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by wcoenen 8y ago
I'm not sure on-chain transaction rate approaching new highs is cause for celebration. Last time the rate of new transactions exceeded bitcoin's capacity, confirmation times became erratic and fees unpredictable. Why do you think
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by wcoenen 8y ago
The risk of default, as estimated by the market, can be calculated[1] from the Tesla bond prices[2]. With the numbers I punched in, I'm getting 2.9% chance of default per coupon period (6 months). [1] http://www.quantwolf.co
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The Android EditText control has this enabled by default, and the documentation of the control doesn't mention it: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/EditT... To disable it, the devel
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by wcoenen 8y ago
If I were a security consultant, I would be a bit more hesitant about telling the world that I casually entered a seed phrase worth $60K into an online device, never mind which software it was. The report mentions that the seed phrase origi
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by wcoenen 8y ago
> the 0.99 version of the home server code is ACME-capable and can get a certificate directly from Let's Encrypt; How does this work? I assume a home server doesn't have a public DNS name, so what is used as the subject of the
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I'm not sure whether that sentence from the article actually makes sense. But to answer your question more generally: you start with some model, with one or more parameters for which you don't know the value. e.g. "the galaxy
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It's the same concept. For linux you'd use SSH which gets you to a shell for remote administration, for Windows you use powershell via the Enter-PSSession command.
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> With AWS, I can do... Can you remotely delete all the data and backups? (It's an honest question; I'm not intimately familiar with AWS but from glancing at the documentation it seems that even glacier archives can be deleted
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> Depends on the energy economics. If it gets to (for example) a point where capturing carbon uses less energy than burning the same amount of carbon fuel releases Not allowed by thermodynamics. Otherwise you could create free energy b
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Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work(blogs.imf.org)
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The "honk on lock" thing does seem to be a North American thing. I would always be startled and annoyed when locking my rental car in the US. I haven't noticed cars anywhere else doing this, but I'm not that well travele
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by wcoenen 8y ago
The budget of the office of nuclear energy is about $1B [1]. So if Gates spends an extra billion over say, the next 10 years, that's still a 10% budget boost. Not jaw dropping but still significant. [1] https://www.energy.g
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> I believe it was less than 400ppm at the start Then this must have been before 2016. Atmospheric CO2 concentration has always been higher than 400 ppm since that year.
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I experienced something similar. Set up ubuntu for my mom, even put in the hours to get all the funny videos/PowerPoints working. When I visited her again next time, a friend of hers had installed windows on the machine. Probably a pir
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by wcoenen 8y ago
Here is the first paper (from 2007) reporting a fast radio burst of extragalactic origin: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0709.4301 See page 12. Since then there have been many papers about FRBs. Typically you can find them on a
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by wcoenen 8y ago
There was an interview with Shriharsh Tendulkar of the CHIME team (experiment mentioned in the article) on the Event Horizon youtube channel: https://youtu.be/7JIXhDQ38zk
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If those employees go to China with trade secrets, they might be violating ITAR. ITAR is enforced with big fines and prison time.
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> But if you tried to sell some significant fraction of the outstanding coins then the sale price would plummet, and you'd never actually reach $5M total. Yes. But it's the same for the market cap of company stocks. So saying t
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by wcoenen 8y ago
This is answered in the article. The startup Greenbutts has developed it.
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by wcoenen 8y ago
I think you could actually approximate an unobstructed hyperbolic plane to arbitrary precision with portals. In this game, the hyperbolic plane is represented as a tiling of hexagons and heptagons: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by wcoenen 8y ago
One transition option I was still missing: a tunnel with parity transformation, like stepping through a mirror where you would end up as your mirror self.
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> rather than actually modeling non-Euclidean space natively In mathematics such non-Euclidean spaces are called manifolds. A manifold is defined as a set of Euclidean-like regions that are connected by transition map functions. That for
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by wcoenen 8y ago
In the US, unwashed eggs aren't allowed. In the EU, it's the other way around; eggs must be unwashed. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nadiaarumugam/2012/10/25/why-am... https://www
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by wcoenen 8y ago
The article mentions growth hormones. Although banned throughout the EU in 1988, they are likely still used illegally. Notably, the "hormone maffia" murdered Belgian inspector Karel Van Noppen in 1995. https://en.wikipe
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In the meantime it's been found to be impractical https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/12/16767000/police-netherla...
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> I can cover the entire surface of the earth with solar panels to harvest the moon light and use the combined electricity to melt iron. If this is ok with thermodynamics then so is using lenses. There's a difference. By going throu
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by wcoenen 8y ago
If you're OK with waiting a while, the "removal cost" is zero. Those satellites are in 490km orbits which should decay in 50 years or so.
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There is no manufacturer because there is no equipment needed for low flow oxygen, beyond an oxygen supply (from gas bottle) and a tube with two nozzles that go into the patient's nostrils. That's why WHO recommends it to hospital
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The article doesn't even mention the effect of gravity, which is also significant. Ocean water is currently gravitationally attracted to the ice caps, and when an ice cap disappears, all that "bunched up" water will spread ar
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by wcoenen 8y ago
The potential shortage would happen during a cold spell, when people in housing with poor heating start using small electrical heaters in large numbers. This tends to happen in neighboring countries at the same time, so the amount of elect

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