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by yrral 5y ago
Do you think most/all stablecoin firms went into this space thinking they would go all cowboy and skirt all regulations? Or do you think a more likely explanation is that they all went into this space trying to do it correctly and hold
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by yrral 5y ago
Related: In the past Apple released a bad bootcamp sound driver for macbooks that caused windows to blow the laptop speakers. So technically you can blow some speakers with bad drivers https://www.extremetech.com/computing&#
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by yrral 5y ago
The peg broke because during times when the market is extremely volatile: 1. Exchange deposits/withdrawals are slower and more expensive because of ethereum network congestion 2. Other assets have larger price disparities across exchan
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by yrral 5y ago
People have been able to raise non-insignificant amounts of money selling NFTs for charities. Snowden - Freedom of Press Foundation 5.4m https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22388548/edward-snowden-n... pp
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by yrral 5y ago
It's a bit more nuanced than that. Per transaction costs: They run 15% off sales on itunes gift cards, cc "swipe" charges, costs of credit card fraud (employee costs, management overhead). Platform costs: Infrastructure to de
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by yrral 5y ago
My understanding of safe deposit boxes is that the contents are not guaranteed by the bank at all and if something causes the contents to be lost or destroyed, the best they will do is refund some of the safe deposit box fees.
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by yrral 5y ago
I had mentioned something like this on HN multiple times in the past but my thoughts never got much traction or upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26811819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=260
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by yrral 5y ago
Obviously Apple thinks that the extra sales that they get from having 7 different colors outweighs the production, supply chain and retail/physical stock complexities. But I really don't see it; are there really that many people w
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by yrral 5y ago
Facebook also talked about something similar back in 2014 for caching of people's photos. https://engineering.fb.com/2014/02/27/web/an-analysis-of-fac... http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~q
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by yrral 5y ago
If it was actually perceived as risky, wouldn't it be trading at a discount to USDC? However if you look, you can currently convert a billion dollars of tether into USDC with _positive_ slippage: https://1inch.exchange/
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by yrral 5y ago
Why is this the case? Is there some societal expectation? I know that eg: american grocery stores are much more accepting of returns for any reason vs european ones in general.
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by yrral 5y ago
You never explicitly stated, but is your argument that the energy consumption of bitcoin is the negative externality? First of all energy is not fungible, not in time and not in space. There are times where consuming electricity is actually
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by yrral 6y ago
I've also recently (during the COVID-19 outbreak and afterwards) noticed a lot of fish I buy seems to be much more watery than before. For example I like baking black cod (sablefish) but now baking the same fish causes a huge pool of w
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by yrral 6y ago
Related: Here's a article from late last year describing and explaining the source code of Pfizer vaccine: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source... It's a very interesting read and
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by yrral 6y ago
But isn't "worth of goods delayed" a reasonable figure? For example, if there is a total of X shipping capacity a year, and no reasonably priced alternatives (or extra capacity available via rail/air/etc), then disr
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by yrral 6y ago
Does anyone know how matrix multiplications are implemented in CPUs GPUs or ML asics? Are there optimizations used or do the optimizations take too much circuitry and thus the n^3 method is still used?
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by yrral 6y ago
Why is using computing power for bitcoin not beneficial to humanity?
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by yrral 6y ago
Theres no need to start at a huge hash rate. You can fork and then reset/reduce the difficulty, or adjust the difficulty in the way BCH does. You can also use POW algorithms that can be done only on commodity hardware like GPUs or CPUs
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by yrral 6y ago
I think under these circumstances, the economic majority of bitcoin users will fork to use, eg a new hash algorithm, rendering the seized mining farms useless. Remember, bitcoin is a collective trusted network based on agreement between use
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by yrral 6y ago
The first question to ask is what is money? Money is just an efficient means of transferring value between strangers and storing value over time (second point could be debated, since the value of fiat currencies have almost always degraded
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by yrral 6y ago
> Again: if a BitCoin miner generates 1 TWh/yr of their own electricity, how does that reduce the burning of fossil fuels? Simple, during times where peaker plants need to run (because electricity demand is higher than supply), thes
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by yrral 6y ago
This is a rehash of a previous post of mine regarding electricity consumption. Just wanted to repost this to get more eyeballs and critiques: Back in the days where all our electricity came from fossil fuels, I completely agree that margina
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by yrral 6y ago
This is a rehash of a previous post of mine regarding electricity consumption: Back in the days where all our electricity came from fossil fuels, I completely agree that marginal electricity usage was bad for the environment. However I thin
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by yrral 6y ago
This is a rehash of a previous post of mine regarding electricity consumption: Back in the days where all our electricity came from fossil fuels, I completely agree that marginal electricity usage was bad for the environment. However I thin
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by yrral 6y ago
Back in the days where all our electricity came from fossil fuels, I completely agree that marginal electricity usage was bad for the environment. However I think that thought has persisted with us even though it is no longer true 100% of t
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by yrral 6y ago
For this type of issue, I would recommend trying the nanog mailing list. You often see network admins ask for someone "with clue" at a different company when they get the runaround by tier 1/2 tech support. https:/&#x2F
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by yrral 6y ago
It looks like they drain 1/3 of the blood of 500k crabs a year and use 1m crabs as bait a year. Why can't they just take 100% of the blood of 500k/3 crabs a year and then give those crabs to be used as bait?
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by yrral 6y ago
A market maker tries to keep market neutral, but obviously that's impossible to do continuously. So they try to limit their exposure by being hedged all the time. The simplest hedge is obviously to hedge a stock against itself and thu
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by yrral 6y ago
Here's a link to (photos of an lcd screen of) more of the chat, does anyone know where to get the full transcript? Feels like it has to be available somewhere. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-cwt-ransom&#x
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by yrral 6y ago
But wouldn't the payments just end up being passed through? For example, one way to get around that is you could sign a contract with a foreign consultant firm for "security services", say for 1 year, and they would take your

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