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by wp381640 6y ago
That’s draft 1 from 2019, draft 2 from a couple months ago which adds more and fixes the test vectors is here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-msporny-base58-02 Also of note is that Bitcoin has since moved onto bech3
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by wp381640 6y ago
Easy to have that opinion but the market is building wind/solar + battery + pumped hydro
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by wp381640 6y ago
add Snowy 2.0 in Australia - 2GW: https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/snowy-20/about/
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by wp381640 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember GoPHP5 and the shit storm that transition was Kinda funny having php devs shit on python backwards-compat
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by wp381640 6y ago
It isn't because if you play every week you should be looking at EV and returns - not the likelihood of winning the entire jackpot on one run With prize pools often paying down to a few numbers selected you could be +EV over the field
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by wp381640 6y ago
Battery was and is never supposed to take up the entire storage load of a network - nobody is designing or forecasting future networks in that way. Batteries provide fast response Pumped hydro is what is being used on a lot of networks and
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by wp381640 6y ago
Australia will probably end 2020 as the largest natural gas exporter in the world. It's also a country that is very well positioned to take advantage of renewables and export energy via lithium, ammonia, aluminium, hydrogen, electricit
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by wp381640 6y ago
The largest power stations at the moment are always going to be stored hydro - they take up a lot of land. Those large coal burners also take up a lot of land when you consider the mines, transport infra, tailings dams, coal piles not to me
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by wp381640 6y ago
It makes absolute sense - Slack wasn't going to survive as an independent. Their anti-trust efforts against Microsoft + Teams seemed to go nowhere. - Salesforce is one of the only companies that can go to-to-toe with Microsoft in the e
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by wp381640 6y ago
They'd have to acquire so much more - it's AD, Office and Exchange that keep Microsoft embedded in the enterprise. Hosted AD on Azure and Office 365 are _so good_ that nobody is coming close, not even Google.
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by wp381640 6y ago
Unit test coverage ...
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by wp381640 6y ago
I hope the second is never changed - it’s 2020, time to start authenticating the servers you’re downloading and executing code from Internal doesn’t mean secure
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by wp381640 6y ago
Their passive smoking episode is famous for being absolute crap
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by wp381640 6y ago
He introduced me to the site! He’s a great content creator
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by wp381640 6y ago
If this guy live streamed himself playing GeoGuessr I’d watch the hell out of it
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by wp381640 6y ago
Similar incident in Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident Short YouTube doco: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhL0xQzPSy8
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by wp381640 6y ago
The market has already spoken on renewables + storage vs nuclear
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by wp381640 6y ago
The whole animal deaths from windmills is a misinformation campaign Cats kill 900M birds a year, windows 200M a year, cell towers 7M a year, oil fields 1M a year Windmills kill ~300k a year and that can be reduced 70% by painting one blade
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by wp381640 6y ago
Let me know when you can mine a kilo of enriched uranium
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by wp381640 6y ago
They’re also more profitable since they can respond to price hikes during peak demand Nuclear requires a contract to buy all of that energy all of the time - and nobody really does that anymore at nuclear output levels. It’s the reason many
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by wp381640 6y ago
That's coming from the gas plants in SA that are required to provide network inertia They're currently working on replacing that with battery (this is explained in the article)
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by wp381640 6y ago
Taibbi also has zero sense of humour - like when he reported that a trader was exchanging insider LIBOR tips for day-old sushi not realising it was obviously meant in jest: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics
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by wp381640 6y ago
Power cords aren't that different - you can buy cheap and crap 6ft cords for $3 that won't last or you can buy construction-site worthy cords that get thrown around for $30+ Most charging cables get treated more like a power cord
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by wp381640 6y ago
Two were sold a couple of months ago for $48M total: https://fortune.com/2017/11/22/boeing-747-jets-taobao-auctio... Running it seems the going price is $16+ or so But this was filmed in Victorville and they
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by wp381640 6y ago
They're not just hosting it - they bought it for $100 million
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by wp381640 6y ago
Most of them do that now - the better markets have gateways that are CAPTCHA'd and spread out over other providers that then proxy to the real hidden service (you can do this with a second step over Tor again) Checkout this project whi
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by wp381640 6y ago
Here is a technique that is used to uncover hidden services: 1. purchase VPS products at a bunch of providers who accept bitcoin / crypto 2. ddos your target 3. see if you notice any of your hosted boxes go down 4. once you know the pr
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by wp381640 6y ago
That's exactly right. Anybody who has been at a moderately successful startup knows all too well the step where a Chinese company will approach you to "partner"[0] into the Chinese market [0] Where "partner" means -
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by wp381640 6y ago
Facebook is blocked in China
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by wp381640 6y ago
Had tons of upside on mid-cap techs which tend to go under the radar and the usual apple, amzon, google which for some reason aren't sexy But, ye - things are crazy at the moment with retail investors

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