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by usehackernews 6y ago
Best way to describe the art market too
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by usehackernews 6y ago
Anyone can print out a picture of the Mona Lisa. Yet, millions go and visit it. Notice how you used the term ‘access’ instead of ‘own’ at the end of your question? Sure, anyone can access it, only you can own it. That’s why people give a sh
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You’re underestimating the complexity of the problem. Google Maps ETA’s are a simple problem compared to this because of the park and embark times & handoff variability. - Parking is different at every restaurant, some days you may get
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by usehackernews 6y ago
The point of the James Bond semester is more so about the lack of learning
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Counterfeit or pirated goods accounted $522 Billion or 3.3% of all global trade last year according to the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). And Shoes are the most counterfeited product in the world. 2 I don’t have specific shoes fig
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by usehackernews 6y ago
You can’t give 10 Fake Nikes the address of Nikes original wallet, that’s not how this works. You can’t just assign an NFT any address you want, this is all verified via smart contracts. The point of the block chain is that it’s immutable.
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The token does not notice, and that’s exactly what we want. As the original buyer, the token is already stored in my wallet when I bought the shoes from Nike. Whoever stole the item can try to sell it, but given they don’t own the wallet th
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by usehackernews 6y ago
There’s a massive forgery issue with physical items - Shoes, Fashion Brands, Art. The benefit of NFT for psychical goods isn’t so much proving who the current owner is as much as it is proving the historical ownership so the authenticity of
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by usehackernews 6y ago
You seem to have a good grasp of creating high level models. I always see people referring to the energy consumption of bitcoin as though it’s strictly additive. What I’d be interested to know is how it compares relative to energy costs for
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by usehackernews 6y ago
It’s not just your opinion, we are in a technological productivity stagnation and have been for years. https://youtu.be/_93CXTt2K7c - There is an associated research paper on this Ted talk.
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by usehackernews 6y ago
If you’re not sure what real problem bitcoin is solving then you are living in a bubble. 30% of the world unbanked. Bitcoin provides a way for them to store their money.
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Yes, mining pools are aggregating. None are at 51%. But, the risk is bad actors, not the mining pools. Hypothetically, if a mining pool had 51% hash rate, why in the world would they tank the price of the asset their entire business is base
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Bitcoin is offering the 30%+ of the worlds population that is unbanked an opportunity to do so. Bitcoin is providing those living in a poor economy a route to economic alternatives.
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Your naivety of bitcoin use cases is very stuck in the Silicon Valley perspective. Not everyone has ways to store their money, earn interest on money, and receive loan opportunities. Bitcoins accessibility to people without banks is an extr
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All global companies with cash reserves try to maximize returns via currency and other investments and hedges.
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by usehackernews 6y ago
Bitcoin is 12 years old. It’s very very young. Problems will be addressed as it matures. Further, every currency has problems. Is USD perfect in your mind and without it’s own unique set of issues?
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Proof-of-stake consensus is one answer to this. It’s what the Ethereum network is implementing.
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I think you’re quite misinformed. This would take many many many billions, not “many millions” as you said. The daily trading volume for bitcoin is $64 billion. Buying “many millions” worth of bitcoin would not achieve what you’re proposing
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by usehackernews 6y ago
I state that CRISPR benefits researchers. However, that is still a niche benefit relative to the long term societal benefits we anticipate from CRISPR.
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CRISPR is a great example of a technology that has not yet made a meaningful economic contribution. Although the technique for editing DNA was discovered in 2012—and a Nobel Prize was awarded to its two discoverers this year—no treatment us
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Let’s definitely chat - Shoot me an email to dpublicemail@protonmail.com
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Seems you understand the pain point. There have been numerous people who have asked for help learning SQL, and they never see it through. On the other side of the problem, analysts at companies are not there for simple SQL queries, it’s an
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by usehackernews 6y ago
Hi, I’m Dave. I’m a product manager that is sick of operations & other PMs asking me to write simple SQL queries or create tableau dashboards. I’m creating a tool that translates human text into simple sql queries to enable data analysi
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Ah, preparing them for the countless hours of PR’s!
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In Geekbench5, they benchmark html5, SQLite reads, pdf rendering, text rendering etc. Seems somewhat relevant. They are providing an upper bound on this activity, and that’s good to know. https://www.geekbench.com/doc/g
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The app is a cool idea, however, I’m curious how you guys plan on managing the standardization across menu items. Replicating a single restaurant menu is an incredibly complicated problem given the amount of customization, but you also need
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This is absolutely not the right move. This is you self promoting your app. Restaurants will pay more to market themselves, hire delivery drivers, and manage the logistics. Local restaurants are hurting because of COVID. They are blaming th