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by yholio 8y ago
That's not entirely true. Any load imbalance on the phases is resolved through the null, connected to earth at both ends of the line. You can do the same with three single phase lines, although you wound need a massive earthing system
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by yholio 8y ago
Musk is incredibly stretched and has very nearly missed bankruptcy several times. It seems highly unlikely he can afford the largesse to hand over any business to his competitors. A SpaceX-2 without billions sunk in R&D could drasticall
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by yholio 8y ago
> towards sitting on the falcon 9 and launching to LEO. That would still leave them with many thousands of redundant employees. Falcon 9 is done and the production is dropping due to reusability. Recently, they had a 3rd re-flight of the
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by yholio 8y ago
> I decide to do a full charge as my hotel is still 145 miles away. It takes a tedious 85 minutes, and I dine on a Whopper and fries. It blows my mind that people think recharging their cars on the go can be the future of transportation.
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by yholio 8y ago
It's 2-3x more than you would pay in a regular civilized country... it speaks volumes about the US system that you think it's not an unreasonable fee.
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by yholio 8y ago
This is a common idea that has some history and recent practical implementations, ex: https://www.niklasroy.com/workshop/184/PneumaticComputing I think his or gate is overthinking the issue. The only thing needed
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by yholio 8y ago
> In this case, accusing a specific police officer of being corrupt with zero evidence IS an awful thing to do. I strongly disagree. A policeman is a representative of the state, he chose that job freely and he is getting paid for it, he
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by yholio 8y ago
I think we might already be in that future with electrics. Just look at most tram and subway systems in major cities, you will usually find a mix of rolling stock with some produced as far back as 60s or 70s and still in daily service. The
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by yholio 8y ago
A battery pack has between 500 and 1000 charge cycles, so each swap on the $20K pack will recover you $20-40 in depreciation. It's the main cost of using an electric car. So then, the business challenge becomes to extract more value fr
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by yholio 8y ago
Maybe the solution is to have better business practices around the technology that we do have. Why does the battery needs to be part of the car at all? It clearly depreciates and is technologically disrupted on a different time frame than t
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by yholio 8y ago
That math is a bit funny. Rent is pure consumption while mortgage is consumption plus equity accumulation. Of course, owners have less left for investment, but they are already investing a significant part of their mortgage payment. With 15
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by yholio 8y ago
Sure, it's a figure of speech to describe accumulation of personal wealth. "Wealth building", rather.
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by yholio 8y ago
In short, abandoning the most important engine of wealth creation and savings in exchange for consumption that many of them will not be able to sustain in the elder years. Don't get me wrong, surely you can save and rent, but it takes
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by yholio 8y ago
> The problem with something like encoding extra address bits in IPv4 options is that you would have to get a large group of operators on board for it to get any traction. Sure that's why you have things like IETF, to coordinate suc
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by yholio 8y ago
Let's see... Can I get a /10 IPv4 block for my company without paying a small fortune? Can I do the job using IPv6 only? Does the vast majority of mobile and emerging market customers have end to end connectivity? If the answers a
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by yholio 8y ago
An exponential works in an unlimited population or for as long as it's effects are negligible compared to total population size. Once you have converted a significant part of the population, the number of possible targets starts to dro
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by yholio 8y ago
Sure there is, it's called IPv4. For profit companies will continue to beat that dead horse with things like CGNAT for as long as IPv6 continues to fail. The failure is a process not an end state, IPv6 is falling for two decades now an
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by yholio 8y ago
I'm the one talking about trade-offs, you are of the position that any algorithmic feature designed to weaken anonymity in certain well defined scenarios is tantamount to "cameras in people's homes". Well, Bitcoin is mor
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by yholio 8y ago
There are a number of proposals that build on these ideas, for example EnhancedIP. Typically, they would encode the extended addressing info in an options field. They were to late the party and missed the circa 2000-2005 window where it be
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by yholio 8y ago
> Anything that is 'IPv4-like with larger addresses' is very much incompatible with any IPv4 equipment or setup at the edge. I disagree somewhat. You could imagine a hierarchical routing structure where IPv4 NAT servers double
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by yholio 8y ago
I'm not proposing a practical system, I'm asserting that such a system is reasonable to exist. Unless, of course, you can prove there are fundamental issues that preclude it. The imperfect nature of international law and instituti
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by yholio 8y ago
It's certainly a necessary condition to prolong life but I would hold the "dramatic" epithet until we get there. Once down the rabbit hole, we might well encounter an endless barrage of other genomic self destruct clocks.
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by yholio 8y ago
Those are straw-men against a conceptual example intended to show that a trade-off is possible. All the problems you rise have solutions in a practical system, you could issue the key to an international organization such as the INTERPOL, t
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by yholio 8y ago
You can have limited anonymity and the option of hiding into the crowds. To give a very crude example, a FBI backdoor key established in the genesis block could allow them to publish into the blockchain a personal information fetch request
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by yholio 8y ago
Is it really plausible to think that stopping cell and tissue degeneration is synonymous with curing ageing and transforming the human body into a perpetual self-repairing machine? We have evolved to acomodate these senescence mechanisms in
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by yholio 8y ago
There is a contradiction between privacy and law enforcement only if you think in rudimentary, white/black extremes. Why don't you allow for shades of gray, workable anonymity that protects most regular people yet can be lifted by
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by yholio 8y ago
Buffet owns stocks in productive companies. If he starts selling this stock and gets enough money for his statue, by definition he's absorbing market capital that would otherwise be invested in productive companies. So he's effect
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by yholio 8y ago
> the money used to buy that yacht paid the salaries and income of all the craftsmen and laborers that built it for you, compensating them for the value they provide to society. The point he is making is that they are compensated but no
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by yholio 8y ago
The point was not that cryptocurrencies should be state run, rather that the social values embedded in their algorithmic regulation should respect a wider set of social values and accommodate applications that can comply with typical nation
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by yholio 8y ago
> This is an impossible requirement. Every country has different, subjective, fluctuating, and often vague regulatory requirements. Not decentralized platform could ever comply. We first need to acknowledge the need to comply with the sp

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