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by wcoenen 5y ago
Progress can still be made, one funeral at a time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
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by wcoenen 5y ago
If you find yourself making Skype calls to a Mexican psycho-spiritual treatment center to discuss your condition, and then go on a trip there, you do not have "debilitating social anxiety". "debilitating social anxiety"
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by wcoenen 5y ago
There have been 10 year periods with negative inflation-adjusted annualized return. E.g. for the S&P500 it was -3.4%/year in the 2000's and -1.4%/year in the 1970's [1]. That makes any investments with a guaranteed l
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by wcoenen 5y ago
The 100% level refers to a system where all energy goes to heating up water in order to evaporate it, and then letting it cool down to condense it. All the energy that was spent to heat up the water, is lost to the environment in the "
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by wcoenen 5y ago
In this context, we're talking about buildings of 10 stories or more. Such 100+ year old skyscrapers can be found in Chicago and New York. But the first skyscraper in Europe (the "Boerentoren") wasn't completed until 19
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> animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition. I disagree. Average caloric and protein efficiency is 7%–8%. For beef specifically, it is only 3%. I don't know how efficiently a cultured meat fa
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I suspect reality will be a lot more boring. Animals are a low efficiency method of converting plant material into meat, both in terms of calories and protein mass input/output. So with scale, eventually lab-grown meat should become mu
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by wcoenen 5y ago
The EU does produce oil, though production has been in decline since 2004. And much more is imported than produced. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
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by wcoenen 5y ago
I have more confidence that USDC (a stablecoin created by Coinbase and Circle) is fully backed. However, I'm not sure "fully backed" means what most people think it means. If for every 1 USDC there is 1 USD on a bank account,
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by wcoenen 5y ago
The current approach seems to be negative rates on deposits over a certain amount. E.g. ING Belgium will have a -0.5% interest on deposits over 250K EUR starting next month[1]. Rabobank.be simply decided to close all accounts[2], which is a
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by wcoenen 5y ago
Must be one hell of a remodel then, considering Teams is an electron application.
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by wcoenen 5y ago
Brochure (PDF) about the Chicago Mercantile Exchange lumber futures market: https://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/files/AC-243_R...
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by wcoenen 5y ago
To clarify, I didn't intend to criticize notepad++. I attribute this issue to imperfections in my eyes, and I have it on all screens and "dark mode" implementations. I just brought it up because I feel too many people default
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by wcoenen 5y ago
For me, dark mode makes text less readable. The white letters blur a little bit into the surrounding blackness. If I look carefully, I can see faded copies at offsets around each letter. And this doesn't seem to happen in "light m
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by wcoenen 5y ago
> Considering that it would take over a decade to return the original capital in value I think only 8.4 years, because that's the doubling period for 8.6% (1.086^8.4 ≈ 2). Edit: but I guess it's indeed over a decade if you ta
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by wcoenen 5y ago
He's also a signatory to "An Evangelical Declaration on Global Warming". Which basically claims there can't be a problem with the Earth's climate, because it was designed by God for humans to thrive. https:/&#
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by wcoenen 5y ago
That is one way to estimate a maximum possible value. My point is that by assuming "Bitcoin cannot consume more than X % of all electricity or there will be trouble", you can calculate another maximum value which turns out to be m
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by wcoenen 5y ago
The dynamics of mining make this impossible. If Bitcoin were worth millions, then miners could spend millions on electricity to find each block and still make a profit. And because they're competing with hashrate, they would do exactly
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by wcoenen 5y ago
What is DTL? Did you mean DLT (distributed ledger technology)?
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For those who don't know, "metal" doesn't actually mean metal in astronomy. They use the term to refer to any element that isn't hydrogen or helium.
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by wcoenen 5y ago
In spite of what the submission title seems to suggest, the study does not claim that they found a 0.8% loss of all gray matter for alcohol drinkers. What they actually found is that of the total variance in the amount of gray matter, they
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by wcoenen 5y ago
In the study they say that 27% of the variance is explained by age. So the effect of alcohol consumption certainly is insignificant compared to the effect of age. However, the authors think the effect of alcohol is notable because that 0.8%
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by wcoenen 5y ago
Submission title gets it wrong. What the study found was that of the total variance in the amount of gray matter, only 0.8% of that variance could be explained by alcohol consumption.
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Miners tend to increase their hashrate because that's how they compete for block rewards. However, the electrical energy a miner spends on finding blocks should not be more than the value of the block rewards, otherwise they would oper
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by wcoenen 5y ago
Couldn't the "elaborate disinformation campaign" just be TV shows? The "ancient aliens" crap has been airing in the US for about 10 years now, it must have had some effect on the beliefs of the population by now.
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by wcoenen 6y ago
This is not possible with a miner activated soft fork, because the upgraded fork will have the longest chain. This is guaranteed by the activation process, which requires a supermajority of miners to agree. This longest chain is valid for b
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Then that block is rejected by the upgraded clients and miners.
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For Segwit (a soft fork in the past), it was done by making the new transactions look like they have unsecured "pay to anybody" outputs, as far as the not-upgraded bitcoin clients are concerned. The new bitcoin clients would howev
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by wcoenen 6y ago
Stars burn whether the energy they produce is used or not, so this doesn't accelerate the heat death of the universe. You'd have to merge stars for that (because larger, heavier stars have a higher rate of fusion).
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Article from 2014 about closing above 2000: https://www.wsj.com/articles/s-p-500-closes-above-2000-for-f...

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