samvher

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by samvher 6y ago
A lot of energy is currently used for low-utility purposes (e.g. flying for meetings). There are also major opportunities for reduce-reuse-recycle that would not result in significant decreases in quality of life. I'm all for aiming fo
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by samvher 6y ago
Obligatory mention of Jevons Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by samvher 6y ago
I agree. I would say that Erlang goes ~80% of the way compared to Haskell's type system and the last 20% really matter, to the point that in many cases I find myself not really using Erlang's (optional) type system at all. Better
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by samvher 6y ago
Precision Agriculture for Development | Software Engineer (Python, SQL, R) | India (remote from India possible) We are hiring a software engineer to help automate some of our workflows and assist our team with data and dashboards. Our stack
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by samvher 6y ago
Do you have recommendations on where to find this stuff? I agree that there seems to be a lot of interesting work going on and the ideas of decentralized finance have a lot of potential. At the moment it really is hard to cut through the no
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by samvher 6y ago
> But the competition is fiat; backed by fighter jets and nukes; literally. How is it that someone can't steal your money? The bank makes sure. How is it the bank can be sure? The cops protect them. How is it the cops aren't ov
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by samvher 6y ago
Even though mining doesn't directly drive up the price of that GPU, it does do so indirectly. Miners push gamers out of the new GPU market so the gamers go elsewhere. And old GPUs can be pretty valuable for making it through the year (
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by samvher 6y ago
If I need to get a web service up and I can save 4 minutes by setting a low TTL when I configure my DNS record why wouldn't I?
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by samvher 6y ago
That sounds fantastic, I wished it was easy to find places like that.
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by samvher 6y ago
I may be suffering from this misconception so would be happy for you to explain more / share an explanation. Doesn’t more transactions mean more fees, so more incentive to mine?
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by samvher 6y ago
Wouldn't that just result in everyone buying with the currency in which the car is the cheapest at that point in time? Seems like a guaranteed loss on Tesla's end.
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by samvher 6y ago
> Mr Musk said: "Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin, not converted to fiat [government-controlled] currency" Bitcoin enthusiasts are very excited about this (e.g. on /r/CryptoCurrency)
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How Not to Panic About Inflation(nytimes.com)
1 points by samvher 6y ago|0 comments
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by samvher 6y ago
I haven't heard of Axios before - how would you characterize it? Looking at the website I can't quite tell if it's an aggregator or how they generate content, and if there is any particular leaning to what they host.
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by samvher 6y ago
Do you mean that fatfire folks calculate a greater margin to handle risk or the other way around?
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by samvher 6y ago
As someone who is about to get a first child - what kind of low lows should I brace myself for?
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by samvher 6y ago
I do think it's a market forces issue. But it's an issue where forces don't align with societal value (which I think is an extremely common problem in the modern economy). Back when musicians/publishers had real leverage
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by samvher 6y ago
When it comes to formal proofs of code, once you have a proof it is generally straightforward to verify (in the same way that you could for example evaluate a boolean expression). The problem is in finding the proofs - that's what requ
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by samvher 6y ago
At the risk of going slightly off-topic: I think it's interesting you mention "proving programs correct". My hunch is that formal proofs on code are currently too laborious to be useful in most business situations, but that t
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by samvher 6y ago
Do you have recommendations for how to go about 6? I've been moving into a more manager-like role and your list makes me a bit worried, though I was already considering this to be somewhat temporary. So far it's been a valuable ex
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by samvher 6y ago
I think the idea that the pressure to produce your wine as cheap as possible is only there for cheap wines is fiction. For expensive wines the same pressure is there, they want to make a profit. So while with expensive wines, potentially du
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by samvher 6y ago
When I read about DeFi I imagined it to be something very different from this. This does not sound sustainable at all. It does sound like a confirmation that this is growing very rapidly.
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by samvher 6y ago
Haha yes I noticed that. That made me wonder whether the numbers are any good, but those should normally be a little bit harder to exaggerate.
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Ask HN: How to think about crypto lending?
46 points by samvher 6y ago|45 comments
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by samvher 6y ago
Where are these thousands of % returns coming out of, if not out of thin air?
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by samvher 6y ago
Plenty of central banks seem interested in launching digital currencies. For me the main selling points of cryptocurrencies are programmability, easy international transactions, and potentially easy micro-transactions. Personally I don&#x27
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by samvher 6y ago
I largely agree. I think the field is exciting and interesting, and like many crypto fanatics say, there might be parallels with the early days of the internet. I think part of the reason it takes time for people to see the potential is tha
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Do you have specific recommendations among his writings?
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I think there are different parts to this though. Paying large salaries to personnel that do fund raising can be frustrating as a donor because to an extent this is a zero sum game: funds for one NGO mean less funds for another, in many cas
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by samvher 6y ago
Not sure if it's just me but it sounds like you're sort of making an argument in favor of NFTs here. The main argument against NFTs I hear is that what is being certified can just as easily be enjoyed by people who are not the c

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