RamshackleJ

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by RamshackleJ 21d ago
Thanks but I'd much rather spend 20x on inference to compensate for not knowing how to evaluate my own system.
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by RamshackleJ 3y ago
https://www.ibm.com/investor/att/pdf/IBM-2Q23-Earnings-Press... IBM is getting killed in infrastructure, their margins look to be growing but losing ~15% of their revenue y/y. This seems like them just g
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by RamshackleJ 5y ago
nope, transactions clear at a rate unrelated to mining(so long as at least 1 person is mining). The only thing that impacts transaction costs is how many other people are trying to clear their own transactions and bidding up the sat/vb
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by RamshackleJ 5y ago
Inflation is easy to fix, default on your debt and stop printing to service that debt.
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by RamshackleJ 5y ago
also the basket of goods is mostly impacted significantly by technology which causes deflation. it doesn't include things that don't have acute tech-driven inflation (housing/education/healthcare) where tech can't d
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by RamshackleJ 5y ago
most people globally do hold most of their savings in cash, many people are unbanked and physical currency is the only way they have to preserve wealth.
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by RamshackleJ 5y ago
you never had to worry about ransomware back when we used clay tablets for accounting.
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by RamshackleJ 5y ago
sure, if you think the US government is united against bitcoin and willing to step on the civil liberties afforded the ~30 million US citizens who own it. but.... I really don't think either of those things is true. You should talk to
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by RamshackleJ 5y ago
so you're saying a black swan event might affect the price? gee well Im glad that doesn't currently happen with USD, CNY, JPY.... you can also use bitcoin like a physical bearer asset (gold bullion) by using things like https:&#x
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Bitcoin: Masters and Slaves of Money(breedlove22.medium.com)
3 points by RamshackleJ 6y ago|1 comments
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
anyone throwing those critics at bitcoin needs to provide criteria for when their critic is no longer valid. They need to provide: - vol metric thresholds - price targets - adoption % - etc... We've had over 10 years of shifting the go
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
Changing it from one invasive species dominated ecology to a different invasive species dominated ecology. at least the new invasive ecology has clean water.
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
wrong. The great lakes has been an ecological experiment since the St. Lawrence seaway was opened and continued to be that when the Chicago river was reversed. There are almost no "native" species left in any of the lakes (excludi
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
2021, the year when shitcoins, scamcoins and ponzicoins have their comeuppance.
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
the SEC shutting down centralized exchanges would be a short term shock to the value of BTC but long-term would be a disaster for regulators. Decentralized P2P exchanges exist(bisq/hodlhodl), and shutting down centralized exchanges wou
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
Commercial beef feedlots vs commercial dairy feedlots are a mile apart, but unfortunately most dairy cows end up at the former after they hit declining milk production. I'd recommend checking if you can go tour a local dairy, I've
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
Hey yeah Im no expert but happy to share some of the stuff that I've looked at. Glycemic Index - not every gram of carbohydrate is made equal. You can have a drink with fewer grams of sugar but that still has a higher glycemic load. La
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
haha yeah it does come off a bit harsh. I don't doubt their sincerity but am definitely curious about how many farms they've visited. If anytime you think of meat/dairy you think of mcdonalds style feedlot hellscapes, you&#x2
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
I went through a phase of drinking milk substitutes but I'm back to milk. The glycemic index of most milk substitutes (oat,soy,almond) are equivalent or greater than a can of coke. Milk substitutes also tend to be really really high in
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
Iran is using btc to settle international trade transactions[1]. Using a gold backed coupon for settling trade has been talked about for a really long time by a bunch of people. If you're confused why people are speculating about crypt
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
It seems like you're operating with a different value system to most of the west and at the same time want approval from what is a mostly western message board. This is super apparent in "ends justifying the means" comments o
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by RamshackleJ 6y ago
Only randos on HN think that businesses don't have a fiduciary responsibility to share holders. Search quality and profit are not always correlated.
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by RamshackleJ 7y ago
Such a fun idea! Just to add to the lore, we can already detect galaxies without dark-matter. Which would be galaxies already scrubbed of intelligent life by the EAILD http://www.astronomy.com/news/2019/03/gho
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by RamshackleJ 8y ago
Yep claiming to be a force for good when behaving like an amoral organization only concerned with profit optimization is what irks people. pretending to be something you aren't is whats frustrating
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by RamshackleJ 8y ago
Illegal, unethical and immoral are all separate things. Its possible to be doing something legal and still be unethical or even immoral. Idk whats more disheartening, the censorship apologists in the comments or google shareholder/lead
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by RamshackleJ 8y ago
They are catching up, which is a net good for humanity. The highbred command/market economy and the focused bureaucracy of the Party have has been amazingly effective at industrializing and modernizing China. They have lifted many peop
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by RamshackleJ 8y ago
I disagree with your opinions and your characterization of my argument. I didn't say people will not think about technological problems. Despite the incredible amount of good the party has done for the people of china they are still an
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by RamshackleJ 8y ago
TLDR; But the soviets lost. I'm not an expert in soviet history but I feel like their efforts around science and technology were economically unsustainable and almost all of them were directly or tangentially related to the military. I
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by RamshackleJ 8y ago
Stealing IP mostly helps manufacturing, It doesn't really help innovation. If they want to build up their semiconductor industry they need to steal the people who are creating IP, which is kinda the opposite of what is happening. the c
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by RamshackleJ 8y ago
Unlimited Vacation is the same as saying Unlimited Salary, its total BS. Without set guidelines in your employment contract of what PTO you get in exchange for working there it creates a drawn out negotiation between you, your manager and y

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