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901.
by runeks 6y ago
> GDP can in some ways be thought of as a measure of conversion of natural resources into monetary capital. How so? When I pay my accountant to do my taxes, it adds to GDP. How is this “ conversion of natural resources into monetary capi
902.
by runeks 6y ago
> The fees are as large as banks', if not larger. The fee does not depend on transaction value, so the greater the value transferred the smaller the fee in percent. Bank transfer fees are a percentage of value transferred, in my exp
903.
by runeks 6y ago
Wait, haven’t they published a white paper?
904.
Court Denies SEC’s Request Seeking Years of Financial Records from Ripple Execs(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by runeks 6y ago|0 comments
905.
by runeks 6y ago
> I wonder how you'll find out about stuff you didn't know you needed to care about. Hacker News
906.
Bitcoin option traders seek to profit from widening ‘contango’(finance.yahoo.com)
2 points by runeks 6y ago|0 comments
907.
by runeks 6y ago
I don’t get it. This “leaked” information looks like something that would be displayed on a public website for each user. As far as I can see it’s just public information, like user names and avatars on e.g. stack overflow.
908.
by runeks 6y ago
What problem does this solve?
909.
“We are giddy”–interviewing Apple about its Mac silicon revolution(arstechnica.com)
2 points by runeks 6y ago|2 comments
910.
by runeks 6y ago
I would have preferred if this were a database leak. At least that would have shown some effort towards protecting user data. The fact that it was acquired through a public-facing API makes it much worse, in my opinion, as it shows Facebook
911.
by runeks 6y ago
I agree. And therefore market cap is useless as a measure of value, which is what I'm critiquing.
912.
by runeks 6y ago
No, it’s not the same with stocks. With stocks, as a majority holder, you can make the minority an offer that everyone is forced to accept if a majority of the minority accepts it. This is why market cap is relevant to the stock market, but
913.
by runeks 6y ago
I challenge you to create a piece of hardware that can execute Lisp faster than a modern x86 CPU. This compromise was chosen because you can’t without spending billion of dollars.
914.
by runeks 6y ago
Did we really “lose” the Lisp Machine, or did we just realize that compiling Lisp to a general-purpose instruction set like x86 and then having someone else in charge of creating hardware to efficiently execute that is much more clever?
915.
by runeks 6y ago
Exactly. Inside MobileCoin, transaction amounts are disguised. But if every MobileCoin transaction is preceded and succeeded by conversion into national currency at a centralized exchange (to whom you are not anonymous) then using MobileCoi
916.
by runeks 6y ago
The MobileCoin consensus protocol does not use proof-of-work, so CO2 emissions should be negligible compared to e.g. Bitcoin.
917.
by runeks 6y ago
It is centralization. The central authority is Intel.
918.
by runeks 6y ago
> MobileCoin only began trading as an actual currency with real value in December of last year—until then, it was running as a valueless "testnet"—and its 250 million coins, at around $69 each, are currently worth almost $17 bi
919.
by runeks 6y ago
How would Rust check at compile-time whether an array index read from a file on disk (at runtime) is out of bounds?
920.
by runeks 6y ago
Wouldn’t it make more sense to compare it to being injected with some other substance, instead of comparing it to “not being injected with anything at all”? I’m certainly no doctor, but I assume there is some risk associated with injectin
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by runeks 6y ago
> How would we would/could we chose between the rights of two different population segments? What is there to choose between unless we force people to take the vaccine?
922.
by runeks 6y ago
Devil’s advocate: could it simply be that someone spent 5 months optimizing queries for MySQL before switching to Postgres? Such that Postgres performance isn’t “worse”, it just doesn’t plan queries in the same way that MySQL does.
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Philosophies of Rust and Haskell(fpcomplete.com)
2 points by runeks 6y ago|0 comments
924.
by runeks 6y ago
> Afaik the value of the USD depends on the GDP / economic output of the country. No. The GDP increases every time a USD transaction happens (e.g. you buy a cup of coffee with USD). And an American buying a cup of coffee definitely
925.
by runeks 6y ago
I put up another site for that: https://haveibeenpwnedbyhaveibeenfacebookeddotcom.com Just enter your email and the site will tell you whether your email has been harvested by https://haveibeenfacebooked.com/
926.
by runeks 6y ago
Why not just enclose your strings in quotes and be done with it? As far as I can see, this has nothing to do with typing and everything to do with syntax (of literals). If strings were required to be quoted this problem wouldn’t appear. Thi
927.
by runeks 6y ago
This sounds like discounting a Bill of Exchange. Although the Bill of Exchange is drawn only against the delivery of a physical good, so this may be the difference between the two. For example, let's say I own a sheep farm. I hire peop
928.
by runeks 6y ago
I'm quite thrilled about this accurate analysis of the problematic aspect of using blockchains to solve arbitrary problems. However, I'd like to point out an issue with this paragraph: > For a long time, the only accurate appli
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Enterprise Blockchain Doesn’t Work Because It’s About the Real World(finance.yahoo.com)
22 points by runeks 6y ago|15 comments
930.
by runeks 6y ago
It’s also awful because it’s unnecessary when we can just define e.g. Option<T> at the library level.

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