claim.
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by runeks 5y ago
> […] our inflation index goes hand to hand with our USD:ARS, even even below that (intuitevly it may be a problem). The solution seems so simple to me: drop the ARS and use USD as the national currency. Your inflation is just trying to
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by runeks 5y ago
No, they measure it at the wall minus idle usage: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc... But you’re right that this is not with the GPU loaded.
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by runeks 5y ago
> The 100W M1 Max includes NPU, Media Engine, 8 Channel ( Or 16 depending how you want to count them ) memory controller, SSD Controller and GPU. It maxes out at 40W, not 100W (according to the Anandtech measurement).
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by runeks 5y ago
> The crazy thing about using a Macbook Pro (with an M1 Pro or M1 Max CPU) is that, in single-threaded performance, it's really no faster than a dippy little Macbook Air. That “dippy little M1 MacBook Air” is damn fast. Even for sin
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by runeks 5y ago
> Another suggestion around `let`: consider splitting it into two operations, for creating a new column and for modifying an existing one. E.g. called `let` and `set`. Couldn’t we just not allow modifying an existing column? Ie. we would
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A man who called the financial crisis 70 years early (2010)(archive.ph)
1 points by runeks 5y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
> What is the critical difference? Whether the stuff you’re observing can read and understand your observations, and then choose to do the exact opposite.
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by runeks 5y ago
The application of Bitcoin is also crystal clear: distributed, digital money. It’s like gold, but electronic, and therefore much faster/cheaper in certain scenarios (and slower/more expensive in others). Reasonable people disagree
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by runeks 5y ago
> Whoa that second link.. that guy is so lucky this didn't turn into a full blown tsunami. That is what a full blown tsunami looks like, based on watching many YouTube videos on the subject. Bear in mind this is only a minute of f
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by runeks 5y ago
> Modern economists talking about "interest rates" are talking about the base interest rate which is the cost of bank borrowing which creates new money . I find it interesting how fundamentally this "base interest rat
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by runeks 5y ago
How do you determine the market value of a domain? Just let the highest bidder win? Should we let a bunch of black hats purchase google.com if they can extract more value from it than Google can (and are therefore willing to pay more for it
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by runeks 5y ago
Would it be secure to encrypt a sequence of blocks by having the next integer be H(k) — such that the random integer for block number i is H applied to the original random integer ( k ) i times? Thus needing only an initial random integ
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by runeks 5y ago
The problem is that I’m so spoiled that I want a phone that’s both good for consumption and for typing, not one for each task.
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by runeks 5y ago
> 3. Arweave > Permanent storage using incentives and built on the idea of storage getting cheaper. […] How does this compare to existing implementations of the same idea such as STORJ?
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by runeks 5y ago
> 2. Unlock > This is membership protocol powered by nft. […] How is this preferable to just having the client generate a local private key and authenticating using public key cryptography?
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by runeks 5y ago
> 1. Handshake This is what Namecoin[1] tried to do using the Bitcoin blockchain ten years ago without success. This gets reinvented about every year on top of every new blockchain, and none of these implementations have proven useful ye
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by runeks 5y ago
I enjoy using my iPhone for consuming content as much as I hate using it for typing. I have a hard time coming up with a worse typing experience than that of a series of tiny buttons on a touch screen. My first phone was a Nokia 3310, and t
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by runeks 5y ago
This disgusts me. The president should not have the power to free anyone from prison. If the laws are broken then (attempt to) change those, but otherwise you’re just saying “yeah, you’re guilty, but I like you so you don’t need to serve yo
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by runeks 5y ago
> […] so the result is a negative number. No, the result is a parser failure. That’s what the error message[1] says, at least. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775547
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by runeks 5y ago
> If web3 people cared about decentralization, then starting a private ledger should be as easy as starting a private IP network, or even easier. Why would people want to start a "private ledger"? What's the use case? And
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by runeks 5y ago
> If nvidia straight up just stopped selling any cards, declined all their client/customer base, and just put 100% of their global output to mining cryptocurrencies, I think it's a good chance nvidia can do a 50%+1 attack on bo
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by runeks 5y ago
> Computationally they're not much behind ASICs per $ […] Is this really true for Bitcoin? I’ve been out of the mining game for a long time, but ~5 years ago this certainly wasn’t true. Back then GPUs were at least an order of magni
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by runeks 5y ago
> Since then, pricing using a replication portfolio in this way has been a cornerstone of financial maths - the price of a thing and a perfect hedge/replacement for the thing must be the same. And the reason for this is arbitrage. I
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by runeks 5y ago
> Sane and coherent NULL Handling In my opinion, you will never achieve this if you insist on NULL being defined by the language itself. Make NULL a library construct and let library authors compete on how to handle absent values.
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Implementing a Functional Language with Graph Reduction(thma.github.io)
3 points by runeks 5y ago|0 comments
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by runeks 5y ago
Dynamic linking is not a language feature, it’s a feature of the operating system. If we’re talking about dynamic loading, there are plenty of languages that don’t support this natively, but only through its C bindings (e.g. Haskell).
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by runeks 5y ago
True, but that doesn’t make it better.
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by runeks 5y ago
A protocol is an API, not frontend (HTML/CSS). You having your own social network amounts to one protocol, but it can’t compete with Facebook unless other people’s custom social network can exchange friends/followers with yours. F
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by runeks 5y ago
But by that (lack of) definition everything is art. Which makes this interpretation useless.

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