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by sword_smith 7y ago
The market cap of Bitcoin is above 120bn USD, less than Apple and Facebook but more than Netflix. But that is still only about 0.1 to 1 % of its potential. So, big but in its infancy.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
This does not seem to include transactions on the Bitcoin Lightning network which are transaction that are handled offchain so they are not included in blocks. I don't have the exact number of lightning transaction ocurring but it is t
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Probably not but it is in my opinion very nice to have the ability to mock evertyhing if and when you need it.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I am designing financial software for the crypto industry and I definitely prefer the ability to 1) have a high test coverage, and 2) quickly be able to write regression tests. Without dependency injection with mockable objects, that would
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by sword_smith 7y ago
This setup is also what Google Cloud is using for their App Engine.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
It would seem to me that you wouldn't be able to mock all the classes if you followed this strategy.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
The biggest spike in the Phanerozoic was at the Permian extinction event 251m years ago and was caused by huge volcanic eruptions in Siberia that burned off coal deposits created in the Carboniferous era. See Figure 7 in this publication.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
This is really fascinating, thanks for the clarification. I know that data for CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere go back at least 541m years, i.e. the whole Phanerozoic. Does a similar dataset exist for methane?
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by sword_smith 7y ago
How is methane removed from the atmosphere and does a methane sink play a role in biology like CO2 does through photosynthesis?
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by sword_smith 7y ago
They (China and foreign dictators) find the openings they can in Western society and echo those narratives that are convenient for them. This is a very good analysis.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
What was the exact quote? The article doesn't mention it. I assume it was in support of the HK protestors.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
If there is a silver lining in this, it is that it is probably good for open source development. But since I am not a graphics guy, I don't know much about the state of open source image manipulation software.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Rightwing conservative capitalist here. This imperialistic US foreign policy is so destructive and so unfair. Sanctions and trade embargoes are an act of war, yet if Iran or Venezuela responds, the US declares it an attack and feels justifi
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Seeing that the instigator's post is the most downvoted I have ever come across on Stack Exchange, I thought of the saying "the Revolution devours its children".
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I like that the author has high standards for an editor. He should have. In my opinion VSCode and VS live up to his requirements about out of the box intellisense, inline definition peeking, and extensions that are easy to install (VS Code
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by sword_smith 7y ago
People worried about rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere should note that gas is not just out competing nuclear power but also coal which emits twice the amount of CO2 per energy unit produced. All in all it is probably a net positi
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by sword_smith 7y ago
"just" might not be the right word here. Electric cars existed in the 1890s but their range was too short. Which is exactly the same problem they have today. The problem of non-existent cheap energy storage has been around for mor
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I was studying nuclear engineering in Finland in 2011, and by reading BP's Statistical Report on World Energy I came to a conclusion which dismissed the reason that I had opted to go into the energy sector: the belief that we are runni
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I would live to see this. But are there any indications that this is actually happening?
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Absolutely. But not all land is created equal, most people want to live near a big jobs market, meaning near a big city. So the price of this land will inevitably go up.that being said, I am sure there is a lot municipalities could do to ma
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by sword_smith 7y ago
> So, the mother of all party crashers took a dump in the We IPO punch bowl. The crasher? Math. I laughed out loud when I read this.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
bboygravity: I agree with everything you just said except that deflation is bad for the economy in general. It doesn't have to be. The Guilded Age (Belle Epoque in Europe), 1871-1914 had several percentages of deflation each year and t
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by sword_smith 7y ago
A growing economy should all other things equal lead to a higher home ownership rate as the rising productivity means that fewer man hours are required to build a house. However the low interest rate environment the US (and the whole Wester
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by sword_smith 7y ago
Yes. But the high house prices feed through to higher land prices so the newly built houses will also be more expensive than they otherwise would have been.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I guess many people will not, and that this will lead to a higher rate of renting. That promotes economic inequality as the middle class is then prevented from entering an important way building savings: owning a house outright.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
When people borrow money for a house, they only consider the monthly payments for the mortgage and not the absolute amount of money they are borrowing. This means that low interest rates are the main reason behind surging house prices and i
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I use Entity Framework for C# and I have grown to appreciate it. I get libraries for in-memory databases which makes it easy to write thorough unit tests, the `Include` function uses join to include foreign key objects in an optimal manner,
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by sword_smith 7y ago
If Edward Snowden couldn't convince you of the existence of a deep state serving their own interests as opposed to the public's, I doubt anyone can.
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by sword_smith 7y ago
I thought this would be about the Cambrian Explosion but that is 541m years ago, and this alleged asteroid blew up 466m years ago according to the article. Both periods, The Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Eve
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by sword_smith 7y ago
"Also, I totally reject this on the basis that education is a public service that allows economic mobility - restricting it to the rich, whether in a public or private setting - is immoral." So because you have to pay for somethin

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