swamp40

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by swamp40 4y ago
Where does one spend gold these days?
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by swamp40 4y ago
Looks very similar to old electromechanical telephone switching systems.
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by swamp40 4y ago
Same as what they did with Bluetooth and AirTags, AirPods, etc. They start with the standardized technology, do their little twist (which usually involves fixing some standardized bug that affects performance and people have been complainin
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Ford CEO says electric vehicles will be sold 100% online, nonnegotiable price(freep.com)
2 points by swamp40 4y ago|2 comments
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by swamp40 4y ago
A pay-for-data would be much more useful in my house. We have a 1TB/month limit that we are constantly going over. And the ATT analytics/tools won't let you pinpoint where it is going.
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by swamp40 4y ago
I wonder if him coming out as a Republic was a similar tactic as the "return to office" memo? He might be thinking he can get 5% of the people to quit just based on differences in values, making his remaining employees more homoge
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Surprise: The clouds of Venus do part(bigthink.com)
9 points by swamp40 4y ago|0 comments
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by swamp40 4y ago
The existing system would stay the same. A USD stablecoin would be something new - a cryptocurrency that is backed 1:1 by the USD and the US Government. It's too big of a job for private finances and too prone to corruption because th
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by swamp40 4y ago
Why do you think any stablecoin exists? What need do they solve?
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by swamp40 4y ago
Eventually, the US will figure this out and make a USD crypto that will be used as THE stablecoin. It seems obvious to me that a stablecoin needs a solid governmental backing, since there is no profit in it and you need unlimited deep pocke
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by swamp40 4y ago
Bitcoin isn't going to replace the USD anytime soon. USD stability is legendary. But imagine living in Argentina and working and saving your whole life just to see your life savings wiped out in a two week timeframe. Or you get on som
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Crypto Companies Are Turning to Bermuda as US Eyes Crackdown(bloomberg.com)
4 points by swamp40 4y ago|1 comments
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by swamp40 4y ago
Archive link: https://archive.ph/dJsfa
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by swamp40 4y ago
Mars
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by swamp40 4y ago
The majority of the buildup is because 99% of the parts are in, but production cannot start until the missing few parts appear. That's the genius of the bottleneck hording approach. But you still need ~$100 Billion dollars to pull it
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by swamp40 4y ago
I'm a design engineer. I've been crossing components almost every day for over a year now. There is no end in sight and it is getting worse. Companies will start to fail in 2023 if they can't ship product. And then the ripp
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by swamp40 4y ago
I consider this economic warfare. I suspect disruption and chaos are the end goal, and the monetary gain is just the cherry on top. Once the supply chain starts to catch up, they will dump everything at once and possibly ruin the manufactu
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by swamp40 4y ago
Hard to listen to someone talk about semiconductor/IC supply without mentioning China's cornering and hording of the semiconductor/IC market. There are bottlenecks in all electronic assemblies. Processors, crystals, speciali
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by swamp40 4y ago
> "The moon isn’t an obvious reservoir of water. “It’s really weird when you stop to think about it,” said Mark Robinson, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University. Its lack of atmosphere and extreme temperatures should caus
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by swamp40 4y ago
At my junior high, the band teacher had access to everyone's IQ test scores and went around scooping up all the smart people. Probably illegal now. Sure to skew any cognitive/music related studies.
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by swamp40 5y ago
> not sure where the proclivity to underestimate Russian military technology comes from They've been turned into bumbling idiots on Twitter and Reddit. It's a shame, but in my mind it is quite dangerous because sooner or later
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by swamp40 5y ago
Fantastic writing. A lot of 1970's manual transmission cars were like this. I had an early 70's AMC Gremlin. The shift knob was just a vertical rectangular rod. The transmission linkage were two parallel horizontal rods with a
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by swamp40 5y ago
I will simply repost an HN reply to you from two months ago: >Taking a look at your post history, you seem to spend a considerable amount of time defending China, what's up with that?
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by swamp40 5y ago
Another interesting tidbit I'd never heard: > And in September 2019, three months before the officially recognized start of the pandemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology took down its database of some 22,000 virus samples and seque
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by swamp40 5y ago
> In Bloom’s view, their disappearance raised the possibility that the Chinese government might be trying to hide evidence about the pandemic’s early spread. Piecing together clues, Bloom established that the NIH itself had deleted the
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by swamp40 5y ago
They should run it thru Google Brain's SR3 image enhancer. Or maybe that would give it a face?
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by swamp40 5y ago
>> *Obviously I don't practise any of what I talk about here*
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by swamp40 5y ago
What about the silence between notes? Copyrighted or no? Their Jingle Bells sounds horrible with no silent spaces.
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by swamp40 5y ago
I thought I read Apple invented USB-C then abandoned it for the lightning connector and made the USB-C IP freely available to everyone. Now you can see why. You didn't even mention the physical fragilities. The cables don't last,
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by swamp40 5y ago
It's a good theory, but I don't know how to prove it. Of course that's one cause. I'm concerned there are also cascading material shortage problems that have clogged up the system and may be preventing deliveries. I sus

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