xur17

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by xur17 6y ago
> Okay, so it isn't 3 tx/sec. It's a bit more than that. Not an order of magnitude more, or two orders of magnitude, or the five orders of magnitude more to have the throughput required for everyone on earth to be able to
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by xur17 6y ago
As someone that's been watching the process fairly closely, that's not my read on the situation. I think it's moreso just a new technology that takes time to perfect, and Ethereum is a large ship, hence "changing course&
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by xur17 6y ago
Yup. I imagine it's similar to the inventory shortfalls ledger experienced a few years ago during the cryptocurrency price runup. I made a nice chunk of change placing bulk orders from Ledger, waiting a month for them to ship, and forw
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by xur17 6y ago
I have gone down a similar path twice now, and also landed on the Thinkpad X1, due to a mix of QC concerns, low screen resolution, and bulky looking laptop. My main concern about Framework is QC, and making a sleek laptop (something that I
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by xur17 6y ago
I've been using Ubuntu for years now, and honestly it's pretty set and forget at this point. Main caveat is that you should do a little bit of research beforehand to ensure it will work well. It still has some quirks at time, but
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by xur17 6y ago
To me Coinbase has basically become a USD -> USDC onramp - everything else they provide can be done on decentralized exchanges in a way that is both cheaper, and (at least once you get used to the system) easier.
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by xur17 6y ago
When you are sending with a credit card, you are not sending it anywhere near "instantly". The receiving end pays a 2-3% fee, and doesn't actually get access to the funds for anywhere from a few days to a month later. And eve
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by xur17 6y ago
My understanding was that wire transfers weren't very reversible.
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by xur17 6y ago
In the US, I don't think you can write-off a space that's used for work, even if it's exclusive use, if you are a w2 employee. Please correct me if I'm wrong though, because I have a dedicated room for my office, and wou
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by xur17 6y ago
Your future spend. Once you start using them, it would be a decent amount of work to change.
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by xur17 6y ago
Go lookup a graph of the sp500 from 2000 to 2010. There are no guarantees that it will always trend up.
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by xur17 6y ago
It depends on how much downside risk you are okay with taking. If you want something relatively cash like, ibonds are an interesting option - their rate of return is updated to the latest inflation measurement every 6 months. If you are oka
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by xur17 6y ago
Key word being "can". On average securities have a much better return than bonds, but they also have a much higher risk of a large drop in value.
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by xur17 6y ago
Because in addition to receiving their at cost payment, they'd also receive a fixed monthly fee. The power supplier would essentially sell call options to the electricity retailer.
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by xur17 6y ago
But most electricity retailers just set a fixed price for electricity completely disconnected from the actual costs. I'm specifically wondering if it's possible to allow for wholesale purchasing, but set a cap at something like $1
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by xur17 6y ago
I was reading about Griddy, and my understanding is that you can do exactly this with them [0]. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/griddy/comments/lnrxn8/who_is_comin...
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by xur17 6y ago
Or, is there a way for these customer facing companies to hedge against this risk via options, and utilize this to set a price cap (passing on a small monthly fee to the customer)?
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by xur17 6y ago
I imagine "fairly rapidly" means a few months rather than a few weeks, in which case delaying the second dose from 4 weeks to 8 weeks won't cause any dramatic dips (this is all conjecture though).
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by xur17 6y ago
But that does seem to imply that 2 weeks post the first shot (assuming the second shot will be given soon after), folks are pretty much at maximum immunity.
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by xur17 6y ago
Do you remember what studies this data was from? I'd be curious to look at it. The fda filing [0] for Moderna seemed to indicate a decent uptick in protection > 14 days after dose 1 (which seems to mirror the studies you are referen
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by xur17 6y ago
That is simply not true. I don't think you understand how Bitcoin works.
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by xur17 6y ago
Fees are $3 if you are willing to wait 12 hours, otherwise $5 for 30 minutes.
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by xur17 6y ago
Do you have evidence or is this all conjecture?
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by xur17 6y ago
I keep hearing this repeated in threads about Bitcoin, and it's just flat out wrong. Bitcoin's energy usage does not scale based on the number of transactions. Its energy usage scales based upon the value of the block reward and t
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by xur17 6y ago
Well for 1, that won't affect Bitcoin mining since it hasn't been profitable to mine on a GPU for years, and 2 that will just force mining overseas to locales that don't have this tax (possibly to locales that have less carbo
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by xur17 6y ago
As you noted, this is just your opinion - are we going to have a person or group that decides what forms of Co2 usage are most "worthy", and adjust taxes accordingly? And let's say we do go down that path - one could certainl
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by xur17 6y ago
I agree, taxing carbon usage is the correct way to go about this. All the ways I can think of taxing Bitcoin directly wouldn't modify the right behaviors. It seems like the options would be: * Tax Bitcoin transactions - decreasing Bitc
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by xur17 6y ago
I distinctly recall signing up for "breaking news alerts" a few days after 9/11. I figured if something major happened, it would be nice to receive a notification about it. I quickly learned that my definition of breaking new
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by xur17 6y ago
My point was that the Nyan Cat NFT likely isn't a security, and hence wash trading might not be illegal.
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by xur17 6y ago
I also imagine that after a few days of the network being jammed up, getting social consensus to fork the network to use a different hashing function would be fairly viable.

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