zoshi

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A house 3D printed from raw earth(itsnicethat.com)
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by zoshi 5y ago
I said 50% not 100% :) At 2.5% in 16 years $100 is $148.45
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by zoshi 5y ago
The question was about educational choices. Of course I taught my child to read and write. Beyond that, I am not forcing them to get up at 7am and memorize what other adults want them to all day every day. My child can learn about whatever
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by zoshi 5y ago
I'm not going to make choices for them. They should make their own choices, and I'm here to provide guidance and support.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Stocks (Google, Apple, Amazon, Tesla) and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Monero, Handshake).
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by zoshi 5y ago
In just 16 years at 2.6% CPI, money will lose 50% of its purchasing power. Everyone should protect their savings against inflation.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Haskell (Warp HTTP server w/ WAI middleware, Selda with SQLite or Postgresql, blaze-html for templating). I try and avoid JavaScript but if I use it I usually write vanilla JS and avoid package managers and build pipelines.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Ships, planets, space, etc. are scarce and owned by various actors. The Federation is an interplanetary government made of sovereign member states, many of which do trade and use money. Even without the use of trade, there must be systems
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by zoshi 5y ago
The incessant snide comments expressing nothing but dislike for Bitcoin really don’t belong on HN. Not liking Bitcoin is fine, but if you don’t have anything to add just don’t comment. Every thread about Bitcoin on HN does not a dozen comme
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by zoshi 5y ago
By “private” I meant transaction privacy, which is offered by Monero.
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by zoshi 5y ago
If I’m going to stick my savings in a cryptocurrency, I want the network to be stable for the foreseeable future (and be private, but that’s another story).
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by zoshi 5y ago
A timezone can’t be encoded with a Unix time stamp, or a date without a time, or just a time. Unix timestamps ignore leap seconds and treat days as 86400 seconds, so it doesn’t correspond directly to UTC. And they aren’t readable by humans.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Cash flow is for businesses. Ethereum doesn’t know what it is. The rules are always changing, running a full node is practically impossible, and issuance is always changing. It’s not even clear that the features claimed in this paper will b
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by zoshi 5y ago
My guess is it’s because Unix timestamps aren’t calendar date and times. The same number could mean a different date and time depending on which timezone is used. Given a Unix timestamp, there’s no way to know which date/time the autho
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by zoshi 5y ago
Cool. It reminds me of < https://viperhtml.js.org/hyperhtml/documentation/ >. I'm a big fan of this approach over React or web components.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Transaction cost isn’t determined by hash rate. The difficulty adjusts to the hash rate such that a block is mined every X minutes. Because the block size is fixed, transaction fees are determined by the market for being included in a block
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by zoshi 5y ago
2009: "Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency." < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852 > 2010: "if this i
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by zoshi 5y ago
Bitcoin's hash rate has always been volatile, and it doesn't cause problems. Look at the raw values at < https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate >.
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by zoshi 5y ago
This is awesome! Can you give an overview of how this is implemented? I love Haskell.
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by zoshi 5y ago
The chart for M1 (currency, demand deposits, and other liquid deposits) looks similar: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1 That's about 30% of all US money supply created in 2020.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Naysayers whine and crypto increases value like clockwork it goes.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Taxation and financial privacy are not mutually exclusive. Taxation and cryptocurrency are not mutually exclusive. Cryptocurrency and banking are not mutually exclusive.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Cash is opaque, yet governments have been funding themselves via taxation for thousands of years. If government charged a flat rate for its services, tax evasion would become impossible. One would simply show a proof of payment. This would
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by zoshi 5y ago
Lightning and sidechains can handle thousands of TPS. Monero has adaptive block sizes, and is estimated to be able to perform 1500-2000TPS. Privacy is a feature, not a bug. I don't want people knowing how much money I have.
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by zoshi 5y ago
All trade is speculative. Prices are a result of speculation between buyers and sellers.
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by zoshi 5y ago
Is the economy struggling? Consumer spending has completely rebounded to previous levels: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/consumer-spending Manufacturing output has also completely rebounded: https:/&#
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by zoshi 5y ago
A major difference between Datalog and SQL is that Datalog uses set semantics, whereas SQL uses bag semantics. For those not aware, that means facts in datalog are unique. SQL’s equivalent to facts (records) are not unique, and relations ca
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The government helped create both the 1929 crash and the Great Depression. The US suspended the gold standard to pay for the first World War. Commercial banks were flooded with money, and when inflation got out of hand the Fed tightened rat
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by zoshi 5y ago
Leviathan awakens evil eyes look everywhere blind to my Monero
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by zoshi 5y ago
One attempt to hack representative democracy is a party controlled by an app. It works like this: An app is created which lets citizens vote on every issue in the legislature. A party is formed whose elected members vote according to the ap

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